add-agent

add-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SII-Holos/synergy. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,009 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for adding or changing built-in agents in the Synergy codebase, including their prompts, roles, visibility, delegation, and permissions.

In plain words
What is it for?
They help add primary agents, subagents, reviewers, prompts, model roles, delegation groups, and permission profiles.
Why use it?
They identify which agent catalog and supporting files to change, reducing the risk of putting a new agent in the wrong part of the system.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit They help add primary agents, subagents, reviewers, prompts, model roles, delegation groups, and permission profiles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sii-holos/synergy/add-agent
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add SII-Holos/synergy --skill add-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SII-Holos/synergy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,009 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 $0.00066 $0.01009
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00504
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00101

Measured today against content hash 07eb1e39a1f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-agent 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 today.

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.

.synergy/skill/add-agent/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Add a Built-in Agent

Establish the Boundary

  1. Confirm the request requires a repository-built agent. Route configurable agents to 60-agents.jsonc, plugin agents to the plugin SDK, and external coding agents to external-agent/.
  2. Read Cortex, Workflows, and Execution boundaries when delegation, review, or permissions are involved.
  3. Inspect agent.ts, builtin-context.ts, the target builtin-*.ts, and two neighboring agent factories. Treat these files as authoritative; do not copy an old inventory from documentation.
  4. Load integrate-llm when host code will invoke the agent for classification, extraction, generation, review, or delegated work. Decide explicitly whether the call is sessionless, continues an existing session, or launches a Cortex child.

Implement

  1. Choose the owning catalog:
    • primary orchestrator: builtin-primary.ts
    • classic subagent: builtin-legacy-subagents.ts
    • coding-harness subagent: a prompt factory registered in builtin-max-subagents.ts
    • hidden utility or model-only agent: builtin-internal.ts
  2. Add or update the prompt under agent/prompt/. Match the nearest flat prompt or base.txt plus builder.ts pattern. Keep product policy in code/config contracts and keep the prompt focused on the agent's role and completion criteria.
  3. Define the agent with the current Agent.Info or createSubagent(ctx, definition) contract. Select the narrowest existing SubagentPermissionProfile; add a new profile only when no current profile expresses the required capability boundary.
  4. Keep tool exposure separate from authorization. Native task-callable subagents retain the common search_tools and expand_tools permissions so they can activate deferred tools already allowed by their profile; profile-specific denies must still keep those tools unavailable after expansion.
  5. Set visibleTo, delegationGroups, and hidden deliberately. Primary agents may target only agents exposed through their catalog. BlueprintLoop and Light Loop reviewers remain host-selected rather than direct primary targets, while their Cortex tasks are visible in the execution session's Subagent Dock.
  6. Register a new max-subagent factory in FACTORIES; register other new catalogs through Agent.create() only if a genuinely new catalog is required.
  7. Update generated agent-table behavior or tests if the new agent changes routing-visible metadata. Do not maintain a second hand-written agent list in prompts or docs.
  8. Keep agent registration separate from invocation. A hidden model-only agent does not by itself justify a new local LLM.stream() wrapper or a manually created child session.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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. today Changed · -1 tokens per session 07eb1e39a1f3
  2. 9d ago First seen · 47 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A a72fe4529701

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add-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository SII-Holos/synergy (548 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,009 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 2026-08-30.

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