agent-collaboration Skill

Source

• Creator: microsoft
• Repository: microsoft/aitour26-BRK445-building-enterprise-ready-ai-agents-with-microsoft-foundry
• Skill file: .squad/templates/skills/agent-collaboration/SKILL.md

What it does

Standard collaboration patterns for all squad agents — worktree awareness, decisions, cross-agent communication

Skill instructions

Context Every agent on the team follows identical collaboration patterns for worktree awareness, decision recording, and cross-agent communication. These were previously duplicated in every charter's Collaboration section (~300 bytes × 18 agents = ~5.4KB of redundant context). Now centralized here. The coordinator's spawn prompt already instructs agents to read decisions.md and their history.md. This skill adds the patterns for WRITING decisions and requesting help. Patterns Worktree Awareness Use the TEAM ROOT path provided in your spawn prompt. All .squad/ paths are relative to this root. If TEAM ROOT is not provided (rare), run git rev-parse --show-toplevel as fallback. Never assume CWD is the repo root. Decision Recording After making a decision that affects other team members, write it to: .squad/decisions/inbox/{your-name}-{brief-slug}.md Format: {date}: {decision title} By: {Your Name} What: {the decision} Why: {rationale} Cross-Agent Communication If you need another team membe