using-teammates

using-teammates is a skill for Claude Code from andreymudri/claude-teammates. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,287 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An entry guide that chooses the right reusable skill and team process before any coding task, question, or repository exploration begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to route brainstorming, planning, debugging, implementation, and multi-agent work to the appropriate skill.
Why use it?
It prevents work from starting with the wrong process or missing an important planning, debugging, or execution step.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT variable. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the claude-teammates plugin — 14 skills, 3 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to route brainstorming, planning, debugging, implementation, and multi-agent work to the appropriate skill.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add andreymudri/claude-teammates
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-teammates

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-teammates, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 3 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,287 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.
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 $0.00035 $0.01287
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00643
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00257
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00129

Measured 9d ago against content hash add05482a939, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-teammates 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.

skills/using-teammates/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using Teammates

This is the entrypoint. Read it before doing anything else this session — including answering a question, exploring the codebase, or checking a file.

The Rule

Invoke relevant skills BEFORE any response or action — including clarifying questions, exploring the codebase, or checking files.

Then announce "Using [skill] to [purpose]" and follow the skill exactly.

Skill Priority

Process skills set the approach; implementation skills carry it out. When both apply, the process skill goes first.

  • "Let's build X" → brainstorming first, then implementation skills.
  • "Fix this bug" → systematic-debugging first, then domain skills.

Routing

Situation Skill
Exploring an idea, unclear requirements, before any design or plan brainstorming
Requirements are settled and a multi-step change needs a written plan writing-plans
A written plan exists and there's a git repo with 3+ disjoint tasks — run a fleet parallel-execution
A written plan exists but the work doesn't warrant a fleet — work it inline executing-plans
A bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing a fix systematic-debugging
Implementing any feature or bugfix, before writing implementation code test-driven-development
Feedback came back on your work, before acting on it receiving-code-review
Implementation is complete and all tests pass — decide how to integrate finishing-a-development-branch
Creating or editing a skill, or verifying one works before deployment writing-skills
Spawn, list, message, scale, stop, or resume teammates in a running fleet fleet-lifecycle
Changing how the fleet runs — parallelism, model tier or effort per role, caveman output teammates-config
A fleet phase finished and needs a verdict before the next phase starts phase-gate
Want to know what a running fleet is doing right now fleet-supervision

Fleet or Solo

A fleet is eligible when all of these hold:

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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 First seen · 120 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A add05482a939

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using-teammates is a skill published in the GitHub repository andreymudri/claude-teammates (2 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,287 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 2026-08-31.

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