project-development-mindset

project-development-mindset is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thienanblog/awesome-ai-agent-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (2,819 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A general workflow for repository implementation, diagnosis, verification, and lasting changes to code, configuration, tests, or documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for ordinary project work, including inspecting a repository, planning changes, routing to one specialist when needed, implementing updates, and verifying results.
Why use it?
It helps choose an appropriate amount of investigation and checking while keeping the work focused on the requested change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the project-development-skills plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for ordinary project work, including inspecting a repository, planning changes, routing to one specialist when needed, implementing updates, and verifying results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thienanblog/awesome-ai-agent-skills/project-development-mindset
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 thienanblog/awesome-ai-agent-skills --skill project-development-mindset
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thienanblog/awesome-ai-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install project-development-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,819 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
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to low

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 →

  • low Excessive Agency · line 20
    Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.
    Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
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 $0.00076 $0.02819
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.01409
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00564
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00282

Measured 11d ago against content hash b8cf615b6737, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-development-mindset 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 11d 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.

plugins/project-development-skills/skills/project-development-mindset/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Development Mindset

Use this skill as an adaptive baseline, not mandatory ceremony. Apply only the guidance relevant to the task. Scale discovery, planning, implementation, and verification to the task's impact, uncertainty, and reversibility.

Precedence And Adaptation

  • Follow system instructions, the user's current request, and applicable project instructions before this general guidance.
  • Treat repository conventions as evidence of project intent, not as rules to copy blindly when they conflict with correctness, security, maintainability, or a more authoritative instruction.
  • Start with this coordinator instead of preloading every possibly relevant specialist. After initial orientation, load at most one specialist for the current primary concern. Keep this skill only as the cross-cutting baseline, and switch specialists rather than stacking workflows when the primary concern changes.
  • Apply routine gates implicitly for small, local work. Do not turn them into user-facing ceremony unless a decision or risk needs discussion.
  • Preserve unrelated user changes and existing work. Do not clean up, revert, or broaden scope merely because nearby code could be improved.
  • Run in the main conversation by default. Before spawning any subagent, agent team, or delegated worker, explain that delegation can increase usage and ask the user to approve the proposed agent count and scope. Ask again before expanding an approved scope.

Core Outcomes

Aim for all of the following:

  • Understand the project context that materially affects the requested behavior.
  • Define what success means before making a substantial change.
  • Implement the smallest coherent change that fully solves the task.
  • Reuse existing project surfaces when their semantics and boundaries fit.
  • Verify behavior with evidence proportionate to the likely failure cost.
  • Keep durable sources of truth aligned when the change materially affects them.
  • Stop when the requested outcome works, relevant checks pass, and no concrete requirement or observed risk justifies more work.

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 200 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A b8cf615b6737

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-development-mindset is a skill published in the GitHub repository thienanblog/awesome-ai-agent-skills (65 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 2,819 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 2026-08-30.

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