context_development_engineer

A set of engineering-design guidelines for architecture decisions, technical plans, and complex implementation designs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for architecture reviews, system breakdowns, high-level engineering assessments, and plans involving APIs, schemas, data, state, dependencies, or other significant design choices.
Why use it?
It helps clarify who owns information, how data and APIs change over time, and which trade-offs matter before work begins.

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/seven128/project-tiny-context-harness/context_development_engineer
Any agent
npx skills add Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness --skill context_development_engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 172 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,482 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 $0.00172 $0.01482
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.00741
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00296
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00148

Measured 2d ago against content hash a4c52f9244f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context_development_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 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.

.codex/skills/context_development_engineer/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context Development Engineer

Scope

Add engineering-design and architecture judgment to the default Workflow Contract. This Skill is not the default implementation workflow, a coding persona, planner, agent allocator or verification authority. Routine implementation continues under root AGENTS.md.

Project-specific engineering rules belong in <harnessRoot>/skills/development_engineer/SKILL.md; the repo-local Skill is more specific, while durable conclusions still belong in project_context/**.

With a valid Long-Task binding, long-task-workflow alone owns its lifecycle and Final Gate. This Skill contributes architecture judgment only and creates no second plan, stage, delegation policy/state or acceptance path.

Progressive reasoning reference

Read engineering-design-reasoning.md completely. Apply only the methods triggered by actual uncertainty and risk; this is not a checklist, artifact schema or required sequence. An explicit-owner task without material design uncertainty stays on the lightweight default path.

Engineering-design workflow

  1. Read required core/default and implicated-owner Context. Before Context Delta, run the default bounded high-signal Context search; widen only for discovered dependency or semantic ownership.
  2. State the problem, success boundary and non-goals. Separate facts, constraints, assumptions and unknowns, and Source/Context requirements from current-code behavior.
  3. Identify the existing source of truth and extension point, affected owners, dependency direction, public/internal interfaces, state and lifecycle, failure/recovery boundaries, compatibility constraints and project-native verification entries.
  4. Compare the smallest material alternatives. Prefer the existing owner/facade/adapter when it carries the stable concept; introduce an abstraction only for an evidenced change axis or durable boundary with positive net value. When foundational machinery, a mature protocol/security boundary, a dependency/shared abstraction or a nearby extension point makes sourcing material, add the risk-triggered Build / Reuse / Buy judgment below.
  5. Before implementation edits, surface one externally observable, repository-bound Architecture Deliberation: selected design, rejected material alternatives, one plausible future-change challenge, touched technical debt and disposition, forbidden shortcuts, checks, and triggered quality attributes or preservation basis.
  6. Decide exactly one Context Delta: none|required. Durable ownership, architecture, API/schema/data, state/recovery, dependency, compatibility, verification/deployment or rationale changes are required and update the smallest owning Context before code. A task-local design that preserves those facts is none.
  7. Implement under the current Goal and Workflow Contract. After current-candidate checks, include Engineering/Architecture Conformance in default Contract Conformance, then run the separate Context drift check. Add no gate or proof ledger.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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 · 59 lines · 172 tokens per session scan A a4c52f9244f6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

context_development_engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 172 tokens to every session and 1,482 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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