ai-agent-development

ai-agent-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jnPiyush/AgentX. It costs 59 tokens per session (3,031 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to building AI agents with Microsoft Foundry and Agent Framework. It covers choosing models, coordinating one or more agents, monitoring them, deploying them, and evaluating their results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build and deploy AI agents, select models, create multi-step or multi-agent workflows, add human approval or streaming, and measure agent quality.
Why use it?
It helps turn an agent idea into a production design with suitable orchestration, tracing, and quality checks. It also explains when a simple agent or a multi-agent workflow fits the task.

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/jnpiyush/agentx/ai-agent-development
Any agent
npx skills add jnPiyush/AgentX --skill ai-agent-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jnPiyush/AgentX

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,031 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 $0.00059 $0.03031
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01515
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00606
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00303

Measured today against content hash 4dc0d402f6e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-agent-development 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/check-model-drift.ps1, scripts/run-model-comparison.py, scripts/scaffold-agent.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.github/skills/ai-systems/ai-agent-development/SKILL.md · 351 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 351 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Agent Development

Purpose: Build production-ready AI agents with Microsoft Foundry and Agent Framework. Scope: Agent architecture, model selection, orchestration, observability, evaluation.


When to Use This Skill

  • Building AI agents with Microsoft Foundry or Agent Framework
  • Selecting LLM models for agent scenarios
  • Implementing multi-agent orchestration workflows
  • Adding tracing and observability to AI agents
  • Evaluating agent quality and response accuracy

Decision Tree

Need an AI agent?
+-- Simple request-response? -> Single agent with tools
+-- Multi-step reasoning? -> Chain-of-thought agent with planner
+-- Multiple specialized domains? -> Multi-agent orchestration
+-- Human approval needed? -> Human-in-the-loop workflow
+-- High reliability required? -> Reflection + self-correction loop
+-- Real-time streaming? -> Async event-driven agent architecture

Prerequisites

  • A runtime version supported by the target repository
  • A current stable Agent Framework SDK version verified against official docs
  • Microsoft Foundry workspace with deployed model

Quick Start

Installation

Resolve current SDK package names and stable versions from the official Agent Framework documentation at implementation time. Pin the selected package version in the target repository lock file. Do not copy preview flags or version numbers from this skill into production setup.

Model Selection

Select a Capability Class before selecting a concrete provider model:

Capability Class Use When Required Evidence
Fast Classification, extraction, or short tool turns Meets latency and minimum quality thresholds
Balanced General agent work with moderate reasoning Best quality/cost result on the representative eval set
Deep reasoning Architecture, hard debugging, or complex planning Material measured gain over Balanced justifies latency and cost
Coding agent Long-running repository edits and test loops Tool accuracy, patch quality, and completion rate meet thresholds
Multimodal Screenshots, diagrams, audio, or video are required inputs Target modalities and formats are verified in the active host

Read the full file on GitHub · 351 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. today Changed · -1 lines 4dc0d402f6e3
  2. 4d ago First seen · 352 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 16b825b0484e

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ai-agent-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository jnPiyush/AgentX (15 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 3,031 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.

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