a0-create-agent

Create a new Agent Zero agent profile (subordinate). Covers where profiles live (user / plugin-distributed / project-scoped), the agent.yaml schema, the prompt inheritance & override model, and optional profile-specific tools and extensions. Use for any "create/add/new agent profile" request.

Quality

92%

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Quality

Content

85%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The content is highly actionable with a clear validated workflow, but it is dense and monolithic with redundant tables and no internal reference files to push detail one level deeper, hurting token efficiency and progressive disclosure.

Suggestions

Move the full AgentProfileBlueprint example and the secondary/high-value prompt-override tables into a reference file (e.g. references/blueprint.md) and link to it from a concise summary in SKILL.md to reduce inline tokens.

Consolidate the two overlapping prompt-override tables (Step 5 'High-value inherited prompt levers' and 'Secondary overrides') into a single table to remove redundancy.

Trim or relocate the 'Existing Profile Pattern' calibration table since the concrete per-profile specifics already appear again in Step 5.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is detailed and largely non-padded, but the extensive dual tables (override levers, secondary overrides, profile calibration) and full inline JSON blueprint repeat overlapping information, so it could be tightened without loss.	2 / 3
Actionability	Provides executable YAML/JSON/Python examples, exact file paths, concrete validation rules (regex, uniqueness), and a copy-paste-ready directory layout and checklist.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	Sequenced Step 0 through Step 8 with a confirmation checkpoint before writing files, a validation block in the blueprint, and an explicit test/delegation step for error recovery.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	It is a single monolithic SKILL.md with several overlapping tables and no bundle files to offload detail; navigation references point to framework paths rather than split skill-internal files.	2 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Description

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.

The description is specific, third-person, and clearly answers both what the skill does and when to use it, with concrete trigger terms. It is among the strongest descriptions in the reference examples.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete surfaces of the task (profile location layers, agent.yaml schema, prompt inheritance/override model, optional tools and extensions) rather than a vague single action.	3 / 3
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what it does ('Create a new Agent Zero agent profile') and when to use it ('Use for any create/add/new agent profile request').	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural phrasings a user would say ('create/add/new agent profile', 'subordinate') and explicit trigger patterns like 'create agent' and 'new agent profile'.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Scoped to a clear niche (Agent Zero subordinate agent profiles) with distinct triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.	3 / 3
	Total	12 / 12 Passed

Validation

93%

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: agent0ai/agent-zero
Path: skills/a0-create-agent/SKILL.md
Commit: 391fab9

Reviewed: 4 days ago

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