Cloud & DevOps Agent Skills for Cloud Operations

Coordinating work across multiple Squad instances

How to coordinate with squads on different machines using git as transport

Shifts Layer 3 model selection to cost-optimized alternatives when economy mode is active.

Standard recovery patterns for all squad agents. When something fails, adapt — don't just report the failure.

Standard recovery patterns for all squad agents. When something fails, adapt — don't just report the failure.

PAO workflow for scanning, drafting, and presenting community responses with human review gate

Safely manage multiple GitHub identities (EMU + personal) in agent workflows

Detect and set up account-locked gh aliases for multi-account GitHub. The AI reads this skill, detects accounts, asks the user which is personal/work, and runs

Record final outcomes to history.md, not intermediate requests or reversed decisions

Tone enforcement patterns for external-facing community responses

Team initialization flow (Phase 1 proposal + Phase 2 creation)

Max-3-cycle protocol for agent sub-tasks with WHY context and coordinator validation. Use when spawning sub-agents to complete scoped work.

Determines which LLM model to use for each agent spawn.

Context hygiene — compress, prune, archive .squad/ state

Route agent notifications to specific channels by type — prevent alert fatigue from single-channel flooding

Teaches agents to reply to PR review comment threads after fixing issues, making resolutions traceable

Capture Playwright screenshots and embed them in GitHub PR descriptions

Core conventions and patterns for this codebase

Learning capture system that extracts HIGH/MED/LOW confidence patterns from conversations to prevent repeating mistakes. Use after user corrections ("no", "wron

Earned knowledge from the v0.9.0→v0.9.1 incident. Every agent involved in releases MUST read this before starting release work.

Team-wide charter and history optimization through skill extraction

Ensure retrospectives happen on schedule and that their action items are tracked in GitHub Issues — not markdown checklists.

Reviewer rejection workflow and strict lockout semantics

Reviewer rejection workflow and strict lockout semantics

Never read .env files or write secrets to .squad/ committed files

Never read .env files or write secrets to .squad/ committed files

Find and resume interrupted Copilot CLI sessions using sessionstore queries

Find and resume interrupted Copilot CLI sessions using sessionstore queries

Core conventions and patterns used in the Squad codebase

Core conventions and patterns used in the Squad codebase

Manifest-driven git submodule pattern for large, optional locally-run apps: register the gitlink at a pinned SHA, defer the actual clone to a lazy helper script

Update tests when changing APIs — no exceptions

Update tests when changing APIs — no exceptions

Semver versioning rules for Squad SDK and CLI — prevents prerelease version incidents

Cross-platform path handling and command patterns