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 | always-on-agent-architecture | skill-architect |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Architecture and systems design for building always-on AI agents with episodic memory. Covers the memory hierarchy (core/recall/archival), persistence layers, agent server infrastructure, vector stores, and framework… | Design, create, audit, and improve Claude Agent Skills with expert-level progressive disclosure. Use when building new skills, reviewing existing skills, debugging activation failures, encoding domain expertise, or… |
| Category | Engineering | Engineering |
| Sub-category | architecture | engineering-misc |
| Tags | ai:agent | type:audit type:review |
| Author | curiositech | curiositech |
| License | — | — |
| Install | /add-skill always-on-agent-architecture | /add-skill skill-architect-v0-snapshot |
Q1: Do you want a full agent runtime (server, APIs, tools)?
├─ Yes → Use Letta (most complete, production-ready)
└─ No, I have my own agent loop
├─ Q2: Do you need temporal/relationship tracking?
│ ├─ Yes → Use Zep/Graphiti (best temporal knowledge graph)
│ └─ No → Go to Q3
│ ├─ Q3: Do you need graph + vector hybrid?
│ │ ├─ Yes → Use Mem0 (graph mode)
│ │ └─ No → Go to Q4
│ │ ├─ Q4: Already on LangGraph?
│ │ │ ├─ Yes → Use LangMem
│…# ❌ These look like valid keys but aren't — use the correct alternatives
tools: Read,Write # Use 'allowed-tools' instead
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triggers: [...] # Use 'description' keywords instead
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coordinates_with: [...] # Use SKILL.md body text instead
python_dependencies: [...] # Use SKILL.md body text insteadalways-on-agent-architecture — Architecture and systems design for building always-on AI agents with episodic memory. Covers the memory hierarchy (core/recall/archival), persistence layers, agent server infrastructure, vector stores, and framework…
skill-architect — Design, create, audit, and improve Claude Agent Skills with expert-level progressive disclosure. Use when building new skills, reviewing existing skills, debugging activation failures, encoding domain expertise, or…
Both are free to install. If you're unsure, install both — Claude Code skills are isolated by filename and only collide if their trigger phrases overlap (rare). The richest signal is the SKILL.md body itself — open both skill pages and read the first paragraph of each.
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