agent-design SKILL.md skillA
agent-design from nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher/agent-design@git:20260919.a0d4f55Pins git:20260919.a0d4f55 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher
- Path
skills/ai/agent-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260919.a0d4f55, committed Sep 19, 2026
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- 6,423 bytes
- Repository stars
- 58
- License
- MIT
Scope an agent or subagent before it is built — the one job it owns, the smallest tool set that closes that job, what it must never do, and the evidence it has to return. Use when adding an agent, subagent or automated role to a system, when deciding which tools it gets, when an existing agent loops, over-reaches or reports work it did not do, or when reviewing someone else's agent design. Not for wording the prompt itself, not for deciding what occupies its context window, and it never grants…
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What the file says
# Agent design Most agent failures are design failures wearing a prompt's clothing. An agent with two jobs, a tool it did not need, or no definition of done will fail in ways no amount of rewording fixes. ## When this fires Before writing an agent's instructions: a new agent or subagent, a new tool granted to an existing one, or a review of one that misbehaves. It does not fire for a single prompt with no tools and no loop — that is `prompt-engineering`. ## Procedure 1. **State the job in one sentence with a done condition.** "Finds the failing test and reports which commit introduced it" is a job. If the sentence needs an "and", you have two agents, or one agent and a chain. Split before designing further. 2. **Draw the boundary in both directions.** What it receives, what it returns, and — named explicitly — what it does not do and who does that instead. An agent without a stated non-responsibility will grow into whatever is adjacent. 3. **Pick the autonomy level before the tools.** Three honest settings: proposes and stops; acts within a reversible sandbox and reports; acts and reports. Anything destructive, outward-facing, …
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How to install
mdr add nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher/agent-design@sha256:109c7e9cc619f0d8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260919.a0d4f55, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 19, 2026.
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Source
nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher · 58 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ufju2f7ymo6ifgjf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher/agent-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/109c7e9cc619f0d82693d45fee0ebf97b97ef5df02127ea8016af1b7493c3999
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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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