Agent Management

What it does

When your agent uses it

• An agent needs to identify itself
• Inspect agent detail
• Resume sessions
• Delegate work to other agents

Example prompts

• “/agent-management”

Requirements

• Node.js

Workflow steps

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

1. 1List agents: ai-devkit agent list --json.
2. 2Identify self: compare your current session id to sessionId from list --json
3. 3Inspect before acting: ai-devkit agent detail --id --json --tail 20.
4. 4Reuse idle agents when suitable; otherwise start one with agent start.
5. 5Send self-contained assignments. Track each agent's task and last instruction.
6. 6Verify completed work before reporting it done. Use $agent-communication for agent-to-agent updates.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 7ef0cd5. 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:

  • npx

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

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npx, 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

Agent Management loads about 558 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 67 tokens; SKILL.md has 165 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~67

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

~558

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 codeaholicguy/ai-devkit at commit 7ef0cd5, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© codeaholicguy). 165 words, ~558 tokens.

name

agent-management

description

AI DevKit · Manage running AI agents with ai-devkit agent commands. Use when an agent needs to identify itself, list agents, start workers, inspect agent detail, assign work, group agents, resume sessions, stop agents, or delegate work to other agents.

ai-devkit agent list --json
ai-devkit agent detail --id <name> --json --tail 20
ai-devkit agent start --type codex --name <name> --cwd <path>
ai-devkit agent send --id <name> "<single-line instruction>"
ai-devkit agent send --id <name> --wait --timeout 120000 --json "<single-line instruction>"
ai-devkit agent send --group <group> "<single-line instruction>"
ai-devkit agent sessions --cwd <path> --type codex --json --limit 20
ai-devkit agent rename <old-name> <new-name>
ai-devkit agent kill <name>

ai-devkit agent send --id auth-review "Review auth middleware in /repo. Do not edit files. Report security findings with file/line references, ranked by severity."

© codeaholicguy, 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

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/agent-management of codeaholicguy/ai-devkit.

• SKILL.md
• agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 7ef0cd5