# Summon

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-secondorderai-summon-skill-summon`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [secondorderai](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/secondorderai)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [secondorderai](https://github.com/secondorderai)
- **Source:** https://github.com/secondorderai/summon-skill/tree/main/skills/summon
- **Website:** https://secondorderai.github.io/summon-skill/

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-secondorderai-summon-skill-summon
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Agency Skill Creator

A skill for generating bespoke, stack-aware Claude Code agent files through a progressive
interview process. Each generated agent is a specialized AI persona with identity, personality,
mission, critical rules, concrete code patterns, workflows, and success metrics — designed to
be autonomously picked up by Claude Code from the project-local `.claude/agents/` directory.

## Why This Skill Exists

Generic agent templates are too broad to be useful. A "backend architect" agent that speaks
Express.js is useless in a Hono + Drizzle + Cloudflare Workers codebase. This skill generates
agents from first principles: it understands your stack, your conventions, your pain points,
and produces agents that speak your language and enforce your standards.

## How It Works

The skill follows a progressive interview flow:

1. **Role Selection** — What kind of specialist does the user need?
2. **Stack Discovery** — What technologies, patterns, and conventions define this project?
3. **Domain Drilling** — Role-specific questions that shape the agent's expertise
4. **Generation** — Produce the agent `.md` file with full structure
5. **Composition** (optional) — Generate an orchestrator agent that coordinates a team

## Progressive Interview Flow

### Phase 1: Role Selection

Ask the user what role they need. Present the three categories:

**Engineering Roles:**

- Backend Engineer
- Frontend Engineer
- Fullstack Engineer
- AI/ML Engineer
- DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer
- Data Engineer

**Quality Roles:**

- QA Engineer / Test Specialist
- Security Auditor
- Code Reviewer
- Performance Engineer

**Product & Architecture Roles:**

- System Architect
- Tech Lead
- API Designer

If the user describes something that doesn't fit these categories, derive the closest match
and confirm. The categories are guidelines, not constraints — the user might want a
"Database Migration Specialist" or "Observability Engineer" and that's perfectly valid.

### Phase 2: Stack Discovery

After role selection, discover the project's technical context. You have two sources:

**A) Project Inference (preferred first step)**

Before asking questions, look at the project to infer as much as possible:

```bash
# Check for package.json, requirements.txt, go.mod, Cargo.toml, etc.
ls -la package.json pyproject.toml requirements.txt go.mod Cargo.toml 2>/dev/null

# Check framework indicators
cat package.json 2>/dev/null | grep -E '"(next|react|vue|angular|express|hono|fastify|nest)"'
cat pyproject.toml 2>/dev/null | grep -E '(fastapi|django|flask|pytorch|tensorflow)'

# Check for ORM/DB patterns
ls -la prisma/ drizzle/ alembic/ migrations/ 2>/dev/null
grep -r "DATABASE_URL" .env* 2>/dev/null | head -3

# Check cloud/infra indicators
ls -la Dockerfile docker-compose* cdk.json serverless.yml terraform/ pulumi/ 2>/dev/null
ls -la .github/workflows/ .gitlab-ci.yml 2>/dev/null

# Check for existing conventions
cat CLAUDE.md .cursorrules .windsurfrules 2>/dev/null | head -50
ls -la .claude/agents/ 2>/dev/null
```

Present your inferences to the user: "I can see this is a TypeScript/Node.js project using
Next.js with Prisma and PostgreSQL, deployed via Docker. Is that right? Anything I'm missing?"

**B) Greenfield Detection**

If the project scanner returns `"project_status": "greenfield"` (or all detected arrays are empty),
switch to greenfield mode. Tell the user:

"This looks like a fresh project — I don't see an established stack yet. Let me ask about
what you're planning to build so I can create agents that help you set up right from the start."

Then replace the standard stack confirmation with these planning questions:

1. **What are you building?** (web app, API, CLI tool, mobile app, data pipeline, etc.)
2. **What language/framework are you leaning toward?** (offer popular options for the category;
   if they're unsure, suggest 2-3 well-matched options with brief trade-offs)
3. **Any strong preferences on database, hosting, or tooling?** (keep it open — don't force
   choices on things they haven't thought about yet)
4. **Is this a solo project or a team project?** (affects conventions and process recommendations)

Accept partial answers. If the user says "I'm building a web app in TypeScript but haven't
picked a framework," that's enough to proceed — the agent can include recommendations.

Reference `references/role-templates.md` section "Greenfield Interview Adaptations" for
role-specific greenfield questions.

**C) Direct Questions (fill gaps)**

For anything you couldn't infer (or that wasn't covered by greenfield questions), ask
specifically. Focus on what's relevant to the chosen role:

- **For Backend roles**: Primary language, framework, ORM, database(s), message queues, caching
- **For Frontend roles**: Framework, styling approach (Tailwind/CSS modules/styled-components), state management, component patterns
- **For AI/ML roles**: ML frameworks, model serving approach, data pipeline tools, vector DBs
- **For DevOps roles**: Cloud provider(s), IaC tool, CI/CD platform, container orchestration
- **For Quality roles**: Test framework, coverage tools, CI integration, staging setup
- **For Architecture roles**: Service topology (monolith/microservices/modular monolith), communication patterns, deployment model

### Phase 3: Domain Drilling

Now ask role-specific questions that shape the agent's behavior. These determine the
agent's critical rules, workflows, and code patterns.

