Open Agent Teams

by AI-Builder-Club

Open Agent Teams is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by AI-Builder-Club in skills.

1.2K stars153 forkson AI-Builder-Club/skillsAdded 2026/08/20Repository updated 2026/07/27

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Install Open Agent Teams

Copy Open Agent Teams into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/AI-Builder-Club/skills/tree/main/skills/open-agent-teams ~/.claude/skills/open-agent-teams

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/AI-Builder-Club/skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/open-agent-teams/SKILL.md in AI-Builder-Club/skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/open-agent-teams
Collection: One of 10 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Open Agent Teams does

Open Agent Teams delegates tasks to any CLI agent (Claude, Codex, Aider, etc.) running in a detached tmux session, using file sentinels for race-safe completion signaling and multi-turn iteration. Use it when delegating work to a non-Claude CLI agent or running executor work in an observable background terminal.

Open Agent Teams is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Open Agent Teams comes from a repository tagged agent-harness, agent-skills, ai-agents, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

open-agent-teams

Run any CLI agent as an executor inside a detached tmux session. Communication is: prompt in via CLI arg / send-keys, completion out via a file sentinel the agent touches, summary out via a result file the agent writes. File sentinels are used instead of tmux wait-for because a wait-for -S with no waiter is silently lost; files never race and allow timeouts.

All commands via the helper (make sure it runs from the skill dir):

SKILL_DIR/scripts/tdel

Initial setup (once per repo)

If the repo's CLAUDE.md (or AGENT.md) has no delegation rules yet, add the contents of references/CLAUDE.delegation-template.md to it — it defines the coordinator/executor roles and the ROLE: EXECUTOR prompt marker used below.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Open Agent Teams provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/exit
/quit

Frequently asked about Open Agent Teams

What else does AI-Builder-Club publish alongside Open Agent Teams?
Open Agent Teams is one of 10 skills that DirSkills catalogs from AI-Builder-Club/skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Context Audit, Codebase Harness Setup and Crabbox Setup. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Open Agent Teams does, and is maintained by AI-Builder-Club in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the AI-Builder-Club/skills page.
How does Open Agent Teams compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Open Agent Teams ranks #1173 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Open Agent Teams against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.