autonomous-dev

autonomous-dev is a skill for Claude Code from zxkane/autonomous-dev-team. It costs 162 tokens per session (5,462 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A workflow for implementing features or fixing bugs through test-driven development, or TDD: writing tests before the code they check. It uses separate Git worktrees, which let different changes use separate working directories.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps implement issues, fix bugs, write test cases, create worktrees, push changes, and open pull requests.
Why use it?
It organizes development from issue to completed change while keeping work isolated and checked by tests.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: hooks in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps implement issues, fix bugs, write test cases, create worktrees, push changes, and open pull requests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zxkane/autonomous-dev-team/autonomous-dev
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 zxkane/autonomous-dev-team --skill autonomous-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zxkane/autonomous-dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

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 autonomous-dev

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 162 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,462 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 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 5.1 $0.00162 $0.05462
Opus 5.5 $0.00065 $0.02185
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00032 $0.01092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00546

Measured 20d ago against content hash de4e6fd7bcb9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autonomous-dev 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 20d 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/autonomous-dev/SKILL.md · 510 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. 20d ago Changed · +17 lines de4e6fd7bcb9
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +43 lines 0d0389ebf233
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 450 lines · 162 tokens per session scan A 1d2f6f7815f0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

autonomous-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository zxkane/autonomous-dev-team (40 stars, last pushed 20d ago), with no licence file. It adds 162 tokens to every session and 5,462 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.