Agent Templates and Recipes: 47 Working Setups to Paste

As of July 2026, templates is live: 47 copy-paste starting points for the setups people rebuild from scratch every time. Four kinds, one surface:

• 14 agent system prompts: a research analyst with source discipline, a code reviewer with severity labels, a meeting scribe that never invents deadlines, a support drafter that only drafts.
• 15 automation recipes: cron-scheduled instructions like a Monday competitor digest, a nightly memory journal, an every-30-minutes uptime check, and a Thursday stale-task nudge.
• 7 task board CSVs: sprint, bug triage, hiring pipeline, and more, in the Linear format the importer accepts directly.
• 11 skills: single-file procedures (brand voice, citation rules, a data dictionary) that every agent in your workspace applies automatically.

Complete as written

Each template page shows the full payload in a copyable block, the exact setup steps, and the judgment calls already made. Agent templates name the tools to enable and ship with a conservative autonomy default: most start at read-only or confirm, because an agent should earn wider access, not assume it. Automation recipes show the schedule in plain words next to the cron line and build in the habits that keep scheduled agents trustworthy: run budgets, comparison files so week three does not restate week one, and silence when nothing changed.

The recipes encode the boring lessons

The templates carry the operational details that take a month to learn: the competitor digest diffs against last week's file instead of re-announcing the pricing page; the inbox automation caps itself at ten created tasks per run because thirty auto-created tasks is how task lists die; the QA runner reruns a failure once before calling it real. If you have never scheduled an agent before, your first automation walks the pattern end to end.

Boards and skills round it out

The board templates import in one step through the Linear CSV flow (steps at Import from Linear) and arrive with columns and realistic seeded rows, including the ones most boards are missing, like an In Review gate. The skill templates are complete single-file bodies; paste one into your workspace's Skills page and every agent follows it, as covered in write your first skill.

Good to know

• Templates claim shipped capabilities only: web search, files, memory, tasks, code execution, computers. Nothing on the page requires an integration that does not exist.
• Agent creation has no prefill link; the copy button is the transfer mechanism, then paste at the new-agent page.
• Every template carries a visible last-reviewed date and joins the quarterly sweep.

Pick the template closest to a setup you already wanted at /templates; the paste-to-working gap is a few minutes.