team-builder

team-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jxoesneon/Ciel. It costs 33 tokens per session (898 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An interactive tool for choosing agent personas and composing a temporary team for a task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to browse available agents, select capabilities such as security or architecture, and define the team interactively.
Why use it?
It helps when one coding agent is not enough and you want deliberate control over which specialist roles participate.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to browse available agents, select capabilities such as security or architecture, and define the team interactively.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jxoesneon/ciel/team-builder
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.

Any agent
npx skills add jxoesneon/Ciel --skill team-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jxoesneon/Ciel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 898 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 $0.00033 $0.00898
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00449
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00090

Measured 9d ago against content hash c68e159713aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

team-builder 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/team-builder/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CIEL ADAPTATION: Team Builder (Interactive Agent Composition)

This skill provides an interactive agent-picker UX for composing teams by capability profile. While ciel-swarm-orchestration automatically decomposes tasks and assigns sub-agents, team-builder is human-in-the-loop: the user browses available agent personas, selects which to deploy, and defines the task interactively. Use this when the user wants deliberate control over team composition rather than automatic dispatch.

When to Use

  • You have multiple agent personas and want to pick which ones to use for a task.
  • You want to compose an ad-hoc team from different domains (e.g., Security + SEO + Architecture).
  • You want to browse what agents are available before deciding.

Agent Discovery

Agents are discovered via two methods, merged and deduplicated by name:

  1. claude agents command (primary): Returns all agents known to the CLI — user agents, plugin agents (prefixed plugin-name:), and built-in agents.
  2. File glob (fallback): Reads markdown from ./agents/**/*.md, ~/.claude/agents/**/*.md.

Precedence on name collision: user agents > plugin agents > built-in agents. Built-in agents (Explore, Plan) are skipped unless explicitly requested.

Domain Grouping

  • Subdirectory layout: Domain inferred from parent folder name (e.g., engineering/security-engineer.md → Engineering).
  • Flat layout: Domain inferred from shared filename prefixes. A prefix qualifies as a domain only if 2+ files share it. Unique-prefix files go to "General". Splits at first -, so multi-word domains should use subdirectory layout.

Selection Flow

  1. Discover: Run claude agents, parse output, read markdown files for names/descriptions.
  2. Present Domain Menu: Show domains with agent counts; skip empty domains.
  3. Handle Selection: Accept flexible input — numbers ("1,3"), names ("security + seo"), or "all from engineering". If >5 agents selected, ask user to narrow down (max 5 per team).
  4. Confirm: Show selected agents, prompt for task description.
  5. Spawn in Parallel: Read each agent's markdown, spawn all via parallel Agent tool calls with subagent_type: "general-purpose". Each runs independently.
  6. Synthesize: Collect outputs, present unified report grouped by agent with a synthesis section (agreements, conflicts/tensions, next steps). Skip synthesis if only 1 agent selected.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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 · 65 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A c68e159713aa

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team-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository jxoesneon/Ciel (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 898 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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