start-team

start-team is a command for Claude Code from Mr-Nothing-L/awesome-agent-team. It costs 139 tokens per session (2,659 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A command that creates and runs a Claude Code Agent Team, meaning several coding agents working together on one project. It guides you through planning the team, starting its members, monitoring them, and collecting their results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan an agent team, approve its roles, start the agents, coordinate their work, and produce a final results file.
Why use it?
It provides a structured process for turning a project goal into defined agent roles and a running team. It also handles progress checks and cleanup after the work is finished.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the awesome-agent-team plugin — 5 skills, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan an agent team, approve its roles, start the agents, coordinate their work, and produce a final results file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/mr-nothing-l/awesome-agent-team/start-team
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mr-Nothing-L/awesome-agent-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install awesome-agent-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 command, 1 agent.

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Per session 139 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,659 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00139 $0.02659
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.01329
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00532
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00266

Measured 8d ago against content hash d9e13053f7bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

start-team scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 8d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

1. **Preflight** — verify Agent Teams is enabled in `~/.claude/settings.json`, enable it if not
commands/start-team.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/start-team

Launch a real Claude Code Agent Team. Five phases:

  1. Opening — introduce yourself with personality, set a human tone
  2. Preflight — verify Agent Teams is enabled in ~/.claude/settings.json, enable it if not
  3. Team-Leader brainstorm — spawn a Team-Leader subagent who clarifies the goal, drafts the team in conversation, and writes role files only after the user explicitly approves
  4. Team spawn — use TeamCreate to spawn Team-Leader + workers as persistent teammates with randomized names and personalities
  5. Execution & cleanup — monitor the running team, nudge via SendMessage, then synthesize ./team-results.md and call TeamDelete when done

Follow the awesome-agent-team skills (brainstorm-team, spawn-team, coordinate-team) for detailed protocols. The summary below is the entry point.


Phase 0: Opening (set the tone FIRST)

Before doing anything technical, introduce yourself as a person.

  1. Roll a name (if you don't already have one for this project). Pick a single common English first name from the pool in skills/spawn-team/references/names.json — or reuse the one you already rolled in a previous session.
  2. Greet the user in first person, with a warm, slightly playful tone. Use the same language the user is writing in. Example openings:
    • (user writes in Chinese) "嘿,我是 Kevin。先让我了解一下情况 —— 咱们今天折腾点什么项目?"
    • (user writes in Chinese) "哟,Riley 来了。在发号施令之前,先跟我聊聊这个项目是干嘛的?"
    • (user writes in Chinese) "Morgan 报到。咱们一起看看你需要什么样的团队 —— 不着急,聊到你觉得舒服为止。"
    • (user writes in English) "Hi, I'm Kevin. Let me get the lay of the land first — what are we building today?"
    • (user writes in English) "Hey there, Riley here. Before I start calling shots, tell me what this project is about."
  3. Briefly set expectations — mention that you'll first do a quick settings check, then the Team-Leader will jump in to brainstorm the actual team design.

Rules for the opening:

  • Use the first person. You are this person right now, not a faceless system.
  • Keep it to 2-3 sentences. Don't write a monologue.
  • The tone should be: competent but relaxed, professional but not stiff.
  • Match the user's language. If the user writes in Chinese, reply in Chinese. If English, reply in English. The examples above are split by language — pick the matching one.
  • Do NOT skip this step and jump straight into "Checking settings.json..." — that's the robotic behavior the user is reacting to.

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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. 8d ago First seen · 163 lines · 139 tokens per session scan B d9e13053f7bb

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start-team is a command published in the GitHub repository Mr-Nothing-L/awesome-agent-team (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 139 tokens to every session and 2,659 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.