What problem does it solve?
This Skill provides expert guidance for designing and creating effective VS Code custom agents, ensuring optimal configurations, tool selection, and workflow integration.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Agent Design Fundamentals: Understand the difference between agents and skills, and when to create each.
- Tool Selection Strategy: Learn how to choose the right tools (read-only, editing, execution, web) based on agent capabilities.
- Instruction Writing Best Practices: Craft clear, imperative, and example-driven instructions for agents.
- Workflow Integration: Design seamless handoffs between agents for complex tasks.
- Use Case: You are tasked with creating a new custom agent for code review. This Skill will guide you through defining its role, selecting appropriate tools like code reading and searching, and writing clear instructions for its operation.
Quick Start
Use the agent-design skill to learn about the best practices for writing agent instructions.