Dep Create

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Proposing a feature
• Architecture change
• Drafting an implementation plan
• Filing a retroactive DEP

Example prompts

• “Use the dep-create skill to create or updates Dynamo Enhancement Proposals as GitHub issues, including lightweight DEPs, implementation plans, and…”
• “/dep-create”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Ask for source material: Prompt the user for a Google Doc,
2. 2Gather required fields from the user and source doc (prompt
3. 3Determine the area label based on proposal content. Area labels
4. 4Decide template: full or lightweight.
5. 5Create the issue (full DEP)
6. 6Report the created issue number and URL to the user.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1668037. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • gh

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use gh, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Dep Create loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 71 tokens; SKILL.md has 406 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~71

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from ai-dynamo/dynamo at commit 1668037, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© ai-dynamo). 406 words, ~1,069 tokens.

name

dep-create

description

Creates or updates Dynamo Enhancement Proposals as GitHub issues, including lightweight DEPs, implementation plans, and retroactive DEPs for ai-dynamo/dynamo. Use when proposing a feature or architecture change, drafting an implementation plan, or filing a retroactive DEP.

license

Apache-2.0

metadata.author

NVIDIA

metadata.tags

dynamo, dep, enhancement-proposal, github

<!--
SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
-->

gh issue create \
  --repo ai-dynamo/dynamo \
  --title "DEP: <short descriptive title>" \
  --label "dep:draft" \
  --label "<area>" \
  --body "$(cat <<'EOF'
## Summary
<summary>

## Motivation
<motivation>

## Proposal
<proposal>

## Alternate Solutions
<alternates>

## Requirements
<requirements>

## References
<references — include internal doc link here>
EOF
)"

gh issue create \
  --repo ai-dynamo/dynamo \
  --title "DEP (light): <short descriptive title>" \
  --label "dep:draft" \
  --label "dep:lightweight" \
  --label "<area>" \
  --body "$(cat <<'EOF'
## Summary
<summary>

## Motivation
<motivation>

## Proposal
<proposal>
EOF
)"

gh issue view <number> --repo ai-dynamo/dynamo
gh issue view <number> --repo ai-dynamo/dynamo --comments

gh issue comment <number> --repo ai-dynamo/dynamo --body-file /tmp/plan.md

© ai-dynamo, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/dep-create of ai-dynamo/dynamo.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1668037