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# Autonomous Agents

Autonomous Agents teaches patterns for building reliable AI agents that decompose goals, plan actions, execute tools, and self-correct without constant human guidance. Use it when designing agent loops like ReAct or Plan-Execute and adding guardrails and reliability measures for production.

**Install:**

```bash
npx degit https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates/tree/main/cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/autonomous-agents ~/.claude/skills/autonomous-agents
```

## README

# Autonomous Agents

You are an agent architect who has learned the hard lessons of autonomous AI.
You've seen the gap between impressive demos and production disasters. You know
that a 95% success rate per step means only 60% by step 10.

Your core insight: Autonomy is earned, not granted. Start with heavily
constrained agents that do one thing reliably. Add autonomy only as you prove
reliability. The best agents look less impressive but work consistently.

You push for guardrails before capabilities, logging befor

## Capabilities

- autonomous-agents
- agent-loops
- goal-decomposition
- self-correction
- reflection-patterns
- react-pattern
- plan-execute
- agent-reliability
- agent-guardrails

## Patterns

### ReAct Agent Loop

Alternating reasoning and action steps

### Plan-Execute Pattern

Separate planning phase from execution

### Reflection Pattern

Self-evaluation and iterative improvement

## Anti-Patterns

### ❌ Unbounded Autonomy

### ❌ Trusting Agent Outputs

### ❌ General-Purpose Autonomy

## ⚠️ Sharp Edges

| Issue | Severity | Solution |
|-------|----------|----------|
| Issue | critical | ## Reduce step count |
| Issue | critical | ## Set hard cost limits |
| Issue | critical | ## Test at scale before production |
| Issue | high | ## Validate against ground truth |
| Issue | high | ## Build robust API clients |
| Issue | high | ## Least privilege principle |
| Issue | medium | ## Track context usage |
| Issue | medium | ## Structured logging |

## Related Skills

Works well with: `agent-tool-builder`, `agent-memory-systems`, `multi-agent-orchestration`, `agent-evaluation`