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agent-development from fridrichmethod/awesome-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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.
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 Development for Claude Code Plugins
## Overview
Agents are autonomous subprocesses that handle complex, multi-step tasks independently. Understanding agent structure, triggering conditions, and system prompt design enables creating powerful autonomous capabilities.
**Key concepts:**
- Agents are FOR autonomous work, commands are FOR user-initiated actions
- Markdown file format with YAML frontmatter
- Triggering via description field with examples
- System prompt defines agent behavior
- Model and color customization
## Agent File Structure
### Complete Format
```markdown
---
name: agent-identifier
description: Use this agent when [triggering conditions]. Typical triggers include [scenario 1 in prose], [scenario 2 in prose], and [scenario 3 in prose]. See "When to invoke" in the agent body for worked scenarios.
model: inherit
color: blue
tools: ["Read", "Write", "Grep"]
---
You are [agent role description]...
## When to invoke
[Two to four representative scenarios written as prose, e.g.:]
- **[Scenario name].** [What the situation looks like and what the agent should do.]
- **[Scenario name].** [Same.]
**Your Core Responsibilities:**
1. [Responsibility 1]
…
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pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11168 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
fridrichmethod/awesome-skills · 15 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_phzmazaaxqev6vgk
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=fridrichmethod/awesome-skills/agent-development
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6a2826571320828cc6f8f21ccd8e6eefd2bced62000c8c5e43a712c12e2d83a1
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