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AI agents, provided as markdown files, that implement United Kingdom (UK) Government Digital and Data (GDAD) Profession Capability Framework (PCF) roles and their skills.

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AI agents for UK GDAD PCF roles and their skills

by jph·May 28, 2026·2 points·0 comments

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AI Analysis

●MidNiche Gem

Prompt templates for UK gov roles when you could just read the actual framework docs.

Strengths

•Organizes official GDAD documentation into reusable AI agent specifications
•Naming conventions match what UK gov executives and legal teams already recognize

Weaknesses

•No working code or demo—just markdown files with prompts
•Claims multi-agent engineering results without showing actual implementation

Post Description

https://github.com/ai-agents-for-uk-gdad-pcf-roles/ai-agents...

AI agents, provided as markdown files, that implement United Kingdom (UK) Government Digital and Data (GDAD) Profession Capability Framework (PCF) roles and their skills.

Purpose: 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.

I'm experimenting with multi-agent software enginnering, so I extracted the documentation into markdown files that I can use as AI skills.

It 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.

The 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.

I'm sharing the markdown files in this repo. Constructive feedback welcome.