Sub-agent Skills Oversight

[zebdro]

As reported in the review on YT in detail here https://youtu.be/bu-RR2gM6Lw?si=vT2tjni17uMeQI1I

"The sub-agent skills oversight.
This is a detail you need to be aware of.
Claude recently added support for skills in agents.
You simply add a skill property to the agent's definition.
However, Agent OS currently has an oversight during the installation phase.
When the script generates the agent definition files for your project it compiles the standards but forgets to inject that skill property into the generated markdown files.
This means your sub-agents don't know that the skills exist so they don't follow the project standards which are defined as skills. You have to manually add that one line to the agent file yourself.
Given how minimal this edit is, I expect Agent OS will patch this support very soon."

Apologies if this is represented in the bugs already reported. I wasn't able to assess them confidently.

[Perlover]

I think it's related: #289

I created a patch and have already installed the modified version myself. I've done some quick testing, and everything seems to work fine, but I'm not sure how to accurately verify that subagents are picking up the skills. I'll observe the results of the work in the near future and report back. If you're interested, I can write an upgrade command for my version. By the way, I made the patch using the same Claude code.

[zebdro]

Did your change resolve this issue @Perlover? Was the "manually add that one line to the agent file" in the video related to your solution?

[Perlover]

Actually, I am currently using an agent-os patched according to my patches everywhere, and I certainly haven't noticed any problems or degradation. But I think there are improvements.

[tonydehnke]

I'm hoping @CasJam gets a chance to review this, I've been manually applying some if Perlover's fixes and things seem to be working well too.

[Perlover]

The author of agent-os has already applied my patch to add the Skill attribute to Tools in the generation of the implementer sub-agent (and other sub-agents).

So formally speaking, this is already in the main branch and should apply when installing agent-os.

But looking ahead, I want to say that I found a few more points that can be improved and made a new pull request a few weeks ago. And those improvements have not been accepted yet. However, I've been using them too, and it definitely hasn't gotten worse.

By the way, you will get an even greater effect from using skills and the agent-os itself if, after installing and updating agent-os, you run /improve-skills. Don't forget about this! It generates an improved "description" for each skill, which is very important as it contains trigger words. By default, after installation or upgrade, the generated skills from the standards files do not have these triggers in the descriptions, and there's a high chance that many "standards" simply won't work without such an upgrade (/improve-skills)!

[tonydehnke]

Should this discussion get closed off then?