Prompts

Creating Agents and Commands

create a claude agent and command. the agent will first use tool to call weather api to fetch karachi weather in degree centigrade and then read instructions from @input/input.md to transform the result and update the @output/output.md

Invocation difference between agents and commands

I have claude agents @.claude/agents folder and claude commands @.claude/commands folder. I want to invoke agents and commands differently. For example, I want to invoke agents with @agent_name and commands with @command_name. How can I achieve this?

Claude Answer

For Commands (Slash Commands)

Commands in .claude/commands/ are invoked using the slash prefix:

/command-name

For your update-readme command: /update-readme

For Agents (Sub-agents)

Agents in .claude/agents/ are invoked using the Task tool within commands or directly:

Using Task tool in your code/commands

Task(subagent_type="readme-writer", prompt="Generate README content")

Or by mentioning them in your instructions to Claude Code.

What	How	Example
Commands	/command-name	/update-readme
Agents (in commands)	Task tool	Task(subagent_type="readme-writer")

based on @prompts/README.md claude answer, what I understand is commands must be invoked by using / on claude and it cannot be invoked like "claude use

Commands are invoked using the slash prefix syntax: /command-name
Example: /update-readme

However: You can also invoke commands in natural language by asking Claude Code to use them. For example:

"use the weather command to fetch the weather"
"Run the weather slash command"

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