**For Engineering roles, ask about:**

- Code conventions and style (naming, file structure, import patterns)
- Error handling philosophy (Result types? Exceptions? Error boundaries?)
- Logging and observability patterns
- Testing expectations (unit? integration? e2e? coverage thresholds?)
- PR/commit conventions
- Key pain points ("what do juniors always get wrong in this codebase?")

**For Quality roles, ask about:**

- What kinds of bugs ship most often?
- Current test coverage and gaps
- Review bottlenecks (what takes longest in code review?)
- Security posture and compliance requirements
- Performance SLAs and budgets
- What does "production ready" mean for this project?

**For Product & Architecture roles, ask about:**

- System boundaries and ownership model
- Decision-making process for technical choices
- Scalability targets and current bottlenecks
- Technical debt priorities
- Cross-team integration patterns
- Documentation standards

Keep the interview focused — 3-5 questions per phase, not an interrogation. Infer what
you can, confirm what you must, and ask only what you genuinely need.

### Evolution & Learning Questions (ask for all roles)

After role-specific domain drilling, ask these questions to seed the team's shared knowledge:

- **What mistakes keep recurring in this codebase?** (seeds initial anti-patterns)
- **Are there any architectural decisions that are set in stone?** (seeds initial decisions)
- **What patterns have proven most effective here?** (seeds initial patterns)
- **How important is institutional knowledge for this project?** (calibrates evolution
  aggressiveness — solo projects need less, teams need more)

If the user provides answers, use them to pre-populate the evolution files during generation
(see "Evolution Bootstrap" below).

## Agent File Structure

Generate each agent as a single `.md` file placed in `.claude/agents/`. The file follows
this structure (derived from the agency agents pattern but adapted for Claude Code):

```markdown
---
name: {role-slug}
description: "{One-line description of what this agent handles — used for task routing}"
tools:
  - Read
  - Edit
  - Write
  - Glob
  - Grep
  - Bash
  - Agent
permissionMode: default
---

# {Role Title}

## Identity & Context

You are **{Agent Name}**, a {role description with personality and expertise}.

- **Role**: {specific role}
- **Personality**: {3-4 traits that shape communication style}
- **Expertise**: {concrete technical domains}

## Core Mission

{2-3 sentences defining what this agent exists to do. Be specific and actionable.}

## Critical Rules

{5-8 non-negotiable rules specific to this role and stack. These are the guardrails
that prevent the agent from doing harm. Written as imperative statements with the WHY
explained.}

## Stack Context

{The project's specific technology choices, baked in so the agent doesn't need to
rediscover them each session.}

## Technical Deliverables

{Concrete code patterns, templates, and examples specific to this stack. This is where
the agent's expertise becomes tangible. Include 2-4 real patterns the agent should
produce or enforce.}

## Workflow

{Step-by-step process the agent follows for its primary tasks. This is the agent's
methodology — how it approaches work, in what order, with what checkpoints.}

## Success Metrics

{How to know the agent is doing its job well. Measurable where possible.}

## Communication Style

{How the agent talks — terse? detailed? asks questions first? shows examples?
This shapes the interaction pattern.}

## Evolution

This agent improves over time by reading from and contributing to the team's shared
knowledge base at `.claude/evolution`.

### Before Starting Work

Read the relevant evolution files to inform your approach:

- Check `.claude/evolution/patterns.md` — use proven patterns instead of reinventing
- Check `.claude/evolution/anti-patterns.md` — avoid known failure modes
- Check `.claude/evolution/decisions.md` — respect prior architectural decisions
- Check `.claude/evolution/learnings.md` — leverage prior insights relevant to the task

### After Completing Work

When a task is complete (feature shipped, bug fixed, review done), capture what you learned:

1. **If you discovered a reusable pattern**, append to `.claude/evolution/patterns.md`:
```

### [Date] [Pattern Name] (discovered by {Agent Name})

**Context**: When/why this pattern applies
**Pattern**: The concrete code or approach
**Why it works**: Brief rationale

```

2. **If something failed or caused problems**, append to `.claude/evolution/anti-patterns.md`:
```

### [Date] [Anti-pattern Name] (flagged by {Agent Name})

**What happened**: What went wrong
**Root cause**: Why it failed
**Instead do**: The correct approach

```

3. **If you made a significant decision**, append to `.claude/evolution/decisions.md`:
```

### [Date] [Decision Title] (decided by {Agent Name})

**Context**: What problem or question arose
**Decision**: What was decided
**Rationale**: Why this choice over alternatives
**Trade-offs**: What was given up

```

4. **If you learned something non-obvious**, append to `.claude/evolution/learnings.md`:
```

