init-agents

A set of rules for coordinating multiple coding agents through tmux, a tool for managing terminal sessions and panes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify agent panes, send skills or tasks to the right agent, wait for completion, and capture responses safely.
Why use it?
It reduces mistakes when finding agents, clearing old tasks, sending instructions, and checking whether an agent is ready.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/noho/code-is-cheap/init-agents
Any agent
npx skills add noho/code-is-cheap --skill init-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/noho/code-is-cheap

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 980 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 $0.00049 $0.00980
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00490
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00098

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3a15bfeaca81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init-agents 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 2d 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/init-agents/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Init Agents

Init Agents 只定义多 Agent 通信步骤和安全规则。

Agent CLI Types

Agent CLI type Skill trigger
AgentMiMo Claude Code Agent slash command
AgentDS Claude Code Agent slash command
AgentGLM Claude Code Agent slash command
AgentOpus Claude Code Agent slash command
AgentCodex Codex Agent dollar skill

Claude Code Agent 使用 slash command:

/planreview
/deepreview
/gateflow

Codex Agent 使用 dollar skill:

$planreview
$deepreview
$gateflow

Pane Discovery

每次发送前都重新确认目标 full pane id:

tmux-cli status
tmux list-panes -a -F '#{session_name}:#{window_index}.#{pane_index} #{window_name} #{pane_current_command} #{pane_title}'

使用跨 window 的 full pane id,例如:

ai-2:1.3

后续 tmux-cli sendtmux-cli wait_idletmux-cli capture 都使用 full pane id。若目标 Agent 不在线、pane id 不明确、 名称冲突或命令不可用,先报告,不要盲发。

Session Clear

新 assigned task 或新的 gate/slice,先发送 clear,再发送正式任务:

/clear

要求:

  • clear 和正式任务分开发送;
  • 等目标 Agent 完成 clear 并回到可输入状态后,再发送正式任务;
  • clear 失败或目标未回到可输入状态时,先报告。

如果目标 Agent 当前任务尚未完成,正在等待补充信息、继续执行、返回 artifact、修正同一轮输出或回答同一任务 follow-up, 不要 clear,直接发送补充指令。

Send Safety

通过 tmux-cli send 发送文本时,避免裸 #数字,某些环境会截断 PR #45 这类文本。

写法:

  • PR 45PR-45Pull Request 45
  • issue 123issue-123
  • 需要链接时写完整 URL。

如果发现内容被截断,不要 clear;重新 discovery 后发送去掉裸 #数字 的完整文本。

Chat Workflow

新 assigned task:

tmux-cli status
tmux list-panes -a -F '#{session_name}:#{window_index}.#{pane_index} #{window_name} #{pane_current_command} #{pane_title}'
tmux-cli send "/clear" --pane=<full-pane-id>
tmux-cli wait_idle --pane=<full-pane-id> --idle-time=3 --timeout=60
tmux-cli capture --pane=<full-pane-id>
tmux-cli send "<task text>" --pane=<full-pane-id>
tmux-cli wait_idle --pane=<full-pane-id> --idle-time=3 --timeout=<task-timeout-seconds>
tmux-cli capture --pane=<full-pane-id>

未完成 task 的 follow-up:

tmux-cli status
tmux list-panes -a -F '#{session_name}:#{window_index}.#{pane_index} #{window_name} #{pane_current_command} #{pane_title}'
tmux-cli send "<follow-up text>" --pane=<full-pane-id>
tmux-cli wait_idle --pane=<full-pane-id> --idle-time=3 --timeout=<task-timeout-seconds>
tmux-cli capture --pane=<full-pane-id>

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 2d ago First seen · 121 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 3a15bfeaca81

Subscribe to this mod's changes

init-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository noho/code-is-cheap (58 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 980 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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