A scaffold command for adding a squad to a K9-AIF application. A squad is a group of agents connected in a defined sequence of work.

Use it to add a named squad and its agents to an application's squads.yaml file after project configuration is set up.

It creates the required configuration structure instead of making you manually write agent lists and workflow steps.

add-squad — Skill for Claude Code by k9aif/k9-aif-framework

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent

npx skills add k9aif/k9-aif-framework --skill add-squad

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/k9aif/k9-aif-framework

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install k9aif, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 568 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	$0.00034	$0.00568
Opus 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00227
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00114
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00057

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 0f7bad4079c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-squad 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 2mo 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.

k9aif-plugin/skills/add-squad/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Before doing anything else, check that /k9aif:configure has been run. If K9AIF_PROJECT_ROOT and K9AIF_APP_NAME are not set, refuse and say:

"Please run /k9aif:configure first to set your project root and app name." Do not proceed until init has been run.

K9-AIF: Add Squad

Scaffold a new squad for the K9-AIF framework. The user provides: <SquadName> <AppName> <Agent1,Agent2,...> (e.g. ClaimsSquad MyApp ClaimsTriageAgent,AdjudicationAgent,AuditAgent).

What to create

Squad entry in `examples/<AppName>/config/squads.yaml`

Add under the squads: key (create the file if it does not exist):

squads:
  <SquadName>:
    description: "<one sentence — what this squad does>"
    agents:
      - <Agent1>
      - <Agent2>
      - <AgentN>
    flow:
      - agent: <Agent1>
        result_key: <agent1_snake_case>
      - agent: <Agent2>
        result_key: <agent2_snake_case>
      - agent: <AgentN>
        result_key: <agentN_snake_case>

Rules to follow

squads: is the top-level wrapper — the squad ID is a key under it, not a name: field.
Every flow step must be a dict with an agent: key — plain strings raise ValueError at runtime.
Squad YAML has no orchestrator: field — the orchestrator is the caller; squads must not reference their caller.
Agent YAML has no squad: or routing: fields — agents are squad-agnostic.
result_key is the key under which each agent's result is stored in the shared execution context.
After generating the YAML, remind the user to register all agents in _load_squad() and wire the squad with SquadLoader.

Wire the squad in the orchestrator (show the user this pattern)

from k9_aif_abb.k9_squad.squad_loader import SquadLoader

# Inside _load_squad() in the orchestrator:
loader = SquadLoader(agent_registry)
squad = loader.load_one(squads_yaml_path, "<SquadName>")

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.

2mo ago First seen · 55 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 0f7bad4079c6

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add-squad is a skill published in the GitHub repository k9aif/k9-aif-framework (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 568 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 2026-08-31.

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