project-development

project-development is a skill for Claude Code from muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering. It costs 111 tokens per session (3,655 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-planning guide for building systems that use large language models (LLMs), which are software that can understand and generate text. It covers whole projects and multi-step processing pipelines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan batch-processing or agent projects, estimate token use and costs, choose between one agent and several, and design structured results.
Why use it?
It helps decide whether an LLM fits the task before building, and how to choose a suitable project structure, cost, and development approach.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the context-engineering plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan batch-processing or agent projects, estimate token use and costs, choose between one agent and several, and design structured results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/muratcankoylan/agent-skills-for-context-engineering/project-development
About the project

Agent Skills for Context Engineering is a collection of reusable instructions that teach AI agents how to manage their context, coordinate multi-agent systems, and evaluate behavior. Developers use it when building or debugging production agent systems, and the catalogue entries are skills, agents, instructions, and a plugin from this collection.

muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering · 17,943 stars · on GitHub

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 muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering --skill project-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install context-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for project-development

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/muratcankoylan/agent-skills-for-context-engineering/project-development.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/muratcankoylan/agent-skills-for-context-engineering/project-development)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/muratcankoylan/agent-skills-for-context-engineering/project-development"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/muratcankoylan/agent-skills-for-context-engineering/project-development.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,655 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00111 $0.03655
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01827
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00731
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00365

Measured 9d ago against content hash acfeda3048cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-development 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/pipeline_template.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/project-development/SKILL.md · 305 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 305 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Development Methodology

This skill covers the principles for identifying tasks suited to LLM processing, designing effective project architectures, and iterating rapidly using agent-assisted development. The methodology applies whether building a batch processing pipeline, a multi-agent research system, or an interactive agent application.

The unit of work for this skill is the whole project or a multi-stage pipeline. Individual tool design (descriptions, schemas, error messages) belongs to tool-design. Per-skill activation routing belongs to the corresponding skill plus the corpus index. This skill owns the project-level questions: should you build this with an LLM at all, what shape should the pipeline take, what does it cost, how should it be iterated.

When to Activate

Activate this skill when the unit of work is a whole project or pipeline:

  • Deciding whether an LLM is the right primitive for a task at all (task-model fit before any code).
  • Shaping a multi-stage batch or agent pipeline (acquire / prepare / process / parse / render).
  • Estimating tokens, dollar cost, and timelines for an LLM-heavy project.
  • Choosing between single-agent and multi-agent at the project level.
  • Structuring agent-assisted iteration (where the agent helps build the project itself).
  • Designing structured output at the pipeline contract level (cross-stage handoff format).

Do not activate this skill for adjacent work owned by other skills:

  • Per-tool description, schema, naming, response format, error message: tool-design.
  • Per-trajectory token-efficiency tactics (masking, partitioning, caching): context-optimization.
  • Deciding to split work across sub-agents at the agent topology level: multi-agent-patterns.
  • Designing the autonomous control loop (locked metrics, novelty gates, human approval boundaries): harness-engineering.

Core Concepts

Task-Model Fit Recognition

Evaluate task-model fit before writing any code, because building automation on a fundamentally mismatched task wastes days of effort. Run every proposed task through these two tables to decide proceed-or-stop.

Read the full file on GitHub · 305 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 305 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A acfeda3048cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering (17,943 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 3,655 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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