skills-benchmarks is a test suite that measures how the design of skill documentation affects Claude Code's adherence to recommended coding patterns. It is used to compare documentation approaches across LangChain-related tasks and other agent workflows. Its catalogue entries represent skills, hooks, instructions, and a plugin used in the benchmark project.
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.
npx skills add langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks --skill deep-agents-coregit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/langchain-ai/skills-benchmarksWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks/deep-agents-core)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks/deep-agents-core"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks/deep-agents-core/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks/deep-agents-core"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks/deep-agents-core.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Agent Snooping · line 252 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00036 | $0.02869 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.01435 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00574 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00287 |
Grade A, and why
deep-agents-core 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 10d 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.
Copies of this mod
2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- deep-agents-core — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- deep-agents-core — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 424 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
- Task Planning: TodoListMiddleware for breaking down complex tasks
- Context Management: Filesystem tools with pluggable backends
- Task Delegation: SubAgent middleware for spawning specialized agents
- Long-term Memory: Persistent storage across threads via Store
- Human-in-the-loop: Approval workflows for sensitive operations
- Skills: On-demand loading of specialized capabilities
The agent harness provides these capabilities automatically - you configure, not implement.
| Use Deep Agents When | Use LangChain's create_agent When |
|---|---|
| Multi-step tasks requiring planning | Simple, single-purpose tasks |
| Large context requiring file management | Context fits in a single prompt |
| Need for specialized subagents | Single agent is sufficient |
| Persistent memory across sessions | Ephemeral, single-session work |
| If you need to... | Middleware | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Track complex tasks | TodoListMiddleware | Default enabled |
| Manage file context | FilesystemMiddleware | Configure backend |
| Delegate work | SubAgentMiddleware | Add custom subagents |
| Add human approval | HumanInTheLoopMiddleware | Requires checkpointer |
| Load skills | SkillsMiddleware | Provide skill directories |
| Access memory | MemoryMiddleware | Requires Store instance |
@tool def get_weather(city: str) -> str: """Get the weather for a given city.""" return f"It is always sunny in {city}"
agent = create_deep_agent( model="claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929", tools=[get_weather], system_prompt="You are a helpful assistant" )
config = {"configurable": {"thread_id": "user-123"}} result = agent.invoke({ "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What's the weather in Tokyo?"}] }, config=config)
</python>
<typescript>
Create a basic deep agent with a custom tool and invoke it with a user message.
```typescript
import { createDeepAgent } from "deepagents";
import { tool } from "@langchain/core/tools";
import { z } from "zod";
const getWeather = tool(
async ({ city }) => `It is always sunny in ${city}`,
{ name: "get_weather", description: "Get weather for a city", schema: z.object({ city: z.string() }) }
);
const agent = await createDeepAgent({
model: "claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929",
tools: [getWeather],
systemPrompt: "You are a helpful assistant"
});
const config = { configurable: { thread_id: "user-123" } };
const result = await agent.invoke({
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "What's the weather in Tokyo?" }]
}, config);
agent = create_deep_agent( name="my-assistant", model="claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929", tools=[custom_tool1, custom_tool2], system_prompt="Custom instructions", subagents=[research_agent, code_agent], backend=FilesystemBackend(root_dir=".", virtual_mode=True), interrupt_on={"write_file": True}, skills=["./skills/"], checkpointer=MemorySaver(), store=InMemoryStore() )
</python>
<typescript>
Configure a deep agent with all available options including subagents, skills, and persistence.
```typescript
import { createDeepAgent, FilesystemBackend } from "deepagents";
import { MemorySaver, InMemoryStore } from "@langchain/langgraph";
const agent = await createDeepAgent({
name: "my-assistant",
model: "claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929",
tools: [customTool1, customTool2],
systemPrompt: "Custom instructions",
subagents: [researchAgent, codeAgent],
backend: new FilesystemBackend({ rootDir: ".", virtualMode: true }),
interruptOn: { write_file: true },
skills: ["./skills/"],
checkpointer: new MemorySaver(),
store: new InMemoryStore()
});
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 424 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 07b82a267485
deep-agents-core is a skill published in the GitHub repository langchain-ai/skills-benchmarks (116 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 2,869 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.
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