agent-boundaries

agent-boundaries is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from somnus0x/agt-skill-pack. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,246 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A way to coordinate several AI coding agents working on the same project at once.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assign file boundaries, define agreements between agents, and set rules for handling collisions.
Why use it?
It reduces agents overwriting each other’s files or creating conflicts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for aider. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; built for aider.

Good fit Use it to assign file boundaries, define agreements between agents, and set rules for handling collisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/somnus0x/agt-skill-pack/agent-boundaries
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add somnus0x/agt-skill-pack --skill agent-boundaries
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/somnus0x/agt-skill-pack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,246 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.
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 $0.00045 $0.01246
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00498
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00249
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00125

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bf816df2eda4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-boundaries 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.

skills/agent-boundaries/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Boundaries — Run Many AI Agents Without Them Colliding

Run two or three AI coding agents in parallel and they start stepping on each other. One edits a file, another overwrites it, commits collide. The agents that were supposed to make you 3x faster make you slower — because now you're the traffic cop.

The fix is the same thing that fixes a human team that keeps colliding: clear boundaries, a written contract, and you stepping out of the bottleneck. This skill is the drop-in version of that.

The Problem

You open 3 terminals — backend, frontend, contracts — to work in parallel. Without structure:

  • Agent A edits a shared file, Agent B overwrites it
  • Two agents touch the same module, commits conflict
  • You become the only one who knows what's where — every decision routes through you
  • "3 agents" turns into "3 sources of chaos you manage manually"

This isn't an AI problem. It's a team structure problem — the same one Conway's Law, Domain-Driven Design, and Team Topologies describe for human teams. The concepts drop straight onto agents.

Setup: Find Your Boundaries (copy into your AI)

If your project is one big repo, have the AI map the domains before you split anything.

Drop-in prompt (Thai):

วิเคราะห์ repo นี้แล้วบอกหน่อยว่าควรแบ่งเป็นกี่ domain
- แต่ละ domain ควรเป็นเจ้าของโฟลเดอร์/ไฟล์ไหนบ้าง
- มีจุดไหนที่ logic พันกันข้าม domain (cross-cutting concern)
  ที่ควรดึงออกมาเป็นส่วนกลาง
- ตั้งชื่อสิ่งเดียวกันให้ตรงกันทุก domain (ubiquitous language)
  มีคำไหนที่เรียกไม่เหมือนกันบ้าง
คืนมาเป็น map: domain → โฟลเดอร์ที่มันเป็นเจ้าของ

Drop-in prompt (English):

Analyze this repo and tell me how to split it into bounded domains:
- Which folders/files should each domain own?
- Where is logic tangled across domains (cross-cutting concerns)
  that should be pulled into a shared layer?
- Are the same things named inconsistently (ubiquitous language)?
  List the mismatches.
Return a map: domain -> folders it owns.

The output is your boundary map. Each domain becomes one agent's territory.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 1mo ago First seen · 105 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A bf816df2eda4

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agent-boundaries is a skill published in the GitHub repository somnus0x/agt-skill-pack (74 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,246 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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