🤝 Teamwork Preview — Multi-Agent Prompt Crafting & Delegation

A structured workflow to turn high-level user ideas into robust, objectively verifiable multi-agent project specifications and delegate them cleanly to execution swarms.

Two-phase workflow:

1. Interactive Prompt Crafting (Steps 1–9): Iteratively define project goals, eliminate ambiguity, select integrity modes, and enforce objective verification mechanisms.
2. Delegation: Hand off the validated specification to the target multi-agent team or execution harness.

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▶️ On Claude Code: run the script, don't narrate the protocol

Action: call the Workflow tool with scriptPath set to $HOME/.claude/workflows/teamwork-dispatch.mjs — resolve $HOME yourself rather than hardcoding a username — and args set to whatever the user said after the command, passed through verbatim. If they said nothing, pass no args; step 1 asks.

Use scriptPath, not name. By-name lookup for a custom workflow script has been observed to fail with Workflow "..." not found even when the file exists and its meta.name matches.

Then wait for the call to finish and relay its result — the draft path, the validation outcome, and any issues it reports. Do not summarise or reinterpret it.

Do NOT walk through the nine steps yourself in response to this skill. The protocol below is the specification the script implements; it is not a set of instructions to follow inline. This repo has already paid for that mistake once, recorded in skills/basic/startcycle-graph/SKILL.md: an earlier version embedded its pipeline in prose, the model followed it "in spirit" instead of invoking the script, and the entire graph — subagents, state, review, quality gate — silently never ran. A 9-step protocol with integrity modes and acceptance criteria is exactly the shape of thing that gets approximated.

If the Workflow tool is unavailable (some harnesses have none; Claude Code can have Dynamic Workflows switched off in /config), then run the protocol below manually, in order, one step at a time.

🌐 Which harnesses get which

Claude Code	The script above. Deterministic: it runs or it doesn't.
Codex · Cursor · OpenCode · Roo · Antigravity	The prose protocol below, interpreted by that harness's model.

The .mjs script depends on Claude Code's Dynamic Workflows runtime — the ambient agent() global and the Workflow tool. No other harness exposes an equivalent today, so the prose is not a fallback there, it is the implementation. Both are kept in this one file deliberately: two files would drift, and the drift would be invisible until someone on the other harness got different behaviour.

This is not Antigravity's /teamwork-preview. That command is compiled into the agy binary, with its own conductor/orchestrator/auditor agent types, and is maintained by Google. This is an independent implementation of the same idea on a different runtime. It will behave differently, and it does not claim otherwise.

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🧭 Core Principles

#	Principle	Rule
1	Specify What, Not How	Define requirements and acceptance criteria. Never prescribe implementation details (file structure, algorithms, libraries) unless the user explicitly mandates them.
2	Objective Verification	Every requirement needs an independent verification mechanism. Programmatic verification (tests, assertion scripts, CLI benchmarks) is preferred; explicit agent-as-judge rubrics are accepted when programmatic testing is impossible.
3	Acceptance Criteria = Guardrails	Acceptance criteria serve as the quality bar to prevent premature self-certification of incomplete or broken work.
4	Minimal Requirements	Only specify what the user explicitly cares about. Give the agent team maximal solution space.

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📋 Artifact-Based Workflow

Maintain a prompt draft artifact (prompt_draft.md) throughout the interaction. It provides real-time visibility to the user and tracks step progression.

# Teamwork Project Prompt — Draft

> Status: Step 1 — Eliciting project idea
> Goal: Craft prompt → get user approval → delegate
> Requested team: [none — routes automatically from description]

[Project description — 1-2 sentences]

Working directory: [TBD]
Integrity mode: [development | demo | benchmark]

## Requirements

### R1. [TBD]

### R2. [TBD]

## Acceptance Criteria

### [Category]
- [ ] [Objective condition checkable without subjective bias]

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*Next: when approved → delegate via execution protocol*

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🔄 The 9-Step Interactive Workflow

Step 1: Elicit the Idea

• Ask: What do you want to build? What is the purpose (production, demo, eval, prototype)? Who is the audience?
• Condense into a 1–2 sentence project description.
• Initialize prompt_draft.md and set status to Step 2.

