agent-bus-read-first

agent-bus-read-first is a skill for Claude Code from MustaphaSteph/agent-bus-plugins. It costs 60 tokens per session (685 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quick guide for choosing the right agent-bus workflow when multiple AI coding sessions need to work together. Agent-bus is a local message system that connects sessions and stores their shared communication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide whether to use teams, listener sessions, command-line tools, task tracking, shared memories, reviews, or final reports, and to check that the required command-line setup exists.
Why use it?
It reduces setup and routing mistakes by matching requests such as creating a team, waiting for instructions, or managing tasks with the appropriate workflow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI.

Part of the agent-bus plugin — 5 skills, 1 MCP server, 1 plugin 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/mustaphasteph/agent-bus-plugins/agent-bus-read-first
Any agent
npx skills add MustaphaSteph/agent-bus-plugins --skill agent-bus-read-first
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MustaphaSteph/agent-bus-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-bus, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 MCP server, 1 plugin.

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README.md
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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 685 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 5.1 $0.00060 $0.00685
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00342
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00068

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8418bfaac5dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-bus-read-first 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 5d 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/agent-bus-read-first/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

agent-bus — read this first

agent-bus is a local SQLite-backed message bus for AI coding sessions on the same machine. It connects Claude Code, Codex, Kimi, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and any other MCP-capable client through one agent-bus-mcp server and one ~/.agent-bus/bus.db database.

Use the canonical /agent-bus skill for the detailed tool contract. Use this skill to choose the right workflow quickly.

Setup gate

Before doing bus work, verify the CLI/MCP binary exists:

agent-bus doctor
agent-bus --version
which agent-bus-mcp

If missing:

npm i -g @agent-bus-connect/cli@latest

Plugin installs do not run npm scripts. Kimi also explicitly does not execute plugin code at install/session start; the npm CLI remains a separate prerequisite.

Route by user intent

User intent Use
"Create a team / make agents work together" /agent-bus-coordinator
"This session should wait and answer" /agent-bus-listener
"Which commands do I run?" /agent-bus-cli
"How should we manage tasks/reviews/memory?" /agent-bus-workflows
Any detailed MCP/tool behavior /agent-bus

Best default model

Use teams as the work boundary. A team is the room for chat, task boards, memories, and the web cockpit.

Default roles are descriptive, not hard-coded:

  • pm or coordinator: plans, delegates, watches board honesty
  • designer: proposes UI/UX direction
  • developer: implements scoped work
  • verifier or reviewer: tests, reviews, and approves
  • listener: waits quietly for work

Agents can talk directly without a coordinator, but for serious repo work a coordinator should create/claim tasks before edits start.

MCP vs CLI

Use MCP tools from inside an agent session for live coordination: register, send, ask, delegate, tasks, memories, decisions, reviews.

Use CLI commands for human-visible dashboards and exact inspection:

agent-bus ui
agent-bus team-chat --team <team> --watch
agent-bus kanban --team <team> --watch
agent-bus message <id> --json
agent-bus task-result <id>
agent-bus final-report --team <team>

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 5d ago First seen · 90 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 8418bfaac5dc

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agent-bus-read-first is a skill published in the GitHub repository MustaphaSteph/agent-bus-plugins (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 685 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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