agentic-engineering

agentic-engineering is a skill for Claude Code from KratosAR/claude-code-arsenal. It costs 24 tokens per session (358 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of agentic-engineering, MIT.

A workflow for engineering projects where coding agents do much of the implementation and people apply quality and risk controls. It uses completion criteria, task breakdowns, evaluations, and model selection by task difficulty.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define capability and regression tests, split work into verifiable units, choose suitable model tiers, manage sessions, and review AI-generated code for edge cases and invariants.
Why use it?
It makes agent-led development measurable instead of relying only on intuition. Baseline tests, regression checks, and focused work units help show whether a change actually improved the project.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the arsenal-core plugin — 43 skills, 15 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kratosar/claude-code-arsenal/agentic-engineering
Any agent
npx skills add KratosAR/claude-code-arsenal --skill agentic-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KratosAR/claude-code-arsenal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install arsenal-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 15 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 358 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00024 $0.00358
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00036

Measured 5d ago against content hash bb5f3e41c9d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentic-engineering 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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to agentic-engineering — 28 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

arsenal-core/skills/agentic-engineering/SKILL.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Agentic Engineering

Use this skill for engineering workflows where AI agents perform most implementation work and humans enforce quality and risk controls.

Operating Principles

  1. Define completion criteria before execution.
  2. Decompose work into agent-sized units.
  3. Route model tiers by task complexity.
  4. Measure with evals and regression checks.

Eval-First Loop

  1. Define capability eval and regression eval.
  2. Run baseline and capture failure signatures.
  3. Execute implementation.
  4. Re-run evals and compare deltas.

Task Decomposition

Apply the 15-minute unit rule:

  • each unit should be independently verifiable
  • each unit should have a single dominant risk
  • each unit should expose a clear done condition

Model Routing

  • Haiku: classification, boilerplate transforms, narrow edits
  • Sonnet: implementation and refactors
  • Opus: architecture, root-cause analysis, multi-file invariants

Session Strategy

  • Continue session for closely-coupled units.
  • Start fresh session after major phase transitions.
  • Compact after milestone completion, not during active debugging.

Review Focus for AI-Generated Code

Prioritize:

  • invariants and edge cases
  • error boundaries
  • security and auth assumptions
  • hidden coupling and rollout risk

Do not waste review cycles on style-only disagreements when automated format/lint already enforce style.

Cost Discipline

Track per task:

  • model
  • token estimate
  • retries
  • wall-clock time
  • success/failure

Escalate model tier only when lower tier fails with a clear reasoning gap.

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. 5d ago First seen · 67 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A bb5f3e41c9d4

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agentic-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository KratosAR/claude-code-arsenal (2 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 358 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to agentic-engineering, differing in 28 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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