creating-custom-agents

creating-custom-agents is a skill for Claude Code from jaktestowac/awesome-copilot-for-testers. It costs 52 tokens per session (1,039 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating custom GitHub Copilot agents in VS Code using `.agent.md` files. A custom agent is a reusable specialist with a defined role, permitted tools, and boundaries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design specialized agents, choose only the tools they need, define collaboration rules, tighten an existing agent’s scope, and prepare install-ready examples.
Why use it?
It helps turn a repeated workflow into a focused agent instead of an overly broad prompt. Clear tool limits and responsibilities make the agent easier to use, extend, and share.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to design specialized agents, choose only the tools they need, define collaboration rules, tighten an existing agent’s scope, and prepare install-ready examples.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jaktestowac/awesome-copilot-for-testers/creating-custom-agents
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jaktestowac/awesome-copilot-for-testers --skill creating-custom-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jaktestowac/awesome-copilot-for-testers

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,039 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00052 $0.01039
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00519
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00104

Measured 10d ago against content hash 30abb7d3265c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creating-custom-agents 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 10d 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.

plugins/creating-custom-agents/skills/creating-custom-agents/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creating Custom Agents

Use this skill when a reusable role needs its own identity instead of hiding inside a prompt or a skill. It helps create custom agents that are focused, tool-aware, and easy to extend without scope creep.

When to Use

Use this skill when the user asks for things like:

  • "create a custom agent for this workflow"
  • "design an agent with limited tools"
  • "turn this expert role into a .agent.md file"
  • "define how an orchestrator should delegate to specialists"
  • "fix an agent that is too broad or too verbose"

Typical scenarios:

  • creating a new single-purpose agent
  • building a specialist for a multi-agent workflow
  • tightening an existing agent's scope and tool access
  • preparing a reusable example agent for a shared repository

Outcome Standard

A strong custom agent contribution usually includes:

  • a crisp role and mission
  • a deliberate toolset rather than blanket access
  • clear guidance on when the agent should be used
  • boundaries that stop the agent from absorbing work better handled by prompts, skills, or instructions
  • an install-ready .agent.md file plus reference material

Agent Design Rules

  • Role first - define who the agent is and what it owns before writing any workflow guidance.
  • Minimal tools - only grant the tools the role genuinely needs.
  • Skills for procedure - reference skills for reusable workflows instead of stuffing the entire playbook into the agent.
  • Prompts for entrypoints - if users need a guided starting command, create a prompt file in addition to the agent.
  • Boundaries matter - explain what the agent should not do, especially when nearby agents overlap.

Workflow

Phase 0: Decide whether an agent is the right primitive

Choose an agent only when the work needs a persistent role, a specific tool profile, or a distinct collaboration pattern. If the need is only a reusable task starter, prefer a prompt. If the need is procedural knowledge, prefer a skill.

Phase 1: Study adjacent artifacts

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 132 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 30abb7d3265c

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creating-custom-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository jaktestowac/awesome-copilot-for-testers (113 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,039 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 2026-08-30.