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Agent skill

Squad Help

by kubefleet-dev in kubefleet-dev/kubefleet

How to actually use Squad — Squad is a custom Copilot agent (invoked via the task tool with agenttype='Squad'), not a skill.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Squad Help

skills CLI
$ npx skills add kubefleet-dev/kubefleet --skill squad-help -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install kubefleet-dev/kubefleet squad-help --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/kubefleet-dev/kubefleet.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.github/skills/squad-help .claude/skills/squad-help && 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
squad-help
GitHub stars
162
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1k tokens
SKILL.md length
519 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
11
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

How to actually use Squad — Squad is a custom Copilot agent (invoked via the task tool with agenttype='Squad'), not a skill.

  • Agent Workflows work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Squad is a custom agent, not a…, How to actually use Squad, What NOT to do and How this skill was discovered, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Squad Help is an agent skill from kubefleet-dev/kubefleet. How to actually use Squad — Squad is a custom Copilot agent (invoked via the task tool with agenttype='Squad'), not a skill. This file explains the right invocation paths for setting up a team, listing squad commands, and initializing Squad in a new project.

Its SKILL.md is about 1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Agent Workflows. The repository describes itself as: KubeFleet is an open-source Kubernetes multi-cluster application management solution. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Agent Workflows work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/squad-help”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ea05fcb. 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

Squad Help loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 68 tokens; SKILL.md has 519 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~68
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1k

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 kubefleet-dev/kubefleet at commit ea05fcb, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© kubefleet-dev). 519 words, ~1,043 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/squad-help/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
squad-help
description
How to actually use Squad — Squad is a custom Copilot agent (invoked via the task tool with agent_type='Squad'), not a skill. This file explains the right invocation paths for setting up a team, listing squad commands, and initializing Squad in a new project.
confidence
high
domain
squad-onboarding

Skill: squad-help

Quick reference. If you're reading this because a user said "use squad" or "squad" or "set up a squad", you're in the right place — read on for the correct invocation paths.

Squad is a custom agent, not a skill

The Squad framework registers a custom Copilot CLI agent at .github/agents/squad.agent.md. The agent is named Squad and its description is "Your AI team. Describe what you're building, get a team of specialists that live in your repo."

Copilot CLI agents and skills are different things:

ThingHow to invokeExample
Skillskill(name) tool call or natural-language matchskill(squad-commands)
Agenttask tool with agent_type=<name>task(name="...", agent_type="Squad", prompt="...")
Slash commandBuilt-in CLI keyword/agent, /skills, /mcp

Calling skill(Squad) will fail with "Skill not found: Squad" because Squad is the agent, not a skill. (/squad as a slash command also does not exist — only built-in CLI keywords like /agent, /skills, /mcp are slash commands. There's no way to map a skill name to a slash command without a Copilot CLI feature change.)

How to actually use Squad

Pick the path that matches the user's intent:

A) Invoke the Squad coordinator agent (most common)

The Squad coordinator orchestrates a team of specialists. It routes work to the right agent, scaffolds a team if none exists, and enforces handoffs.

text
task(
  name="<short-task-name>",
  agent_type="Squad",
  prompt="<what you want the team to do>"
)

Use this when the user says things like:

  • "Use Squad to build X"
  • "Set up an AI team for this project"
  • "Have the Squad coordinator design Y"
  • "Spawn Squad" / "Squad, help me with ..."
B) See what Squad commands exist

The squad-commands skill is a categorized catalog of common Squad operations. The coordinator presents it as an interactive menu.

Trigger by natural-language match: "squad commands", "what can squad do", "show me squad options", "slash commands", "what commands are available".

Use this when the user says things like:

  • "What can Squad do?"
  • "Show me the squad commands"
  • "squad help"
Show full SKILL.md (207 more words)Show less
C) Initialize Squad in a fresh project

squad init is a shell command, not a tool call. The user runs it in their terminal in a project that has no .squad/ directory yet.

bash
squad init

Do not try to invoke this from inside an existing Copilot session — .squad/ is already initialized if you're reading this file.

What NOT to do

  • ❌ Do not call skill(Squad), skill(squad), or skill(squad-coordinator) — Squad is not a skill.
  • ❌ Do not type /squad expecting a slash command — slash commands are CLI keywords, not skill names. Use /agent (browse) or invoke the Squad agent via the task tool.
  • ❌ Do not call task(agent_type="Squad", …) for tiny tasks the current agent can handle directly. Squad is for work that needs orchestration; trivial edits do not.

How this skill was discovered

This skill ships from the Squad SDK templates and is wired into MANIFEST_SKILL_NAMES. It lives at .copilot/skills/squad-help/SKILL.md so the Copilot CLI's /skills loader picks it up alongside the other bundled Squad skills.

If you removed this skill on purpose, the model will fall back to its own reasoning and may make the lookup mistakes described above.

See also

  • .github/agents/squad.agent.md — the actual Squad coordinator agent
  • .copilot/skills/squad-commands/SKILL.md — the command catalog
  • .copilot/skills/squad-conventions/SKILL.md — conventions for working on the Squad codebase itself
  • .copilot/skills/squad-version-check/SKILL.md — version-stamping mechanics

© kubefleet-dev, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .github/skills/squad-help of kubefleet-dev/kubefleet.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ea05fcb

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in kubefleet-dev/kubefleet, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Categories

Questions about Squad Help

What does Squad Help do?

How to actually use Squad — Squad is a custom Copilot agent (invoked via the task tool with agenttype='Squad'), not a skill. Squad Help is an agent skill from kubefleet-dev/kubefleet. How to actually use Squad — Squad is a custom Copilot agent (invoked via the task tool with agenttype='Squad'), not a skill.

When should I use Squad Help?

Squad Help fits situations like: agent Workflows work in your project.

How do I install Squad Help in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add kubefleet-dev/kubefleet --skill squad-help -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.github/skills/squad-help in kubefleet-dev/kubefleet) into .claude/skills/squad-help in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Squad Help in Codex?

Run `npx skills add kubefleet-dev/kubefleet --skill squad-help -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.github/skills/squad-help in kubefleet-dev/kubefleet) into .agents/skills/squad-help in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Squad Help 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 kubefleet-dev/kubefleet --skill squad-help -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/squad-help, .gemini/skills/squad-help, .github/skills/squad-help and .opencode/skills/squad-help in your project.

What does Squad Help need to run?

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

Does Squad Help 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 Squad Help 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 Squad Help use?

Squad Help is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Squad Help use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Squad Help?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Squad Help: MCP Server Builder (anthropics/skills, 180k stars), Hook Development for Claude Code Plugins (anthropics/claude-plugins-official, 38k stars), Using Superpowers (farm-fe/farm, 5.6k stars) and Executing Plans Inline (obra/superpowers, 296k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Squad Help?

kubefleet-dev (a GitHub organization) maintains it in kubefleet-dev/kubefleet, which has 162 GitHub stars. The repository holds 11 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

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