AI Maestro Agent Management

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Agent-management is a skill that lets an AI agent create, manage, and orchestrate other AI agents through the AI Maestro CLI. When a user asks to create, list, restart, hibernate, wake, or delete an agent, the skill provides the commands to carry out that agent lifecycle management task.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Have the AI Maestro CLI available on your system.

Then ask your AI: use the AI Maestro Agent Management skill

What your AI can do with it

  • Create new AI agents via the AI Maestro CLI
  • List and show details of existing agents
  • Restart agents
  • Hibernate and wake agents
  • Delete agents
  • Install plugins for agents

Getting started

  1. Have the AI Maestro CLI available on your system.
  2. Add the agent-management skill to your agent's setup.
  3. Ask your agent to create, list, restart, hibernate, wake, or delete agents using phrases like "create agent" or "list agents".

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by davila7/claude-code-templates in cli-tool/components/skills/ai-maestro/agent-management/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Create, manage, and orchestrate multiple AI agents through a unified CLI. Handles the full agent lifecycle: create, hibernate, wake, rename, export/import, and plugin management. Part of the AI Maestro suite.

Prerequisites

Requires AI Maestro running locally with tmux 3.0+.

# Install the CLI
git clone https://github.com/23blocks-OS/ai-maestro-plugins.git
cd ai-maestro-plugins && ./install-agent-cli.sh

Core Commands

Agent Lifecycle

CommandDescription
aimaestro-agent.sh listList all agents with status
aimaestro-agent.sh show <agent>Detailed agent information
aimaestro-agent.sh create <name> --dir <path>Create new agent
aimaestro-agent.sh update <agent> --task "..."Update task/tags
aimaestro-agent.sh delete <agent> --confirmDelete agent
aimaestro-agent.sh rename <old> <new>Rename agent
aimaestro-agent.sh hibernate <agent>Save state, free resources
aimaestro-agent.sh wake <agent>Resume hibernated agent
aimaestro-agent.sh restart <agent>Hibernate then wake

Plugin Management

CommandDescription
aimaestro-agent.sh plugin install <agent> <plugin>Install plugin
aimaestro-agent.sh plugin uninstall <agent> <plugin>Remove plugin
aimaestro-agent.sh plugin list <agent>List installed plugins
aimaestro-agent.sh plugin marketplace add <agent> <source>Add marketplace

Export/Import

CommandDescription
aimaestro-agent.sh export <agent>Export agent config
aimaestro-agent.sh import <file>Import agent from file

Usage Examples

# Create a backend API agent
aimaestro-agent.sh create backend-api \
  --dir ~/projects/backend \
  --task "Build REST API with TypeScript" \
  --tags "api,typescript"

# End of day -- save resources
aimaestro-agent.sh hibernate frontend-ui
aimaestro-agent.sh hibernate data-processor

# Resume next morning
aimaestro-agent.sh wake frontend-ui --attach

# Install a plugin on an agent
aimaestro-agent.sh plugin install backend-api my-plugin

# Backup before risky changes
aimaestro-agent.sh export backend-api -o backup.json

Agent Statuses

StatusMeaning
onlineRunning in tmux session
offlineRegistered but no active session
hibernatedSaved state, session killed

Full AI Maestro Experience

This skill is part of the AI Maestro platform, which provides 6 skills for AI agent orchestration: messaging, memory, docs, graph, planning, and agent management.

Signals

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Questions

What is agent-management?
A skill that lets an AI agent create, manage, and orchestrate other AI agents using the AI Maestro CLI, covering the full agent lifecycle.
When should it be used?
Whenever a user asks to create agent, list agents, delete agent, hibernate agent, wake agent, install plugin, show agent, restart agent, or any agent lifecycle management task.
What does it require?
The AI Maestro CLI, which the skill uses to run agent management commands.
Advanced
Item type
skill
Key
agent-management-davila7
Source
github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates