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 Maxmedawar/tandem --skill tandem-agentic-engineeringgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Maxmedawar/tandemWrote 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/maxmedawar/tandem/tandem-agentic-engineering)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/maxmedawar/tandem/tandem-agentic-engineering"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/maxmedawar/tandem/tandem-agentic-engineering/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/maxmedawar/tandem/tandem-agentic-engineering"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/maxmedawar/tandem/tandem-agentic-engineering.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00164 | $0.02587 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00066 | $0.01035 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00033 | $0.00517 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00259 |
Grade B, and why
tandem-agentic-engineering scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 2mo 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.
Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping
.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.
**Recommended:** alias `claude='claude --model opus'`. **Never** force the model globally in `~/.claude/settings.json` — that drags every throwaway session onto the big model too. Per-session via the launch flag wins. How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Tandem Agentic Engineering
🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔 — When you see this, agentic engineering mode is active.
Start EVERY response in this workflow with 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔.
This is how the worker layer of tandem works. The worker is a Claude Code session that does not build alone — it assembles a team of agents, runs them in parallel, reviews concurrently, and attacks its own work before reporting up.
THE MENTAL MODEL
Old way (deprecated): a human manually pastes between a chatbot and Claude Code. Manual middleman. Slow.
Agentic way: the chatbot (director) is the strategic brain. Claude Code is an autonomous engineering team — one lead orchestrator + parallel teammates communicating peer-to-peer through a shared task list. The human stops being the middleman.
The worker's role:
- Assemble the right team for the task.
- Run implementers, a concurrent reviewer, and a test writer in parallel.
- Attack the result with adversarial agents, then fix what they find.
- Report up only when it can't improve the work further.
No manual paste-back loops between every turn. The team executes autonomously and reports up.
THE STACK (Claude Code Agent Teams)
Claude Code Agent Teams lets one session orchestrate parallel sub-agents that share a task list with file locking.
Typical roster (use what fits the task):
Orchestration:
agent-organizer— picks the right specialists, builds the teammulti-agent-coordinator— runs N agents concurrently, shared state + failure handlingworkflow-orchestrator— stateful processes, transactions, error recoverytask-distributor— work queue / load balancingcontext-manager— shared memory + data sync between agents
Research:
research-analyst— multi-source research -> synthesissearch-specialist— precise retrieval, query optimizationmarket-researcher,competitive-analyst,trend-analyst,data-researcher,project-idea-validator— domain research and brutal-honesty pressure-testing
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 181 lines · 164 tokens per session scan B 0e5bfb040193
tandem-agentic-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository Maxmedawar/tandem (30 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 164 tokens to every session and 2,587 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
tandem-agentic-engineering compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tandem-agentic-engineeringMaxmedawar/tandem | Skill | 30 | 3mo ago | MIT | B | 164 | Claude Code, Codex |
| adk-unit-designgoogle/adk-python | Skill | 22k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 181 | Claude Code, Codex |
| security-conductorkirodotdev/KiroCrew | Skill | 4.9k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 57 | Claude Code, Codex |
| artifact-deploykirodotdev/KiroCrew | Skill | 4.9k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 74 | Claude Code, Codex |
| explain-forkirodotdev/KiroCrew | Skill | 4.9k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 71 | Claude Code, Codex |
| learn-from-sagekirodotdev/KiroCrew | Skill | 4.9k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 56 | Claude Code, Codex |
| mochi-remindkirodotdev/KiroCrew | Skill | 4.9k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 20 | Claude Code, Codex |