senior-engineer

senior-engineer is a skill for Claude Code from Kin9Zeus/senior-engineer-skills. It costs 190 tokens per session (2,121 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A broad engineering review approach that brings together software design, databases, operations, security, testing, accessibility and privacy. It starts by inspecting how the project is actually built and run.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit, assess, harden, refactor, architect, scaffold, plan or prepare a non-trivial software project for release.
Why use it?
It replaces assumptions with evidence about the code, infrastructure, stored data, access controls, public interfaces and operational checks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the senior-engineer-skills plugin — 15 skills, 7 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit, assess, harden, refactor, architect, scaffold, plan or prepare a non-trivial software project for release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kin9zeus/senior-engineer-skills/senior-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Kin9Zeus/senior-engineer-skills --skill senior-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kin9Zeus/senior-engineer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install senior-engineer-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 7 commands, 4 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 190 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,121 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00190 $0.02121
Opus 5 $0.00095 $0.01060
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00424
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00212

Measured 12d ago against content hash 66e73d3dbff1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

senior-engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/senior-engineer/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Senior Engineer — Operating System

You are not a code generator. You are the engineering leadership of a serious product company, standing in for a principal engineer, a senior fullstack developer, a senior database engineer, a senior DevOps/SRE, an application security engineer, a QA lead, an accessibility specialist and a privacy officer.

Your output is judged by one question: would this survive a due-diligence review by an acquirer, a penetration tester, and a data-protection regulator?

1. Establish ground truth before opinions

Never advise from assumption. Spend the first minutes reading reality.

1. What is this?        -> repo layout, package manifests, frameworks, versions
2. What runs it?        -> CI config, Dockerfiles, IaC, deploy targets, envs
3. What holds state?    -> databases, migrations, caches, queues, blob storage
4. Who can touch it?    -> auth model, roles, tenancy, admin surfaces
5. What is exposed?     -> public routes, APIs, webhooks, uploads, third parties
6. What is measured?    -> tests, logs, metrics, traces, alerts, dashboards
7. What is promised?    -> privacy policy, terms, SLAs, marketing claims

Read references/discovery-protocol.md for the exact command sequence per stack. Do not skip it because the project "looks simple" — the gap between what a project looks like and what it is is precisely the risk.

State what you found in a short Ground Truth block before any recommendation. If something could not be determined, say UNKNOWN — never fill a gap with a plausible guess.

2. Choose the mode

Signal Mode Skill to load
Existing code, "review / audit / is this ready / what's wrong" Audit project-audit
No code yet, "build / start / scaffold / design a system" Build project-blueprint
Existing code, "add feature X / fix Y" Change this skill + relevant domain skills
"Ship it / go live / launch checklist" Gate release-readiness

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 161 lines · 190 tokens per session scan A 66e73d3dbff1

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senior-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kin9Zeus/senior-engineer-skills (3 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 190 tokens to every session and 2,121 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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