A structured negotiation in which agents represent different priorities and reach agreement through stated trade-offs and compromises.

Use it when a plan, design, or decision must balance several priorities and all participating agents need to consent.

It makes competing goals and non-negotiable requirements explicit instead of hiding them in one blended answer. No agent is given authority over the others.

How dazzaji/interlateral_agents configures Claude Code and Codex

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to dazzaji/interlateral_agents. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dazzaji/interlateral_agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,019 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00015	$0.01019
Opus 5.5	$0.00006	$0.00408
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00204
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00102

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 743624b9be5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

negotiation 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.

.agent/skills/negotiation/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Negotiation

Purpose

Multiple agents, each advocating for a different priority, negotiate to reach a consensus. No agent has authority; all must agree through trade-offs and compromise.

Use mesh-comms-core first if direct peer notification has not already been proven. comms.md is the ledger, not the wake-up path.

Default roster: use Claude Code and Codex peers. Do not include Gemini CLI, Antigravity CLI, or Antigravity Desktop unless the human prompt explicitly names that peer.

Roles

Role	Description
`ADVOCATE`	Each agent advocates for one priority (assigned in prompt)

All advocates are equal. Each agent gets one priority to champion.

Protocol

1. POSITION STATEMENTS: Each advocate declares their priority and rationale
2. NEGOTIATION: Agents propose trade-offs, discuss, counter-propose
3. CONSENT CHECK: Any agent may call for consent check
4. ITERATE: Continue until all agents signal [DONE] or [CONSENT]

Position Statement Format

[ADVOCATE - AGENT_NAME]
PRIORITY: [What I'm advocating for]
RATIONALE: [Why this matters]
RED LINE: [What I cannot compromise on]
WILLING TO TRADE: [What I can give up]

Trade-Off Format

[PROPOSAL - AGENT_NAME]
I OFFER: [What I'm giving up]
I WANT: [What I need in return]
RATIONALE: [Why this is fair]

Consent Check

Any agent may call: [CONSENT CHECK]

All agents must respond:

[CONSENT] - I agree to the current proposal
[OBJECT: reason] - I cannot agree because...

Inputs

All inputs come from the prompt.

Optional:

output: File path for consensus document
work: File containing the decision to be made
max_turns: Override default (30)

Prompt Format Examples

Minimal:

Use negotiation to decide on team meeting frequency.
CC=Productivity, CX=Work-Life-Balance, CC-peer-02=Collaboration.

With output:

Use negotiation for authentication protocol design.
CC advocates Reliability, CX advocates Speed, CC-peer-02 advocates Security.
Output: projects/auth/protocol.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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.

1mo ago First seen · 152 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 743624b9be5b

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negotiation is a skill published in the GitHub repository dazzaji/interlateral_agents (11 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 1,019 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 2026-10-03.

Building agents Planning

negotiation next to 6 skills from other repositories
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