senior-prompt-engineer

senior-prompt-engineer is a skill for Codex from vadimcomanescu/codex-skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (233 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for designing and testing prompts, the instructions given to an AI assistant or agent. It covers task breakdown, output rules, tool use, safety limits, and evaluation with representative and difficult test cases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or revise system prompts, define expected outputs, build prompt test suites, and compare prompt versions.
Why use it?
It helps make AI behavior more reliable and makes regressions visible when prompts change.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to write or revise system prompts, define expected outputs, build prompt test suites, and compare prompt versions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vadimcomanescu/codex-skills/senior-prompt-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vadimcomanescu/codex-skills --skill senior-prompt-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vadimcomanescu/codex-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 233 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 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 $0.00061 $0.00233
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00117
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00023

Measured 12d ago against content hash f71c044794e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

senior-prompt-engineer 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/scaffold_prompt_eval.py), 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.

skills/.curated/ai/senior-prompt-engineer/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Senior Prompt Engineer

Treat prompts like products: versioned, tested, and measurable.

Quick Start

  1. Define the job: inputs, outputs, and the “definition of done”.
  2. Write the smallest prompt that:
    • states constraints clearly
    • defines output format
    • includes edge-case handling
  3. Add examples only when needed (few-shot is expensive).
  4. Create an eval set: representative cases + adversarial cases.
  5. Iterate with diffs: change one thing, measure impact.

Optional tool: scaffold a prompt + eval harness

python ~/.codex/skills/senior-prompt-engineer/scripts/scaffold_prompt_eval.py . --out evals/prompt_eval

References

  • Prompt review checklist: references/prompt-review.md
Files

What ships with it

5 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. 12d ago First seen · 28 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A f71c044794e6

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senior-prompt-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository vadimcomanescu/codex-skills (24 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 233 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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