# Agents Best Practices

Use this skill when designing, generating an MVP blueprint for, auditing...

- Repository: https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices (2408 stars)
- Category: Design
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-19
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices --skill agents-best-practices -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices --skill agents-best-practices -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices --skill agents-best-practices -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices --skill agents-best-practices -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

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-board communications, realtime voice agents, hardware agents and board deployment, self-refining recursive harnesses, programmable context, continual refinement, observability, evals, prompt caching, agent-legible environments, feedback loops, and safety.

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

# 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:

The rest: https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices/blob/HEAD//SKILL.md