---
title: "agent-operating-model"
description: "Agent capabilities for independently selectable repository standards, with optional adoption assets."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/agent-operating-model
last-updated: 2026-10-05
---

# agent-operating-model
Agent capabilities for independently selectable repository standards, with optional adoption assets.
- Slug: agent-operating-model
- Publisher: Harley Bartles
- Repository: https://github.com/HarleyBartles/agent-asset-marketplace
- Manifest: dist/plugins/agent-operating-model/plugin.json
- Version: 1.0.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 15 (agent-doctrine-contracts, agents-routing, command-bus, completed-artifact-custody, contribution-entrypoint, playbook-composition, python, repo-agent-assets, repo-composition, repo-standards, repository-validation, review-entrypoint, runbook-composition, tracked-repo-hooks, unslop)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 0
- Repository created: 2026-06-04
- Repository last pushed: 2026-10-03
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/agent-operating-model
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What agent-operating-model does, in the publisher's words

This plugin makes first-party repository operating capabilities available to agents and publishes selectable standard definitions.

- provenance and source mapping in SOURCE.md
- bundle inventory in references/bundle-manifest.json
- Plugin availability provides capabilities and a menu of standards. It does not adopt any standard for a consumer.
- Each consumer chooses the standards it wants, implements them in its own repository, and self-certifies against the requirements it pins.
- A standard skill carries its current definition, adoption and assessment guidance, and any optional starter assets. It may supply no deployable asset.
- Repositories may take, adapt, replace, or omit optional starters. Adopted files and tools become repository-owned; matching AOM starter bytes is not a compliance requirement.

Skills are installed from the Codex plugin roots under dist/plugins/agent-operating-model/skills/ /. The plugin makes authoring capabilities available. A repository adopting a standard records its immutable source commit and definition path separately from plugin refresh, maintains a readable certification, and routes agents to those records.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HarleyBartles/agent-asset-marketplace/HEAD/dist/plugins/agent-operating-model/README.md