bradygaster/squad is a tool that creates a human-directed team of AI development agents inside a project repository through GitHub Copilot. Developers use it to delegate work among persistent specialists such as frontend, backend, testing, and lead agents while retaining responsibility for decisions and review. The catalogue entries are the skills, agents, and instructions that define and coordinate those team members.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to bradygaster/squad. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bradygaster/squad/dev/.copilot/skills/pr-lifecycle/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bradygaster/squadWrote 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.
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SkillSpector: 10 findings, up to high
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 →
- high Tool Misuse · line 181 Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
- high Tool Misuse · line 199 Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
- high Tool Misuse · line 217 Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
- high Tool Misuse · line 226 Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
- high Tool Misuse · line 282 Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
- medium Agent Snooping · line 13 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.
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 115 npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 216 npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 217 npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 374 npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00014 | $0.05030 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00006 | $0.02012 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00003 | $0.01006 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00503 |
Grade A, and why
pr-lifecycle 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 538 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Context
This skill is the canonical Copilot-agent lifecycle for the Squad repository. It covers the full path from picking up a GitHub issue to merging a PR. Where older docs (templates, copilot-instructions, CONTRIBUTING.md) conflict with this skill, this skill takes precedence for Copilot agents.
For advanced scenarios (worktrees, multi-repo coordination), see .copilot/skills/git-workflow/SKILL.md.
Scope
✅ THIS SKILL COVERS:
- Issue pickup and branch creation
- Implementation, build, test, lint workflow
- Pre-push safety verification
- PR creation with correct target, title, body, and labels
- All 11 PR readiness checks (what they check, how to pass, how to fix)
- Post-creation maintenance (review feedback, rebasing, CI)
- Merge preconditions and cleanup
❌ THIS SKILL DOES NOT COVER:
- Worktree-based parallel work (see
git-workflowskill) - Multi-repo coordinated PRs (see
git-workflowskill) - Release process / publishing (see
.squad/skills/release-process) - Reviewer lockout protocol (see
.copilot/skills/reviewer-protocol) - Architectural or security review checklists
Lifecycle Procedure
Phase 1 — Issue Pickup
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Read the issue. Understand the acceptance criteria before writing code.
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Confirm capability fit. Check your capability profile in
.squad/team.md. 🟢 = proceed. 🟡 = proceed but flag in PR. 🔴 = comment on issue and stop. -
Branch from dev:
git fetch origin dev git checkout dev git rebase origin/dev git checkout -b squad/{issue-number}-{slug}- Branch name format:
squad/{issue-number}-{kebab-case-slug} - Example:
squad/42-fix-login-validation - Never branch from
main
- Branch name format:
-
Mark in-progress (optional):
gh issue edit {number} --add-label "status:in-progress"
Phase 2 — Implementation
- Make your changes. Follow the codebase conventions:
- TypeScript strict mode, no
@ts-ignore - ESM-only, async/await
- JSDoc on new public APIs
- TypeScript strict mode, no
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 538 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 5c7565dd855f
pr-lifecycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository bradygaster/squad (3,300 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 5,030 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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