18 areas · 10 Software specs · 8 DevOps specs · 7 SDLC agents + 2 specialists · 105+ skills · 73+ workflows
A unified catalog of agentic specializations and the agentic CLI. Install orchestrator-ready rules, skills, workflows,
and prompts into any project — and run a full SDLC agent team out of the box.
Coverage report for the current catalog across areas, specs, skills, and workflows.
Most agent prompt libraries give you a smarter single agent. agent-guides gives you a coordinated team:
@product-owner → @team-lead → @developer → @qa → @devops-engineer
Each role has hard boundaries, explicit handoff criteria, and measurable success metrics. The Product Owner orchestrates the full SDLC; no other agent library ships this out of the box.
Works with Claude Code, opencode, Cursor, Codex, kilocode, antigravity and Gemini.
agent-guides is a structured knowledge base for AI coding agents. Instead of writing long system prompts, you install focused, composable guidance files that agents load on demand based on the task at hand.
Each area (e.g., devops/kubernetes) provides:
| File type | Purpose | When loaded |
|---|---|---|
AGENTS.md |
Navigation index, load order, constraints | First — always |
rules/*.md |
Hard constraints the agent must follow | Always, for the active spec |
skills/*/SKILL.md |
Technical capabilities and patterns | On demand, matching "When to load" |
workflows/*.md |
Orchestrated step-by-step processes | On /command trigger |
prompts/*.md |
Human copy-paste templates (EN + RU) | Reference / paste |
agent-guides/
├── areas/
│ ├── software/ # Application development
│ │ ├── general/ # Shared baseline — all software specs inherit from here
│ │ ├── backend/ # REST/GraphQL APIs, services, database access
│ │ ├── frontend/ # Components, accessibility, performance, CSS
│ │ ├── full-stack/ # End-to-end product features
│ │ ├── data-engineering/ # dbt, warehouses, pipelines, streaming
│ │ ├── mlops/ # Training, evaluation, serving, monitoring
│ │ ├── mobile/ # iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter
│ │ ├── platform/ # K8s manifests, IaC, CI/CD, secrets
│ │ ├── qa/ # Test strategy, coverage, flakiness, performance
│ │ └── security/ # Threat modeling, SAST/DAST, auth, compliance
│ └── devops/ # Platform and operations
│ ├── kubernetes/ # Cluster bootstrap, workload ops, RBAC, upgrades
│ ├── ci-cd/ # GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, quality gates, supply chain
│ ├── infrastructure/ # Terraform, Ansible, IaC standards, drift detection
│ ├── observability/ # Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Grafana, SLOs
│ ├── sre/ # SLOs, error budgets, incidents, chaos engineering
│ ├── networking/ # Ingress, TLS, service mesh, DNS, VPC
│ ├── devsecops/ # Shift-left, SBOM, OPA/Kyverno, container hardening
│ └── database-ops/ # PostgreSQL, Redis, migrations, backup/restore
├── extensions/
│ ├── opencode/ # OpenCode agent definitions, commands, skills
│ │ └── agents/ # SDLC agents + optional specialists for .opencode/agents/
│ ├── claude/ # Claude Code configs
│ │ └── agents/ # SDLC agents + optional specialists for .claude/agents/
│ ├── antigravity/ # Antigravity platform configs
│ ├── codex/ # Codex custom agents and override configs
│ │ └── agents/ # SDLC agents + optional specialists for .codex/agents/
│ └── gemini/ # Gemini-specific configs
│ │ └── agents/ # SDLC agents + optional specialists for .gemini/agents/
├── areas/template/ # Authoring templates — start here for new content
├── docs/ # Setup and usage guides
├── AGENTS.md # Root agent guidance (loaded into every project)
└── agentic # CLI installer
- required commands:
bash,python3,pip,pip3, orpython3 -m pip,git - optional commands:
fzf,node/npm,curl, agent binaries such ascodex,opencode,claude,gemini
npx @jetrabbits/agentic@latestAlternative bootstrap (installs local binary):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sawrus/agent-guides/main/install | bashagenticagentic upgradeInteractive walkthrough of the agentic CLI flow: choose a target project, pick agent platforms, and install the
guidance bundle.
