Agent Management Skill for Codex

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.

608 tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

1571

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/codeaholicguy/ai-devkit --skill agent-management

The instruction itself

4 sections, as written by the author

Agent Management

Use ai-devkit agent ...; if unavailable, use npx ai-devkit@latest agent ....

Workflow

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

Commands

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>

Use exact names from list --json. Partial matches are convenient but risk sending work to the wrong agent.

Assignment Rules

Do not send instructions to yourself unless intentional.
Prefer task names like auth-review, ui-tests, or docs-pass.
Include objective, scope/files, constraints, validation command, expected output, and whether to stop or continue.
Assign non-overlapping files or sequence dependent work.
Use groups only for broadcasts that truly apply to every member.
Ask before killing agents you did not start, destructive actions, production/shared-system actions, or product decisions.

Example:

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."

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How to use it

Copy the folder

Take codeaholicguy/agent-management from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.

Install what it needs

The instructions reference npx. Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.