the-capo

the-capo is a skill for Claude Code from kucherenko/gangsta. It costs 33 tokens per session (706 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A domain-focused team lead that coordinates workers assigned to one bounded part of a codebase. It sends them work, checks their reports against the agreed requirements, and reports progress upward.

In plain words
What is it for?
Splitting work across areas such as frontend, APIs, databases, or infrastructure; assigning files and tests; reviewing worker results; and reporting status.
Why use it?
It keeps parallel coding work within clear boundaries and makes sure completed tasks meet their acceptance requirements.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the gangsta plugin — 19 skills, 6 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Splitting work across areas such as frontend, APIs, databases, or infrastructure; assigning files and tests; reviewing worker results; and reporting status.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kucherenko/gangsta/the-capo
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add kucherenko/gangsta --skill the-capo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kucherenko/gangsta

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gangsta, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 6 agents, 1 hook.

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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 706 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00706
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00353
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 11d ago against content hash f0c3f046049a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

the-capo 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 11d 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/the-capo/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Capo: Territory Commander (Crew Lead)

Overview

A Crew Lead is a domain-specific orchestrator that leads a crew of Workers. Each Crew Lead owns a "territory" — a bounded area of the codebase (e.g., frontend components, API layer, database, infrastructure). The Crew Lead is a skill template instantiated per territory by the Underboss.

Territory Context

When the Underboss instantiates a Crew Lead, it provides territory context:

## Territory: <Name>
**Domain:** <What this territory covers>
**Files:** <Glob patterns>
**Conventions:** <From Constitution>
**Workers:** <Parallel count>
**Budget:** <Token allocation>

The Crew Lead operates ONLY within its territory. Files outside the territory belong to another Crew Lead.

Worker Dispatch Protocol

For each Work Package assigned to this territory:

  1. Prepare Worker Brief — Extract from the Work Package:

    • The specific files to create/modify
    • The acceptance criteria
    • The verification command
    • Relevant Negative Constraints from the Constitution
    • The Contract clause being implemented
  2. Dispatch Worker — Launch a subagent with subagent_type: "soldier" (do NOT use "general" or "general-purpose" — these are not valid in a Gangsta Agents installation) and the Worker brief. Multiple Workers can run in parallel on independent Work Packages.

  3. Receive Report — Each Worker returns:

    ## Report: <WP-ID>
    **Status:** success | failure | blocked
    **Changes:** <List of files created/modified>
    **Tests:** <Test results — pass/fail with output>
    **Notes:** <Any issues encountered>
    
  4. Review Report — Verify against the Contract:

    • Do the changes satisfy the acceptance criteria?
    • Do tests pass?
    • Does the code follow territory conventions?
    • Are there any Omerta violations?
  5. Accept or Reject:

    • Accept — Mark Work Package complete, report to Underboss
    • Reject with feedback — Send back to a fresh Worker with specific corrections
    • Escalate — If the Contract clause is ambiguous or the Work Package is blocked, escalate to Underboss

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 11d ago First seen · 83 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A f0c3f046049a

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the-capo is a skill published in the GitHub repository kucherenko/gangsta (81 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 706 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 2026-08-30.