developer_guide

developer_guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from siddsachar/row-bot. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,220 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for using Developer Studio tools to inspect, edit, test, and review a code workspace safely. It explains which tools to use for files, branches, changes, tests, and common Git tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect files and Git status, make tracked edits, manage branches and commits, run tests or custom commands, and review diffs.
Why use it?
It keeps code changes tied to the selected workspace and approval settings while maintaining an accurate view of the work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to inspect files and Git status, make tracked edits, manage branches and commits, run tests or custom commands, and review diffs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/siddsachar/row-bot/developer_guide
About the project

Row-Bot is a local-first desktop AI assistant that combines language models with memory and tools for working across files, repositories, workflows, and communication channels. It is intended for people who want an assistant that can run locally while keeping application data on their machine.

siddsachar/row-bot · 1,627 stars · on GitHub · row-bot.ai

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 siddsachar/row-bot --skill developer_guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/siddsachar/row-bot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,220 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 59
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00024 $0.01220
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00488
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00122

Measured 15d ago against content hash 9d3d67300d82, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

developer_guide 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 15d 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.

tool_guides/developer_guide/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Developer Tool Guide

Use the Developer tools whenever the active conversation has a code folder. They are scoped to the selected workspace, follow the workspace approval mode, and keep the Developer Inspector in sync.

Default Workflow

  1. Start with developer_workspace_info for repo, branch, approval mode, execution mode, dirty state, and available context.
  2. Use developer_update_todos for multi-step coding work. Keep the todo list current as you inspect, edit, test, and review.
  3. Inspect with developer_list_files, developer_read_file, developer_search, developer_git_status, and developer_get_diff before changing code.
  4. Prefer developer_write_file for creating or replacing full files and developer_apply_patch for precise diffs. Both record agent-owned change sets for the Inspector.
  5. Use developer_create_branch, developer_switch_branch, developer_commit_changes, developer_push_current_branch, and developer_fast_forward_merge for common Git workflows instead of raw shell.
  6. Use developer_run_detected_test for known project test/lint commands. Use developer_run_command for custom shell commands only when it is the right tool for the task.
  7. If a Developer edit/test/command tool reports execution_mode: "docker" and a sandbox_pending_change_id, tell the user that the real repo has not changed yet. The Docker container persists for the workspace, but host files still change only through developer_import_sandbox_changes.
  8. Before finishing, check developer_get_diff, run the relevant tests, and summarize files changed, tests run, and any remaining risk.

Progress Narration

For longer work, narrate briefly in the chat before clusters of tool calls. Good examples:

  • "I'll first map the repo and test surface."
  • "I found the core module; now I'm adding focused tests."
  • "The patch is in. I'm running the detected test command next."

Avoid silent chains of tools when the user would otherwise have no sense of what is happening.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 15d ago Changed · -1 tokens per session 9d3d67300d82
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 78 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 03cbd93fcad5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

developer_guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository siddsachar/row-bot (1,627 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,220 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.