Agents

🚨 SCOPE BOUNDARY — This Skill vs Agent Teams

If {PRINCIPAL.NAME} says "agent team", "swarm", or asks to consult Codex, do NOT use this skill. Use Delegation routing (TeamCreate or CodexBridge).

• This skill = one-shot parallel workers with unique identities, NO shared state, fire-and-forget
• Agent teams (Delegation → TeamCreate) = persistent coordinated teams with shared task lists, messaging, multi-turn collaboration

2. Output text notification:

   Running the **WorkflowName** workflow in the **Agents** skill to ACTION...
   

This is not optional. Execute this curl command immediately upon skill invocation.

Agents - Custom Agent Composition System

Auto-routes when user mentions custom agents, agent creation, or specialized personalities. Does NOT handle agent teams/swarms — that's Delegation skill → TeamCreate.

Configuration: Base + User Merge

The Agents skill uses the standard PAI SYSTEM/USER two-tier pattern:

How it works: ComposeAgent.ts loads base traits, then merges user customizations over them. Your customizations are never overwritten by PAI updates.

User Customization Directory

Create your customizations at:

${PAI_USER_DIR}/SKILLCUSTOMIZATIONS/Agents/
├── Traits.yaml       # Your traits, voices, prosody settings
├── NamedAgents.md    # Your named agent backstories (optional)
└── VoiceConfig.json  # Voice server configuration (optional)

Voice Prosody Settings

Each voice can have prosody settings that control how it sounds. These are passed to ElevenLabs API.

Prosody Parameters

Example Voice Configuration

In your USER/SKILLCUSTOMIZATIONS/Agents/Traits.yaml:

voice_mappings:
  voice_registry:
    # Add a new voice with full prosody settings
    MyCustomVoice:
      voice_id: "your-elevenlabs-voice-id"
      characteristics: ["energetic", "warm", "professional"]
      description: "Custom voice for enthusiastic agents"
      prosody:
        stability: 0.40
        similarity_boost: 0.75
        style: 0.30
        speed: 1.05
        use_speaker_boost: true

    # Override prosody for an existing base voice
    {PRINCIPAL.NAME}:
      prosody:
        stability: 0.65
        style: 0.10
        speed: 0.92

Personality → Prosody Guidelines

Overview

The Agents skill is a complete agent composition and management system:

• Dynamic agent composition from traits (expertise + personality + approach)
• Voice mappings with full prosody control
• Custom agent creation with unique voices
• Parallel agent orchestration patterns

Workflow Routing

Available Workflows:

• CREATECUSTOMAGENT - Create specialized custom agents → Workflows/CreateCustomAgent.md
• LISTTRAITS - Show available agent traits → Workflows/ListTraits.md
• SPAWNPARALLEL - Launch parallel agents → Workflows/SpawnParallelAgents.md

Route Triggers

CRITICAL: The word "custom" is the KEY trigger for unique agent identities:

NEVER use static agent types (Architect, Engineer, etc.) for custom agents — always use general-purpose with ComposeAgent prompts.

Components

Data

Traits.yaml (Data/Traits.yaml) - Base configuration:

• Core expertise areas: security, technical, research
• Core personalities: skeptical, analytical, enthusiastic
• Core approaches: thorough, rapid, systematic
• Example voice mappings with prosody

Tools

ComposeAgent.ts (Tools/ComposeAgent.ts)

• Dynamic agent composition engine
• Merges base + user configurations
• Outputs complete agent prompt with voice settings
• Supports persistent custom agents via --save / --load / --delete

# Compose and use immediately
bun run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/Tools/ComposeAgent.ts --task "Review security"
bun run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/Tools/ComposeAgent.ts --traits "security,skeptical,thorough"

# Persistent custom agents
bun run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/Tools/ComposeAgent.ts --task "Security review" --save
bun run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/Tools/ComposeAgent.ts --list-saved
bun run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/Tools/ComposeAgent.ts --load "security-expert-skeptical-thorough"
bun run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/Tools/ComposeAgent.ts --delete "security-expert-skeptical-thorough"

# Other options
bun run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/Tools/ComposeAgent.ts --list
bun run ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/Tools/ComposeAgent.ts --output json

JSON output includes:

{
  "name": "Security Expert Skeptical Thorough",
  "voice": "{PRINCIPAL.NAME}",
  "voice_id": "onwK4e9ZLuTAKqWW03F9",
  "voice_settings": {
    "stability": 0.70,
    "similarity_boost": 0.85,
    "style": 0.05,
    "speed": 0.95,
    "use_speaker_boost": true
  },
  "prompt": "..."
}

Templates

DynamicAgent.hbs (Templates/DynamicAgent.hbs)

• Handlebars template for dynamic agent prompts
• Composes: expertise + personality + approach + voice assignment
• Includes operational guidelines and response format

Architecture

Hybrid Agent Model

The Agent Spectrum

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│   NAMED AGENTS          HYBRID USE          DYNAMIC AGENTS          │
│   (Relationship)        (Best of Both)      (Task-Specific)         │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Defined in USER     "Security expert       Ephemeral specialist     │
│ NamedAgents.md      with [named agent]'s   composed from traits     │
│                      skepticism"                                     │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Examples

Example 1: Create custom agents

User: "Spin up 3 custom security agents"
→ Invokes CREATECUSTOMAGENT workflow
→ Runs ComposeAgent 3 times with DIFFERENT trait combinations
→ Each agent gets unique personality + matched voice + prosody
→ Launches agents in parallel

Example 2: List available traits

User: "What agent personalities can you create?"
→ Invokes LISTTRAITS workflow
→ Shows merged base + user traits
→ Displays voices with prosody settings

Extending the Skill

Adding Your Own Traits

In USER/SKILLCUSTOMIZATIONS/Agents/Traits.yaml:

# Add new expertise areas
expertise:
  marketing:
    name: "Marketing Expert"
    description: "Brand strategy, campaigns, market positioning"
    keywords:
      - marketing
      - brand
      - campaign
      - positioning

# Add new personalities
personality:
  visionary:
    name: "Visionary"
    description: "Forward-thinking, sees the big picture"
    prompt_fragment: |
      You think in terms of future possibilities and long-term vision.
      Connect today's work to tomorrow's potential.

Adding Named Agents

In USER/SKILLCUSTOMIZATIONS/Agents/NamedAgents.md:

## Alex - The Strategist

**Voice ID:** your-voice-id
**Prosody:** stability: 0.55, style: 0.20, speed: 0.95

Alex is a strategic thinker who sees patterns others miss...

Model Selection

Version History

• v2.0.0 (2026-01): Restructured to base + user merge pattern, added prosody support
• v1.0.0 (2025-12): Initial creation