team

Activate When

• /godmode:team <name> — load .godmode/teams/<name>.yaml and dispatch
• /godmode:team without a name — list bundles found in .godmode/teams/
• Natural language "run the team" or "use the bundle"

A team bundle is the INVOCATION layer. docs/coordination-patterns.md is the VOCABULARY layer. Individual skills under skills/ are the WORK layer. This skill is only glue — it never defines new skill logic inline.

Bundle Format

Each team lives at .godmode/teams/<name>.yaml. Fields:

name: api-backend                         # team name, matches filename
description: |                            # one paragraph, rendered on list
  Stand up a production API: routes,
  auth, rate limiting, and a security pass.
pattern: Pipeline                         # one of the 6 known patterns
skills:                                   # ordered, max 10
  - api
  - auth
  - ratelimit
  - secure
constraints:                              # optional, applied to every skill
  - budget.rounds=5
  - max_agents=3
success_criterion: |                      # shell, exits 0 when team succeeds
  npm test && npm run lint && curl -fsS localhost:3000/health

The example above is the reference format — do NOT ship it as a real bundle. Users author their own. The .godmode/teams/ directory is created by the user (or by whatever tool they write to author bundles), not by this skill.

Pattern Must Be One Of

From docs/coordination-patterns.md: Pipeline, Fan-out/Fan-in, Expert Pool, Producer-Reviewer, Supervisor, Hierarchical Delegation. Anything else → BLOCKED: invalid_pattern. Never invent a new pattern; if a bundle needs something not on the list, the bundle is wrong, not the list.

Workflow

1. Resolve Bundle

test -f .godmode/teams/<name>.yaml || exit 1   # BLOCKED: no_such_team
python3 -c "import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open('.godmode/teams/<name>.yaml'))"

Read name, description, pattern, skills, optional constraints, success_criterion. Fail fast on missing required fields.

2. Validate

• pattern ∈ the 6 known patterns — else BLOCKED: invalid_pattern
• len(skills) <= 10 — else BLOCKED: team_too_large
• Every entry in skills resolves to an existing skills/<skill>/SKILL.md — first miss → BLOCKED: unknown_skill:<name>
• success_criterion is a non-empty string (shell command, never prose)
• constraints entries parse as key=value

3. Dispatch by Pattern

CASE pattern OF
  Pipeline               → run skills sequentially, pipe each
                           skill's output into the next as context
  Fan-out/Fan-in         → dispatch all skills in parallel worktrees,
                           merge in declared order (per build.md rules)
  Expert Pool            → evaluate triggers from skills/godmode/SKILL.md
                           Step 2, run exactly ONE skill from the list
  Producer-Reviewer      → skills[0] generates, skills[1] reviews,
                           remaining skills run only if reviewer accepts
  Supervisor             → skills[0] acts as supervisor and decides
                           which of the remaining skills to run next;
                           loop until supervisor reports DONE
  Hierarchical Delegation→ skills[0] decomposes, each output skill is
                           dispatched with depth+1, max depth = 2

Apply constraints to every dispatched skill before it runs.

4. One Big Autoresearch Loop

Team execution is a single outer loop where each skill is one round:

round = 0
FOR skill IN ordered_dispatch_plan:
  round += 1
  result = run_skill(skill, prev_output, constraints)
  LOG .godmode/team-log.tsv
  IF result.status != "DONE":          # Universal Protocol failure
    EMIT "team <name> stopped at skill <skill> round <round>"
    EXIT 1                             # cascade — do not continue
  prev_output = result
EVAL success_criterion                 # whole-team gate

5. Success Gate

Run success_criterion as a shell command. Exit 0 → team DONE. Non-zero → the team failed even though every skill reported DONE; log criterion_failed and exit 1. No retry at the team layer — the user decides whether to rerun.

Example Bundle: api-backend

name: api-backend
description: |
  Build a production-ready HTTP API: scaffold routes, wire auth,
  rate-limit the public endpoints, and run a security audit.
pattern: Pipeline
skills:
  - api
  - auth
  - ratelimit
  - secure
constraints:
  - budget.rounds=5
  - max_agents=3
success_criterion: |
  npm test && npm run lint && \
    curl -fsS localhost:3000/health > /dev/null

Invocation: /godmode:team api-backend. The orchestrator runs api, feeds its output to auth, that to ratelimit, that to secure, then gates on the shell success_criterion. Any skill that emits a Universal Protocol failure (STUCK, BLOCKED, etc.) halts the whole team.

TSV Logging

Append one row per dispatched skill to .godmode/team-log.tsv:

timestamp	team	pattern	round	skill	status	elapsed_ms	notes

At team completion append a summary row with skill=__team__ and status ∈ {DONE, FAILED, criterion_failed} and total elapsed time.

Hard Rules

1. Teams COMPOSE existing skills. Never define new skill logic inside a bundle. A bundle is pure wiring.
2. Missing skill in skills: → BLOCKED: unknown_skill:<name>. The bundle is invalid — do not partially run it.
3. Unknown or missing pattern → BLOCKED: invalid_pattern. Must be one of the 6 from docs/coordination-patterns.md.
4. Max 10 skills per team. Longer chains are runaway. Split into multiple teams and compose them via Pipeline.
5. Cascade on failure: if skill N fails the Universal Protocol, stop and log which skill failed. Never skip a failed skill.
6. No new coordination patterns. No registry. No marketplace. No catalog of pre-made teams shipped with godmode.
7. .godmode/teams/ is user-owned. This skill reads from it, never writes to it.

Keep/Discard Discipline

KEEP a team run if: every dispatched skill reported DONE
  AND success_criterion exited 0.
DISCARD otherwise: log which skill or criterion failed.
The team layer does not git-reset — individual skills already
follow the Universal Protocol and own their own reverts.

Stop Conditions

STOP when FIRST of:
  - target_reached:    every skill DONE and success_criterion passed
  - bundle_invalid:    validation failed before dispatch
  - skill_failed:      one skill cascaded a Universal Protocol failure
  - criterion_failed:  every skill DONE but success_criterion non-zero

Error Recovery

Failure	Action
BLOCKED: no_such_team	List .godmode/teams/*.yaml, suggest closest name.
BLOCKED: invalid_pattern	Print the 6 valid patterns. Bundle author fixes.
BLOCKED: unknown_skill:<n>	List skills/*/SKILL.md, suggest closest match.
BLOCKED: team_too_large	Split the bundle; compose two teams via Pipeline.
skill_failed at round N	Log skill+round. User decides rerun or edit bundle.
criterion_failed	Team did not achieve goal. No auto-retry at team layer.

Relationship to Other Skills

• skills/godmode/SKILL.md — the orchestrator. Routes /godmode:team here.
• docs/coordination-patterns.md — the vocabulary. Every pattern value must come from this file.
• skills/plan/SKILL.md — declares a pattern in its plan header; a team bundle is the same idea at invocation time instead of plan time.
• skills/build/SKILL.md — Fan-out dispatch rules used when a team picks the Fan-out/Fan-in pattern.
• Individual work skills (api, auth, secure, ...) — the atoms a team bundle composes. This skill never replaces them.