Agentic Engineering
An advanced playbook for designing or refactoring agent-based engineering workflows with bounded autonomy, custom evals, durable state, and verified write-back.
Dev & CodingAdvanced★ 141⑂ 22AI score 8/10Last updated: Sep 19, 2026
What it does
- Treats an agent as a stateful engineering process, not a prompt, and forces explicit objective, non-goals, permissions, budget, and recovery.
- Walks through an adoption gate (should this be an agent at all?), an unknowns gate (probe before coding), and selection of the lowest sufficient topology: one-shot, loop, graph, or agent teams.
- Requires human approval and a prepared rollback before production, publication, spending, destructive mutation, or credential use.
- Ships a state contract (run_id, status, attempt, evidence, unknowns, next_action, hashes, receipts), a failure protocol (NEEDS_INPUT, VERIFY_FAILED, NO_PROGRESS...), and a 3-attempt retry policy.
Who it's for
- Tech leads and architects whose multi-agent or automation pipelines have grown unmanageable.
- Engineers tired of "tests pass but the user workflow regressed" outcomes.
- Platform engineers who must document verification evidence and approval boundaries for delegated actions.
Examples
- Someone asks for a multi-agent setup to edit a single deterministic file — the skill collapses it to one bounded process and explains the coordination cost.
- A legacy migration keeps failing as one end-to-end goal — measure the failing horizon, publish stable interfaces, delegate smaller verified slices.
- A plan has independent branches but no typed payloads or join verifier — keep a serial loop until graph contracts are observable.
· · · Install guide · · ·
Try it now, no install
Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.
Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mark393295827/third-brain-v7-skills/HEAD/skills/agentic-engineering/SKILL.md What I want: (describe your task here)
If Claude can't open the link, open it yourself and paste the contents instead.
↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.
Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
- Download the ZIP with the button below.
- In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
- Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
Install in Claude Code
Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code
Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart. Copy the skills/agentic-engineering folder from the GitHub repo Mark393295827/third-brain-v7-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/agentic-engineering/. When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.
Install with a command instead
git clone https://github.com/Mark393295827/third-brain-v7-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r third-brain-v7-skills/skills/agentic-engineering ~/.claude/skills/⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.
- Open a terminal.
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/Mark393295827/third-brain-v7-skills.git - Create the skills directory:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills - Copy the skill:
cp -r third-brain-v7-skills/skills/agentic-engineering ~/.claude/skills/ - (Recommended) Copy the companion skills it references —
loop-engineering,graph-engineering,agent-teams-command— the same way. - Restart Claude Code and try a prompt like "redesign the agent workflow for this repo" to confirm the skill triggers.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT