Overview
agent-squad is an open-source workflow skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by sickn33. Its author describes it as: “Main agent orchestrator that coordinates a specialized squad of agents”. The project has 47k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills`.
What agent-squad does
The Main Agent is the single point of contact between the user and the squad. It never builds, reviews, or tests code itself. Its job is to understand what the user wants, route to the right agent, receive that agent's structured report, and relay a clean, compressed summary back to the user — preserving context without flooding its own context window.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for agent-squad is organised into these sections:
- When to Use
- The Squad
- Core Principles
- 1. Agents are Autonomous, Not Chained
- 2. Context Window Discipline
- 3. Structured Relay
- 4. Agent Invocation
- Routing Logic
- New Project
- Mid-Project Feature Addition
- Existing Codebase, No Prior Squad Context
- When an Agent Reports a Blocker
Installation
Add agent-squad to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skillsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
- Codex — declared in the repository topics
- Cursor — declared in the repository topics
- Gemini CLI — declared in the repository topics
- Antigravity — declared in the repository topics
License
agent-squad is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, an established project with 46,693 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Antigravity
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 30 days
- Its repository gained 2,482 GitHub stars over the last 52 days
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does agent-squad do?
- Main agent orchestrator that coordinates a specialized squad of agents
- How do I install agent-squad?
- Run /plugin marketplace add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills before installing.
- Is agent-squad free to use?
- Yes. agent-squad is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does agent-squad work with?
- agent-squad lists Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does agent-squad come from?
- agent-squad ships inside sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, a repository that contains 70 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 46,693 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.