Agent skill

Team Stack

by NikiforovAll in NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules

Analyze a task, propose an agent team composition with roles and responsibilities, and create the team after user confirmation.

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Install Team Stack

skills CLI
$ npx skills add NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules --skill team-stack -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules team-stack --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/NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/handbook-team-stack/skills/team-stack .claude/skills/team-stack && 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
team-stack
GitHub stars
141
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
619 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
26
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Analyze a task, propose an agent team composition with roles and responsibilities, and create the team after user confirmation.

  • Works in 4 steps: Analyze the Task → Propose Team Stack → Confirm with User → …
  • The user says team stack
  • SKILL.md covers Phase 1: Analyze the Task, Phase 2: Propose Team Stack, Phase 3: Confirm with User and Phase 4: Create the Team, plus 1 more section
  • Calls git

What it does

Team Stack is an agent skill from NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules. Analyze a task, propose an agent team composition with roles and responsibilities, and create the team after user confirmation. Use when the user says "team stack", "create a team", "set up agents for this", or describes a complex task that would benefit from multiple agents working together.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Learn practical techniques to enhance your AI-assisted development workflow with Claude Code. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • The user says team stack
  • Set up agents for this
  • Describes a complex task that would benefit from multiple agents working together

Example prompts

  • “team stack”
  • “create a team”
  • “set up agents for this”
  • “/team-stack”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Agent, AskUserQuestion, Bash(git diff *), Bash(git log *), Bash(git status *), Read, Grep, Glob, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, TaskList, TeamCreate, TeamDelete, SendMessage

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Analyze the Task
  2. Propose Team Stack
  3. Confirm with User
  4. Create the Team

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 281c063. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Agent
    • AskUserQuestion
    • Bash(git diff *)
    • Bash(git log *)
    • Bash(git status *)
    • Read
    • Grep
    • Glob
    • TaskCreate
    • TaskUpdate

    …and 4 more on the same allowed-tools line.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • git

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    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

Team Stack loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 619 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~76
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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 NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules at commit 281c063, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© NikiforovAll). 619 words, ~1,413 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/team-stack/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
team-stack
description
Analyze a task, propose an agent team composition with roles and responsibilities, and create the team after user confirmation. Use when the user says "team stack", "create a team", "set up agents for this", or describes a complex task that would benefit from multiple agents working together.
allowed-tools
Agent, AskUserQuestion, Bash(git diff *), Bash(git log *), Bash(git status *), Read, Grep, Glob, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, TaskList, TeamCreate, TeamDelete, SendMessage

Team Stack: Analyze, Propose, and Create Agent Teams

You help the user set up the right agent team for their task. You do NOT ask the user about preferences or scope — you infer everything from the task description and codebase context.

Phase 1: Analyze the Task

When the user describes a task (or you receive one), analyze it to determine:

  1. Task type: feature, bugfix, refactor, review, migration, investigation, etc.
  2. Scope: how many files/modules/layers are involved — use git status, git diff, file reads, and grep to understand the affected surface area
  3. Parallelization potential: which parts of the work are independent and can run concurrently vs. which have dependencies
  4. Risk level: does it touch critical paths, shared state, or public APIs
  5. Knowledge gaps: areas of the codebase or problem domain that are not yet well understood
Use Existing Context

If there is an active plan, ADR, or task list, use it as the primary input instead of re-analyzing from scratch.

Explore the Codebase

Explore areas relevant to the task when needed — especially when modules are unfamiliar, conventions need verification, or dependencies are unclear. Explore independent areas concurrently.

Do this analysis silently. Do NOT present it to the user as a separate step.

Phase 2: Propose Team Stack

Based on your analysis, propose a team. Present it to the user as a clear table:

## Proposed Team: <team-name>

| Role | Name | Responsibility | Isolation |
|------|------|---------------|-----------|
| ... | ... | ... | worktree / shared |

**Why this composition:** <1-2 sentences explaining the rationale>
Team Composition Guidelines

Pick the minimum viable team. Do not over-staff.

