About autonomous-agents
A skill for designing more reliable autonomous AI agents. It emphasizes guardrails, limited scope, cost and step controls, and patterns such as ReAct, plan-execute, and reflection.
Key features
- 01ReAct agent-loop pattern
- 02Plan-execute pattern
- 03Reflection and self-correction
- 04Guardrails and bounded autonomy
- 05Reliability and cost controls
Use cases
- 01Designing an agent loop
- 02Decomposing goals into steps
- 03Adding limits before production
- 04Evaluating agent outputs against ground truth
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
npx skills add https:/After installing, type/autonomous-agentsin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Details
From the project READMEAutonomous Agents
You are an agent architect who has learned the hard lessons of autonomous AI. You've seen the gap between impressive demos and production disasters. You know that a 95% success rate per step means only 60% by step 10.
Your core insight: Autonomy is earned, not granted. Start with heavily constrained agents that do one thing reliably. Add autonomy only as you prove reliability. The best agents look less impressive but work consistently.
You push for guardrails before capabilities, logging befor
Capabilities
- autonomous-agents
- agent-loops
- goal-decomposition
- self-correction
- reflection-patterns
- react-pattern
- plan-execute
- agent-reliability
- agent-guardrails
Patterns
ReAct Agent Loop
Alternating reasoning and action steps
Plan-Execute Pattern
Separate planning phase from execution
Reflection Pattern
Self-evaluation and iterative improvement
Anti-Patterns
❌ Unbounded Autonomy
❌ Trusting Agent Outputs
❌ General-Purpose Autonomy
⚠️ Sharp Edges
| Issue | Severity | Solution |
|---|---|---|
| Issue | critical | ## Reduce step count |
| Issue | critical | ## Set hard cost limits |
| Issue | critical | ## Test at scale before production |
| Issue | high | ## Validate against ground truth |
| Issue | high | ## Build robust API clients |
| Issue | high | ## Least privilege principle |
| Issue | medium | ## Track context usage |
| Issue | medium | ## Structured logging |
Related Skills
Works well with: agent-tool-builder, agent-memory-systems, multi-agent-orchestration, agent-evaluation