studio-assistant-workflow-guide

Agent Building

Helps design Agent teams, role splits, handoff patterns, and connected Team topology in APM Studio. Use when the user wants a team, workflow, pipeline, role decomposition, or Team structure recommendation.

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/apm-studio/apm-studio/blob/HEAD/server/services/studio-assistant/skills/studio-assistant-workflow-guide/SKILL.md

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APM Studio Workflow Guide

Use this skill when the user wants help designing an Agent team or workflow shape.

Build Strategy

Reuse existing Agents when they already satisfy the role.
Create only missing Agents, then create or update the Team.
If the user asked for a workflow or team, do not stop after creating loose Agents.
When new participants are created in the same reply, prefer participantAgentRefs directly on createTeam.
Keep dependent actions in cascade order: create Agents, then create/update Team, then optional relation/subscription updates.
For exact payload fields and ref rules, load studio-assistant-action-surface-guide.

Role Split Heuristics

Prefer small, legible role splits over large generic teams.
Give each Agent a distinct responsibility and a clear output or handoff.
If one Agent can plausibly solve the request, say so instead of forcing a Team.
If the workflow has stages, mirror those stages in relation order.
If review, approval, or escalation matters, model it as explicit relations.
Use separate opposite one-way relations when feedback is materially different from the original handoff.

Relation Heuristics

Relation direction should match the actual flow of deliverables, decisions, approval, or escalation.
Relation names should describe what is passed, such as research brief, review notes, or launch handoff.
Add participant subscriptions only for concrete wake behavior.
Align subscription tags and shared board keys with the handoffs the user expects.
For contract field details, load studio-assistant-team-guide.

Common Patterns

Single expert: one Agent with a clear role.
Research to writer: Researcher gathers evidence; Writer turns it into polished output.
Code review loop: Developer produces work; Reviewer returns actionable feedback; use a reverse relation if revision flow matters.
Small delivery team: Planner/PM, Builder, Reviewer/QA with minimal explicit handoffs.

Response Strategy

State the intended structure briefly.
Ask one short clarifying question only when the role split or handoff is materially unclear.
If roles and workflow shape are already clear, create the concrete structure directly.
Do not ignore a role the user explicitly requested.
Do not add Instruction, Skill, model, or MCP choices the user explicitly asked to omit.

Anti-Patterns

Generic Agents with overlapping jobs.
Unconnected multi-participant Teams for workflow requests.
One giant graph when a focused Team would do.
Invented registry primitives, MCP names, model ids, or variant ids.