dev-pipeline

dev-pipeline is a skill for Claude Code from nexus-substrate/nexus-agents. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,893 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development workflow that coordinates multiple coding agents through four stages: specification, planning, task breakdown, and implementation. Each stage requires a vote before the workflow can continue.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps teams build features or fix bugs by collecting assumptions, agreeing on a design, dividing work into tasks, and implementing each task with review.
Why use it?
It catches unclear requirements and disagreements before code is written. Gated stages also keep implementation tied to an agreed plan.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the nexus-agents plugin — 33 skills, 16 agents, 1 hook 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/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/dev-pipeline
Any agent
npx skills add nexus-substrate/nexus-agents --skill dev-pipeline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nexus-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 16 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,893 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00059 $0.01893
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00946
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00189

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4e736c986574, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dev-pipeline 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 6d 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/dev-pipeline/SKILL.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Development Pipeline Skill

Use this skill when the user asks to build a feature, fix a bug, or implement a plan using the multi-agent development pipeline.

Spec-driven phasing (gated workflow)

The run_dev_pipeline MCP tool implements a 4-phase gated workflow. Do not advance to the next phase until the current one is validated.

SPECIFY ──→ PLAN ──→ TASKS ──→ IMPLEMENT
   │          │        │          │
   ▼          ▼        ▼          ▼
 vote()     vote()   vote()     vote() (per task)

Phase 1 — Specify

Before producing the spec, surface assumptions explicitly:

ASSUMPTIONS I'M MAKING:
1. This runs in the existing nexus-agents MCP server (not a new process)
2. New CLI flag goes through the existing dispatch table (cli-command-catalog.ts)
3. Storage uses the existing FileAuditStorage path (not a new backend)
4. Output schema follows the Result<T, E> pattern per CLAUDE.md
→ Correct me now or I'll proceed with these.

The spec's purpose is to surface misunderstandings before code gets written. Silent assumptions are the most dangerous form of misunderstanding.

Phase 2 — Plan

Convert the spec into a sequenced plan: which files change, in what order, with what tests. Each step references the canonical path (per CLAUDE.md "Canonical Paths") so future readers can navigate.

Phase 3 — Tasks

Break the plan into atomic tasks suitable for fan-out. Each task has:

  • A clear acceptance criterion (the test that asserts success)
  • A bounded output (no "list all", per .rules/subagent-coordination.md)
  • A scope (one directory or one canonical path, not "the codebase")

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 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. 6d ago First seen · 187 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 4e736c986574

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dev-pipeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository nexus-substrate/nexus-agents (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,893 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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