CAO Agent Routing

CAO Agent Routing is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by awslabs in cli-agent-orchestrator.

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Install CAO Agent Routing

Copy CAO Agent Routing 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/awslabs/cli-agent-orchestrator/tree/main/skills/cao-agent-routing ~/.claude/skills/cao-agent-routing

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/awslabs/cli-agent-orchestrator.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/cao-agent-routing/SKILL.md in awslabs/cli-agent-orchestrator
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/cao-agent-routing
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What CAO Agent Routing does

CAO Agent Routing finds installed CAO agent profiles that match a task and selects the best one before assignment. Use it when routing work by capability instead of guessing a profile name.

CAO Agent Routing is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. CAO Agent Routing comes from a repository tagged agent-orchestration, ai-agents, ai-coding-assistant, antigravity and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

CAO Agent Routing

Route each task to an installed profile whose advertised metadata matches the work. Discover profiles instead of guessing profile names.

Routing Workflow

Describe the job with short capability keywords. Include the action, domain, and expected artifact where useful.
Search installed profiles. Prefer the read-only find_profiles MCP tool:
```
find_profiles(query="<capability keywords>", limit=5)
```
If that tool is unavailable, use the equivalent CLI command:
```
cao profile find "<capability keywords>" --limit 5 --json
```

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

Frequently asked about CAO Agent Routing

What else does awslabs publish alongside CAO Agent Routing?
CAO Agent Routing is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from awslabs/cli-agent-orchestrator, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AG-UI Author, AI-DLC Portfolio and Add UI To MCP Server. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way CAO Agent Routing does, and is maintained by awslabs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the awslabs/cli-agent-orchestrator page.
How does CAO Agent Routing compare to other AI Engineering skills?
CAO Agent Routing ranks #1263 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 CAO Agent Routing against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.