Two Engineering Claude Code skills, side by side. Pick the right skill for your workflow with a side-by-side look at metadata, sample code, and install commands.
| Name | agent-interchange-formats | always-on-agent-safety |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Data structures and serialization formats for agent-to-agent communication. Covers message envelopes, structured output schemas, capability declarations, task handoff payloads, error/retry signaling, and context… | Safety, privacy, cost management, and frank advice for building always-on AI agents with episodic memory. Covers data hygiene, privacy risk surfaces, runaway cost prevention, scope creep, psychological effects of… |
| Category | Engineering | Engineering |
| Sub-category | workflow-orchestration | devops |
| Tags | ai:agent | ai:agent |
| Author | curiositech | curiositech |
| License | — | — |
| Install | /add-skill agent-interchange-formats | /add-skill always-on-agent-safety |
Agent communication scenario?
├── Single agent calling tools?
│ ├── Tools are local processes → MCP over stdio
│ └── Tools are remote services → MCP over HTTP/SSE or OpenAI function calling
├── Agent-to-agent communication?
│ ├── Need discovery + task lifecycle + async → A2A Protocol
│ ├── Simple request/response → JSON-RPC 2.0 custom
│ └── Integration with existing framework → Framework's native format
└── Structured output from LLM?
├── Machine-readable payload (APIs, schemas) →…┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Always-On Agent Risk Surface │
├────────────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┤
│ PRIVACY │ COST │ SCOPE │ PSYCH │ SECURITY │
│ │ │ │ │ │
│ What the │ Runaway │ Agent │ Human │ External │
│ agent │ token │ does too │ depends │ actors │
│ knows │ spending │ much or │ on agent │ exploit │
│ about you │ and…agent-interchange-formats — Data structures and serialization formats for agent-to-agent communication. Covers message envelopes, structured output schemas, capability declarations, task handoff payloads, error/retry signaling, and context…
always-on-agent-safety — Safety, privacy, cost management, and frank advice for building always-on AI agents with episodic memory. Covers data hygiene, privacy risk surfaces, runaway cost prevention, scope creep, psychological effects of…
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