dora-accelerate

dora-accelerate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from marcos-sponton/frameworks-as-skills. It costs 330 tokens per session (3,202 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-based framework for measuring and improving software delivery and the developer experience. DORA refers to research on delivery measures such as how often software is released and how quickly changes reach users; it also covers wider factors affecting developers and teams.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design engineering metrics, assess delivery performance, investigate bottlenecks, and discuss developer productivity at team or organisation level.
Why use it?
It helps teams avoid treating lines of code, hours, or individual activity as productivity and instead examine how the whole system affects speed, stability, and value.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to design engineering metrics, assess delivery performance, investigate bottlenecks, and discuss developer productivity at team or organisation level.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marcos-sponton/frameworks-as-skills/dora-accelerate
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 marcos-sponton/frameworks-as-skills --skill dora-accelerate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcos-sponton/frameworks-as-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 330 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,202 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 $0.00330 $0.03202
Opus 5 $0.00165 $0.01601
Sonnet 5 $0.00066 $0.00640
Haiku 4.5 $0.00033 $0.00320

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5fb4b051d28d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dora-accelerate 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/dora-accelerate/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DORA / Accelerate — an agent skill

Nicole Forsgren's research program for measuring and improving software delivery and developer productivity — distilled from Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps (2018, w/ Jez Humble + Gene Kim), the annual State of DevOps reports (2014–present), the SPACE paper (ACM Queue, 2021), the DevEx paper (ACM Queue, 2023), the DX Core 4 unification (2024), and Frictionless (Dec 2025, w/ Abi Noda).

This skill helps your agent think in Forsgren's evidence-based frame, not just recite the four DORA keys. It is opinionated because the research is opinionated: speed and stability come together, activity is not productivity, DORA is a team-and-system metric — never individual, culture predicts delivery, and friction is the enemy of value. Softening any of these collapses the method into "engineering KPIs" — which is what teams were doing before Forsgren's research proved most of it was measuring the wrong thing.

When this skill activates

Use this skill when the user is:

  • Standing up or overhauling engineering metrics for a team, group, or org.
  • Being asked by an executive or board "how do we measure engineering productivity?"
  • Benchmarking their team against industry (Elite / High / Medium / Low tiers).
  • Diagnosing why delivery feels slow, unstable, or both.
  • Debating deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR / recovery time, change failure rate.
  • Choosing between DORA, SPACE, DevEx, or DX Core 4 for a specific question.
  • Reading or critiquing a productivity dashboard (theirs or a vendor's).
  • Considering tying delivery metrics to individual performance reviews or comp — especially this one; the assistant should push back before doing anything else.
  • Making the case for platform engineering, internal developer platforms, or DevEx investment.
  • Onboarding developer-productivity tooling (LinearB, Jellyfish, DX, Swarmia, Faros, etc.).
  • Talking about AI-assisted coding and its impact on delivery performance.
  • Writing an engineering strategy that needs measurement built in.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 lines

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 · 120 lines · 330 tokens per session scan A 5fb4b051d28d

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dora-accelerate is a skill published in the GitHub repository marcos-sponton/frameworks-as-skills (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 330 tokens to every session and 3,202 once invoked, about $0.0016 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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