---
title: "cao-agent-plugin-lifecycle"
description: "Skills for the Agent Plugins 1.0.0 package lifecycle: author a new package from an empty directory (the plugin.json manifest, skills/ and an optional mcp.json), and audit an existing one against the vendored schemas and "
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/cao-agent-plugin-lifecycle
last-updated: 2026-11-07
---

# cao-agent-plugin-lifecycle
Skills for the Agent Plugins 1.0.0 package lifecycle: author a new package from an empty directory (the plugin.json manifest, skills/ and an optional mcp.json), and audit an existing one against the vendored schemas and the Agent Skills limits that CAO's own validator only warns about. The audit skill bundles a validator that needs no CAO install and opens no network connection itself; its first run needs its dependencies available.
- Slug: cao-agent-plugin-lifecycle
- Publisher: awslabs
- Repository: https://github.com/awslabs/cli-agent-orchestrator
- Manifest: agent-plugin/cao-agent-plugin-lifecycle/plugin.json
- Version: 2.5.3
- License: Apache-2.0
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 2 (cao-agent-plugin-audit, cao-agent-plugin-creator)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 1524
- Repository created: 2025-07-29
- Repository last pushed: 2026-11-07
- Publisher type: Organization
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/cao-agent-plugin-lifecycle
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What cao-agent-plugin-lifecycle does, in the publisher's words

Skills for the Agent Plugins 1.0.0 package lifecycle: author a new package from an empty directory (the plugin.json manifest, skills/ and an optional mcp.json), and audit an existing one against the vendored schemas and the Agent Skills limits that CAO's own validator only warns about. The audit skill bundles a validator that needs no CAO install and opens no network connection itself; its first run needs its dependencies available.

Generated by scripts/build_agent_plugin.py from the canonical skills in skills/. Do not edit by hand: make check-agent-plugin fails on drift.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/awslabs/cli-agent-orchestrator/HEAD/agent-plugin/cao-agent-plugin-lifecycle/README.md