Agent Development

About

Learn to build powerful, autonomous agents that handle complex, multi-step tasks within Claude Code plugins. This skill offers a complete guide to the agent development lifecycle, covering file structure, YAML frontmatter configuration, and crafting effective system prompts. It provides detailed best practices, validation rules, and triggering examples to ensure agents behave reliably and activate under the correct conditions, enabling you to extend Claude's capabilities with specialized, independent subprocesses.

Key Features

• Guidance on configuring agent models, tools, and permissions
• Detailed agent file structure with YAML frontmatter specifications
• Best practices for writing effective system prompts and triggering conditions
• AI-assisted and manual agent creation workflows
• 4 GitHub stars
• Validation rules and testing strategies for agent behavior

Use Cases

• Defining precise triggering conditions for when an agent should activate.
• Building a new autonomous agent to handle a complex, multi-step task.
• Refining an agent's system prompt to improve its performance and reliability.