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

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Content

88%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

A thorough, highly actionable creation skill with a clear multi-step workflow, explicit validation/confirmation checkpoints, and concrete copy-paste examples. Its main weaknesses are minor internal redundancy and a monolithic structure with no bundle files to offload detail.

Suggestions

Consolidate the overlapping 'High-value inherited prompt levers' and 'Secondary overrides' tables into a single prompt-override table to remove duplicated rows for role.md, communication.md, and environment.md.

Move the large AgentProfileBlueprint JSON schema and/or the detailed prompt-override reference into a bundled reference file (e.g. references/blueprint.md) and link to it from SKILL.md to improve progressive disclosure and token efficiency.

Show the agent.yaml example once (in Step 3) and reference it from the blueprint's files[*].content rather than duplicating the literal content in both places.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Dense framework-specific operational detail with no padding of concepts Claude already knows, but minor redundancy: the "High-value inherited prompt levers" and "Secondary overrides" tables overlap on role/communication/environment files, and the agent.yaml content appears in both the blueprint and Step 3.	4 / 5
Actionability	Provides a full copy-paste AgentProfileBlueprint JSON schema, a concrete agent.yaml, and complete executable tool and extension code examples with an explicit file layout — fully actionable guidance covering the common cases.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Steps 0–8 are clearly sequenced with explicit validation gates (blueprint validation fields, mandatory user confirmation before writing files, Step 8 test-and-troubleshoot, and a final Quick checklist), satisfying the destructive-operation validation requirement.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Well-organized into numbered steps with a clearly signaled Primary references block pointing one level deep to external framework profiles, but no bundle files exist and the content is monolithic in SKILL.md with some detail (large blueprint, override tables) that could be split out.	4 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Description

91%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong, third-person description that clearly states what the skill does and when to use it, with explicit natural-language trigger synonyms. It is highly specific to the Agent Zero profile-creation niche with low conflict risk.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain plus several concrete coverage areas ("agent.yaml schema", "prompt inheritance & override model", "optional profile-specific tools and extensions"), but these read as topics covered rather than multiple distinct actions, leaving minor gaps.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what ("Create a new Agent Zero agent profile... Covers...") and when ("Use for any \"create/add/new agent profile\" request") with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	The clause 'Use for any "create/add/new agent profile" request' explicitly bundles natural synonyms users would actually say, giving comprehensive coverage of this skill's trigger phrasings.	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The "Agent Zero agent profile (subordinate)" niche is clear with distinct create/add/new triggers, but there is minor overlap risk with the sibling a0-create-plugin skill which can also bundle profiles.	4 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 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: b22a144

Reviewed: 4 days ago

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