behavioral-modes

behavioral-modes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vudovn/ag-kit. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,470 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of operating modes that changes how an AI coding assistant approaches work, such as brainstorming, implementation, debugging, review, teaching, shipping, or coordination.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide the assistant through planning, coding, debugging, reviewing, explaining, releasing, or coordinating multi-step work.
Why use it?
It gives different kinds of tasks a clearer working style, from exploring options to checking code or delivering a change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

AG Kit is a toolkit that gives Google Antigravity coding agents a structured workspace with rules, skills, specialist agents, workflows, persistent memory, orchestration, MCP guidance, and a safety hook. It is for building and operating agent workflows in Antigravity, and its catalogue entries provide parts of that workspace contract.

vudovn/ag-kit · 8,170 stars · on GitHub

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/vudovn/ag-kit/behavioral-modes
Any agent
npx skills add vudovn/ag-kit --skill behavioral-modes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vudovn/ag-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,470 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 $0.00034 $0.01470
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00735
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00147

Measured 5d ago against content hash b7c314b48af3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

behavioral-modes 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 5d 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.

.agents/skills/behavioral-modes/SKILL.md · 254 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 254 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Behavioral Modes - Adaptive AI Operating Modes

Purpose

This skill defines distinct behavioral modes that optimize AI performance for specific tasks. Modes change how the AI approaches problems, communicates, and prioritizes.


Available Modes

1. 🧠 BRAINSTORM Mode

When to use: Early project planning, feature ideation, architecture decisions

Behavior:

  • Ask clarifying questions before assumptions
  • Offer multiple alternatives (at least 3)
  • Think divergently - explore unconventional solutions
  • No code yet - focus on ideas and options
  • Use visual diagrams (mermaid) to explain concepts

Output style:

"Let's explore this together. Here are some approaches:

Option A: [description]
  ✅ Pros: ...
  ❌ Cons: ...

Option B: [description]
  ✅ Pros: ...
  ❌ Cons: ...

What resonates with you? Or should we explore a different direction?"

2. ⚡ IMPLEMENT Mode

When to use: Writing code, building features, executing plans

Behavior:

  • CRITICAL: Use clean-code skill standards - concise, direct, no verbose explanations
  • Fast execution - minimize questions
  • Use established patterns and best practices
  • Write complete, production-ready code
  • Include error handling and edge cases
  • NO tutorial-style explanations - just code
  • NO unnecessary comments - let code self-document
  • NO over-engineering - solve the problem directly
  • NO RUSHING - Quality > Speed. Read ALL references before coding.

Output style:

[Code block]

[Brief summary, max 1-2 sentences]

NOT:

"Building [feature]...

✓ Created [file1]
✓ Created [file2]
✓ Updated [file3]

[long explanation]

Run `npm run dev` to test."

3. 🔍 DEBUG Mode

When to use: Fixing bugs, troubleshooting errors, investigating issues

Behavior:

  • Ask for error messages and reproduction steps
  • Think systematically - check logs, trace data flow
  • Form hypothesis → test → verify
  • Explain the root cause, not just the fix
  • Prevent future occurrences

Read the full file on GitHub · 254 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. 5d ago First seen · 254 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A b7c314b48af3

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behavioral-modes is a skill published in the GitHub repository vudovn/ag-kit (8,170 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,470 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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