Create Teammate

Use this skill when the workspace needs a new teammate identity, usually followed by one or more teammate-local skills and any prerequisite integration setup.

Responsibility Discovery Gate

Do not create a teammate from a job title alone.

Before you call teammates_create, make sure you understand the stable remit:

• what work this teammate should own by default
• what it should explicitly not own
• how it differs from the current roster
• what recurring situations should route to it
• what integrations, references, or recurring workflows the role depends on
• what durable local skill bundle is needed for the role to be effective immediately

If any of that is still vague, overlapping, or one-off:

• inspect the current teammate roster first, preferably with teammates_list
• infer what you can from the user's request and current workspace context
• ask only for the concrete missing responsibility details that block a durable definition
• do not create the teammate yet

Production Bootstrap Rule

Do not stop at a thin teammate profile.

When a new specialist teammate is warranted, provision it so it can do real work immediately:

• identify required integrations or connected apps
• ask the user to connect missing prerequisites instead of silently accepting a crippled setup
• synthesize a durable operating playbook from the role request and available workspace context
• create teammate-local skills when the role needs repeatable workflows, references, scripts, assets, or structured operating rules

Core Rules

1. Create the teammate record first with teammates_create.
2. Keep teammates_create focused on teammate metadata only:
   • name
   • durable instructions
   • capability_profile
3. Create teammate-local skills separately with teammate_skills_create.
4. Teammate-local skills live under teammates/<teammate-id>/skills/<skill-id>/.
5. Use teammate-local skills for reusable specialization that should follow that teammate across delegated runs. Do not create a skill for a one-off task brief.

Workflow

1. Decide whether a new teammate is warranted.
   • Create a new teammate only when the role has a stable remit that is meaningfully different from existing teammates.
   • If the behavior is temporary, task-specific, or already covered by an existing teammate, do not create a new one.
2. Capture the stable remit before creation.
   • Identify responsibilities, boundaries, default work, and non-goals.
   • Compare that remit against the existing roster so you do not create an overlapping teammate.
   • Use teammates_list for the authoritative live roster instead of guessing from file layout or stale memory.
   • If the remit is not durable enough to survive beyond the current task, stop and do not create the teammate.
3. Inspect prerequisites before creation.
   • Identify which integrations, connected apps, files, references, or workspace capabilities this teammate will rely on.
   • If the role depends on an integration that is missing or disconnected, ask the user to connect it before finalizing the teammate.
   • Do not pretend the teammate is production-ready if a critical prerequisite is still absent.
4. Synthesize the operating playbook.
   • Turn the role request into durable operating guidance, not just a title and a sentence.
   • Decide what should live in standing instructions versus a teammate-local skill bundle.
   • Default toward creating at least one teammate-local skill for specialist roles with repeatable workflows.
5. Define the teammate metadata.
   • name: concise role label
   • instructions: durable standing remit, not a one-off task
   • capability_profile.summary: one-line routing summary
   • capability_profile.capabilities: short stable tags such as research, frontend, implementation, ops
6. Call teammates_create.
7. Decide whether the teammate also needs a local skill bundle.
   • For specialist roles, the answer is usually yes.
   • Add a skill when the teammate needs repeatable workflow guidance, bundled scripts, references, assets, or structured operating rules.
8. If needed, call teammate_skills_create.
   • Prefer skill_markdown for the canonical SKILL.md
   • Add sidecar_files for scripts/, references/, assets/, agents/openai.yaml, or other text files
   • Add directories only when an empty directory is intentionally needed

Teammate Quality Bar

• The remit must be specific enough that another agent could predict when this teammate should or should not get the work.
• instructions should explain ownership, boundaries, default behavior, and readiness expectations.
• Avoid copying the same sentence into instructions, summary, and the skill body.
• Capabilities should be routing hints, not paragraphs.
• Prefer one strong teammate over several overlapping vague teammates.
• If the role depends on a missing integration or missing local workflow guidance, do not present it as finished.

Skill Quality Bar

1. The skill must have a valid SKILL.md with frontmatter:
   • name: <skill-id>
   • description: <one-line summary>
2. Keep SKILL.md concise.
3. Put detailed reference material into references/ instead of bloating SKILL.md.
4. Put deterministic helpers into scripts/.
5. Put templates or static resources into assets/.
6. If the skill needs tool or command widening, declare them in holaboss.granted_tools and holaboss.granted_commands.

Example Sequence

1. Inspect the roster and determine whether Twitter Researcher is a durable new role or overlaps an existing researcher.
2. Check whether the workspace has the required X/Twitter integration. If not, ask the user to connect it.
3. Call teammates_create with durable instructions and capability tags for the role.
4. Create a teammate-local twitter-research skill with:
   • skill_markdown
   • any reusable scripts the role needs
   • references such as sourcing policy, evaluation heuristics, and output expectations

Anti-Patterns

• Do not create a teammate before you understand its stable responsibilities.
• Do not create a teammate from a vague label like researcher or builder without defining ownership and boundaries.
• Do not ship a specialist teammate that obviously needs an integration but has no path to that integration.
• Do not stop at a one-paragraph teammate profile when the role needs reusable workflow guidance.
• Do not stuff a one-off task brief into teammate creation.
• Do not create a teammate-local skill when a plain instruction block is enough.
• Do not put teammate-local skills under shared workspace skills/.
• Do not overload the teammate with multiple overlapping skills when one coherent bundle will do.