agent-development
A skill in Anthropic's plugin-dev plugin for creating subagents inside Claude Code plugins.
What the skill teaches
A skill in Anthropic's plugin-dev plugin for creating subagents inside Claude Code plugins. Each agent is a Markdown file in the plugin's agents folder whose YAML frontmatter sets a name, a description that says when to trigger it, the model and a colour, plus an optional tool list kept to what is needed, and whose body is the system prompt. The skill explains how to write trigger scenarios and second-person prompts with a role, process, output format and edge cases, offers AI-assisted or manual creation, and includes scripts that validate an agent file and test whether it triggers, with full examples and reference files.
Capabilities
- Write agent files for Claude Code plugins
- Describe when an agent should trigger
- Validate an agent file's structure
- Test whether an agent triggers
About
- Publisher
- Anthropic
Works with
Install
The project doesn't document install steps that we could confirm. See the project's own instructions
What's inside
- examples/agent-creation-prompt.md
- examples/complete-agent-examples.md
- references/agent-creation-system-prompt.md
- references/system-prompt-design.md
- references/triggering-examples.md
- scripts/validate-agent.sh
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This skill includes scripts that your agent may run.
Details
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Skill | |
| Tool | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Publisher | Anthropic | source |
| Official status | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Needs an API key or sign-in | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Includes scripts | Yes | source |
| Platforms | Not stated in its documentation | |
| AI clients | Claude Code | source |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | source |
| Pricing | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Activity | Last commit Nov 11, 202646,808 GitHub starsDownload data not available (not on npm or PyPI) | source |
| Links | Repository Website |
Copies of this skill in other repositories (4)
These differ from this skill's text. They may be adapted copies or older versions.
- agent-developmentaicodedecode/awesome-muse-skills
- agent-developmentmajiayu000/claude-skill-registry-data
- agent-developmentmahmoud20138/tradecraft
- agent-developmenthk-hub/agentskills
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Sources
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official · Backs: AI clients, Publisher, Activity, LicenceNov 11, 2026
- Skill file (SKILL.md)github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 14, 2026
- Licence file (LICENSE)github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official · Backs: LicenceNov 16, 2026
- Folder in the repository (agent-development)github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 14, 2026