team-topology SKILL.md skillA
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team-topology from cotal-ai/cotal is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cotal-ai/cotal/team-topology@git:20261004.8a9d279Pins git:20261004.8a9d279 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cotal-ai/cotal
- Path
claude-plugin/cotal-skills/skills/team-topology/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261004.8a9d279, committed Oct 4, 2026
- Size
- 11,416 bytes
- Repository stars
- 380
- License
- Apache-2.0
Define a multi-agent team for ANY task on ANY system as an explicit deployment topology - pick the shape from the task's dominant risk, specify the runtime/communication/trust layers, place model capability by lane, present it as a diagram + table + trust-boundary note + open choices, and deploy ONLY after the user agrees to the proposed shape. Use when the user asks to "define/design/lay out the team", "what topology are we deploying", "how should the agents be arranged…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Team topology A method for defining a multi-agent team for a task as an explicit topology: not "spawn some agents" but a legible deployment you can draw, hand off, and reason about. Who runs where, who talks to whom, what each node can touch, which model sits in which seat. Substrate-agnostic: the same method applies to a Cotal mesh, harness subagents, workflow stages, or plain processes. ## When to use - The user asks to **define / design / lay out** a team or formation, or asks **"what topology?"**. - You are about to stand up more than one or two agents and want them arranged deliberately. - You need to communicate a running deployment in a scannable form. ## Step 1: pick the shape from the dominant risk A topology is a defense against the way the task fails by default. Name the task's **dominant risk**, then pick the shape that structurally prevents it: | Task type | Dominant risk | Shape | |---|---|---| | audit / review / research | missed findings, groupthink | **hub-and-spoke fan-out**: independent finder lanes, an adversarial verify tier, coordinator synthesizes | …
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How to install
mdr add cotal-ai/cotal/team-topology@sha256:43125706c1adacf1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261004.8a9d279, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 4, 2026.
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Source
cotal-ai/cotal · 380 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bpwgtlvb2eeia3dt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cotal-ai/cotal/team-topology GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/43125706c1adacf14eeabec086d18cc2519c4c2817849b838c2e2240a9f42ce7
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