Building With AI Agents

by RefoundAI

Building With AI Agents is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by RefoundAI in lenny-skills.

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Install Building With AI Agents

Copy Building With AI Agents into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills/tree/main/skills/building-with-ai-agents ~/.claude/skills/building-with-ai-agents

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/building-with-ai-agents/SKILL.md in RefoundAI/lenny-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/building-with-ai-agents
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Building With AI Agents does

Building With AI Agents helps users transition from manual coding to directing a parallel team of autonomous AI agents, using precise instructions, parallel tasking, and automated review.

Building With AI Agents is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Building With AI Agents comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, ai-assistant, claude, claude-code and lenny-rachitsky.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Building With AI Agents

Transition from writing lines of code to directing a parallel team of autonomous agents.

Help the user with building with ai agents using insights from 15 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.

How to Help

Identify Tasks - Use the Junior Intern framework to find repetitive or well-defined engineering tasks suitable for delegation.
Define Instructions - Draft precise, granular prompts and provide context through markdown files and past examples.
Manage Parallel Threads - Direct multiple agents simultaneously across different pull requests or features to scale output.
Review and Iterate - Maintain oversight by reviewing code logic and using AI-led peer reviews to ensure quality before deployment.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Building With AI Agents provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

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Frequently asked about Building With AI Agents

What else does RefoundAI publish alongside Building With AI Agents?
Building With AI Agents is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from RefoundAI/lenny-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Evals, AI Product Strategy and AI-Assisted Prototyping. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Building With AI Agents does, and is maintained by RefoundAI in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the RefoundAI/lenny-skills page.
How does Building With AI Agents compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Building With AI Agents ranks #1130 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Building With AI Agents against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.