agent-development

Name: agent-development - Agent Skill
Rating: 5.0 (4684 reviews)
Author: anthropics

4,684

This skill should be used when the user asks to "create an agent", "add an agent", "write a subagent", "agent frontmatter", "when to use description", "agent examples", "agent tools", "agent colors", "autonomous agent", or needs guidance on agent structure, system prompts, triggering conditions, or agent development best practices for Claude Code plugins.

Download Folder View on GitHub

CLI Install

Recommended

Use the skills CLI to install this skill with one command. Auto-detects all installed AI assistants.

Method 1 - skills CLI

npx skills i anthropics/claude-plugins-official/plugins/plugin-dev/skills/agent-development

Method 2 - openskills (supports sync & update)

npx openskills install anthropics/claude-plugins-official

Auto-detects Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and more. One install, works everywhere.

Installation Path

Download and extract to one of the following locations:

~/.claude/skills/agent-development/

SKILL.md

examples

references

scripts

Skill Instructions

Back

Run with Cloud Agent

No setup needed. Let our cloud agents run this skill for you.

Select Provider

Select Model

Claude Sonnet 4.5

$0.20/task

Best for coding tasks

Environment setup included

Oops! Something went wrong

[next-mdx-remote-client] error compiling MDX: Expected a closing tag for `<example>` (348:53-348:62) before the end of `tableData` 346 | |-------|----------|--------|---------| 347 | | name | Yes | lowercase-hyphens | code-reviewer | > 348 | | description | Yes | Text + examples | Use when... <example>... | | ^ 349 | | model | Yes | inherit/sonnet/opus/haiku | inherit | 350 | | color | Yes | Color name | blue | More information: https://mdxjs.com/docs/troubleshooting-mdx