agent-development

agent-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ronmkr/PromptBook. It costs 81 tokens per session (2,661 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of agent-development, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for creating AI agents, which are independent helpers that carry out multi-step tasks. It explains their file format, instructions, tools, identity, and the situations that should trigger them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or editing an agent, including its frontmatter, system instructions, available tools, model, color, and trigger examples.
Why use it?
It helps an agent be invoked for the right requests and gives it clear boundaries and responsibilities.

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/ronmkr/promptbook/agent-development
Any agent
npx skills add ronmkr/PromptBook --skill agent-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ronmkr/PromptBook

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for agent-development

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ronmkr/promptbook/agent-development.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ronmkr/promptbook/agent-development)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ronmkr/promptbook/agent-development"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ronmkr/promptbook/agent-development.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,661 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00081 $0.02661
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01331
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00532
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00266

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2bbd603715f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-agent.sh), 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to agent-development — 18 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

core/plugin-dev-toolkit/skills/agent-development/SKILL.md · 402 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 402 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Development for Antigravity Plugins

Overview

Agents are autonomous subprocesses that handle complex, multi-step tasks independently. Understanding agent structure, triggering conditions, and system prompt design enables creating powerful autonomous capabilities.

Key concepts:

  • Agents are FOR autonomous work, commands are FOR user-initiated actions
  • Markdown file format with YAML frontmatter
  • Triggering via description field with examples
  • System prompt defines agent behavior
  • Model and color customization

Agent File Structure

Complete Format

---
name: agent-identifier
description: Use this agent when [triggering conditions]. Typical triggers include [scenario 1 in prose], [scenario 2 in prose], and [scenario 3 in prose]. See "When to invoke" in the agent body for worked scenarios.
model: inherit
color: blue
tools: ["Read", "Write", "Grep"]
---

You are [agent role description]...

## When to invoke

[Two to four representative scenarios written as prose, e.g.:]
- **[Scenario name].** [What the situation looks like and what the agent should do.]
- **[Scenario name].** [Same.]

**Your Core Responsibilities:**
1. [Responsibility 1]
2. [Responsibility 2]

**Analysis Process:**
[Step-by-step workflow]

**Output Format:**
[What to return]

Frontmatter Fields

name (required)

Agent identifier used for namespacing and invocation.

Format: lowercase, numbers, hyphens only Length: 3-50 characters Pattern: Must start and end with alphanumeric

Good examples:

  • code-reviewer
  • test-generator
  • api-docs-writer
  • security-analyzer

Bad examples:

  • helper (too generic)
  • -agent- (starts/ends with hyphen)
  • my_agent (underscores not allowed)
  • ag (too short, < 3 chars)

description (required)

Defines when Gemini should trigger this agent. This is the most critical field — it is loaded into context whenever the agent is registered, so the harness can decide when to dispatch.

Must include:

  1. Triggering conditions ("Use this agent when...")
  2. A short prose summary of the typical trigger scenarios
  3. A pointer to a "When to invoke" section in the agent body for the detailed worked scenarios

Read the full file on GitHub · 402 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 4d ago First seen · 402 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 2bbd603715f1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository ronmkr/PromptBook (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 2,661 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to agent-development, differing in 18 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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