agent-teams-guide

agent-teams-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wittyreference/twilio-claude-plugin. It costs 14 tokens per session (577 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference for coordinating several Claude Code sessions as a team. It explains team setups for feature work, bug fixes, code reviews, refactoring, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to launch or plan multi-agent workflows for building features, investigating bugs, reviewing code, restructuring a project, or updating documents.
Why use it?
It helps you choose a coordination pattern and understand how parallel agents share messages and tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the twilio-claude-plugin plugin — 67 skills, 18 commands, 7 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

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/wittyreference/twilio-claude-plugin/agent-teams-guide
Any agent
npx skills add wittyreference/twilio-claude-plugin --skill agent-teams-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wittyreference/twilio-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install twilio-claude-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 67 skills, 18 commands, 7 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 577 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00014 $0.00577
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00289
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00058

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1c49390225cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-teams-guide 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.

skills/agent-teams-guide/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: agent-teams-guide description: Reference for agent team configurations and coordination. Use when launching /team, understanding teammate communication, or choosing between parallel workflows (new-feature, bug-fix, code-review, refactor, docs-update).

Agent Teams Guide

Agent Teams (experimental) coordinate multiple Claude Code instances for parallel work. Each teammate gets its own context window and can communicate via direct messaging and a shared task list.

How to Use

/team new-feature "Add SMS verification"
/team bug-fix "webhook returning 500 for empty body"
/team code-review functions/voice/
/team refactor functions/helpers/

Configurations

Team Structure Best For
new-feature Sequential build → parallel qa + review → docs Complex features
bug-fix 3 parallel investigators → fix → verify Debugging
code-review 3 parallel reviewers → cross-challenge Thorough review
refactor Parallel analysis → implement → parallel verify Restructuring
docs-update Parallel blind writers → parallel multi-lens reviewers → final editor Batch doc fixes, doc-gap remediation
validation Parallel domain validators → lead synthesizes Post-deploy E2E verification

Key Characteristics

  • Lead operates in delegate mode (coordination only, no direct coding)
  • Quality gates enforced via TeammateIdle and TaskCompleted hooks
  • Teammates share findings via messaging — not just results flowing one direction
  • ~2-3x token cost vs subagents — use for high-value tasks

When to Use Teams vs Subagents

Criteria Use Sequential Phases Use Teams (/team)
Task structure Sequential, clear phases Parallel or adversarial
Communication Results flow one direction Agents discuss findings
Context needs Shared context is fine Each agent needs fresh context
Token budget Tight Flexible (2-3x more)
Best for Routine features Bug debugging, code review, complex features

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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 · 65 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 1c49390225cc

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agent-teams-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository wittyreference/twilio-claude-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 577 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 2026-08-31.

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