agentic-engineering

A way to run software-engineering work as a sequence of small, checkable tasks handled by AI agents. It defines what success means, splits work by complexity, and uses evaluations to compare results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan and execute agent-led implementation, refactoring, or debugging. It helps choose an appropriate model tier, divide work into independently verifiable units, and check the result.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of unmeasured or poorly scoped AI changes by requiring clear completion criteria, regression checks, and review of edge cases.

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/zhmxiaowo/opencode-simple/agentic-engineering
Any agent
npx skills add zhmxiaowo/opencode-simple --skill agentic-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhmxiaowo/opencode-simple

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 367 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 84% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00024 $0.00367
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00183
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00037

Measured yesterday against content hash 985a5cb1287e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentic-engineering 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to agentic-engineering — 27 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.opencode/skills/agentic-engineering/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

Agentic Engineering

Use this skill for engineering workflows where AI agents perform most implementation work and humans enforce quality and risk controls.

Operating Principles

  1. Define completion criteria before execution.
  2. Decompose work into agent-sized units.
  3. Route model tiers by task complexity.
  4. Measure with evals and regression checks.

Eval-First Loop

  1. Define capability eval and regression eval.
  2. Run baseline and capture failure signatures.
  3. Execute implementation.
  4. Re-run evals and compare deltas.

Task Decomposition

Apply the 15-minute unit rule:

  • each unit should be independently verifiable
  • each unit should have a single dominant risk
  • each unit should expose a clear done condition

Model Routing

  • Haiku: classification, boilerplate transforms, narrow edits
  • Sonnet: implementation and refactors
  • Opus: architecture, root-cause analysis, multi-file invariants

Session Strategy

  • Continue session for closely-coupled units.
  • Start fresh session after major phase transitions.
  • Compact after milestone completion, not during active debugging.

Review Focus for AI-Generated Code

Prioritize:

  • invariants and edge cases
  • error boundaries
  • security and auth assumptions
  • hidden coupling and rollout risk

Do not waste review cycles on style-only disagreements when automated format/lint already enforce style.

Cost Discipline

Track per task:

  • model
  • token estimate
  • retries
  • wall-clock time
  • success/failure

Escalate model tier only when lower tier fails with a clear reasoning gap.

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. yesterday First seen · 66 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 985a5cb1287e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agentic-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository zhmxiaowo/opencode-simple (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 367 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to agentic-engineering, differing in 27 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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