Agent Almanac

A library of executable skills, specialist agents, and pre-built teams for Claude Code and compatible AI tools. Define repeatable engineering procedures once and have AI agents execute them with built-in validation and error recovery. Compose specialists into review teams that catch issues a single reviewer would miss. Built on the Agent Skills open standard.

At a Glance

• 350 skills across 64 domains — structured, executable procedures
• 72 agents — specialized Claude Code personas covering development, review, compliance, and more
• 17 teams — predefined multi-agent compositions for complex workflows
• 26 guides — human-readable workflow, infrastructure, and reference documentation
• Interactive visualization — force-graph explorer with 350 R-generated skill icons and 9 color themes

How It Works

| Building Block | Location | Purpose | |----------------|----------|---------| | Skills | skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md | Executable procedures (how) | | Agents | agents/<name>.md | Specialized personas (who) | | Teams | teams/<name>.md | Multi-agent compositions (who works together) | | Guides | guides/<name>.md | Human-readable reference (context) |

Ask Claude Code to review your R package, and the r-package-review team activates 4 agents — each following specialized skills for code quality, architecture, security, and best practices — then synthesizes their findings into a single report.

Works with

Skills follow the Agent Skills open standard and work with any tool that reads markdown:

| Tool | Integration | Details | |------|-------------|---------| | Claude Code | Full (skills, agents, teams) | Plugin install or .claude/ symlinks | | Codex (OpenAI) | Skills | Symlink into .agents/skills/ | | Cursor | Skills | Map to .cursor/rules/*.mdc files | | Gemini CLI, Aider, etc. | Skills | Point context to any SKILL.md file |

Agents and teams use Claude Code's subagent architecture. For other tools, skills are the primary integration surface. See skills/README.md for setup instructions.

Quick Start

Choose a path. Full per-OS runbook with prereqs, verification, and updating: Installation guide.

Path 1 — Reference a skill (zero install)

> "Follow skills/commit-changes/SKILL.md to stage and commit my changes"

Path 2 — Claude Code plugin (recommended)

git clone https://github.com/pjt222/agent-almanac.git ~/dev/agent-almanac

# One-time local marketplace setup
mkdir -p ~/.claude-marketplace/{plugins,.claude-plugin}
cat > ~/.claude-marketplace/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json << 'EOF'
{
  "name": "local",
  "owner": { "name": "self" },
  "plugins": [{
    "name": "agent-almanac",
    "source": "./plugins/agent-almanac",
    "category": "development"
  }]
}
EOF
ln -s ~/dev/agent-almanac ~/.claude-marketplace/plugins/agent-almanac

claude plugin marketplace add ~/.claude-marketplace
claude plugin install agent-almanac@local

Auto-discovers all 350 skills and 72 agents. Teams require activation via TeamCreate. Windows / macOS variants in the Installation guide.

Path 3 — Global CLI (cross-framework)

npm install -g agent-almanac
agent-almanac detect              # show frameworks in cwd
agent-almanac install commit-changes

Reaches 12+ frameworks: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini, Aider, OpenCode, Windsurf, Vibe, Hermes, OpenClaw. See cli/README.md.

Verify

cd ~/dev/agent-almanac
npm install && npm test           # repo integrity + README freshness
claude plugin list | grep agent-almanac

In a fresh Claude Code session, type /commit-changes — should resolve. Empty result → see Installation troubleshooting.

Explore visually

cd viz && npm install && bash build.sh && npm run dev
# Open http://localhost:5173 for the interactive force-graph explorer

Requires R 4.5.x or Docker; per-OS R paths in the Installation guide. See viz/README.md for build internals.

Directory Map

agent-almanac/
  .claude-plugin/  Plugin manifest for Claude Code plugin installation
  skills/          350 executable procedures across 64 domains
  agents/           72 specialist personas
  teams/            17 multi-agent compositions with 8 coordination patterns
  guides/           26 human-readable reference docs
  viz/              Interactive force-graph explorer with R-generated icons
  tests/            30 test scenarios for validation
  i18n/             Translations (10 locales: de, zh-CN, ja, es, caveman, caveman-lite, caveman-ultra, wenyan, wenyan-lite, wenyan-ultra)
  cli/              Universal installer CLI (npm install -g agent-almanac)
  scripts/          Build and CI automation
  sessions/         Tending session archives

Guides

New here? Start with Understanding the System. See all guides for the full categorized list.

