Team Communication Protocols

Team Communication Protocols is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by wshobson in agents.

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Install Team Communication Protocols

Copy Team Communication Protocols 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/wshobson/agents/tree/main/plugins/agent-teams/skills/team-communication-protocols ~/.claude/skills/team-communication-protocols

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/wshobson/agents.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/agent-teams/skills/team-communication-protocols/SKILL.md in wshobson/agents
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/team-communication-protocols
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Team Communication Protocols does

Team Communication Protocols defines messaging rules for agent teams: when to use direct messages, broadcasts, plan approvals, and shutdown requests, plus anti-patterns to avoid.

Team Communication Protocols is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Team Communication Protocols comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-ai, agents, ai-agents and anthropic.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Team Communication Protocols

Protocols for effective communication between agent teammates, including message type selection, plan approval workflows, shutdown procedures, and common anti-patterns to avoid.

When to Use This Skill

Establishing communication norms for a new team
Choosing between message types (message, broadcast, shutdown_request)
Handling plan approval workflows
Managing graceful team shutdown
Discovering teammate identities and capabilities

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

Frequently asked about Team Communication Protocols

What else does wshobson publish alongside Team Communication Protocols?
Team Communication Protocols is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from wshobson/agents, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Design Principles, Architecture Patterns and Before You Build. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Team Communication Protocols does, and is maintained by wshobson in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the wshobson/agents page.
How does Team Communication Protocols compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Team Communication Protocols ranks #129 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 Team Communication Protocols against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.