Provides discipline and conventions for authoring agent files (agents//*.md), skill files (skills//SKILL.md), and harness configuration files (CLAUDE.md). Activates when the router handles harness file edits directly rather than delegating to a sub-agent.
Agent Authoring
Expert guidance for writing, editing, and debugging agent and skill frontmatter, CLAUDE.md harness rules, and SKILL.md files.
Agent Authoring by glitchwerks · 9cd232c
npx skillmds@latest add glitchwerks/agent-authoring File contents
---name: agent-authoringdescription: Expert guidance for writing, editing, and debugging agent and skill frontmatter, CLAUDE.md harness rules, and SKILL.md files.---Provides discipline and conventions for authoring agent files(agents/**/*.md), skill files (skills/**/SKILL.md), and harnessconfiguration files (CLAUDE.md). Activates when the router handlesharness file edits directly rather than delegating to a sub-agent.
glitchwerks/claude-wayfinder/tree/main/tests/fixtures/skills/agent-authoring commit 9cd232ce31
Frequently asked questions
Run npx skillmds@latest add glitchwerks/agent-authoring in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.
Expert guidance for writing, editing, and debugging agent and skill frontmatter, CLAUDE.md harness rules, and SKILL.md files. It is listed under AI & ML on SkillMD.
This skill has not completed SkillMD's automated safety review yet. SkillMD never runs a skill's scripts for you; review the SKILL.md before installing.
This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.
Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.
glitchwerks (@glitchwerks) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.