Itential Builder Skills for Claude Code

Build From Specs. Not From Scratch.

Itential Builder Skills is an open-source agentic delivery framework for the Itential Platform. Write a plain-language spec. AI agents build the workflow, form, resource, or FlowAgent – governed, tested, and documented inside the Itential Platform.

/plugin marketplace add itential/builder-skills

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What It Is

An open-source plugin for Claude Code. Installs in one command. Gives AI agents the domain knowledge to build production-ready assets on the Itential Platform.

What It Builds

Workflows, Operations Manager entries, command templates, golden config and compliance assets, Lifecycle Manager resources, Itential Gateway services, and FlowAgents. Everything you’d build by hand.

How You Use It

Write a spec, or start from one of 22 pre-built specs. The agents handle requirements, design, build, and documentation. You approve every gate.

Who It’s For

Built for the People Who Build the Network

Builder Skills meets engineers where they work. Pick the path that fits the problem in front of you.

Network & Infrastructure Engineers

Removes the blank-page problem. Start from a spec, not a scratch file. Deliver faster without cutting corners on governance.

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Platform & Automation Leads

Enforces consistency across everyone’s builds. Reduces ramp time for new engineers. Gives you a delivery model you can scale.

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Automation Architects

Every build follows the same five-stage lifecycle with documented artifacts. Design decisions stop living in Slack DMs.

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Operations & SRE Teams

Retroactively document legacy automation with project-to-spec. Reduce the “only one person knows how this works” risk.

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How It Works

Five Stages, Three Agents, One Approved Artifact at a Time

Builder Skills runs the spec-driven development lifecycle for infrastructure automation. Each stage produces a named artifact. Each artifact requires human approval before the next begins. AI agents execute the work. Engineers control the gates.

spec-agent owns Requirements. Refines the use case into an approved spec. Nothing moves forward until the spec is locked.
solution-arch-agent owns Feasibility & Design. Assesses your platform environment, surfaces constraints, & produces the solution design before a single task is built.
builder-agent owns Build & As-Built. Implements, tests, & delivers the asset inside the Itential Platform, then documents exactly what shipped, not what was originally planned.

Why three agents and not thirteen: the goal isn’t agent proliferation. It’s lifecycle clarity. Each agent has a defined responsibility. Each stage produces a named artifact that gates the next.

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What It Builds

Anything You’d Build by Hand, Plus the Documentation

Builder Skills produces every asset type the Itential Platform supports – deployed, tested, and documented inside the platform. Not a prototype that needs cleanup before it ships.

Workflows, Forms & Command Templates: Multi-task orchestration with full dependency sequencing and error handling. Form-triggered Operations Manager entries ready for self-service use. MOP-style command templates with validation rules baked in.
Configuration & Lifecycle Assets: Golden config, compliance grading, and drift remediation through Configuration Manager. Resource models, instances, and lifecycle actions through Lifecycle Manager. Itential Gateway services for Python, Ansible, & OpenTofu.
FlowAgents With the Same Discipline: AI agents with LLM providers, tools, and defined missions – built through the same spec-driven lifecycle as every other asset. Not one-off experiments that nobody can reproduce.

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Get Started

Install in Two Commands

Builder Skills runs in Claude Code, Anthropic’s CLI-based agentic coding tool. If you’re new to Claude Code, start here.

Early access (available now):

/plugin marketplace add itential/builder-skills

/plugin install itential-builder@itential-builder

Then copy an environment template & configure your platform credentials:

cp environments/cloud-lab.env my-use-case/.env

Official Anthropic Marketplace install (once approved):

/plugin install itential-builder@claude-plugins-official

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Where to Begin

Three Paths In, Pick Yours

Whether you’re starting from a blank page or trying to govern automation that’s already running in production, there’s an entry point.

1. Build Something New. Run the full lifecycle from scratch. Write a spec – or start from one of the 22 pre-built specs in the repo – and deliver through all five stages. End state: a workflow, form, resource model, or FlowAgent live in your platform.

2. Productionize FlowAgent Exploratory Work. Use flowagent-to-spec to move FlowAgent experiments into a governed delivery path with proper specs, tests, and documentation. The exploratory work doesn’t get thrown away, it gets promoted.

3. Document What’s Already Running. Use project-to-spec to read an existing Itential project and produce retroactive spec and design documentation. The automation your team built three years ago that nobody can fully explain anymore? This is where you start fixing it.

What’s in the Package

1 Install. 14 Skills. 22 Pre-Built Specs.

Builder Skills ships as a single open-source package for Claude Code. Install it once, point it at your Itential Platform environment, and start shipping.

The 22 pre-built specs span networking (port turn-up, VLAN, circuit, BGP, VPN, WAN), operations (software upgrades, compliance, health checks, onboarding, change management, auto-remediation), security (firewall, cloud security groups, certificate lifecycle), and infrastructure (DNS, IPAM, load balancers, drift remediation, compliance audit, AWS deployment).

Each spec is a starting point – customize it for your environment, your adapters, your constraints.

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Keep Learning

Dive Deeper into Itential Builder Skills

Guides & Whitepapers

The Definitive Guide to Spec-Driven Development for Network & Infrastructure Operations

Spec In. Workflow Out.

Install Builder Skills in Claude Code. Point it at your Itential Platform 6 environment. Start shipping.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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An open-source agentic delivery framework for the Itential Platform. Engineers write plain-language specs. AI agents produce governed, tested, documented workflows, Operations Manager entries, command templates, Configuration Manager assets, Lifecycle Manager resources, Itential Gateway services, & FlowAgents inside the platform.

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In Claude Code — Anthropic’s CLI-based agentic coding tool. Not the claude.ai chat interface. If you’re new to Claude Code, start here.

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Itential Platform 6 and Itential Gateway 5. No older versions are in scope.

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Every build moves through Requirements → Feasibility → Design → Build → As-Built. Each stage produces a named artifact owned by a named agent (spec-agent, solution-arch-agent, builder-agent). Each artifact requires explicit human approval before the next stage begins.

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Workflows & orchestrated workflows, Operations Manager entries, command templates, Configuration Manager assets (golden config, compliance grading, drift remediation), Lifecycle Manager resources, Itential Gateway services (Python, Ansible, OpenTofu), & FlowAgents. If you can build it by hand in the Itential Platform, Builder Skills can build it from a spec.

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One open-source plugin, 13 skills, 3 delivery agents (spec-agent, solution-arch-agent, builder-agent), & 22 pre-built specs across networking, operations, security, & infrastructure use cases. The pre-built specs are ready to customize — pick one, adjust it for your environment, run it through the lifecycle.

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No. Builder Skills is an open-source community project, not a supported Itential product feature. There’s no SLA. Issues & contributions are welcome on GitHub.