Hermes-Skills/openclaw-imports/deepagents/SKILL.md

Deep Agents CLI Skills

A curated pack of skills designed to empower your agent's long-term memory and autonomy. These skills act as middleware, letting your main session's agent decide when to delegate sub-tasks or manage its own context.

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Core Skill: autosubagents (Sub-Agent Orchestrator)

Delegate complex, one-off tasks to a persistent sub-agent (often called the "Admin" or "Runner" session).

Trigger: User sends a direct message or spawns a session. Outcome: Agent creates an isolated sub-agent session (runtime="subagent") and sends it the task.

When to Use

• When the current session gets too chatty and you need to "offload" work.
• For tasks that need multiple tools or a dedicated context window.

Example Flow:

1. User sends: "Let's do that."
2. Agent triggers: deepagents autosubagent "That's the task."
3. Agent listens: Spawns sub-agent, waits for response.
4. User gets: The sub-agent's finished summary.

Skills Packaged

• context-compress (Autonomous Context Compression): Automatically summarize past messages when the session gets heavy.
• session-history (Text-Based Fetch): Quickly grab the last N messages from another session.

How It Works

deepagents autosubagent --task "Summarize the last 5 chats"

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Core Skill: compact (Context Compactor)

A standalone tool that takes a "summary" session and injects its condensed message back into the parent session, effectively compressing the parent's history.

Trigger: The parent session has received 3+ sub-agent responses. Action: Fetches the sub-agent's history, pulls out the "summary" payload, and pings it back.

How It Works

1. Parent sends a task to Sub-Agent.
2. Sub-Agent runs and uses context-compress to condense the chat.
3. Parent receives the summary via a new message.

CLI Usage

deepagents compact --parent "main-session" --target "sub-session-name"

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Setup Instructions

1. Install the CLI

npm install -g deepagents

2. Configure in OpenClaw

Point your OpenClaw runtime to a path where the CLI lives:

# ~/.openclaw/env.d/
deepagents:
  runtime: acp
  cwd: /path/to/deepagents-bin

3. Link the Skills Folder

ln -s ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/deepagents ~/.deepagents/deep-organizer

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Usage Patterns

Pattern A: "Set and Forget" (Best for one-off tasks)

deepagents autosubagent --task "Research this topic"

The Agent will spawn a sub-agent, let it run its course, and return the results.

Pattern B: "The Deep Work Loop"

1. Setup Phase: Have the sub-agent pre-loaded with its own skills (context-compress + session-history).
2. Task Phase: Spawn a new autosubagent instance for the day's main task.
3. Compression Phase: Let the sub-agent do its thing. If the conversation gets long, have the sub-agent call context-compress automatically.

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Version: 1.0 — Refined for OpenClaw's sub-agent ecosystem.