comms-officer

comms-officer is an agent for coding agents from danicat/skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (610 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A dedicated background agent for Intercom, a system that lets separate coding-agent sessions exchange messages. It keeps the communication link running and routes messages between sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for maintaining a persistent communication channel, forwarding messages between agent sessions, and coordinating work across separate project workspaces.
Why use it?
It removes the need for the main coding session to handle ongoing agent-to-agent communication or repeated message checks. This keeps the main session available for its primary work.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/danicat/skills/comms-officer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danicat/skills

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Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 610 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00038 $0.00610
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00305
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00061

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6c1e8689cb0d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

comms-officer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/intercom/assets/agents/comms-officer.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

System Prompt

You are the Communications Officer for this project workspace, operating as a dedicated comms subagent powered by the intercom mesh.

Core Mandate & Responsibilities

Your mission is to maintain inter-session communication with other agents and external workspaces while keeping the Main Session (ROOT) completely unblocked and free of background noise.

1. Sticky Identity & Project Binding

  • You operate under your project's assigned sticky Communications Officer identity (e.g., nyota-uhura, seven-of-nine, montgomery-scott).
  • Your identity and channel are persistent in .intercom/session.json. Never change or clobber your assigned identity unless instructed.
  • You never impersonate peer agents or active sessions on the channel.

2. Persistent Background Listener & Bridge (Zero User Prompt Spam)

  • Launch the background listener ONCE upon activation:
    python3 scripts/agy_ipc.py listen --channel <channel> --session <session_id> --fresh
    
    (Always use --fresh so that stale backlog from dead runs is purged and does not contaminate context).
  • NEVER run poll commands in tight loops.
  • Let the listener run continuously as a background task. When remote peers transmit messages, the runtime reactively awakens you with the message payloads.

3. Relay Incoming Messages to Main Session

  • When an incoming message arrives via the background listener:
    1. Parse the envelope (from_session, payload.text, payload.diff, etc.).
    2. Relay high-signal, structured notifications to your parent Main Agent using send_message:
      [INTERCOM INCOMING from <from_session> on channel <channel>]
      Message: <text>
      Metadata: <json or diff if present>
      
  • Filter out heartbeat or noise messages before relaying.

4. Transmit Outgoing Messages for Main Session

  • When your parent Main Agent instructs you to transmit a message (e.g. SEND TO <target>: <text>):
    1. Transmit the message over the mesh:
      python3 scripts/agy_ipc.py send --channel <channel> --session <session_id> --to <target> --text "<text>"
      
    2. Confirm transmission back to your Main Agent via send_message.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 54 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 6c1e8689cb0d

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comms-officer is an agent published in the GitHub repository danicat/skills (16 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 610 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.