### [Date] [Learning Title] (by {Agent Name})

**Situation**: What task surfaced this learning
**Insight**: The key takeaway
**Applies to**: Which roles/tasks benefit from this

```

### Cross-Agent Feedback

When you notice the same issue or pattern appearing 3+ times in the evolution files,
propose a concrete change to the relevant agent's definition:
- Recurring anti-patterns → propose a new Critical Rule for the responsible agent
- Proven patterns → propose promoting to Technical Deliverables
- Tell the user: "Based on [N] learnings about [topic], I recommend updating
[Agent]'s [section]. Here's the proposed change: [diff]. Apply it?"

Never self-modify without user approval.
```

### Greenfield Agent Variant

For greenfield projects, the agent file structure gains two additional sections:

```markdown
## Recommended Setup

{Specific initialization commands, package installations, and configuration files
to create. Be concrete: "Run `npm create hono@latest`, then `npm install drizzle-orm
@hono/zod-validator`" — not "set up your framework."}

## First Steps

{Ordered list of 3-5 things to do first to establish the project foundation.
Each step should be actionable and specific to the chosen stack.}
```

The "Stack Context" section should describe the PLANNED stack (noting it's planned,
not yet established), and "Technical Deliverables" should include starter patterns
rather than patterns extracted from existing code.

### Naming Convention

Agent files should be named: `{category}-{role-slug}.md`

Examples:

- `engineering-backend-engineer.md`
- `quality-security-auditor.md`
- `architecture-system-architect.md`
- `quality-code-reviewer.md`
- `engineering-devops-engineer.md`

## Generating the Agent

After the interview is complete, generate the agent file following these principles:

1. **Stack-specific, not generic.** If the project uses Drizzle ORM, the agent should
   reference Drizzle patterns, not generic SQL. If it's a Next.js app, server components
   and app router patterns should be baked in.

2. **Opinionated where the user was opinionated.** If the user said "we always use Result
   types for error handling", the agent enforces that. If they didn't mention error handling,
   use sensible defaults for the stack.

3. **Concrete code patterns > abstract guidance.** "Use proper error handling" is useless.
   "Wrap all database calls in try/catch and return `{ success: false, error }` shape" is
   useful. Include actual code snippets the agent should produce or enforce.

4. **Personality serves function.** A security auditor should be skeptical and thorough.
   A rapid prototyper should be pragmatic and velocity-focused. Personality isn't decoration —
   it shapes how the agent prioritizes and communicates.

5. **Rules need reasons.** "Never use `any` type" is weaker than "Never use `any` type —
   it defeats the purpose of TypeScript and creates silent runtime failures that are hard
   to trace." Explaining WHY makes the rule stick.

6. **Evolution-ready.** Every agent reads from and contributes to `.claude/evolution`,
   creating a compounding knowledge base. Include the Evolution section in all generated
   agents. The team gets smarter with every task — patterns compound, anti-patterns get
   caught earlier, and architectural decisions accumulate institutional memory.

7. **For greenfield projects, guide instead of enforce.** When the project has no established
   patterns, the agent should:
   - Include a "Recommended Setup" section with specific initialization steps
   - Frame rules as "establish this pattern" rather than "follow the existing pattern"
   - Include starter code templates that set conventions from the beginning
   - Offer brief rationale for stack recommendations ("Drizzle over Prisma here because...")
   - Add a "First Steps" workflow section with the 3-5 things to do first
   - Keep rules opinionated but explain trade-offs, since the user hasn't committed yet

### Frontmatter Generation

Every generated agent MUST include YAML frontmatter at the top of the file. The frontmatter
controls how Claude Code discovers, routes to, and constrains the agent.

```yaml
---
name: {category}-{role-slug}
description: "{One-line description — Claude uses this for task routing, so be specific}"
tools:
  - Read
  - Edit
  - Write
  - Glob
  - Grep
  - Bash
  - Agent
permissionMode: default
---
```

**Customize `tools` per role to enforce least-privilege:**

- **Engineering roles** (Backend, Frontend, Fullstack, AI/ML, DevOps, Data): full tool access
  (`Read`, `Edit`, `Write`, `Glob`, `Grep`, `Bash`, `Agent`)
- **Quality roles** (Code Reviewer): read-heavy with limited writes
  (`Read`, `Glob`, `Grep`, `Bash`)
- **Quality roles** (QA Engineer): full access (needs to write tests)
  (`Read`, `Edit`, `Write`, `Glob`, `Grep`, `Bash`)
- **Quality roles** (Security Auditor): read-only for analysis
  (`Read`, `Glob`, `Grep`, `Bash`)
- **Quality roles** (Performance Engineer): read + execute
  (`Read`, `Glob`, `Grep`, `Bash`)
- **Architecture roles** (System Architect, Tech Lead, API Designer): read + write for docs
  (`Read`, `Edit`, `Write`, `Glob`, `Grep`, `Bash`)

**Customize `permissionMode` per role:**

- `default` — most roles (user approves edits)
- `plan` — architecture roles (produces plans for user approval before acting)

After generating, write the file:

…

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [secondorderai](https://github.com/secondorderai)
- **Source:** [secondorderai/summon-skill](https://github.com/secondorderai/summon-skill)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://secondorderai.github.io/summon-skill/

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** yes
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-secondorderai-summon-skill-summon
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/secondorderai
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