CAO Plugin Creator

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

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Install CAO Plugin Creator

Copy CAO Plugin Creator 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-plugin ~/.claude/skills/cao-plugin

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

What CAO Plugin Creator does

CAO Plugin Creator shows how to build a CAO plugin that handles lifecycle and messaging events. Use it to scaffold plugin packages, discover available hooks, and connect CAO to external systems like Slack, Discord, metrics, or dashboards.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

CAO Plugin Creator

Guide for creating a new CAO plugin. A "plugin" is a Python package installed alongside CAO that subscribes to CAO lifecycle and messaging events via typed async hooks.

What You're Building

A CAO plugin is a standalone Python package that:

Subclasses CaoPlugin from cli_agent_orchestrator.plugins
Registers async hook methods with @hook("<event_type>") decorators
Is discovered via the cao.plugins Python entry-point group at cao-server startup
Runs fire-and-forget — plugin exceptions are caught and logged as warnings, never propagated back into CAO

Typical uses: forwarding inter-agent messages to chat apps, logging/observability, external dashboards, metrics export, alerting on session or terminal lifecycle.

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

Frequently asked about CAO Plugin Creator

What else does awslabs publish alongside CAO Plugin Creator?
CAO Plugin Creator 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 Plugin Creator 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 Plugin Creator compare to other AI Engineering skills?
CAO Plugin Creator ranks #1266 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 Plugin Creator against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.