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name: workflow description: "Use this sub-skill for the end-to-end Google Agents CLI lifecycle: requirements clarification, recipe study, scaffolding, building, evaluating, deploying, publishing, observing, command routing, and operational rules." metadata: disco-role: operating author: Google license: Apache-2.0 version: 1.3.1 requires: bins: - agents-cli install: "uv tool install google-agents-cli" disable-model-invocation: true license: Apache 2.0

Agents CLI Lifecycle Workflow

Use this sub-skill inside the google-agents-cli repo skill. It is a router plus operating checklist; move into the bundled references for full command flags, schemas, and examples.

When to Use

• The user wants an end-to-end ADK agent build plan.
• The task mentions requirements, spec, lifecycle phases, command routing, or safe coding-agent behavior.
• You need to decide which Agents CLI sub-skill to load next.

Workflow

1. Clarify the user goal and constraints before mutating a project.
2. Write or update the project spec when building a new agent.
3. Route to scaffold, adk-code, eval, deploy, publish, or observability at the phase boundary.
4. Ask before cloud, git remote, skill-install, or irreversible operations.

Read These References

• references/workflow-guide.md — read for workflow guide details.
• references/brainstorming.md — read for brainstorming details.
• references/commands.md — read for commands details.
• references/internals.md — read for internals details.
• references/spec-template.md — read for spec template details.
• references/terminology.md — read for terminology details.

Verification and Safety

Safe checks: agents-cli --help, agents-cli info inside a project, and root scripts/inspect_cli_tree.py.

Boundaries

• Does not replace the detailed command/flag references in narrower sub-skills.
• Does not create or mutate projects until the relevant sub-skill confirms inputs.

Related Sub-Skills

• ../workflow/SKILL.md — lifecycle routing and approval gates.
• ../scaffold/SKILL.md — project creation/enhancement.
• ../adk-code/SKILL.md — ADK Python implementation patterns.
• ../eval/SKILL.md — evaluation loops and metrics.
• ../deploy/SKILL.md — deployment and infrastructure.
• ../publish/SKILL.md — Gemini Enterprise registration.
• ../observability/SKILL.md — logging, tracing, and analytics.