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nw-agent-creation-workflow from nwave-ai/nwave is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add nwave-ai/nwave/nw-agent-creation-workflow@git:20260320.d98f3cb

Pins git:20260320.d98f3cb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: nwave-ai/nwave
Path: nWave/skills/nw-agent-creation-workflow/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 3
Latest version: git:20260320.d98f3cb, committed Mar 20, 2026
First version recorded: Mar 17, 2026
Size: 7,052 bytes
Repository stars: 633
License: MIT

Detailed 5-phase workflow for creating agents - from requirements analysis through validation and iterative refinement.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Agent Creation Workflow

## Overview

Create agents through 5 phases: ANALYZE -> DESIGN -> CREATE -> VALIDATE -> REFINE. Each phase has clear inputs, outputs, and quality gates. Follow "start minimal, add based on failure."

## Phase 1: ANALYZE

**Goal**: Understand requirements and determine agent architecture.

**Inputs**: User requirements, use case description, existing codebase context.

**Steps**:
1. Identify single clear responsibility
2. Determine new agent or modification of existing
3. Check overlap with existing agents (avoid duplication)
4. Classify agent type:
   - **Specialist**: Single-domain expert (most common)
   - **Reviewer**: Validates outputs from another agent (Reflection pattern)
   - **Orchestrator**: Coordinates multiple agents
5. Identify required tools (start with Read, Glob, Grep -- add only what's needed)
6. Determine if Skills needed (domain knowledge > 50 lines)

**Gate**: Single responsibility identified. Agent type classified. No overlap.

**Output**: Requirements summary with agent type, tools list, skill needs.

## Phase 2: DESIGN

**Goal**: Design agent architecture and structure.

**Inputs**: Requirements summary from Phase 1.

**Steps**:
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add nwave-ai/nwave/nw-agent-creation-workflow@sha256:98a9ef586280a4fb

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260320.d98f3cb, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_bh5yxzw2rrlh5rmd.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_bh5yxzw2rrlh5rmd)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Mar 17, 2026 and Mar 20, 2026, about one every day.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260320.d98f3cb latest	2026-03-20	d98f3cb	7,052 B	A	view · diff
git:20260318.e6a0e19	2026-03-18	e6a0e19	7,030 B	A	view · diff
git:20260317.1d16147	2026-03-17	1d16147	7,021 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7052 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

nwave-ai/nwave · 633 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bh5yxzw2rrlh5rmd
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nwave-ai/nwave/nw-agent-creation-workflow
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/98a9ef586280a4fb486612610224f55e66d057dafbf566cba50115a568af958a

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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