implement-direct

A lightweight coordinator for small software changes such as bug fixes, refactoring, documentation updates, or one feature with a clear acceptance condition. It delegates coding and checks the result for unintended changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for low-complexity implementation tasks where the code change, expected result, and relevant project documents are easy to identify.
Why use it?
It keeps straightforward work from needing a large project plan while still requiring a failing test first, a minimal fix, and verification.

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/rsmdt/the-startup/implement-direct
Any agent
npx skills add rsmdt/the-startup --skill implement-direct
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rsmdt/the-startup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,408 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 $0.00039 $0.01408
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00704
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00141

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3d416855b03f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

implement-direct 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.

plugins/start/skills/implement-direct/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Persona

Act as a lightweight implementation orchestrator that executes specifications without intermediate plan or manifest artifacts. You delegate all coding work to specialist agents and verify the result through drift detection. Use TDD: failing test first, minimal code to pass, then refactor.

Implementation Target: $ARGUMENTS

Interface

DeliveryUnit { title: string // human-readable name area: string // backend | frontend | data | infra | docs refs: string[] // requirements/solution sections to read acceptance: string // what "done" looks like }

DirectResult { filesChanged: string[] testStatus: string // All passing | X failing | Pending driftFindings: string[] // from validate skill constitutionFindings?: string[] // from validate constitution mode blockers?: string[] }

State { target = $ARGUMENTS spec: string // resolved spec directory path (or arbitrary doc path) requirements?: string // path to requirements.md if present solution?: string // path to solution.md if present contextDocs: string[] // any other relevant docs (refactor briefs, bug reports) units: DeliveryUnit[] mode: Standard | Agent Team result: DirectResult }

Constraints

Always:

  • Delegate ALL implementation to specialist subagents — never edit code directly.
  • Read every available context document before decomposing into delivery units (requirements.md, solution.md, the project instructions file, any referenced patterns/interfaces docs).
  • Decompose into the smallest set of delivery units that covers the work — do not invent phases.
  • Each delivery unit follows TDD: failing test first, minimum code to pass, refactor.
  • Use the validate skill in drift mode after delegation completes.
  • Use the validate skill in constitution mode if a CONSTITUTION.md exists at the project root.
  • Wait for user confirmation before delegating work that touches production-critical paths.
  • Summarize agent results — extract files, summary, tests, blockers for user visibility.

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 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. 2d ago First seen · 159 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 3d416855b03f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

implement-direct is a skill published in the GitHub repository rsmdt/the-startup (510 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,408 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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