communicate

A skill for coordinating work between related code repositories and shared team communication channels. It can track GitHub issues, read issue discussions, and send messages to mesh channels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Opening or commenting on GitHub issues, fetching issue state from sibling repositories, and sending temporary coordination messages.
Why use it?
It keeps cross-repository requests and status updates in the appropriate place, while helping agents include current issue information in their work briefs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/agentculture/learn-cli/communicate
Any agent
npx skills add agentculture/learn-cli --skill communicate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentculture/learn-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 184 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,681 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00184 $0.03681
Opus 5 $0.00092 $0.01840
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00736
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00368

Measured yesterday against content hash e90210d70403, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

communicate 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/fetch-issues.sh, scripts/mesh-message.sh, scripts/post-comment.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to communicate — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/communicate/SKILL.md · 337 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 337 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Communicate (Cross-Repo + Mesh)

Steward's job is alignment across the AgentCulture mesh; that surfaces in four distinct channels:

  • Tracked, async hand-offs — a gap in another repo (a missing public API, a divergent skill, a documentation ask) where an agent on the other side needs to act, and the ask should outlive the conversation. → post-issue.sh (GitHub).
  • Follow-up on a tracked thread — a status update, an answer to a question, or a "this is done" note on an issue that's already open. → post-comment.sh (GitHub).
  • Inbound state read — pulling current issue body + comments from a sibling repo so a brief or plan can inline what's there instead of saying "see issue #N." → fetch-issues.sh (GitHub).
  • Ephemeral coordination — a status ping, a question, a "PR ready for merge" notice on a Culture mesh channel where the audience is already listening. → mesh-message.sh (Culture IRC).

All four live under one skill because they share the same audience (sibling-repo agents) and the same red flag (don't double-post the same ask across post + mesh — pick one).

Backed by agtag

The three GitHub verbs (post-issue.sh, post-comment.sh, fetch-issues.sh) are thin wrappers around the agtag CLI (agtag issue post|reply|fetch). agtag handles auto-signature resolution from the local culture.yaml (falling back to repo basename), JSON output mode, and a uniform exit-code policy. Read agtag learn for the agent-facing self-teaching prompt and agtag explain agtag / agtag explain issue for the surface docs — this SKILL.md does not re-document agtag's flags.

mesh-message.sh stays a culture channel message wrapper for now; agtag mesh transport is slated for v0.2.

When to Use

Issue mode (post-issue.sh)

  • A gap surfaces in another repo's surface (missing public API, wire-format compat fix, divergent skill, documentation ask).
  • You're handing off a self-contained brief to a sibling-repo agent.
  • (steward-specific — supplier role.) You're onboarding a sibling to the stack — "set it up", "align it", "update it with our stack", "set up the pipelines". The deliverable is an issue with a self-contained brief, never files written into that repo. In steward, quote steward's docs/sibling-pattern.md (required artifacts) and docs/skill-sources.md (the skill set to vendor) into the brief so it stands alone; steward's CLAUDE.md "Steward's lane" section is the canonical statement. Downstream vendors of this skill don't onboard siblings — those steward-side docs don't exist in your repo, so skip this bullet.
  • You're asking a question that benefits from a tracked artifact rather than ephemeral chat.

Read the full file on GitHub · 337 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday First seen · 337 lines · 184 tokens per session scan A e90210d70403

Subscribe to this mod's changes

communicate is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentculture/learn-cli (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 184 tokens to every session and 3,681 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to communicate, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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