squad-help SKILL.md skillA
squad-help from microsoft/waza is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add microsoft/waza/squad-help@git:20261016.42d1b9fPins git:20261016.42d1b9f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- microsoft/waza
- Path
.github/skills/squad-help/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261016.42d1b9f, committed Oct 16, 2026
- Size
- 4,246 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,424
- License
- MIT
How to use the Squad coordinator agent and the separate squad menu skill, with host-dependent discovery and slash-command support.
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
# Skill: squad-help > **Quick reference.** If you're reading this because a user said "use squad" or "squad" or "set up a squad", you're in the right place — read on for the correct invocation paths. --- ## Squad coordinator and squad menu skill The Squad framework registers a **custom Copilot CLI agent** at `.github/agents/squad.agent.md`. The agent is named **`Squad`** and its description is *"Your AI team. Describe what you're building, get a team of specialists that live in your repo."* Copilot CLI agents and skills are different things: | Thing | How to invoke | Example | |---|---|---| | **Menu skill** | Host skill tool, natural-language match, or exposed skill command | `skill(squad)` when available | | **Agent** | `task` tool with `agent_type=<name>` | `task(name="...", agent_type="Squad", prompt="...")` | | **Slash command** | Host-dependent built-in command or exposed user-invocable skill | `/squad` when the host exposes the installed menu | The `Squad` agent performs coordination; the separate `squad` menu skill lives at `.github/skills/squad/SKILL.md` and declares `user-invocable: true`. They are not …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add microsoft/waza/squad-help@sha256:35cb2e9b863423a0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.42d1b9f, 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 16, 2026.
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Source
microsoft/waza · 1,424 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ruhxinvjo5i25jyh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/waza/squad-help GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/35cb2e9b863423a014117ae2e17fea9597b4e0989265eeaca62d5b36a47410f3
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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