Agent Starters
Create, inspect and manage named per-seat starting points for AI agent roles, with provenance tracking.
- Repository
- mvschwarz/openrig
- Stars
- 8,553
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Files
- 1 file
What it does
This skill teaches an agent how to create, refresh, inspect, promote and deprecate a reusable 'starter': a saved starting point for an AI agent seat that combines its role, startup context, an optional native session source and provenance notes. It defines a registry YAML format and a six-state lifecycle, and sets rules such as refusing to copy credentials, refusing to compact a seat just to make a starter smaller, and reporting staleness honestly. It is explicitly not a VM-style image that captures machine state.
Great for
- Developers building OpenRig rigs who want to reuse a known-good agent seat configuration
- Teams maintaining a registry of agent role starters and needing provenance visibility
- Anyone auditing whether a starter's source and context are traceable and still current
Skip it if
- Users wanting deterministic VM-style state capture; the skill states starters do not capture VM state
- Anyone wanting to copy provider API keys or auth material into a starter; the skill forbids this, so it would not work as intended
- Tools outside the OpenRig daemon, since the referenced commands and resolver belong to that system and the file alone cannot run them
Try asking
- “Create a new reviewer starter from a seat that has proven capable at code review”
- “Inspect this starter and tell me its provenance and whether it is still recommended”
- “Write a registry entry for a starter named reviewer-v1 with a role and context”
- “Deprecate an old starter whose source transcript path is no longer valid”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.
agent-starters.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip agent-starters.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip agent-starters.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 3
Ask for the task
No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.
Get better results
- Record provenance (manifest id/version, runtime, source session id, ready-check evidence, freshness) when a starter is based on a primed session, because promotion is refused without inspectable provenance.
- Note that a RigSpec member combining starter_ref with session_source.mode fork is currently rejected, so plan native continuity via a separate session-source path.
- Do not shrink a seat to make the starter smaller; the skill treats size as an outcome, not a target.
What's inside
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from mvschwarz/openrig under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.