Workflow

• Understanding the System — Entry point: what skills, agents, and teams are, how they compose, and how to invoke them
• Creating Skills — Authoring, evolving, and reviewing skills following the agentskills.io standard
• Creating Agents and Teams — Designing agent personas, composing teams, and choosing coordination patterns
• Running a Code Review — Multi-agent code review using review teams for R packages and web projects
• Managing a Scrum Sprint — Running Scrum sprints with the scrum-team: planning, dailies, review, and retro
• Visualizing Workflows with putior — End-to-end putior workflow visualization from annotation to themed Mermaid diagrams
• Running Tending — AI meta-cognitive tending sessions with the tending team
• Running a Translation Campaign — End-to-end guide for translating all skills, agents, teams, and guides into supported locales using the translation-campaign team
• Unleash the Agents — Structured multi-agent consultation at three tiers for open-ended hypothesis generation
• Team Assembly Prompt Patterns — How to phrase requests to Claude Code for multi-agent team work at every level of specificity
• Production Coordination Patterns — Real-world multi-agent orchestration patterns: barrier synchronization, silence budgets, health checks, degraded-wave policies, and cost-aware scheduling
• AgentSkills Alignment — Standards compliance audits using the agentskills-alignment team for format validation, spec drift detection, and registry integrity
• Edge Computing Deployment — Install agent-almanac skills on edge LLMs (Gemma 4 via AI Edge Gallery) with distilled content, token budgets, and offline bundles
• Self-Continuation Loops Playbook — Choose among ScheduleWakeup, CronCreate loops, and loop.md; select sentinels; plan for the 7-day age-out

Infrastructure

• Installation — OS-aware install runbook covering plugin install, global CLI, prereqs, verification, and updating across Linux, macOS, Windows, WSL2, and Codespaces
• Setting Up Your Environment — WSL2 setup, shell config, MCP server integration, and Claude Code configuration
• Symlink Architecture — How symlinks enable multi-project discovery of skills, agents, and teams through Claude Code
• R Package Development — Package structure, testing, CRAN submission, pkgdown deployment, and renv management

Reference

• Quick Reference — Command cheat sheet for agents, skills, teams, Git, R, and shell operations
• Agent Best Practices — Design principles, quality assurance, and maintenance guidelines for writing effective agents
• Agent Configuration Schema — YAML frontmatter field definitions, validation rules, and JSON Schema for agent files
• The Caveman Spellbook — Six grunt-level compression modes for agent-almanac content — a homage to JuliusBrussee/caveman, from lite filler-stripping to extreme classical Chinese abbreviation

Design

• Extracting Project Essence — Multi-perspective framework for extracting skills, agents, and teams from any codebase using the metal skill
• Epigenetics-Inspired Activation Control — Runtime activation profiles controlling which agents, skills, and teams are expressed, grounded in molecular epigenetics
• Understanding the Synoptic Mind — The adaptic concept — panoramic synthesis through simultaneous multi-domain awareness, theoretical foundations, and practical use

Translations

| Locale | Language | Skills | Agents | Teams | Guides | Total | |--------|----------|--------|--------|-------|--------|-------| | de | Deutsch | 350/350 | 3/72 | 1/17 | 3/26 | 357/465 (76.8%) | | zh-CN | 简体中文 | 350/350 | 3/72 | 1/17 | 3/26 | 357/465 (76.8%) | | ja | 日本語 | 350/350 | 3/72 | 1/17 | 3/26 | 357/465 (76.8%) | | es | Español | 350/350 | 3/72 | 1/17 | 3/26 | 357/465 (76.8%) | | caveman-lite | Caveman Lite | 350/350 | 0/72 | 0/17 | 0/26 | 350/465 (75.3%) | | caveman | Caveman | 350/350 | 0/72 | 0/17 | 0/26 | 350/465 (75.3%) | | caveman-ultra | Caveman Ultra | 350/350 | 0/72 | 0/17 | 0/26 | 350/465 (75.3%) | | wenyan-lite | 文言文輕 | 350/350 | 0/72 | 0/17 | 0/26 | 350/465 (75.3%) | | wenyan | 文言文 | 350/350 | 0/72 | 0/17 | 0/26 | 350/465 (75.3%) | | wenyan-ultra | 文言文極 | 350/350 | 0/72 | 0/17 | 0/26 | 350/465 (75.3%) |

See i18n/README.md for the translation contributor guide.

Plugin Packaging

Agent-almanac is packaged as a Claude Code plugin at .claude-plugin/plugin.json. When installed, Claude Code auto-discovers all skills and agents:

| Component | Discovery | Count | |-----------|-----------|-------| | Skills | skills/*/SKILL.md | 350 | | Agents | agents/*.md | 72 | | Teams | Bundled but not auto-discovered | 17 |

Teams are not a plugin-native content type — they require activation via TeamCreate (see Creating Agents and Teams).

For step-by-step plugin install (POSIX + Windows + macOS variants, prereqs, verification, troubleshooting), see the Installation guide.

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Each content type has its own guide:

• Skills — skills/README.md for format and consumption
• Agents — agents/README.md for template and best practices
• Teams — teams/README.md for coordination patterns
• Guides — guides/README.md for categories and template

Update the relevant _registry.yml when adding content, then run npm run update-readmes.

Support

If Agent Almanac makes your AI tools more capable, consider sponsoring its development.

Reliable AI assistance requires structured knowledge — and maintaining that structure is work that the models themselves cannot do.

License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.