ai-collab-protocols

ai-collab-protocols is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 43 tokens per session (817 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of collaboration rules for replacing vague references with durable links or exact file and symbol locations. These references let people and agents find the same discussion or code again later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when referring to a pull-request comment, bug, function, or earlier discussion without an exact location. It also guides work with project instruction files and durable PR threads.
Why use it?
It prevents ambiguity in long conversations and preserves useful context across sessions, especially when chat history is shortened or forgotten.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the odin-core plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when referring to a pull-request comment, bug, function, or earlier discussion without an exact location. It also guides work with project instruction files and durable PR threads.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/ai-collab-protocols
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.

Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill ai-collab-protocols
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 817 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 $0.00043 $0.00817
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00327
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00082

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bf9914247d55, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-collab-protocols 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/odin-core/skills/ai-collab-protocols/SKILL.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI collab protocols

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger User describes an AI workflow gap or uses an ambiguous cross-session reference such as 'the PR Bob mentioned' or 'that bug from last week'.
Authority Read-only. No file, VCS, credential, paid, published, deployed, or remote mutation. Reply content only.
Side effect None; reply content only.
Done Every ambiguous reference resolves to a stable handle; anti-patterns surface when reached.

Inputs

The user's message may contain ambiguous references: names or descriptions without locators, such as "the PR Bob mentioned", "that bug from last week", or "the function we discussed". It may instead describe a workflow gap. When asked, the user may optionally supply a stable handle: a GitHub PR or comment permalink, an MCP resource URI such as @github:pr/owner/repo/123#comment-456, or a file:line reference. The skill fetches and mutates nothing; it asks the user for the handle.

Procedure

  1. Scan the user's message for ambiguous references, a name or description without a locator, or a described workflow gap. If none is present, do not route. Done when: every ambiguous reference or workflow gap is identified.
  2. For each ambiguous reference, stop and ask the user for a stable handle: a GitHub PR/comment permalink, an MCP resource URI (e.g. @github:pr/owner/repo/123#comment-456), or a file:line reference. State why: names are ambiguous in long-context sessions and unrecoverable across sessions, while a stable URL survives compaction and enables exact match. Done when: each reference has a stable handle or is marked unresolved.
  3. Surface one tactic at a time, not a lecture. When the user is handing off multi-session work, recommend leaving a comment on the PR, an addressable, compaction-surviving thread, over a chat-only handoff, so the next session, colleague, or agent can resume without replaying context. Done when: one tactic is surfaced.
  4. When an anti-pattern is reached, surface it: (a) screenshot-only context loses URL grounding, copy-paste, and search: pair every screenshot with its URL or text export; (b) token-usage or lines-of-code framing as a quality proxy: quantity is not capability; surface the rejection. Done when: each reached anti-pattern is named.
  5. Stop once every ambiguous reference has a stable handle and any reached anti-pattern has been named. Do not widen scope or invent handles the user did not supply. Done when: every reference has a handle and reached anti-patterns are named.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 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. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines bf9914247d55
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -17 tokens per session 53fd3918f798
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -9 lines · +30 tokens per session eb0d05b1d53c
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 47 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 685db4e23065

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ai-collab-protocols is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (40 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 817 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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