agent-design

agent-design is a skill for Claude Code from majiayu000/claude-skill-registry. It costs 11 tokens per session (1,072 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing AI agents and choosing between a fixed workflow and an agent that decides its own actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan agent roles, tools, limits, workflows, and designs involving several cooperating agents.
Why use it?
It helps you match the agent structure to the task instead of adding unnecessary complexity.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to plan agent roles, tools, limits, workflows, and designs involving several cooperating agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry/agent-design
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.

Any agent
npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill agent-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,072 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 $0.00011 $0.01072
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00536
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00107

Measured 9d ago against content hash cb09dc6168fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-design 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 9d 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.

skills/agent/agent-design/SKILL.md · 238 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Design

Skill for designing high-performance AI agents following 2025 patterns.

Documentation

Fundamental Distinction

Workflows vs Agents

Type Control When to use
Workflow Code orchestrates LLM Predictable tasks, need for control
Agent LLM directs its actions Flexibility, adaptive decisions

Golden rule: Start simple, add complexity if necessary.

Agent Architecture

Minimal Structure

Agent:
  identity: Who am I?
  capabilities: What can I do?
  tools: What tools do I have?
  constraints: What are my limits?
  workflow: How should I proceed?

Complete Structure (Production)

---
name: my-agent
description: Short description
model: sonnet|opus
tools: [list of tools]
skills: [associated skills]
---

# Identity
[Who the agent is]

# Capabilities
[What it can do]

# Workflow
[Steps to follow]

# Tools
[How to use each tool]

# Constraints
[Limits and rules]

# Examples
[Use cases]

# Forbidden
[What it must NEVER do]

Agent Patterns

1. Single Agent (Simple)

User → Agent → Response

Usage: Simple tasks, rapid prototyping.

2. Agent + Tools

User → Agent ↔ Tools → Response
                ↑
            Tool Results

Usage: Tasks requiring external access (API, files, DB).

3. Orchestrator + Subagents

User → Orchestrator → Subagent 1 (specialized)
                   → Subagent 2 (specialized)
                   → Subagent 3 (specialized)
                   ↓
              Synthesis → Response

Usage: Complex tasks, separation of responsibilities.

4. Sequential Pipeline

User → Agent 1 → Agent 2 → Agent 3 → Response
       (Analyze)  (Plan)    (Execute)

Usage: Linear processes (e.g., Analyst → Architect → Developer).

Fresh Eyes Principle

Key 2025 concept: Each sub-agent must have a "fresh" context.

Read the full file on GitHub · 238 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 238 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A cb09dc6168fc

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agent-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository majiayu000/claude-skill-registry (606 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 1,072 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.