agent-development

agent-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from troykelly/codex-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (728 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A guide for designing specialized Codex agents, which are reusable workers with their own instructions and responsibilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create agent profiles or prompt files, set their triggering conditions, and build reusable prompts and validation tools.
Why use it?
It helps define when a specialized worker should run and how it should behave, instead of putting every task into one general prompt.

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/troykelly/codex-skills/agent-development
Any agent
npx skills add troykelly/codex-skills --skill agent-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/troykelly/codex-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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/troykelly/codex-skills/agent-development.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/troykelly/codex-skills/agent-development)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/troykelly/codex-skills/agent-development"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/troykelly/codex-skills/agent-development.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 728 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00037 $0.00728
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00364
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00073

Measured 4d ago against content hash cde56789316e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

agent-development scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

Define per-agent profiles in `~/.codex/config.toml`:
external/skills/agent-development/SKILL.md · 101 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. 4d ago First seen · 101 lines · 37 tokens per session scan B cde56789316e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository troykelly/codex-skills (11 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 728 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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