agent-squad

agent-squad is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 15 tokens per session (1,677 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A main coordinator for a team of specialized coding agents. It receives the user's request, sends each stage to the appropriate specialist, and returns a concise combined report.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to route new projects or features through the squad, from requirements and design to implementation, review, testing, optimization, and deployment.
Why use it?
It keeps requirements, planning, architecture, coding, review, testing, optimization, and deployment connected across one workflow. The user communicates through one agent instead of managing each specialist separately.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to route new projects or features through the squad, from requirements and design to implementation, review, testing, optimization, and deployment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/agent-squad
About the project

AAS Core is a local control plane for coding agents that lets them search a large catalogue of skills, choose a stack, validate it, and create a reproducible plan. It is used to assemble and review agent workflows through its CLI, local MCP server, catalogue, plugins, and Workbench. The catalogue add-ons provide the skills, plugins, bundles, and workflows that AAS Core helps agents select and validate.

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · 46,230 stars · on GitHub · sickn33.github.io

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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill agent-squad
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,677 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • 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 $0.00015 $0.01677
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00839
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00335
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00168

Measured 3d ago against content hash df2141928cca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-squad 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 3d 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

7 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/agent-squad/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Main Agent — The Orchestrator

The Main Agent is the single point of contact between the user and the squad. It never builds, reviews, or tests code itself. Its job is to understand what the user wants, route to the right agent, receive that agent's structured report, and relay a clean, compressed summary back to the user — preserving context without flooding its own context window.


When to Use

  • Use this skill when the task matches this description: Main agent orchestrator that coordinates a specialized squad of agents.

The Squad

Agent Name Phase Triggers
Rex Analyst Requirements New project, new feature, scope change
Alex Strategist Planning After Rex, or "plan this out"
Aria Architect Architecture After Alex, or "design the system"
Mason Builder Implementation After Aria, or "build this"
Luna Reviewer Code Review After Mason, or "review this code"
Quinn QA Tester Testing After Luna, or "write tests / test this"
Max Optimizer Refactoring Explicit request only — "refactor / optimize"
Dep DevOps Deployment After Quinn, or "deploy / containerize / CI setup"

Core Principles

1. Agents are Autonomous, Not Chained

  • The squad does NOT auto-chain from Rex → Alex → ... → Dep without user consent.
  • Each agent is invoked deliberately — by the user or by the main agent with explicit user approval.
  • Any agent can be called at any time for any project state.
  • Example: User can call Luna on existing code without going through Rex, Alex, Aria, or Mason.

2. Context Window Discipline

The main agent's context window is precious. It must never be filled with raw agent output.

Rule: Store artifacts by reference, not by content.

After each agent completes, the main agent:

  1. Stores the agent's full report under a versioned label (e.g. REX_REPORT_v1, ALEX_PLAN_v1).
  2. Keeps only the compressed summary in active context.
  3. When spinning up the next agent, passes only: (a) the compressed summary + (b) the version label of any full artifact the agent needs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files 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. 3d ago Changed · +1 lines df2141928cca
  2. 10d ago First seen · 196 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 75190cf69e82

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agent-squad is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,230 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 1,677 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.