The same 7-agent SDLC team works across Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, and any tool that supports agent or subagent files. Agentic also ships optional post-task review specialists for instruction quality and memory hygiene.
| Agent | Role | Invoke when |
|---|---|---|
product-owner |
Scope, acceptance criteria, SDLC orchestration | Start of any feature; final acceptance |
pm |
Planning, milestones, risk register | Scope is defined, execution needs tracking |
team-lead |
Architecture, code review, quality gates | Planning and pre-release sign-off |
developer |
Implementation, tests, delivery | Implementation plan is approved |
qa |
Verification, defect classification, go/no-go | Developer hands off an increment |
designer |
UX flows, accessibility, design-system review | Planning and implementation review |
devops-engineer |
CI/CD, IaC, platform reliability | Anything touching infra, pipelines, or deploy |
Each agent has a vibe (one-line personality), Identity, Communication Style, Success Metrics, and explicit
Boundaries — so roles never overlap and handoffs are always documented.
Optional specialist agents run outside the mandatory SDLC role matrix:
| Agent | Role | Invoke when |
|---|---|---|
instruction_reviewer |
Post-task instruction effectiveness review | Instructions, tool use, or role guidance changed |
memory_curator |
Post-task memory hygiene recommendations | Durable facts or memory quality need review |
See Review Pipeline for the guidance-mode pipeline and .reviews/<task-id>/ output
convention.
| Platform | Agent path | Format | Guide |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | project/.claude/agents/*.md |
Markdown with YAML frontmatter | Claude Code subagents |
| OpenCode | project/.opencode/agents/*.md |
Markdown with frontmatter | OpenCode agents · repo setup note |
| Codex | project/.codex/agents/*.toml |
TOML custom agents | Codex subagents |
| Gemini | project/.gemini/agents/*.toml |
Markdown with YAML frontmatter | Gemini subagents |
agentic installs shared guidance into .agent/ and selected IDE files into directories like .claude/,
.opencode/, and .codex/. Generated runtime guidance goes to AGENTS.md; OpenCode also gets .opencode/AGENTS.md.
project/.agent/
├── rules/ ← constraints active for every task in this project
├── skills/ ← capabilities loaded on demand
├── workflows/ ← processes triggered by slash commands
└── prompts/ ← human-paste templates
opencode-docs(safe): adds OpenCode documentation through a local MCP server.playwright(sensitive): adds browser automation through Playwright MCP.kubernetes(dangerous): adds Kubernetes cluster access through Kubernetes MCP.youtube-transcript(safe): adds YouTube transcript lookup through a local MCP server.docker-mcp(dangerous): adds Docker MCP Gateway as the generateddockerMCP server.context7(safe): adds a remote MCP server for up-to-date framework, library, SDK, and API documentation.mempalace(sensitive): adds a local memory MCP server for project context discovery and reuse.anydb(dangerous): adds database access through AnyDB MCP.
Telegram Notifications: sends Telegram notifications when an OpenCode session becomes idle, including the final response or an attachment for long output. Stored internally astelegram-notification.Agent Model Mapping: maps.opencode/agents/*.mdroles to main and fallback OpenCode models during interactiveagentic install/agentic tui. Stored internally asagent-model-mapper; OpenCode startup never prompts or writes project files.
OpenAI Model Profile: applies the bundled OpenAI model mapping fromextensions/opencode/profiles/openai/.GitHub Copilot Model Profile: applies the bundled GitHub Copilot model mapping fromextensions/opencode/profiles/githubcopilot/.- User profiles: place
opencode.jsonfiles under$HOME/.config/agentic/opencode/profiles/<profile-id>/. For example,$HOME/.config/agentic/opencode/profiles/DT/opencode.jsonappears in the optional OpenCode plugin menu asDT profile, and$HOME/.config/agentic/opencode/profiles/GH/opencode.jsonappears asGH profile. none: applies no model profile and does not copy the baselineextensions/opencode/opencode.jsonjust for profile selection. OpenCode MCPs, Telegram notifications, and model mapping may still create or update.opencode/opencode.jsonwhen those options are selected.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for authoring standards, templates, and the pull request process.
Quick checklist before opening a PR:
- Used the appropriate template from
areas/template/. - No
{{PLACEHOLDER}}values remain. - Spec map in
AGENTS.mdupdated. - Constraints in rules use imperative language.
- Prompt examples include both EN and RU blocks.
See LICENSE if present, or contact the maintainers.

