Use this reference catalog to spot common design problems in agents, skills, and commands. It explains why patterns such as oversized instructions, redundant skill loading, or inconsistent terminology cause trouble, and gives a focused remedy for each.
- Reviewing an agent or skill design for common pitfalls
- Finding a remedy for duplicated or overloaded instructions
- Checking command and skill organization before validation
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Follow a five-phase process to create one new AI agent: analyze its responsibility and overlap, design its role and principles, create it from a template, validate it against a checklist, and refine observed issues. The workflow composes a separate specification-validation skill.
- Create a new specialist agent with a defined responsibility
- Check a proposed agent for overlap with existing agents
- Draft an agent using established design patterns and a template
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Review agent definitions with a checklist covering format, focus, safety, examples, skill loading, token use, and whether the agent addresses the largest problem. It helps produce a structured verdict with findings and suggested fixes.
- Checking an agent definition before use
- Finding missing skill-loading instructions
- Reviewing safety and example coverage
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Consult worked examples for creating agents, migrating oversized specifications, deciding when to extract reusable skills, and simplifying commands. The examples help guide those procedures with concrete structural choices, without imposing a fixed sequence.
- Planning a focused specialist agent
- Breaking a monolithic agent spec into reusable parts
- Deciding whether to extract a skill
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A reference for authoring and modifying agents or skills with concise, structured content. It defines a compact house style, requires a reasoning mandate in changed agents, and sets a measured threshold for compressing prose while preserving machine-readable contracts.
- Writing a concise agent definition
- Migrating a monolithic agent into skills
- Adding a reasoning mandate to an agent
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Use this procedure when two agents need to become one. It inventories both agents, folds the second agent’s unique capabilities into the first, relocates skills, removes deprecated files, updates references, and validates the merged result.
- Combining two agents into a single maintained agent
- Finding unique capabilities and overlaps before a merge
- Relocating skills and cleaning up references after consolidation
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