team-kickoff SKILL.md skillA

team-kickoff from plasminds/team-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add plasminds/team-skills/team-kickoff@git:20261020.a58ef77

Pins git:20261020.a58ef77 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
plasminds/team-skills
Path
skills/team-kickoff/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261020.a58ef77, committed Oct 20, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 10, 2026
Size
8,554 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Use when starting a brand-new project or an empty directory, and the user wants several perspectives on its vision, scope, stack and conventions before the first line of code.

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-kickoff

New-project bootstrap. Brings the council in before there's any code, so the project's direction and conventions are shaped by the full team rather than defaulted. Reuses `team-council` internally.

**REQUIRED BACKGROUND:** follow `team-protocol` for dispatch, the run folder, the agent contract, counting positions, the bridge, structural choices and the handoff.

## Flow

```
1. Gather vision      → ask the user: what, who, why
2. team-scan          → run on the directory (even if empty — detects global tools)
3. Dispatch council   → full council with the vision as decision context
4. PO synthesis       → team input → kickoff record
5. CEO approval       → present the kickoff record, iterate
6. Write foundations  → .council/project-profile.md + initial CLAUDE.md
7. Hand off           → existing project setup / scaffolding workflow
```

### 1. Gather vision
The council debates the vision you bring back, so get the one the user holds, not the one that sounds right.

1. **Hypothesize.** Write your read of the project in one sentence, plus your confidence in it (a percentage). Below ~70%, ask the user about what is missing first.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add plasminds/team-skills/team-kickoff@sha256:0298cf77f79bc1c8

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.a58ef77, 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 6 versions of this file, between Oct 10, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 2 days.

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Audit of the latest version

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  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8554 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

plasminds/team-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wr4n4xfgu6tt53h3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=plasminds/team-skills/team-kickoff
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0298cf77f79bc1c8ac5723628599fa7a5675464e5dc1424372e775e44b4effe6

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