always-on-agent-safety vs skill-architect

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.

Side-by-side

Tag overlap

Sample code from each SKILL.md

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│              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…

# ❌ These look like valid keys but aren't — use the correct alternatives
tools: Read,Write           # Use 'allowed-tools' instead
integrates_with: [...]      # Use SKILL.md body text instead
triggers: [...]             # Use 'description' keywords instead
outputs: [...]              # Use SKILL.md Output Format section instead
coordinates_with: [...]     # Use SKILL.md body text instead
python_dependencies: [...]  # Use SKILL.md body text instead

When to choose each

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…

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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