sdlc-task

sdlc-task is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from redhat-vmeperf/agent-tasks-template. It costs 43 tokens per session (523 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

An autonomous seven-stage software development life cycle (SDLC) workflow covering architecture, security planning, team coordination, coding, review, quality checks, and security auditing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run a software task from design through implementation and testing, handle in-scope findings, flag out-of-scope findings, and receive a record of the completed process.
Why use it?
It allows the stages to proceed without human approval at each gate while still producing their reports and revisiting earlier decisions when new findings require it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

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/redhat-vmeperf/agent-tasks-template/sdlc-task
Any agent
npx skills add redhat-vmeperf/agent-tasks-template --skill sdlc-task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/redhat-vmeperf/agent-tasks-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 523 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 $0.00043 $0.00523
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00262
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00052

Measured 6d ago against content hash e789c481b243, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sdlc-task 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.

.agents/skills/sdlc-task/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

sdlc-task Skill

Platform-agnostic definition for the autonomous (ungated) SDLC pipeline.

This skill runs the same 7 roles as the standard SDLC pipeline (Architect, Security Architect, Team Lead, Engineer, Code Reviewer, Quality Engineer, Security Auditor) but without human approval gates. All gates are advisory — agents produce their artifacts, surface findings, and self-advance.

When a later gate discovers something that changes architecture, scope, or security posture, the pipeline loops back to Gate 1 to re-evaluate with the new information, then continues forward. This makes the pipeline self-improving, not just advisory.

Behavior

  • All 7 roles execute in sequence and produce their standard artifacts
  • No gate blocks on human approval — agents self-advance
  • Self-correction: discoveries that change architecture, scope, or security posture trigger a loop back to Gate 1 (max 2 re-evaluation cycles to prevent infinite loops)
  • Finding mitigation is driven by the invoker's directions — findings within scope are mitigated, findings outside scope are flagged
  • Audit trail is mandatory (REQ-2), entries marked as UNGATED
  • All common files (CYNEFIN.md, PERSONALITY.md, LESSONS.md, REQUIREMENTS.md) are loaded

Pipeline

See .agents/skills/sdlc-task/PIPELINE.md for the full pipeline process definition.

Invocation Context

This skill may be invoked:

  1. Directly by a human for lower-ceremony tasks
  2. By any pipeline that needs autonomous SDLC-quality analysis without blocking
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. 6d ago First seen · 51 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A e789c481b243

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sdlc-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository redhat-vmeperf/agent-tasks-template (3 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 523 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 2026-08-31.

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