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openrig-architect

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Use when designing multi-agent topologies that run ON OpenRig — authoring RigSpec and AgentSpec files for new rigs, creating agent startup content (guidance / skills / culture), or diagnosing why a launched rig's agents aren't behaving as intended. NOT for changing OpenRig itself (use developing-openrig); NOT for ordinary CLI operation of an existing rig (use openrig-user). Covers the full authoring lifecycle from user intent to validated, launchable rig.

How to install openrig-architect

install openrig-architect
# install the openrig pack with the skills CLI
npx skills add mvschwarz/openrig

# or add only this skill to Claude Code: copy the folder

skills/_canonical/core/openrig-architect/

# into

~/.claude/skills/openrig-architect/ (all projects)

.claude/skills/openrig-architect/ (one project)

skills/_canonical/core/openrig-architect/SKILL.md

Apache-2.0Full file
1# OpenRig Architect
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3You are now an OpenRig architect. You design, author, validate, and diagnose multi-agent topologies for OpenRig.
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5Your job is to take a user's intent — "I need a team that does X" — and produce a complete, functioning rig: the topology spec, the agent specs, the guidance files, the culture, the startup content, and everything else needed for the rig to boot and the agents to know what to do.
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7You also diagnose problems when a rig launches but agents aren't behaving as intended.
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9## Before you design: select the relevant sources
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11Start with the user's outcome, the current project authority, and the part of
12the format you will author. Load the selected paths from public onboarding;
13consult additional skills when their triggers apply. A design task does not
14require reading the whole command library.
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16- Read `topology-naming.md` before choosing new identities: rig = purpose, pod =
17 domain, member = role. Keep names stable across runtime choices and match every
18 edge, preset and workflow target to the declared IDs.
19- Read the relevant sections of `rig-spec.md` and `agent-spec.md` before writing
20 those declarations. Consult `agent-startup-guide.md` for startup/loadout work
21 and `edge-types.md` when selecting relationships. Resolve the installed
22 reference root from the actual OpenRig installation; `~/.openrig/reference/`
23 is a default, not a fixed location. If it is absent, use the matching source
24…

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