agent-teams

agent-teams is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from laurigates/claude-plugins. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,599 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for configuring Claude Code agent teams, where multiple coding agents work together on one task.

In plain words
What is it for?
It sets up team-based work with agents, messages, and task tracking, and explains when to use a team instead of separate independent agents.
Why use it?
It helps coordinate parallel work and shared progress when one agent or one sequential workflow is not enough.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-patterns-plugin plugin — 22 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/laurigates/claude-plugins/agent-teams
Any agent
npx skills add laurigates/claude-plugins --skill agent-teams
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/laurigates/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-patterns-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,599 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00040 $0.02599
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01300
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00520
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00260

Measured yesterday against content hash 156a804c37ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-teams 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 yesterday.

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-patterns-plugin/skills/agent-teams/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Teams

Experimental: Agent teams require CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1 and may change between Claude Code versions.

BREAKING (Claude Code 2.1.178): The explicit TeamCreate / TeamDelete tools were removed. Every session now has one implicit team when CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1 is set — there is nothing to create or tear down. The team_name parameter is still accepted but ignored on the tools that took it (e.g. Agent), so older invocations don't error; omit it in new code. Coordination is otherwise unchanged: spawn teammates with the Agent tool, coordinate with SendMessage, and track work with TaskCreate/TaskList/TaskUpdate.

Task tools are opt-in on current models (Claude Code 2.1.233+). TaskCreate / TaskGet / TaskUpdate / TaskList / TodoWrite are not exposed on Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, Fable 5 / 5.1, Mythos 5 or newer unless the session opted in — see .claude/rules/agentic-permissions.md § "Standard Permission Sets" → "Task-tool availability" for the three opt-ins and the full semantics. On a session without one, a lead cannot create or assign shared tasks: set the variable, or coordinate via SendMessage alone and carry the task list in the lead's own message to each teammate. Check TaskList is callable before spawning teammates.

For the worked setup examples, communication snippets, shutdown procedures, the worktree path-resolution recovery routine, and common dispatch patterns, see REFERENCE.md.

When to Use This Skill

Use agent teams when... Use subagents instead when...
Multiple agents need to work in parallel Tasks are sequential and interdependent
Ongoing communication between agents is needed One focused task produces one result
Background tasks need progress reporting Agent output feeds directly into next step
Complex workflows benefit from task coordination Simple, bounded, isolated execution
Independent changes to the same codebase (with worktrees) Context sharing is fine and efficient

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday Changed · +3 lines 156a804c37ca
  2. 5d ago First seen · 187 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 11fe9bedafdd

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agent-teams is a skill published in the GitHub repository laurigates/claude-plugins (58 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,599 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.

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