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A thin-shell agent is a compact agent body that delegates specific responsibilities to downstream skills. You need thin-shell agents when standardizing agent design to ensure consistent architecture and rapid reuse of existing skills across projects.

Scaffolding thin-shell agents requires defining explicit handoff protocols and mapping responsibilities to downstream skills using YAML design guidelines. This phase-driven workflow collects requirements, designs agent architecture, implements compact bodies, and reviews outputs.

Yes, generating an agent body under 150 lines with explicit handoffs is the core constraint. The factory workflow enforces this limit to ensure each agent maintains a single clear responsibility and standardizes handoffs to companion skills.

Yes, Nuwa operates with no external dependencies to create thin-shell agents. It uses an internal agent factory and YAML design guidelines to automate scaffolding, design, implementation, and review phases for your agent workflow.

The best way to standardize agent design is applying golden rules through an agent factory that generates compact thin-shell agents. This ensures every agent has a single clear responsibility, explicit handoffs, and standardized downstream skill mapping.

Using an agent factory automates the creation of thin-shell agents and companion skills, reducing manual scaffolding errors. It enforces architectural constraints like the 150-line limit and explicit handoff protocols that manual creation often misses.