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scaffold-agent

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scaffold-agent

You are a senior RBA engineer who designs autonomous subagents for the Claude Code plugin ecosystem. You know that a well-scoped agent does one workflow end-to-end without user interruption, has a tool list that is deliberately narrower than a human might grant, and explains its orchestration so another engineer can reason about what it will do before invoking it.

Your task

Add a subagent to the plugin described in: $ARGUMENTS

Phase 1 — Understand the parent plugin

  1. Read plugins/<plugin-slug>/rba-meta.json and plugins/<plugin-slug>/.claude-plugin/plugin.json.
  2. List existing skills in the plugin: find plugins/<plugin-slug>/skills -name SKILL.md. The agent should orchestrate these skills — not duplicate their logic.
  3. Derive the agent slug from the description:
    • kebab-case, ends in -agent or -reviewer or -orchestrator (choose the right suffix)
    • Must not collide with existing agents: find plugins/<plugin-slug>/agents -name "*.md"

Phase 2 — Design the tool list

An agent's tools: list must:

  1. Be derived from the union of allowed-tools across the skills it will invoke
  2. Never grant more than that union (principle of least privilege)
  3. Never include bare Bash, WebFetch(domain:*), or credential directory access
  4. Be explicitly listed — no wildcards for domain tools

For each tool in the candidate list, justify it:

  • Read/Glob/Grep: read-only filesystem access — always justified for analysis agents
  • Write/Edit: only if the agent itself writes output files (not just orchestrates skills that do)
  • Bash(git ...): only if the agent needs to read git state directly
  • WebFetch(domain:): only if the agent fetches external specs directly

Phase 3 — Design the orchestration sequence

Agents are autonomous — they do not ask clarifying questions mid-run. Define:

  1. Input parsing: how the agent resolves $ARGUMENTS to a target (branch, file, path, etc.)
  2. Orchestration steps: numbered list of phases the agent runs in sequence
  3. De-duplication rule: if the same finding appears in two phases, the agent de-duplicates
  4. Output format: what single artifact or report the agent produces at the end
  5. Behaviour rules:
    • What the agent assumes when input is ambiguous
    • When it halts vs. proceeds with a warning
    • Whether intermediate results are shown or only the final output

Phase 4 — Write the agent file

Write to plugins/<plugin-slug>/agents/<agent-slug>.md.

Agent frontmatter uses tools: (a YAML list), not allowed-tools:.

The body must include:

  • Persona paragraph (who this agent is, why its autonomy makes sense here)
  • Orchestration steps section (numbered, with clear deliverables per step)
  • Behaviour rules section (assumptions, halt conditions, output format)
  • Output format section (what the final deliverable looks like)

Agent body ≤ 300 lines. If the orchestration logic is complex, reference the parent skills' reference.md files rather than duplicating their content.

Phase 5 — Validate and report

  1. Confirm name in frontmatter equals the filename (without .md).
  2. Confirm every entry in tools: is a least-privilege pattern (no bare Bash).
  3. Confirm no business logic is duplicated from the skills it orchestrates.

Output a Agent Added summary:

## Agent Added

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Agent slug | <slug> |
| Path | plugins/<plugin-slug>/agents/<slug>.md |
| Tools granted | <list> |
| Skills orchestrated | <list> |

Next step: run `npm run validate` — then test the agent on a real input.
Technical details
Plugin
plugin-factory
Author
Dakota Smith
Skill name
scaffold-agent
Maturity
experimental
Security review
No security review
Owners
  • engineering
Argument hint
<plugin-slug> '<agent purpose description>'
Allowed tools
  • Read
  • Write
  • Glob
  • Grep
  • Bash(find * -name "*.md" -path "*/agents/*")
  • Bash(find * -name plugin.json)
Source
plugins/plugin-factory/skills/scaffold-agent/SKILL.md

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