deploy-agent

A deployment guide for turning an ArchAstro agent configuration into a running agent. ArchAstro is a developer platform for creating and running agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when launching a new agent, redeploying an existing template, or getting an agent running in a conversation thread. It also directs configuration setup when the local project is not prepared.
Why use it?
It provides the sequence of checks and commands needed to deploy the right configuration. This reduces mistakes such as deploying before local settings or authentication are ready.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/archastro/archagents/deploy-agent
Any agent
npx skills add ArchAstro/archagents --skill deploy-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArchAstro/archagents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 947 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00070 $0.00947
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00474
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00095

Measured 2d ago against content hash b16d34efd625, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deploy-agent scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude-plugins/archagents/skills/deploy-agent/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ArchAstro Agent Deployment

Deploy an agent from a YAML template and get it running in a thread.

This skill assumes the ArchAgent CLI is already installed and authenticated. Use the /archagents:install and /archagents:auth commands in this same plugin instead of trying to install or authenticate the CLI manually inside this skill.

Always Start with State

Every invocation must begin by understanding what already exists:

archagent auth status
archagent list agents

If the user is working from a local repo, also inspect whether a configs/ directory already exists. Determine whether they want to:

  • deploy a new config-driven agent,
  • redeploy an existing template,
  • or work with an existing running agent.

Routing

Local config directory not initialized

If the user has config files but no configs/ directory set up, route to the manage-configs skill first. That skill owns local config management.

User wants to deploy a new agent

Use the config-driven golden path. Do not skip straight to create agent.

  1. Deploy configs first:

    archagent deploy configs
    

    This pushes Script and AgentTemplate configs to the server. For config-driven agents, this should happen before provisioning the agent itself.

  2. Deploy the agent from the template file:

    archagent deploy agent <yaml-file>
    

    This creates the full agent stack in one step: app config, agent record, routines, and installations. Note the agent ID (agi_...) from the output.

    Important: Always use deploy agent, not create agent. The create agent command only creates the agent record without provisioning routines or installations.

  3. Verify the deployment:

    archagent list agents
    
  4. Offer next steps: ask if the user wants to add the agent to a thread and start chatting. If yes, create a thread with members and hand off to the chat skill.

User needs help creating or editing the config files first

Route to the author-agent skill before deploying. That skill owns:

  • AgentTemplate and Script config creation
  • archagent describe configsample
  • archagent describe scriptdocs
  • routine scheduling shape
  • env-var scope guidance

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 113 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A b16d34efd625

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deploy-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArchAstro/archagents (5 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 947 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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