skill-agent-topology SKILL.md skillA
skill-agent-topology from nyldn/claude-octopus is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-agent-topology@git:20260813.14437aePins git:20260813.14437ae in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nyldn/claude-octopus
- Path
.claude/skills/skill-agent-topology/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260813.14437ae, committed Aug 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 2, 2026
- Size
- 8,018 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4,265
- License
- MIT
Audit whether a multi-agent setup earns its coordination cost — use before adding an agent, or when a workflow feels slow or agents agree without adding signal.
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
# Agent Topology Audit Most advice about multi-agent systems is about how to add agents. This is about whether to. It audits a setup you already have, counts what each boundary between agents costs, and compares that against what the boundary buys. Removing an agent is a valid, and often the correct, result. The framing comes from Liu, Canhui (2026), *The Organizational Behavior of Agentic AI* ([arXiv:2606.30986](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30986)), which models coordination overhead as **contextual transaction cost** — the cost of making task context usable across an agent boundary. ## When To Use - Before adding another agent, seat, or phase to a workflow that already works. - When a workflow is slow and it is not obvious which part is earning its time. - When agents keep agreeing. Agreement that costs three dispatches and produces what one would have produced is overhead wearing the costume of consensus. - When a handoff keeps losing something and the fix keeps being "add more context to the prompt". - After a workflow produced a bad result and you want to know whether the topology or the models were at fault. ## When Not To Use …
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How to install
mdr add nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-agent-topology@sha256:079d650e11e521c8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260813.14437ae, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_vwr34av5lnaa43qt)
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The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 2, 2026 and Aug 13, 2026, about one every 11 days.
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| git:20260813.14437ae latest | 2026-08-13 | 14437ae | 8,018 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260802.c5b0c8e | 2026-08-02 | c5b0c8e | 7,987 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
nyldn/claude-octopus · 4,265 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vwr34av5lnaa43qt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-agent-topology GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/079d650e11e521c810e87ce25f9d0322b425534be2db9d77424758343fe3fe24
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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