Solo agent (no team needed):

  • Simple, single-file changes
  • Quick fixes with obvious solutions
  • Suggest using a subagent instead and exit

2 agents:

  • Task has two clearly independent workstreams (e.g., frontend + backend, implementation + tests)

3 agents:

  • Task benefits from a builder/reviewer split (e.g., 2 builders + 1 reviewer)
  • Cross-layer work (e.g., API + service + tests)

4+ agents:

  • Large migrations, multi-module refactors, or parallel investigation of competing hypotheses
  • Each additional agent must have a clearly distinct responsibility
Role Types to Draw From

Choose roles that fit the task. These are examples, not a fixed menu:

  • implementer — writes the code for a specific module/layer
  • reviewer — cross-reviews artifacts produced by other agents
  • test-writer — writes/updates tests for the changes
  • investigator — researches codebase, finds patterns, reports findings
  • architect — designs the approach, reviews for consistency across agents' work
  • migrator — handles mechanical transformations across many files
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Isolation Decision
  • Use worktree when agents edit overlapping files or the same module
  • Use shared (no isolation) when agents work on completely separate file sets

Phase 3: Confirm with User

Present the proposal using AskUserQuestion. The user may:

  • Approve → proceed to Phase 4
  • Adjust → modify roles, add/remove agents, change responsibilities → re-present
  • Cancel → stop

Phase 4: Create the Team

After confirmation:

  1. Create the team with TeamCreate
  2. Create tasks for each agent using TaskCreate
  3. Spawn each agent using the Agent tool with:
    • A prompt structured with DoR and DoD sections (see below)
    • The name parameter matching the role name from the table
    • The team_name parameter so they join the same team
    • isolation: "worktree" if specified in the proposal
    • run_in_background: true for agents that can work in parallel
  4. Briefly confirm to the user that the team is running
Agent Prompt Structure: DoR / DoD

Every agent prompt MUST follow this structure:

## Definition of Ready (what you receive)

- <concrete input 1: e.g., "Diff of changed files: ...", "File to review: src/auth/login.ts", "Architecture decision: use repository pattern">
- <concrete input 2>
- ...

## Your Task

<what this agent must do — clear, scoped, actionable>

## Definition of Done (what you must deliver)

- <concrete output 1: e.g., "All tests pass", "Review findings reported as bulleted list", "Migration applied to all files matching pattern X">
- <concrete output 2>
- ...

When done, verify each DoD item before reporting completion.

DoR — what the agent starts with. Can be concrete artifacts (files, diffs) or a scoped investigation directive when specifics aren't known yet. Both are valid.

DoD — unambiguous completion criteria.

Important Rules

  • Minimum viable team — fewer agents doing more is better than many agents doing little
  • DoR/DoD in every prompt — no agent starts without clear inputs and expected outputs
  • Do NOT shut down the team — agents persist for follow-up. Ask the user before any shutdown.
  • Dynamic scaling — if during execution you notice a subtask that could be parallelized, suggest spawning an additional agent to the user.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/handbook-team-stack/skills/team-stack of NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 281c063

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Questions about Team Stack

What does Team Stack do?

Analyze a task, propose an agent team composition with roles and responsibilities, and create the team after user confirmation. Team Stack is an agent skill from NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules. Analyze a task, propose an agent team composition with roles and responsibilities, and create the team after user confirmation.

When should I use Team Stack?

Team Stack fits situations like: the user says team stack; set up agents for this; describes a complex task that would benefit from multiple agents working together.

How do I install Team Stack in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules --skill team-stack -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/handbook-team-stack/skills/team-stack in NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules) into .claude/skills/team-stack in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Team Stack in Codex?

Run `npx skills add NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules --skill team-stack -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/handbook-team-stack/skills/team-stack in NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules) into .agents/skills/team-stack in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Team Stack 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 NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules --skill team-stack -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/team-stack, .gemini/skills/team-stack, .github/skills/team-stack and .opencode/skills/team-stack in your project.

What does Team Stack need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Team Stack needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git). Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Agent, AskUserQuestion, Bash(git diff *), Bash(git log *), Bash(git status *), Read, Grep, Glob, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, TaskList, TeamCreate, TeamDelete, SendMessage.

Does Team Stack access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Team Stack 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 Team Stack use?

Team Stack 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 Team Stack use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Team Stack?

NikiforovAll (a GitHub user) maintains it in NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules, which has 141 GitHub stars. The repository holds 26 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 2, 2026.

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