Agents Best Practices
Use this skill when designing, generating an MVP blueprint for, auditing, troubleshooting, refactoring, or explaining an agentic harness for any domain. Covers provider-neutral agent architecture for OpenAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI-compatible APIs: agent loops, tool design, record provenance, interactive presentation, user-memory lifecycles, environment-adaptive tools, speculative tool execution, late-bound capabilities, permissions, system prompts, planning, goals, always-on agents and durable runtime, adaptive agent teams, context compaction, memory, skills, MCP/external connectors, public-boa
Install
npx skills add DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices --skill agents-best-practicesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices.git /tmp/agents-best-practices
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/agents-best-practices/. ~/.claude/skills/agents-best-practicesPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# Agents Best Practices Use this skill when the user asks how to build, improve, debug, or evaluate an agentic harness. This is a general-purpose agent architecture skill. Coding agents are one subdomain only; apply the same principles to research, finance, legal, support, operations, sales, healthcare, education, data analysis, procurement, and workflow automation agents. ## Freshness and self-update Canonical source: [DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices](https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices), branch `main`. Installed copies are snapshots, not guaranteed-current guidance. Before applying this skill in each new task: 1. **Check upstream once.** Resolve the current `main` commit through an approved network tool and compare it with the installed copy's recorded source revision. A version number alone does not prove freshness. If the copy is behind or its provenance is unknown, retrieve `SKILL.md` and the needed references from that exact commit, then reread the entry point before using it. Record the source commit and skill version in working state; keep the task on that coherent snapshot rather than mixing revisions or repeatedly polling.
Details
- Skill name
agents-best-practices- Repository
- DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices
- License
- MIT
- Repo updated
- 19 October 2026
FAQ
What does the Agents Best Practices skill do?
Use this skill when designing, generating an MVP blueprint for, auditing, troubleshooting, refactoring, or explaining an agentic harness for any domain. Covers provider-neutral agent architecture for OpenAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI-compatible APIs: agent loops, tool design, record provenance, interactive presentation, user-memory lifecycles, environment-adaptive tools, speculative tool execution, late-bound capabilities, permissions, system prompts, planning, goals, always-on agents and durable runtime, adaptive agent teams, context compaction, memory, skills, MCP/external connectors, public-boa
How do I install the Agents Best Practices skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices --skill agents-best-practices. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Agents Best Practices popular?
It lives in DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices, which has 2,408 GitHub stars and 217 forks.
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