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launching-agent-teams

Launches agent teams with structured roles and task decomposition. Use when asked to create a team, spawn teammates, or coordinate multiple agents in parallel.

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Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A tightly written, well-structured instruction skill: concrete commands and checklists, an approval-gated launch sequence, and excellent progressive disclosure into verified reference files. The gaps are modest — some redundancy in the principles section, no sample spawn prompt or creation command, and no post-launch verification/synthesis step.

Suggestions

Add a short example spawn prompt (files owned, context, definition of done) to make the richest guidance immediately copy-adaptable.

Extend the launch sequence with a final step for monitoring teammates, reviewing their output, and synthesizing results before cleanup.

Trim the "Parallel Work Principles" section to the points not already covered by "Decompose Into Roles" and "Write Rich Spawn Prompts".

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Conciseness

The body is lean and assumes competence — "Teammates do NOT inherit the lead's conversation history" and the anti-patterns list are non-obvious, earned knowledge with no padding of basic concepts. It falls just short of anchor 5 because the "Parallel Work Principles" section partially restates guidance already given in "Write Rich Spawn Prompts" (rich context, task sizing) in a more philosophical register.

4 / 5

Actionability

Most guidance is executable: exact bash commands ("python ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/update-docs.py", "tmux kill-session -t <session-name>"), a copy-paste JSON env block, and concrete checklists for spawn prompts and team structure. It misses anchor 5 because the core action — actually creating the team and spawning a teammate — has no concrete example (e.g., a sample spawn prompt or the exact creation command), leaving a minor gap.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The six numbered steps give a clear sequence with explicit checkpoints ("If the flag isn't set, tell the user and offer to add it", "Present the proposed team structure to the user for approval before spawning") and error recovery for orphaned tmux sessions. It sits below anchor 5 because the flow ends at team creation — there is no step for monitoring progress, verifying teammate output, or synthesizing results, and plan approval is only mentioned outside the sequence.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

SKILL.md is a concise overview with all deep detail split into two real, verified one-level-deep reference files, each clearly signaled with its purpose in a Reference section ("Complete agent teams documentation", "Subagents documentation (for comparison and configuration)"), plus a working maintenance script. This matches anchor 5: content appropriately split with easy navigation and no nested references.

5 / 5

Total

17

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20

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A well-formed description with an explicit what-and-when structure and natural trigger phrases. Its main weaknesses are that the capability statement stays at a moderately abstract level and the trigger list misses a few common synonyms, leaving slight overlap risk with adjacent multi-agent skills.

Suggestions

Make the capability statement more concrete by naming additional operations the skill covers, e.g. "Launches agent teams, defines teammate roles, assigns tasks with dependencies, and manages team cleanup."

Broaden trigger coverage with synonyms users naturally say, such as "agent teams", "multi-agent", or "work in parallel".

Sharpen distinctiveness by hinting at the teams-vs-subagents boundary in the description, e.g. "Use when teammates need to communicate with each other, not just report back."

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Specificity

"Launches agent teams with structured roles and task decomposition" names the domain and two actions, but "structured roles" and "task decomposition" are abstract characterizations rather than the concrete operations (e.g., team management, task assignment, cleanup) the skill actually covers. It matches anchor 3 ("Names domain and 1-2 concrete actions, but not comprehensive") better than anchor 4, whose examples list several tangible, distinct operations.

3 / 5

Completeness

The description explicitly answers both questions: what ("Launches agent teams with structured roles and task decomposition") and when, with concrete trigger phrases ("Use when asked to create a team, spawn teammates, or coordinate multiple agents in parallel"). This mirrors the anchor 5 example structure and clearly exceeds anchor 4, whose "when" is generic.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

"Use when asked to create a team, spawn teammates, or coordinate multiple agents in parallel" contains natural phrases users would say ("create a team", "spawn teammates", "coordinate multiple agents"). It stops short of anchor 5 because common synonyms like "agent teams", "multi-agent", "parallelize", or "workers" are absent, though coverage is otherwise good.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Terms like "team", "teammates", and "agent teams" carve out a clear niche with minimal confusion risk, but "coordinate multiple agents in parallel" could also plausibly trigger a subagent-orchestration skill. This is minor overlap with a closely related skill, matching anchor 4 rather than anchor 5's "minimal conflict risk".

4 / 5

Total

16

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20

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Validation

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository

saski/arnesto

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