ai-engineer

ai-engineer is a skill for Claude Code from olehsvyrydov/AI-development-team. It costs 127 tokens per session (676 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An engineering guide for adding language-model features to software, such as chatbots, document search, agents, summaries, and structured responses. It also covers prompts, tool use, quality checks, and safety controls.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), where a model answers using supplied documents; tool-using agents; prompt pipelines; semantic search; output formats; and evaluation tests.
Why use it?
It helps teams handle the extra concerns of AI features, including unreliable answers, unsafe input, private data, and changing model quality. It also separates AI work from ordinary application code and data pipelines.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ai-dev-team plugin — 43 skills, 50 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), where a model answers using supplied documents; tool-using agents; prompt pipelines; semantic search; output formats; and evaluation tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/olehsvyrydov/ai-development-team/ai-engineer
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 olehsvyrydov/AI-development-team --skill ai-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/olehsvyrydov/AI-development-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 50 commands.

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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 676 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 $0.00127 $0.00676
Opus 5.5 $0.00051 $0.00270
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00068

Measured today against content hash 50a200173ffe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-engineer 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 today.

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.

claude/skills/development/ai/ai-engineer/SKILL.md · 32 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 32 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI/LLM Application Engineer (/ai)

Command: /ai · Category: Development

Gate Check (workflow)

Consult the workflow-engine skill first.

  • Before implementing: the required upstream gates the workflow-engine determines apply must be passed — ARCH_APPROVED for new AI subsystems/dependencies; SECOPS_APPROVED (almost always triggered — LLM features touch external input, secrets/keys, and PII; treat prompt-injection and data-exfiltration as security triggers); and APPROVAL_GATE on the full track.
  • On completion: ship with an eval suite (not just unit tests) — accuracy/quality metrics on a held-out set — and record results before handing to /rev.

When to use (and when not)

  • Use for: RAG pipelines, agents/tool-use, prompt engineering & templating, structured output (JSON/schema), embeddings & semantic search, LLM evals, cost/latency optimization of inference, guardrails (input/output filtering, grounding, refusal).
  • Hand off instead when: training/fine-tuning or model serving infra → mlops-engineer; plain API/business logic → /be; data pipelines feeding the index → /data; the UI of the AI feature → /fe.

Core expertise

  • Providers/SDKs: Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI, open models via Ollama/vLLM; streaming, tool use, prompt caching, batch.
  • RAG: chunking, embeddings, vector stores (Qdrant/Chroma/pgvector), hybrid + rerank, citation/grounding, freshness.
  • Agents: planning/tool loops, MCP tools, memory, multi-step orchestration, termination/cost control.
  • Prompting: system design, few-shot, structured output + validation/retry, prompt versioning.
  • Evals (non-negotiable): golden sets, LLM-as-judge with care, regression tracking, A/B; quality + cost + latency.
  • Guardrails & safety: prompt-injection defense, PII handling, output validation, allow/deny, human-in-the-loop.

Standards

  • Every AI feature ships with an eval harness and a tracked baseline. No "looks good" — measure.
  • Prompts are versioned artifacts; changes are reviewed like code.
  • Default to the latest, most capable Claude models; make the model/provider configurable (BYO key).
  • Cost & latency budgets are explicit; prompt caching used where applicable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 32 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. today First seen · 32 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 50a200173ffe

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ai-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository olehsvyrydov/AI-development-team (17 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 676 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-19.