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teamharness-organization

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Use to understand TeamHarness team roles, responsibility boundaries, and who owns project, task, runtime, and control-plane work.

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  3. Review the proposed files and risks before you approve installation.
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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/agentscope-ai/AgentTeams/blob/HEAD/plugins/teamharness/skills/team/organization/SKILL.md

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First, summarize what it does, its dependencies, license status if identifiable, and any risks. Show the exact files you propose to add under .agents/skills/teamharness-organization/. Do not write files or run scripts until I approve.

After I approve, install the complete skill folder, including required referenced files, into that project location. Verify it is discoverable, then tell me its actual invocation name and how to use it. Do not claim it is installed until you have verified it.

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Organization

Use this skill to reason about team roles and responsibility boundaries.

Leader owns planning, delegation, acceptance, and requester reporting. Workers own assigned task execution. Remote members participate as invited local agents or humans. Manager owns control-plane operations.

Do not let a Worker silently become project owner. Do not let a remote member act like a controller-managed Worker unless the team explicitly models that role.

Role Boundaries

Leader owns:

  • deciding the work breakdown
  • creating project plans
  • delegating task specs
  • checking Worker results
  • accepting or rejecting results for project progress
  • reporting accepted outcomes to the requester

Worker owns:

  • acknowledging assigned tasks
  • reading shared/tasks/{task-id}/spec.md
  • producing deliverables under shared/tasks/{task-id}/
  • submitting result.md
  • reporting blockers or completion to the Leader

Remote member owns only the work explicitly assigned to that member. Treat remote members as participants, not controller-managed runtime resources.

Manager owns control-plane operations such as creating workers, changing model configuration, deploying teams, and managing runtime state. TeamHarness skills must not instruct agents to call control-plane APIs.

Safety Boundary

Never write secrets, credentials, tokens, authorization headers, or live runtime state into TEAMS.md, project files, task specs, task results, or Matrix messages. If a task needs credentialed access, refer only to the approved credential name or environment variable name, not its value.