Step 2: Identify Ambiguity & Scale

• Probe points with multiple reasonable interpretations (data sources, third-party services, scope limits).
• Ask about effort and team scale:
  • Single self-contained fix/feature: Keep focused (one implementer + repeated adversarial review). Prefix prompt: "This is a single self-contained fix; keep it small and focused."
  • Math, formal proofs, or massive search: Offer standard pipeline vs. large-scale team. If large-scale selected, prefix prompt: "Use a very large team of agents."
  • Standard multi-agent build: Standard workflow routes from task description.

Step 3: Determine Integrity Mode

Clarify operational boundaries:

• Can code be copied from existing open-source projects?
• Are pre-built external libraries permitted for core logic?
• Can test implementations be inspected before coding?
• Mapping:
  • Unrestricted / default → integrity_mode: development
  • Some shortcuts allowed (demo showcase) → integrity_mode: demo
  • Strict isolation / zero external leakage → integrity_mode: benchmark

Step 4: Draft Requirements (R1, R2, ...)

• Write 2–5 concise requirement blocks.
• Focus strictly on what is required, not how to implement it.
• Apply litmus test: "Would a senior engineer feel over-constrained by this requirement?" If yes, prune.

Step 5: Design Verification Mechanisms (Forcing Function)

Why this matters: Verification is a forcing function. Its job is to create an objective test target that forces a genuine build → test → debug loop and prevents premature self-certification.

• Design programmatic tests where feasible (unit test suites, test runners, CLI assertion scripts).
• If programmatic tests are not feasible, draft an explicit agent-as-judge scoring rubric.
• Inquire whether the user has existing test suites, schemas, or reference implementations to include in a ## Verification Resources section.

Step 6: Set Acceptance Criteria

• Convert verification mechanisms into checkable markdown checkboxes (- [ ]).
• Calibrate strictly to the project purpose:
  • Demo: Achievable within rapid time budget.
  • Production: Full test coverage, strict error handling, production readiness.
  • Eval: Strict reproducible metrics over polish.

Step 7: Infrastructure Constraints (If Applicable)

• Define sandboxing or controlled APIs for remote file operations, job launching, and external network calls.
• Skip if the project operates purely within local workspace files.

Step 8: Choose Working Directory

• Confirm the target working directory (default: ~/teamwork_projects/{project_name} or a relative path in the current repo).
• Record as Working directory: <path> at top of prompt draft.

Step 9: Assemble, Validate & Seek Approval

Assemble the final structured prompt:

[1-2 sentence project description]

Working directory: <path>
Integrity mode: [development | demo | benchmark]
[Optional: Team scaling directive]

## Requirements

### R1. [Primary Deliverable]
[What it does, not how to build it]

### R2. [Secondary Deliverable]
[What it does, not how to build it]

## Acceptance Criteria

### [Category]
- [ ] [Objective condition checkable without subjective bias]

Pre-flight Checklist:

• No unsolicited implementation hints (file structures, algorithms).
• Every acceptance criterion is objectively verifiable.
• Scope matches actual user needs.
• Team scale directive included if requested in Step 2.

Seek explicit approval from the user before triggering execution.

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🚀 Delegation Protocol

Once approved by the user:

Before delegating, start the live map (Trigger B) so the user can follow the team: aos-trail --ensure (add --plan <plan-file> if the plan path is explicit) (safe to run twice: it reuses a map already running for this repo). Put the live-map link in your reply (the autostart hook also adds it as context when active). Inside AO (env var AO_BROWSER_CAPABILITY set) also run ao preview <url>. See the agenttrail skill.

1. In Antigravity Harness

If running in Google Antigravity with native subagent support:

• Call invoke_subagent:
  • TypeName: teamwork_preview
  • Role: Teamwork Coordinator
  • Prompt: Full prompt content from prompt_draft.md
• Set artifact status to Launched.

2. In Other Agent Harnesses

• Claude Code: Feed the finalized prompt to dynamic workflows or dispatch via /startcycle-graph / subagents.
• Cursor / Windsurf: Inject the prompt into composer or project rules context.
• OpenCode / Codex CLI: Pass the prompt to opencode run or Codex runner.