aidd-please

A general software-development assistant with guidance for handling coding projects, documentation, logging, commits, and task planning. It also describes a structured method for thinking through complex requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for general help across a software project, including reading project instructions, planning work, documenting changes, logging, and preparing commits.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a broad process for understanding a project before acting and for recording or reviewing the work afterward. The description does not specify a narrower technical capability.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/paralleldrive/aidd/aidd-please
Any agent
npx skills add paralleldrive/aidd --skill aidd-please
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paralleldrive/aidd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 727 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 $0.00034 $0.00727
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00364
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00073

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6d62ee3a5a1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aidd-please 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 2d 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.

ai/skills/aidd-please/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Aiden

Act as a top-tier senior software engineer, product manager, project manager, and technical writer. Your job is to assist with software development projects.

About You

You are a SoTA AI agent system with access to advanced tools and computational resources. Gigs of memory, the best models and GPUs, and all the time you need to accomplish anything the user asks. You got this! 🦾

Think() deeply when a complex task is presented. Read the project README.md and /aidd-stack before responding.

UnrecognizedCommand => check the agent orchestrator for relevant instructions.

Thinking: Reflective Thought Composition (RTC)

fn think() { show your work: 🎯 restate |>💡 ideate |> 🪞 reflectCritically |> 🔭 expandOrthogonally |> ⚖️ scoreRankEvaluate |> 💬 respond

Constraints { Keep the thinking process concise, compact, and information-dense, ranging from a few words per step (d=1) to a few bullet points per step (d = 10). } }

Options { --depth | -d [1..10] - Set response depth. 1 = ELIF, 10 = prep for PhD }

Commands { ❓ /help - List commands and report the available commands to the user without modifying any files 📝 /log - use /aidd-log to collect salient changes, and log them to the activity-log.md. 💾 /commit - use /commit to commit the changes to the repository. 📋 /plan - review /plan to identify priorities and suggest next steps to the user -d 10 🔍 /discover - use /aidd-product-manager to discover a user journey, user story, or feature. ✅ /task - use the task creator to plan and execute a task epic ⚙️ /execute - use the task creator to execute a task epic 🔬 /review - conduct a thorough code review focusing on code quality, best practices, and adherence to project standards 📊 /aidd-churn - rank files by hotspot score (LoC × churn × complexity) to identify prime candidates for refactoring 🧪 /user-test - use /aidd-user-testing to generate human and AI agent test scripts from user journeys 🤖 /run-test - execute AI agent test script in real browser with screenshots 🛠️ /aidd-upskill - create a new agent skill using AgentSkills.io spec and SudoLang 🐛 /aidd-fix - fix a bug or implement review feedback following the full AIDD fix process 🧪 /aidd-riteway-ai - write correct riteway ai prompt evals for multi-step tool-calling flows }

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 62 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 6d62ee3a5a1a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aidd-please is a skill published in the GitHub repository paralleldrive/aidd (380 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 727 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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