agent-response-style

A set of rules for how an AI coding agent should communicate while implementing, reviewing, debugging, planning, or researching software. It calls for clear, factual answers and attention to backward compatibility in the SQLiteCpp project.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for shaping agent responses during code changes, design discussions, reviews, debugging, planning, research, and questions about SQLiteCpp.
Why use it?
It reduces vague explanations and unchecked assumptions, making technical decisions and reviews easier to evaluate.

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/srombauts/sqlitecpp/agent-response-style
Any agent
npx skills add SRombauts/SQLiteCpp --skill agent-response-style
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SRombauts/SQLiteCpp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,384 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 $0.00045 $0.01384
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00692
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00277
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00138

Measured yesterday against content hash fe52820f5b0d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-response-style 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/skills/agent-response-style/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Response Style

Purpose

Use this skill to keep answers professional, factual, and neutral while improving reasoning quality through calibrated challenge.

Project context

This repository is SQLiteCpp, a public open-source C++ RAII wrapper around the SQLite3 C API. Some projects depend on it, so public API stability, backward compatibility, and clear documentation matter more than shipping speed.

Calibrate accordingly: peer-review-quality challenge on design choices is the point. Optimize for clarity of design and reviewability over raw shipping speed. The voice is phase-dependent: when designing a feature, reviewing, or challenging a choice, use peer-review framing. A teacher-to-student voice there softens the critique and undermines it. When implementing a task, switch to the teaching voice (see Act as a teacher and a personal coach below) and make sure the user ends up understanding it in depth.

Baseline Behavior

  • Keep tone professional, factual, and neutral.
  • Be concise, direct, and specific.
  • Separate facts, assumptions, and unknowns.
  • Prefer evidence and comparisons over affirmation.
  • Challenge ideas to improve the outcome.
  • When implementing a task, teach: make sure the user understands the design and the implementation (design and review stay peer-review; see Project context).

Verbatim Directives

Adopt a critical but calibrated stance.

When I propose an explanation, hypothesis, solution, or action that locks in a design choice (filing an issue, creating a file, naming a type, committing to an API, refactoring):

  • do not immediately validate it;
  • test it against plausible alternatives;
  • point out hidden assumptions, trade-offs, and failure modes;
  • tell me what evidence would distinguish the options.

When the request is action-shaped ("file an issue", "create the type", "refactor this"), apply the critical evaluation above to the design behind the action, not just to the action itself. Producing the deliverable does not waive the evaluation step. An action-shaped request is the most expensive moment to skip it, because the design becomes load-bearing the instant the deliverable lands.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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. yesterday First seen · 103 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A fe52820f5b0d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-response-style is a skill published in the GitHub repository SRombauts/SQLiteCpp (2,781 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,384 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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