using-agent-relay SKILL.md skillA

using-agent-relay from agentworkforce/relay is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add agentworkforce/relay/using-agent-relay@git:20261010.4722976

Pins git:20261010.4722976 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
agentworkforce/relay
Path
.agents/skills/using-agent-relay/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
7
Latest version
git:20261010.4722976, committed Oct 10, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 2, 2026
Size
8,253 bytes
Repository stars
1,087
License
Apache-2.0

Use when you are a registered relay agent (a spawned worker, or a lead that called register_agent) coordinating with peers in real time over current Agent Relay MCP tools - messaging, channels, threads, reactions, search, inbox, actions, and worker spawn/release. For role selection and orchestrator startup instructions, use https://agentrelay.com/skill and the orchestrating-agent-relay skill.

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

### Role Check

- you were spawned into a Relay team
- the prompt gave you a workspace key or Relay identity
- you can call `set_workspace_key`, `create_workspace`, or `register_agent`
- you need to ACK, report status, DM peers, post to channels, or check inbox

### Current MCP Tool Names

The current Agent Relay MCP server registers flat tool names. Use the final
tool name exactly as listed here.

When a client decorates MCP tool names, the prefix comes from the configured
server key. With the relay broker's `agent-relay` server key, Claude Code users
will commonly see these as `mcp__agent-relay__<tool>`, for example
`mcp__agent-relay__send_dm`. Codex and opencode users see the bare canonical
names, such as `send_dm`.

Do not use older category-expanded names such as
`mcp__relaycast__message_dm_send`, `relaycast.message.dm.send`, or
`message.post`.

### Workspace and Identity

| Tool                | Use                                                               |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `create_workspace`  | Create a workspace and store its workspace key in the MCP session |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add agentworkforce/relay/using-agent-relay@sha256:dbb87251a0b7dd41

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261010.4722976, 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 7 versions of this file, between Aug 2, 2026 and Oct 10, 2026, about one every 11 days.

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git:20260919.270f08c2026-09-19 270f08c 8,095 BA view · diff
git:20260821.b4aaf312026-08-21 b4aaf31 11,273 BA view · diff
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git:20260814.67b52ca2026-08-14 67b52ca 10,286 BA view · diff
git:20260802.3e403452026-08-02 3e40345 10,229 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8253 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

agentworkforce/relay · 1,087 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ciydvrt6nnasktsy
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=agentworkforce/relay/using-agent-relay
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dbb87251a0b7dd41ef7f60c01c84925ac3c6fd8f0bfa5de518c493e9cf90bfc3

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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