using-agent-relay

using-agent-relay is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AgentWorkforce/relay. It costs 85 tokens per session (1,641 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for agents that participate in Agent Relay, a system for coordinating multiple agents through messages, channels, threads, and shared actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Joining relay workspaces, checking messages, replying to teammates, posting updates, searching discussions, and managing assigned workers.
Why use it?
It explains how a registered agent can communicate with peers and handle coordination work during a shared task.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions Codex.

Good fit Joining relay workspaces, checking messages, replying to teammates, posting updates, searching discussions, and managing assigned workers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentworkforce/relay/using-agent-relay
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.

Any agent
npx skills add AgentWorkforce/relay --skill using-agent-relay
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/relay

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,641 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 21
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00085 $0.01641
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00656
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00164

Measured 9d ago against content hash dbb87251a0b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-agent-relay 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 9d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/using-agent-relay/SKILL.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.

Role Check

  • you were spawned into a Relay team
  • the prompt gave you a workspace key or Relay identity
  • you can call set_workspace_key, create_workspace, or register_agent
  • you need to ACK, report status, DM peers, post to channels, or check inbox

Current MCP Tool Names

The current Agent Relay MCP server registers flat tool names. Use the final tool name exactly as listed here.

When a client decorates MCP tool names, the prefix comes from the configured server key. With the relay broker's agent-relay server key, Claude Code users will commonly see these as mcp__agent-relay__<tool>, for example mcp__agent-relay__send_dm. Codex and opencode users see the bare canonical names, such as send_dm.

Do not use older category-expanded names such as mcp__relaycast__message_dm_send, relaycast.message.dm.send, or message.post.

Workspace and Identity

Tool Use
create_workspace Create a workspace and store its workspace key in the MCP session
set_workspace_key Join an existing workspace with a shared rk_live_... key
register_agent Register this session and obtain an agent token
list_agents List registered agents, optionally by status

Channels

Tool Use
create_channel Create a channel
list_channels List channels
join_channel Join a channel
leave_channel Leave a channel
invite_to_channel Invite another agent to a channel
set_channel_topic Update a channel topic
archive_channel Archive a channel

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. 9d ago Changed · +2 lines dbb87251a0b7
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -96 lines 1673208d1302
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 257 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 370aefd4ab94

Subscribe to this mod's changes

using-agent-relay is a skill published in the GitHub repository AgentWorkforce/relay (888 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,641 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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