Agent Development

Agent Development is a skill for Claude Code from taipt1504/agent-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (2,484 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

Guidance for developing coding agents, including their structure, instructions, tools, colours, and conditions for when they should be used. An agent is a software helper that can carry out tasks based on defined instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or modify agents, write system prompts and frontmatter, define tools, set triggering conditions, or design autonomous agents.
Why use it?
It helps turn a vague request for an agent into a defined setup with clear behaviour and activation rules.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Part of the devco-agent-skills plugin — 32 skills, 16 commands, 10 agents, 7 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or modify agents, write system prompts and frontmatter…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/taipt1504/agent-skills/agent-development
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 taipt1504/agent-skills --skill agent-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/taipt1504/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devco-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 16 commands, 10 agents, 7 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for Agent Development

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/taipt1504/agent-skills/agent-development.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/taipt1504/agent-skills/agent-development)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/taipt1504/agent-skills/agent-development"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/taipt1504/agent-skills/agent-development.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,484 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.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00080 $0.02484
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.01242
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00497
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00248

Measured 6d ago against content hash ff3324078bbe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Agent Development 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-agent.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-development/SKILL.md · 416 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 6d ago First seen · 416 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A ff3324078bbe

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Agent Development is a skill published in the GitHub repository taipt1504/agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 2,484 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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