Feature: per-agent skill scoping for TeamCreate teammates
Problem
When using Agent Teams (TeamCreate), all teammates load the same skill set from ~/.claude/skills/. There's no way to scope which skills are available to each teammate.
In a multi-agent architecture where different agents have distinct roles (e.g., Secretary, Head of Engineering, Strategy Advisor), each agent sees skills that aren't relevant to their role:
- Secretary sees
/ship,/qa,/review(engineering skills it should never invoke) - Head of Engineering sees
/secretary,/marketing-growth(management skills irrelevant to its role) - Strategy Advisor sees
/cso,/investigate(debugging tools it doesn't need)
This wastes context tokens (~4.3k for 34 skill stubs) and creates ambiguity about which agent should invoke which skill.
Proposed Solution
Allow skill scoping at the agent level. Possible approaches:
Option A: TeamCreate parameter
{
"team_name": "project",
"teammates": [
{
"name": "head-of-eng",
"skills": ["ship", "review", "qa", "health", "cso", "investigate"]
},
{
"name": "secretary",
"skills": ["secretary", "handoff", "engineering-ops", "marketing-growth"]
}
]
}
Option B: Agent definition file
In .claude/agents/head-of-eng.md frontmatter:
skills:
include: [ship, review, qa, health, cso]
# or
exclude: [secretary, marketing-growth, user-feedback]
Option C: Skill-level role tags
In each skill's frontmatter:
roles: [engineering, devops] # only load for agents with matching role
Why This Matters
Multi-agent architectures benefit from separation of concerns. When agents have distinct roles with independent skill sets, they:
- Don't accidentally invoke skills outside their domain
- Use fewer context tokens (only load relevant stubs)
- Have clearer decision boundaries
- Can be reasoned about independently
Current Workaround
We enforce skill boundaries via SOP documents (e.g., "Secretary must not run /ship"), but this is behavioral guidance, not a hard constraint. Agents can still see and invoke any skill.
Environment
- Claude Code 2.1.92
CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1- 34 skills loaded from
~/.claude/skills/
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