apd-profile

apd-profile is a skill for Claude Code from zstevovich/claude-apd. It costs 126 tokens per session (1,308 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project skill for choosing model and effort settings for APD pipeline agents, balancing lower cost against higher quality.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for viewing available profiles and switching the APD pipeline between economy, standard, and launch-focused settings.
Why use it?
It avoids changing agent settings one by one and shows when a profile change is appropriate or would cause configuration drift.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the claude-apd plugin — 11 skills, 5 agents, 8 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for viewing available profiles and switching the APD pipeline between economy, standard, and launch-focused settings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zstevovich/claude-apd/apd-profile
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 zstevovich/claude-apd --skill apd-profile
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zstevovich/claude-apd

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-apd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 5 agents, 8 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,308 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 $0.00126 $0.01308
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00654
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00131

Measured 10d ago against content hash 3c7ee6dd09cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apd-profile 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 10d 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.

skills/apd-profile/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

APD Model Profile

Economy vs quality dial for pipeline agents. A profile maps role classes to a (model, effort) pair: default (builders — context-heavy, carry the tier) and adversarial (positional value — fresh context matters more than model tier, so it may sit one tier below builders, never meaningfully above them).

Profiles are data, not code: defaults ship in the plugin (templates/model-profiles.conf); a project may override the whole table via .apd/model-profiles.conf. CC-only — Codex .toml agents are not touched.

When to use

  • User asks to change agent models, make the pipeline cheaper or stronger, or names a profile (burn / cruise / eco).
  • Before a launch-critical feature → suggest burn.
  • Before a batch of small pre-scoped fixes / Lean tasks → suggest eco.

When to skip

  • Mid-pipeline (active spec-card) — the script refuses; finish or reset first.
  • User wants a one-off model change for a single agent — that is a manual frontmatter edit, not a profile (but warn that apd profile status will flag it as drift afterwards).

Steps

  1. Show current state:

    bash .claude/bin/apd profile status
    
  2. Show available profiles and what each maps to:

    bash .claude/bin/apd profile list
    
  3. Ask the user which profile to apply (AskUserQuestion with the profiles as options, current one marked). Briefly state the trade-off: burn = maximum quality / maximum cost, cruise = strong daily default, eco = cheapest builders, for small well-scoped work.

    Supervision is topology, not a price tier (v7.0). Every profile carries a supervisor row, so every Full-mode run adds a frontier pass over the final diff before the verifier — on burn, cruise and eco alike. Say this at the decision point so the extra frontier dispatch is not a surprise, and do NOT present a cheaper profile as "the one without supervision": while that was true (v6.30, eco only) the profiles were different pipelines rather than one pipeline at three prices, and their telemetry was not comparable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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. 10d ago First seen · 107 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 3c7ee6dd09cc

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apd-profile is a skill published in the GitHub repository zstevovich/claude-apd (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 1,308 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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