Create high-quality Claude Code agents from scratch or by adapting existing agents as templates. Use when the user wants to create a new agent, modify agent configurations, build specialized subagents, or design agent architectures. Guides through requirements gathering, template selection, and agent file generation following Anthropic best practices (v2.1.63+).
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Does it follow best practices?
Impact
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Quality
Discovery
100%Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.
This is a strong, well-crafted skill description that clearly communicates what the skill does and when to use it. It uses third-person voice, lists specific concrete actions, includes natural trigger terms, and has an explicit 'Use when...' clause. The specificity around Claude Code agents and version reference makes it highly distinctive.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Lists multiple specific concrete actions: 'Create high-quality Claude Code agents from scratch', 'adapting existing agents as templates', 'modify agent configurations', 'build specialized subagents', 'design agent architectures', and 'requirements gathering, template selection, and agent file generation'. | 3 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers both 'what' (create agents from scratch or templates, modify configurations, build subagents, design architectures) and 'when' with an explicit 'Use when...' clause listing specific trigger scenarios. Also describes the process (requirements gathering, template selection, file generation). | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Includes strong natural trigger terms users would say: 'create a new agent', 'modify agent configurations', 'build specialized subagents', 'design agent architectures', 'template selection', 'agent file generation'. These cover the natural ways users would phrase requests about agent creation. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | Highly distinctive with a clear niche focused specifically on Claude Code agent creation and configuration. The mention of 'Claude Code agents', 'subagents', 'agent architectures', and 'Anthropic best practices (v2.1.63+)' makes it very unlikely to conflict with other skills. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 12 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
62%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This skill is highly actionable with excellent workflow clarity, providing concrete commands, complete YAML examples, and thorough validation checkpoints across an 8-phase process. However, it is severely bloated — the Common Mistakes, Testing, Anti-Patterns, and multiple reference guide sections make this ~600+ lines when the core workflow and essential patterns could be conveyed in ~200 lines with references to supplementary files. The content quality is high but the token cost is excessive.
Suggestions
Move the 'Common Mistakes' section (~150 lines) to a separate reference file like `references/agent-common-mistakes.md` and link to it with a one-line reference
Move the 'Testing Your Agent' section (~150 lines) to `references/agent-testing.md` — the main skill only needs a brief 'test with example prompts, run skilllint validation' reminder
Consolidate the Model Selection Guide, Permission Mode Guide, and Tool Access Patterns into a single `references/agent-configuration-guide.md` — the main skill should have at most a brief decision tree pointing there
Remove explanatory prose that Claude already knows (e.g., 'The description is CRITICAL - Claude uses it to decide when to delegate', explanations of what action verbs are) and keep only the templates and examples
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | This skill is extremely verbose at ~600+ lines. It explains many concepts Claude already knows (what XML tags are, what a PDF library does equivalent: what agent descriptions should contain, basic YAML syntax). The 'Common Mistakes' section alone is ~150 lines of explanations that could be condensed to a brief checklist. The testing section, anti-patterns, and common mistakes sections contain significant redundancy with each other and with the workflow phases. | 1 / 3 |
Actionability | The skill provides highly concrete, executable guidance throughout: specific bash commands for discovery, exact YAML configurations for every pattern, complete markdown templates for agent files, specific validation commands (skilllint, claude plugin validate), and detailed decision tables mapping requirements to configurations. Code examples are copy-paste ready. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The 8-phase workflow is clearly sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints at Phase 6 (pre-save validation checklist), Phase 7 (scope-specific save + validation commands), and Phase 8 (post-creation validation). Includes feedback loops for error recovery, and the plugin agent path has particularly thorough validation steps including the AUTO-DISCOVERY WARNING about plugin.json. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill correctly references external files (agent-schema.md, agent-templates.md, agent-examples.md) for detailed specifications, which is good progressive disclosure. However, the main file itself is a monolithic wall of content — the Common Mistakes section (~150 lines), Testing section (~150 lines), and multiple reference tables (model selection, permission modes, tool patterns) could all be split into separate reference files, keeping SKILL.md as a lean overview. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 9 / 12 Passed |
Validation
81%Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.
Validation — 9 / 11 Passed
Validation for skill structure
| Criteria | Description | Result |
|---|---|---|
skill_md_line_count | SKILL.md is long (1077 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking | Warning |
frontmatter_unknown_keys | Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata | Warning |
Total | 9 / 11 Passed | |
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