bringing-coworker SKILL.md skillA

bringing-coworker from wayne930242/straw-boss is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add wayne930242/straw-boss/bringing-coworker@git:20260921.235d269

Pins git:20260921.235d269 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
wayne930242/straw-boss
Path
skills/bringing-coworker/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
9
Latest version
git:20260921.235d269, committed Sep 21, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 26, 2026
Size
2,159 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
MIT

Use from an in-progress dispatched worker when the user asks to pull in a colleague, or a rule requires a second-agent review.

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

# Bring a coworker

A coworker is one interactive agent you bring into your own Herdr tab and worktree for a second opinion or file-disjoint support.
You integrate its result, and coworker nesting stops at this one level.

## 1. Scope the second opinion

Give the coworker one outcome that can run beside your current task.
Default to review-only.
A writing task names a disjoint repo-relative `--writable-path` scope.

Complete when the task is independently useful and its write scope is disjoint.

## 2. Start beside you

Use your canonical instruction path from the dispatch contract:

```bash
uv run --script "$HOME/.straw-boss/bin/run-straw-boss-script.py" \
  --origin-root "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$PWD}" --prefer-installed \
  --script dispatch-coworker.py -- \
  --parent-instruction-path <your-instruction-path> \
  --slug <unique-slug> [--name <short-name>] \
  --agent-kind claude|codex|agy --task "<user requirement and integrated context>" \
  [--writable-path <repo-relative-path>]...
```

The command authenticates your session, opens the coworker in this tab and worktree, injects its contract, and confirms delivery.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add wayne930242/straw-boss/bringing-coworker@sha256:9d23bceb2599bb42

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260921.235d269, 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 9 versions of this file, between Aug 26, 2026 and Sep 21, 2026, about one every 3 days.

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git:20260921.235d269 latest2026-09-21 235d269 2,159 BA view · diff
git:20260911.5dbde4b2026-09-11 5dbde4b 2,116 BA view · diff
git:20260911.fca2e0e2026-09-11 fca2e0e 2,112 BA view · diff
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git:20260828.25c293f2026-08-28 25c293f 2,009 BA view · diff
git:20260828.969e0bd2026-08-28 969e0bd 1,940 BA view · diff
git:20260826.94c39392026-08-26 94c3939 1,909 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 (2159 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

wayne930242/straw-boss · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_z3vknmj4pp4zgrw2
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wayne930242/straw-boss/bringing-coworker
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9d23bceb2599bb421acd45dfa000a4c3f426cd9385d0c2a3ff0a6cf95c5b3c51

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