Agent Skill
Team Communication Protocols skill
team-communication-protocolswshobson/agentsplugins/agent-teams/skills/team-communication-protocols/SKILL.md
Structured messaging protocols for agent team communication including message type selection, plan approval, shutdown procedures, and anti-patterns to avoid. Use this skill when establishing communication norms for a newly spawned team, when deciding whether to send a direct message or a broadcast, when a team-lead needs to review and approve an implementer's plan before work begins, when orchestrating a graceful team shutdown after all tasks are complete, or when debugging why teammates are not coordinating correctly at integration points.
always on
101 tokname + description
once used
1,459 tokSKILL.md body
bundled files
12 KB
repo stars
42kGitHub
Install the Team Communication Protocols skill
Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)
npx skills add https://github.com/wshobson/agents --skill team-communication-protocols
Claude Code, by hand (all projects)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git /tmp/agents mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -R /tmp/agents/plugins/agent-teams/skills/team-communication-protocols ~/.claude/skills/team-communication-protocols
For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.
What it costs your context
Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.
| When | What loads | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Every session | Name and description | 101 tok |
| When the agent uses it | The SKILL.md instructions | 1,459 tok |
| Only if opened | 1 bundled files (2 KB) | varies |
Until it is used, team-communication-protocols costs about 13× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 150 skills from wshobson/agents would load 7,688 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study
Checks
Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.
Checked 2026-10-22 · method
What's inside
The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.
- Team Communication Protocols
- When to Use This Skill
- Message Type Selection
- message (Direct Message) — Default Choice
- broadcast — Use Sparingly
- shutdownrequest — Graceful Termination
- Communication Anti-Patterns
- Plan Approval Workflow
- Shutdown Protocol
- Graceful Shutdown Sequence
- Handling Rejections
- Teammate Discovery
- Troubleshooting
- Related Skills
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