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creating-agents

Teaches how to create new agents in the agents/ directory — isolated agentic loops with their own model, tool whitelist, and AGENT.md instructions.

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# Creating Agents

Agents are isolated agentic mini-loops with their own model, tool whitelist, and instruction file (`AGENT.md`). Use agents when you need to delegate a self-contained task to a separate LLM context — typically work that benefits from a different model, a restricted tool set, or clean isolation from the main conversation.

## Skill vs Agent — When to Use Which

| Use a **skill** (`skills/`) | Use an **agent** (`agents/`) |
|-----------------------------|------------------------------|
| Instruction to load into the main context | Isolated task with its own model |
| No tool calls needed, or shares main tool set | Needs a restricted tool whitelist |
| Workflow guidance or persona adjustment | Sub-task that returns a single result |
| Lives in `skills/<name>/SKILL.md` | Lives in `agents/<name>/AGENT.md` |

## Agent File Format