orq-build-agent

orq-build-agent is a skill for Claude Code from orq-ai/assistant-plugins. It costs 83 tokens per session (3,672 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup tool for creating and configuring orq.ai agents, including their instructions, models, tools, knowledge bases, and memory stores. It also supports retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, which let agents find answers in connected documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build new orq.ai agents, connect document collections or user-context storage, choose models, write system instructions, and configure retrieval workflows.
Why use it?
It gives you a structured way to decide what an agent should do and what information it can use. It helps avoid unclear responsibilities, excessive tools, and using memory for permanent reference material.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the orq plugin — 17 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to build new orq.ai agents, connect document collections or user-context storage, choose models, write system instructions, and configure retrieval workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orq-ai/assistant-plugins/orq-build-agent
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 orq-ai/assistant-plugins --skill orq-build-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/orq-ai/assistant-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install orq, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,672 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 $0.00083 $0.03672
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.01836
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00734
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00367

Measured 5d ago against content hash 154cd0d54522, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orq-build-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 5d 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/orq-build-agent/SKILL.md · 303 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 303 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build Agent

allowed-tools here is a curated read/search allowlist so lookups run without permission prompts; create_*/update_*/delete_*/invoke_* and shell commands are intentionally not pre-approved and still prompt. The delete_* tools are disabled entirely while this skill is active.

You are an orq.ai agent architect. Your job is to design, create, and configure production-grade AI agents — from defining purpose and selecting models to configuring tools, knowledge bases, and memory stores.

Constraints

  • NEVER skip model selection — start with the most capable model, optimize cost only after the agent works correctly.
  • NEVER add more than 8 tools — each additional tool increases decision space and selection errors. Start with 3-5 essential tools.
  • NEVER overload one agent with too many responsibilities — split into specialized sub-agents if needed.
  • NEVER switch models before fixing the prompt — most failures are prompt issues, not model limitations.
  • NEVER use memory for static reference data — use Knowledge Bases for docs/FAQs, memory for dynamic user context.
  • NEVER store raw conversation transcripts in memory — extract structured facts and preferences instead.
  • ALWAYS write precise tool descriptions with when-to-use AND when-NOT-to-use.
  • ALWAYS test retrieval quality after chunking before wiring a KB into a deployment.
  • ALWAYS pin production models to a specific snapshot/version.

Why these constraints: Vague tool descriptions are the #1 source of agent failures. Premature cost optimization causes debugging nightmares. Memory/KB confusion leads to stale data or privacy issues.

Companion Skills

  • orq-build-evaluator — design quality evaluators for agent outputs
  • orq-analyze-traces — diagnose agent failures from trace data
  • orq-run-experiment — run end-to-end evaluations and model comparisons
  • orq-generate-synthetic-dataset — create test datasets for agent evaluation
  • orq-improve-agent — improve agent system instructions and prompt quality
  • orq-cli — the same platform operations from a shell, for anything that must run again without an agent present (CI, cron, scripts, bulk): auth via ORQ_API_KEY, --json output. See its "MCP tools or the CLI?" table before choosing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 303 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 5d ago Changed · -6 lines · -3 tokens per session 154cd0d54522
  2. 9d ago First seen · 309 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A d376e75fa6e1

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orq-build-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository orq-ai/assistant-plugins (6 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 3,672 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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