What is an agent template?

An agent template is a folder of instructions and skills that an AI agent reads before it starts work. The instructions say what the job is. The skills are the steps it runs to do that job. Download it, unpack it, and your agent has somewhere to start instead of an empty page.

You will also see the download called a pack. Same thing: the page you browse here is an agent template, and the file you take away is the pack.

• An agent that reads your supplier invoices and flags the three lines that do not match a purchase order.
• An agent that reads a support inbox and drafts replies in your voice, for you to approve before they go anywhere.
• An agent that opens a competitor's pricing page every Monday and tells you what moved.

A pack is small, and all of it opens in a text editor. Six things, usually:

SOUL.md is the one to read first. It is short, often a paragraph, and it is where a folder turns into a colleague:

Agent goal — Find lines that do not match a purchase order, and say why.
Style — Terse. A table first, the explanation under it. No preamble.
Authority — Read-only on the finance folder. Raise questions; never edit an invoice.

That last line is the guardrail, and it is the line worth reading twice in anything you download. The parts of an agent walks through everything else a template can carry: goals, guardrails, memory, self-improvement and reporting.

Every agent template names the person who uploaded it. They wrote the pack, they wrote the README, and they are the fastest answer when something in it does not work.

A reviewer reads a submission before it publishes. They check the claims on the page against what the archive actually contains, check the licence, and look for anything the maker did not mean to share — a key, a private note, an internal link.

If review finds a mistake, one of two things happens. The maker is asked to fix it, or we fix it ourselves and publish the change as a new version. Either way the template keeps its record: every version, the change note that came with it, and who uploaded it. A corrected template is visibly a corrected template.

So the maker owns the work, and we keep the order on the page. What review does and does not cover is in What review checks.

An agent template is not a hosted service. Nothing runs on our side, and nothing keeps running when you close the page. The agent runs in your harness, on your machine, with your keys.

It is also not somebody's private setup tipped into a zip file. A pack has to be picked up by a stranger, which is a real standard — it is why the README gets its own guide, and why a template that will not explain itself does not stay up.