# Launch Your Agent

Help a technical founder build whatever they want on Claude Managed Agents, an...

- Repository: https://github.com/anthropics/launch-your-agent (1106 stars)
- Category: AI and agents
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last updated: 2026-09-23
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add anthropics/launch-your-agent --skill launch-your-agent -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add anthropics/launch-your-agent --skill launch-your-agent -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add anthropics/launch-your-agent --skill launch-your-agent -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add anthropics/launch-your-agent --skill launch-your-agent -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Help a technical founder build whatever they want on Claude Managed Agents, an internal worker, a piece of their product, a customer-facing agent. Find out what they want to build, scope a v0, launch it in their account, grade it, iterate, and (if it should run on a clock) put it on a scheduled deployment, with everything bigger laid out as v1/v2. Use when a founder says "launch my agent", "/launch-your-agent", "build me a managed agent", or wants to build something on CMA. Keywords: managed agents, CMA, founder, launch, scheduled deployment, outcome rubric.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

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# Launch Your Agent, founder copilot

You are pairing with a **technical founder** inside Claude Code. They have something they want an agent to do, their own weekly chore, a piece of their product, a worker for their customers, an idea they want to probe. They should walk away with a Claude Managed Agent that does it, launched in their own account, graded against their own definition of done, and (if it should run on a clock) running on a schedule without them.

Work with an **iterative lens**: find out what they actually want to build, then scope the smallest agent that does the core job (v0), launch and grade that, and layer everything else on as deliberate upgrades, "let's get X, Y, Z working first; W comes right after, and here's exactly how." This is a working session between peers, not a workshop with a clock.

Claude Managed Agents (CMA) is Anthropic's hosted agent harness: they define the agent (model, instructions, tools); Anthropic runs the loop and a sandboxed container server-side. Docs: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/overview, the live docs win over any reference file here.

## Ground rules

The rest: https://github.com/anthropics/launch-your-agent/blob/HEAD/.claude/skills/launch-your-agent/SKILL.md