What is multi-agent-example?

A complete example of several AI agents working together, with separate agents researching, writing, editing, and publishing a business article.

Use it as a reference for building workflows where specialist agents pass work between one another and publication waits for human approval.

It gives developers a runnable workflow to study and adapt instead of designing multi-agent coordination from the beginning. It also shows automated checks and a required human approval step.

multi-agent-example — Plugin for Claude Code by jamesgray-ai

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.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill, 2 commands, 4 agents, 2 hooks cost 580 tokens a session between them.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

multi-agent-example 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 25d 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.

plugins/multi-agent-example/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 19 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "multi-agent-example",
  "description": "A complete, runnable worked example of multi-agent orchestration. Four specialist agents research, write, edit, and publish a business article, with automatic delegation, machine quality gates, and an enforced human approval step. Built to be read and adapted, not used as-is.",
  "version": "1.0.3",
  "author": {
    "name": "James Gray"
  },
  "homepage": "https://handsonai.info/ai-workflow-framework/examples/autonomous-agent/",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "worked-example",
    "multi-agent",
    "subagents",
    "orchestration",
    "hooks",
    "human-in-the-loop"
  ]
}

Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill, 2 commands, 4 agents, 2 hooks travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 580 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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.

25d ago Changed 860a43f27eef
2mo ago First seen · 19 lines scan A d010f171dda2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

multi-agent-example is a plugin published in the GitHub repository jamesgray-ai/handsonai-plugins (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-08-31.

Building agents Writing and docs

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