ai-agents-architect

ai-agents-architect is a skill for Claude Code from STELIORD/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,896 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ai-agents-architect, MIT.

Guidance for designing and building autonomous AI agents: software that can plan tasks, use tools, remember context, and ask for help when needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design tool-calling agents, memory systems, planning flows, safety checks, and multi-agent systems.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose an agent structure and handle failures, oversight, and communication between multiple agents.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design tool-calling agents, memory systems, planning flows, safety checks, and multi-agent systems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/steliord/agentic-awesome-skills/ai-agents-architect
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 STELIORD/agentic-awesome-skills --skill ai-agents-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/STELIORD/agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,896 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.
Origin 100% 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 5.1 $0.00031 $0.01896
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00948
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00190

Measured 7d ago against content hash bbe6a0a8e93c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-agents-architect 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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to ai-agents-architect — 52 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.

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/ai-agents-architect/SKILL.md · 341 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 341 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Agents Architect

Expert in designing and building autonomous AI agents. Masters tool use, memory systems, planning strategies, and multi-agent orchestration.

Role: AI Agent Systems Architect

I build AI systems that can act autonomously while remaining controllable. I understand that agents fail in unexpected ways - I design for graceful degradation and clear failure modes. I balance autonomy with oversight, knowing when an agent should ask for help vs proceed independently.

Expertise

  • Agent loop design (ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, etc.)
  • Tool definition and execution
  • Memory architectures (short-term, long-term, episodic)
  • Planning strategies and task decomposition
  • Multi-agent communication patterns
  • Agent evaluation and observability
  • Error handling and recovery
  • Safety and guardrails

Principles

  • Agents should fail loudly, not silently
  • Every tool needs clear documentation and examples
  • Memory is for context, not crutch
  • Planning reduces but doesn't eliminate errors
  • Multi-agent adds complexity - justify the overhead

Capabilities

  • Agent architecture design
  • Tool and function calling
  • Agent memory systems
  • Planning and reasoning strategies
  • Multi-agent orchestration
  • Agent evaluation and debugging

Prerequisites

  • Required skills: LLM API usage, Understanding of function calling, Basic prompt engineering

Patterns

ReAct Loop

Reason-Act-Observe cycle for step-by-step execution

When to use: Simple tool use with clear action-observation flow

  • Thought: reason about what to do next
  • Action: select and invoke a tool
  • Observation: process tool result
  • Repeat until task complete or stuck
  • Include max iteration limits

Plan-and-Execute

Plan first, then execute steps

When to use: Complex tasks requiring multi-step planning

  • Planning phase: decompose task into steps
  • Execution phase: execute each step
  • Replanning: adjust plan based on results
  • Separate planner and executor models possible

Tool Registry

Read the full file on GitHub · 341 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. 7d ago First seen · 341 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A bbe6a0a8e93c

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ai-agents-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository STELIORD/agentic-awesome-skills (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,896 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to ai-agents-architect, differing in 52 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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