Creating an Agent

by ed3dai

Creating an Agent is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by ed3dai in ed3d-plugins.

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Install Creating an Agent

Copy Creating an Agent 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/ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/tree/main/plugins/ed3d-extending-claude/skills/creating-an-agent ~/.claude/skills/creating-an-agent

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/ed3dai/ed3d-plugins.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/ed3d-extending-claude/skills/creating-an-agent/SKILL.md in ed3dai/ed3d-plugins
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/creating-an-agent
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2631 skills

What Creating an Agent does

Creating an Agent explains how to design specialized subagents for Claude Code plugins or the Task tool. It covers trigger descriptions, tool limits, prompt structure, and testing agents.

Creating an Agent is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Creating an Agent comes from a repository tagged claude, claude-code, claude-code-plugin, claude-code-plugin-marketplace and skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Creating an Agent

REQUIRED BACKGROUND: Read ed3d-extending-claude:writing-claude-directives for foundational guidance on token efficiency, compliance techniques, and directive structure. This skill focuses on agent-specific patterns.

What is an Agent?

An agent is a specialized Claude instance with:

Defined tools (Read, Edit, Bash, etc.)
Specific responsibilities (code review, security audit, research)
A focused system prompt

Agents are spawned via the Task tool or defined in plugin agents/ directories.

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

Frequently asked about Creating an Agent

What else does ed3dai publish alongside Creating an Agent?
Creating an Agent is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ed3dai/ed3d-plugins, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Asking Clarifying Questions, Brainstorming and Coding Effectively. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Creating an Agent does, and is maintained by ed3dai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ed3dai/ed3d-plugins page.
How does Creating an Agent compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Creating an Agent ranks #2315 by stars among the 2631 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 Creating an Agent against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.