Agent skill

Kandev Team Admin

by kdlbs in kdlbs/kandev

Manage the Office roster when delegating work, hiring agents, changing budgets or concurrency, retiring agents, or checking spend before approvals.

AGPL-3.0Auto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Kandev Team Admin

skills CLI
$ npx skills add kdlbs/kandev --skill kandev-team-admin -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install kdlbs/kandev kandev-team-admin --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kdlbs/kandev.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/apps/backend/internal/office/configloader/skills/kandev-team-admin .claude/skills/kandev-team-admin && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
kandev-team-admin
GitHub stars
909
Token cost
~285 tokens
SKILL.md length
111 words
Files
5 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
45
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
AGPL-3.0

At a glance

Manage the Office roster when delegating work, hiring agents, changing budgets or concurrency, retiring agents, or checking spend before approvals.

  • Productivity & Automation work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers First checks, Common actions and Guardrails
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Kandev Team Admin is an agent skill from kdlbs/kandev. Manage the Office roster when delegating work, hiring agents, changing budgets or concurrency, retiring agents, or checking spend before approvals.

Its SKILL.md is about 290 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including reference files (for example `references/agent-edit.md`, `references/budget.md` and `references/hiring.md`).

It sits in Productivity & Automation. The repository describes itself as: AI Kanban & Development Environment. Orchestrate multiple agents, review changes, open PRs. Multi-provider, self-hostable, no telemetry. The licence is AGPL-3.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Productivity & Automation work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/kandev-team-admin”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bd63da3. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are bash).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Kandev Team Admin loads about 285 tokens when it runs, and up to ~878 if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 41 tokens; SKILL.md has 111 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~41
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~285
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~878

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from kdlbs/kandev at commit bd63da3, republished under its AGPL-3.0 licence (© kdlbs). 111 words, ~285 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/kandev-team-admin/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 4 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
kandev-team-admin
description
Manage the Office roster when delegating work, hiring agents, changing budgets or concurrency, retiring agents, or checking spend before approvals.
kandev.system
true
kandev.version
0.42.0
kandev.default_for_roles
ceo

Team Admin

Use this skill when you need fresh organization state or need to change the agent roster.

First checks

bash
$KANDEV_CLI kandev agents list
$KANDEV_CLI kandev budget get

Before hiring, confirm no existing idle specialist or worker already fits. Before approving budget grants, check workspace and per-agent spend.

Common actions

  • List and inspect agents: read references/team.md.
  • Hire a new worker, specialist, assistant, or reviewer: read references/hiring.md.
  • Rename, cap, or retire an agent: read references/agent-edit.md.
  • Review workspace or per-agent spend: read references/budget.md.

Guardrails

  • Do not hire for one-off work that an existing agent can handle.
  • Do not assign work to agents in pending_approval.
  • Do not silently pause or cap an over-budget agent. Leave a task comment explaining the reason first.

© kdlbs, AGPL-3.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files (references) in apps/backend/internal/office/configloader/skills/kandev-team-admin of kdlbs/kandev.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/agent-edit.md
  • references/budget.md
  • references/hiring.md
  • references/team.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bd63da3

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Questions about Kandev Team Admin

What does Kandev Team Admin do?

Manage the Office roster when delegating work, hiring agents, changing budgets or concurrency, retiring agents, or checking spend before approvals. Kandev Team Admin is an agent skill from kdlbs/kandev. Manage the Office roster when delegating work, hiring agents, changing budgets or concurrency, retiring agents, or checking spend before approvals.

When should I use Kandev Team Admin?

Kandev Team Admin fits situations like: productivity & Automation work in your project.

How do I install Kandev Team Admin in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add kdlbs/kandev --skill kandev-team-admin -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (apps/backend/internal/office/configloader/skills/kandev-team-admin in kdlbs/kandev) into .claude/skills/kandev-team-admin in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Kandev Team Admin in Codex?

Run `npx skills add kdlbs/kandev --skill kandev-team-admin -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (apps/backend/internal/office/configloader/skills/kandev-team-admin in kdlbs/kandev) into .agents/skills/kandev-team-admin in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Kandev Team Admin in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add kdlbs/kandev --skill kandev-team-admin -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/kandev-team-admin, .gemini/skills/kandev-team-admin, .github/skills/kandev-team-admin and .opencode/skills/kandev-team-admin in your project.

What does Kandev Team Admin need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Kandev Team Admin is instructions for the agent only.

Does Kandev Team Admin access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Kandev Team Admin safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Kandev Team Admin use?

Kandev Team Admin is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Kandev Team Admin use?

About 285 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 593 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Kandev Team Admin?

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Who maintains Kandev Team Admin?

kdlbs (a GitHub organization) maintains it in kdlbs/kandev, which has 909 GitHub stars. The repository holds 45 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: kdlbs/kandev on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.