{"slug": "show-hn-ai-agents-for-uk-gdad-pcf-roles-and-their-skills", "title": "Show HN: AI agents for UK GDAD PCF roles and their skills", "summary": "A developer released a set of AI agents as markdown files that implement UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework roles and skills. The agents, designed for multi-agent software engineering, use official UK job classifications to improve team comprehension across executive, governance, and legal groups. The files are available on GitHub for use in AI chat systems and advanced tooling like Claude Code.", "body_md": "[https://github.com/ai-agents-for-uk-gdad-pcf-roles/ai-agents...](https://github.com/ai-agents-for-uk-gdad-pcf-roles/ai-agents-for-uk-gdad-pcf-roles)\n\nAI agents, provided as markdown files, that implement United Kingdom (UK) Government Digital and Data (GDAD) Profession Capability Framework (PCF) roles and their skills.\n\nPurpose: The United Kingdom is implementing a jobs classification system for digital technology work, such as \"Software developer\", \"Test analyst\", \"Incident manager\", etc. The UK provides extensive documentation about the roles and the skills, along with naming conventions.\n\nI'm experimenting with multi-agent software enginnering, so I extracted the documentation into markdown files that I can use as AI skills.\n\nIt turns out this works very well in practice, with equivalent results to popular multi-agent generic systems. The big win is that using the UK naming convention and exact roles and skills makes teams understand it immediately - including executive teams, goverance teams, and legal teams.\n\nThe markdown files are especially easy for novices to copy/paste into AI chat systems, and also can of course work with more-advanced tooling e.g. I use Claude Code and swarms of subagents.\n\nI'm sharing the markdown files in this repo. Constructive feedback welcome.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48305822](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48305822)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-agents-for-uk-gdad-pcf-roles-and-their-skills", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48305822", "published_at": "2026-05-28 07:33:10+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-28 07:58:50.351741+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "ai-products", "natural-language-processing", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework", "Claude Code", "GitHub"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-agents-for-uk-gdad-pcf-roles-and-their-skills", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-agents-for-uk-gdad-pcf-roles-and-their-skills.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-agents-for-uk-gdad-pcf-roles-and-their-skills.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ai-agents-for-uk-gdad-pcf-roles-and-their-skills.jsonld"}}