shaft-developer

shaft-developer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ShaftHQ/SHAFT_ENGINE. It costs 28 tokens per session (241 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A routing guide for SHAFT testing work. It helps choose one specialist skill for tasks such as planning, implementation, execution, or failure analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a SHAFT task to select the right next skill for the specific deliverable.
Why use it?
It prevents a testing task from being handled by several overlapping specialists or the wrong one. SHAFT is the testing framework being used.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the shaft-skills plugin — 31 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it at the start of a SHAFT task to select the right next skill for the specific deliverable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shafthq/shaft_engine/shaft-developer
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 ShaftHQ/SHAFT_ENGINE --skill shaft-developer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShaftHQ/SHAFT_ENGINE

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install shaft-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 241 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00028 $0.00241
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00096
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00024

Measured 4d ago against content hash c168097fe88e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shaft-developer 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 4d 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.

shaft-skills/shaft-developer/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

SHAFT Developer

Routing

Read the deterministic routing map and load exactly one next skill: the single row for the current deliverable. Do not open another specialist in that turn. Return here only when the user asks for a distinct next deliverable.

A lane with no row is no skill. Desktop automation has no skill. Do not load shaft-web-actions in its place. The CLI of a product under test has no skill. shaft-cli is the SHAFT CLI.

Select the test with Maven Surefire -Dtest (Class#method, or a comma-separated class list) or a suiteXmlFiles value the project already owns. Do not add a TestNG XML file.

Never guess SHAFT syntax, tool names, execution evidence, or product behavior.

Bracketed citation keys (for example ISTQB-CTFL) in every playbook resolve in the shared bibliography.

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 4d ago Changed · +3 lines c168097fe88e
  2. 6d ago Changed · +3 lines 30f9fe1131d0
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 21 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 571c56f33c06

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shaft-developer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShaftHQ/SHAFT_ENGINE (416 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 241 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.