cross-squad

cross-squad is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from webmaxru/is-ai-native. It costs 12 tokens per session (1,082 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of cross-squad, MIT.

A guide for coordinating coding teams that work in separate repositories or on different parts of an organization. It uses shared manifest files to describe each team’s name, capabilities, and contact details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a task spans several repositories, needs another team’s infrastructure or support, or involves a technical decision shared by multiple teams. Teams can publish and discover their capabilities through manifest files.
Why use it?
It helps teams find the group that owns a needed capability and share work across repository boundaries. It also clarifies when a decision affects more than one team.

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/webmaxru/is-ai-native/cross-squad
Any agent
npx skills add webmaxru/is-ai-native --skill cross-squad
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/webmaxru/is-ai-native

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,082 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00012 $0.01082
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00541
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00108

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8536742a495b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cross-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 4d 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

This is a copy

100% identical to cross-squad — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.copilot/skills/cross-squad/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Context

When an organization runs multiple Squad instances (e.g., platform-squad, frontend-squad, data-squad), those squads need to discover each other, share context, and hand off work across repository boundaries. This skill teaches agents how to coordinate across squads without creating tight coupling.

Cross-squad orchestration applies when:

  • A task requires capabilities owned by another squad
  • An architectural decision affects multiple squads
  • A feature spans multiple repositories with different squads
  • A squad needs to request infrastructure, tooling, or support from another squad

Patterns

Discovery via Manifest

Each squad publishes a .squad/manifest.json declaring its name, capabilities, and contact information. Squads discover each other through:

  1. Well-known paths: Check .squad/manifest.json in known org repos
  2. Upstream config: Squads already listed in .squad/upstream.json are checked for manifests
  3. Explicit registry: A central squad-registry.json can list all squads in an org
{
  "name": "platform-squad",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Platform infrastructure team",
  "capabilities": ["kubernetes", "helm", "monitoring", "ci-cd"],
  "contact": {
    "repo": "org/platform",
    "labels": ["squad:platform"]
  },
  "accepts": ["issues", "prs"],
  "skills": ["helm-developer", "operator-developer", "pipeline-engineer"]
}

Context Sharing

When delegating work, share only what the target squad needs:

  • Capability list: What this squad can do (from manifest)
  • Relevant decisions: Only decisions that affect the target squad
  • Handoff context: A concise description of why this work is being delegated

Do NOT share:

  • Internal team state (casting history, session logs)
  • Full decision archives (send only relevant excerpts)
  • Authentication credentials or secrets

Work Handoff Protocol

  1. Check manifest: Verify the target squad accepts the work type (issues, PRs)
  2. Create issue: Use gh issue create in the target repo with:
    • Title: [cross-squad] <description>
    • Label: squad:cross-squad (or the squad's configured label)
    • Body: Context, acceptance criteria, and link back to originating issue
  3. Track: Record the cross-squad issue URL in the originating squad's orchestration log
  4. Poll: Periodically check if the delegated issue is closed/completed

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 4d ago First seen · 115 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 8536742a495b

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cross-squad is a skill published in the GitHub repository webmaxru/is-ai-native (5 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,082 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to cross-squad, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.