multi-agent-composition

multi-agent-composition is a skill for Claude Code from basher83/lunar-claude. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,929 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to choosing and combining Claude Code components such as skills, sub-agents, hooks, MCP servers, and slash commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when learning the component types, designing multi-agent systems, or diagnosing orchestration problems.
Why use it?
It helps developers decide which component belongs in a workflow and how to manage context between components.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the meta-claude plugin — 2 skills, 1 command shipped together

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/basher83/lunar-claude/multi-agent-composition
Any agent
npx skills add basher83/lunar-claude --skill multi-agent-composition
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/basher83/lunar-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install meta-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 command.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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agentmods badge for multi-agent-composition

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/basher83/lunar-claude/multi-agent-composition"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/basher83/lunar-claude/multi-agent-composition.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,929 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00047 $0.01929
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00964
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00386
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00193

Measured 2d ago against content hash ada8b9035270, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

multi-agent-composition 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 2d 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:

plugins/meta/meta-claude/skills/multi-agent-composition/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Multi-Agent Composition

Master Claude Code's components, patterns, and principles to build effective agentic systems.

When to Use This Knowledge

Use this knowledge when:

  • Learning Claude Code - Understanding what each component does
  • Making architectural decisions - Choosing Skills vs Sub-Agents vs MCP vs Slash Commands
  • Building custom solutions - Creating specialized agents or orchestration systems
  • Scaling agentic workflows - Moving from single agents to multi-agent orchestration
  • Debugging issues - Understanding why components behave certain ways
  • Adding observability - Implementing hooks for monitoring and control

Quick Reference

The Core 4 Framework

Every agent is built on these four elements:

  1. Context - What information does the agent have?
  2. Model - What capabilities does the model provide?
  3. Prompt - What instruction are you giving?
  4. Tools - What actions can the agent take?

"Everything comes down to just four pieces. If you understand these, you will win."

Component Overview

Component Trigger Use When Best For
Skills Agent-invoked Repeat problems needing management Domain-specific workflows
Sub-Agents Tool-invoked Parallelization & context isolation Scale & batch operations
MCP Servers As needed External data/services Integration with external systems
Slash Commands Manual/tool One-off tasks Simple repeatable prompts
Hooks Lifecycle events Observability & control Monitoring & blocking

Composition Hierarchy

Skills (Top Layer)
  ├─→ Can use: Sub-Agents, Slash Commands, MCP Servers, Other Skills
  └─→ Purpose: Orchestrate primitives for repeatable workflows

Sub-Agents (Execution Layer)
  ├─→ Can use: Slash Commands, Skills
  └─→ Cannot nest other Sub-Agents

Slash Commands (Primitive Layer)
  └─→ The fundamental building block

MCP Servers (Integration Layer)
  └─→ Connect external systems

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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. 2d ago First seen · 213 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A ada8b9035270

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multi-agent-composition is a skill published in the GitHub repository basher83/lunar-claude (22 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,929 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 2026-09-03.

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