# Agents Best Practices (agent skill)

> Agents Best Practices is an agent skill (a SKILL.md file) from DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices. Agents load it when designing, generating an MVP blueprint for, auditing, troubleshooting, refactoring, or explaining an agentic harness for any domain. It works with Claude Code and Codex and has 2,368 GitHub stars.

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…

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices |
| Skill path | SKILL.md |
| Skill name | agents-best-practices |
| GitHub stars | 2,368 |
| Installs on skills.sh | not listed |
| License | MIT |
| Skills in repo | 1 |
| Plugin marketplace | no |
| Official | no |
| Works with | Claude Code, Codex |
| Category | DevOps & cloud |
| Last commit | Oct 5, 2026 |

## When it triggers

- Use this skill when designing, generating an MVP blueprint for, auditing, troubleshooting, refactoring, or explaining an agentic harness for any domain.
- 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, s

## Add this skill

### Claude Code

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices.git
cp -r agents-best-practices ~/.claude/skills/agents-best-practices   # personal, or .claude/skills in a project
```

In the Claude apps, zip the skill folder and upload it under Customize > Skills > + > Upload a skill (code execution must be on).

### ChatGPT / Codex

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices.git
cp -r agents-best-practices .agents/skills/agents-best-practices   # repo; ~/.agents/skills for all projects
```

### Cursor

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices.git
cp -r agents-best-practices .cursor/skills/agents-best-practices   # project; ~/.cursor/skills for all projects
```

Sources (checked 2026-10-07): https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills, https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12512180-using-skills-in-claude, https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/build-skills, https://cursor.com/docs/context/skills

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