amaa-design-communication-patterns

amaa-design-communication-patterns is a skill for Claude Code from Emasoft/ai-maestro-architect-agent. It costs 36 tokens per session (794 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of communication rules for agents working together on design tasks. It covers shared message formats, design-document standards, and where to find the reference instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when implementing inter-agent messages, following AI Maestro design-document procedures, or sending standardized project updates.
Why use it?
It helps agents exchange requests, clarifications, handoffs, and completion reports consistently instead of inventing separate protocols.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter.

Part of the ai-maestro-architect-agent plugin — 27 skills, 4 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when implementing inter-agent messages, following AI Maestro design-document procedures, or sending standardized project updates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emasoft/ai-maestro-architect-agent/amaa-design-communication-patterns
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Emasoft/ai-maestro-architect-agent --skill amaa-design-communication-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Emasoft/ai-maestro-architect-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-maestro-architect-agent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 4 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 794 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 $0.00036 $0.00794
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00397
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00079

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2e20ba69964c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

amaa-design-communication-patterns 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 10d 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/amaa-design-communication-patterns/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Communication Patterns Skill

Overview

Centralizes communication patterns, messaging protocols, and design document standards. Requires AI Maestro running.

Prerequisites

  • AI Maestro running and API accessible
  • Reference documents present in references/ directory
  • Proper agent naming convention (domain-subdomain-name)

Instructions

  1. Identify the communication pattern or protocol needed
  2. Consult the appropriate reference document in references/
  3. Follow the protocol as documented
  4. Do not duplicate protocol definitions in individual skills

Checklist

Copy this checklist and track your progress:

  • Identify needed communication pattern
  • Consult reference document
  • Follow protocol as documented

Reference Documents

All shared resources are reference documentation files located in the references/ directory:

Reference Description
ai-maestro-message-templates.md 1.1 Sending Acknowledgment When Receiving Design Request from AMCOS, 1.2 Requesting Clarification from AMCOS for Ambiguous Requirements, 1.3 Reporting Design Completion to AMCOS, 1.4 Notifying AMCOS That Handoff Document is Ready for AMOA, 1.5 Reporting Blocker That Prevents Design Progress, 1.6 Verifying ACK Receipt After Sending a Message, Example: Complete Message Send and Verify Workflow
message-response-decision-tree.md Step 1: Priority Triage, Step 2: Message Type Routing, Step 3: Response Actions, Step 4: ACK Protocol
design-document-protocol.md Document UUID Format (GUUID), Required Frontmatter Schema, Document Lifecycle, Validation Procedures, Search Procedures, GitHub Integration, Edge Cases and Error Handling, File Naming Convention, Cross-Plugin Protocol, Quick Reference
proactive-handoff-protocol.md Standard Handoff Format, Automatic Handoff Triggers, Handoff Document Location, Mandatory Handoff Sections, Context, Progress, Current State, Blockers (if any), Next Steps, References, Proactive Writing Rules, Handoff Quality Checklist
task-completion-checklist.md Before Reporting Task Complete, Verification Loop, Common Traps (Architect-Specific), Completion Report Format, Pre-Completion Checklist for Architects, When to Escalate vs Complete
native-cross-session-channel.md The native cross-session channel vs AMP, What actually changed and when, What the platform does NOT give you, R42.3 is false as written, AMAA's policy (outbound AMP-only, inbound-untrusted), Cross-agent terminal verbs, Anti-patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 10d ago First seen · 71 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 2e20ba69964c

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amaa-design-communication-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository Emasoft/ai-maestro-architect-agent (2 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 794 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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