agent-types

agent-types is a skill for Claude Code from zircote-plugins/claude-team-orchestration. It costs 56 tokens per session (3,325 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to choosing specialized coding agents, such as agents for reading code, planning designs, running shell commands, or reviewing security. It also describes built-in and plugin-provided agent types.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to match tasks with suitable agents, including code exploration, architecture planning, command execution, implementation, security review, code-quality checks, and simplification.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork when assigning work to agents with different tools and purposes. It also notes that agent teams are experimental and disabled by default.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the NotebookEdit tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the swarm plugin — 10 skills, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to match tasks with suitable agents, including code exploration, architecture planning, command execution, implementation, security review, code-quality checks, and simplification.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zircote-plugins/claude-team-orchestration/agent-types
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 zircote-plugins/claude-team-orchestration --skill agent-types
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zircote-plugins/claude-team-orchestration

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install swarm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 5 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for agent-types

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zircote-plugins/claude-team-orchestration/agent-types"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zircote-plugins/claude-team-orchestration/agent-types.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,325 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 $0.00056 $0.03325
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01663
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00665
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00332

Measured 7d ago against content hash 97b634c10cda, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-types 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 7d 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-types/SKILL.md · 363 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 363 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Types

Experimental: Agent teams are disabled by default. Enable with CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS in your settings.json or environment.

Choose the right agent type for each role in your team. Agent types determine what tools are available and what the agent is optimized for.

Related skills:


Agent Type Selection Guide

Need Agent Type Why
Search/read code Explore Read-only, fast, cheap (haiku)
Architecture design Plan Read-only, thoughtful analysis
Run commands/git Bash Shell access only
Multi-step implementation general-purpose Full tool access
Claude Code questions claude-code-guide Docs and web access
Security review sdlc:security-reviewer Vulnerability assessment, secure coding
Code quality review sdlc:quality-enforcer Formatting, linting, code style
Code simplification code-simplifier:code-simplifier Clarity, consistency, minimalism
Architecture analysis refactor:architect Design review, optimization planning
Best practices research adr:adr-researcher Codebase analysis + web research
Deep code exploration feature-dev:code-explorer Trace execution paths, map architecture
Code review feature-dev:code-reviewer Bugs, logic errors, conventions
Source code chunk analysis swarm:rlm-code-analyzer Code-aware, scope context, analysis focus
Data/CSV chunk analysis swarm:rlm-data-analyzer Column-aware, distributions, statistics
JSON chunk analysis swarm:rlm-json-analyzer Schema-aware, structural patterns
General chunk-level analysis swarm:rlm-chunk-analyzer Haiku, fast, structured JSON output
Synthesize chunk findings swarm:rlm-synthesizer Sonnet, aggregation and deduplication

Read the full file on GitHub · 363 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. 7d ago First seen · 363 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 97b634c10cda

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-types is a skill published in the GitHub repository zircote-plugins/claude-team-orchestration (14 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 3,325 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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