Creating Claude Agents

Creating Claude Agents is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by AgentWorkforce in relay.

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Install Creating Claude Agents

Copy Creating Claude 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/AgentWorkforce/relay/tree/main/.claude/skills/creating-claude-agents-skill ~/.claude/skills/creating-claude-agents-skill

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/AgentWorkforce/relay.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/creating-claude-agents-skill/SKILL.md in AgentWorkforce/relay
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/creating-claude-agents-skill
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Creating Claude Agents does

Creating Claude Agents helps you build or improve Claude Code agents with the right file structure, frontmatter, persona, tools, model selection, and schema validation. Use it when creating agents or fixing agent format issues.

Creating Claude Agents is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Creating Claude Agents comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-collaboration, agent-communication, agent-skills and agentic-ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Creating Claude Code Agents - Expert Skill

Use this skill when creating or improving Claude Code agents. Provides comprehensive guidance on agent structure, schema validation, and best practices for building long-running AI assistants.

When to Use This Skill

Activate this skill when:

User asks to create a new Claude Code agent
User wants to improve an existing agent
User needs help with agent frontmatter or structure
User is troubleshooting agent validation issues
User wants to understand agent format requirements
User asks about agent vs skill vs slash command differences

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

Frequently asked about Creating Claude Agents

What else does AgentWorkforce publish alongside Creating Claude Agents?
Creating Claude Agents is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from AgentWorkforce/relay, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Relay, Agent Relay and Animation Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Creating Claude Agents does, and is maintained by AgentWorkforce in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the AgentWorkforce/relay page.
How does Creating Claude Agents compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Creating Claude Agents ranks #1607 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 Creating Claude Agents against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.