agent-initialization

Agent Initialization

This skill initializes an agent's settings from a user requirement — plain files in the target agent's directory.

Before you start

If the user's message only invokes this skill (e.g. "use agent-initialization skill") without a concrete requirement, ask the user what agent they want and what it should do. But when the requirement is already concrete — even a single sentence like "an expert that answers questions about X" — do not ask follow-up questions: derive the role and rules from that sentence, apply the defaults below, and list your assumptions in the final reply.

Resolve the inherited runtime

Treat the current Agent as the Builder. Resolve the runtime before creating a new Agent:

• provider and model_id are one complete pair. If the user explicitly supplies both, use that pair. If the user supplies neither, inherit the current Builder Session's Provider and Model ID from the Environment. Reject a half pair.
• thinking_level is independent. If the user explicitly supplies it, use that value. Otherwise read model.thinking_level from the Builder's own agent_state/system_config.yaml; when the field is absent, use the normal Agent-config default medium.

Write the resolved thinking_level into a brand-new target Agent's model.thinking_level, preserving all other copied model fields. Penguin does not persist provider or model_id in Agent State, so never add either field to system_config.yaml. When the same request continues into Benchmark design, carry the resolved model pair forward explicitly so evaluation uses the Builder runtime instead of a Project default. When configuring an existing Agent, change model.thinking_level only when the user explicitly requests that runtime change.

Locate the target agent

All agents of this project live side by side under agents/ in the App Data Dir:

APP_DATA_DIR="<app_data_dir>"     # the App Data Dir value from your Environment section
ls "$APP_DATA_DIR/agents"         # existing agents (each is a folder here)
TARGET="$APP_DATA_DIR/agents/<agent_id>"   # the agent to configure