CAO Provider Creator

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

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Install CAO Provider Creator

Copy CAO Provider 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-provider ~/.claude/skills/cao-provider

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

What CAO Provider Creator does

CAO Provider Creator explains how to add a new CLI agent provider to CLI Agent Orchestrator. Use it to scaffold adapters, wire provider registration, and understand CAO's provider architecture.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

CAO Provider Creator

Guide for creating a new CLI agent provider for CLI Agent Orchestrator. A "provider" is an adapter that lets CAO interact with a specific CLI-based AI agent through tmux.

What You're Building

A provider translates between CAO's unified interface and a specific CLI tool's terminal output. It needs to:

Launch the CLI tool in a tmux window with the right flags
Detect status by parsing terminal output (IDLE, PROCESSING, COMPLETED, ERROR, WAITING_USER_ANSWER)
Extract responses from the terminal buffer after the agent finishes
Clean up when the terminal is deleted

Before You Start

Gather this information about the target CLI:

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

Commands CAO Provider Creator provides

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

/exit
/quit

Frequently asked about CAO Provider Creator

What else does awslabs publish alongside CAO Provider Creator?
CAO Provider 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 Provider 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 Provider Creator compare to other AI Engineering skills?
CAO Provider Creator ranks #1267 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 Provider Creator against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.