Define a multi-agent team for ANY task on ANY system as an explicit deployment topology - pick the shape from the task's dominant risk, specify the runtime/communication/trust layers, place model capability by lane, present it as a diagram + table + trust-boundary note + open choices, and deploy ONLY after the user agrees to the proposed shape. Use when the user asks to "define/design/lay out the team", "what topology are we deploying", "how should the agents be arranged", "design the team for <task>", "what formation for <task>", or wants a team expressed as a topology (nodes, edges, models, trust boundaries) rather than spawned ad hoc. Substrate-agnostic - Cotal mesh, harness subagents, Workflow stages, containers, or any orchestration system.
$npx -y skills add cotal-ai/cotal --skill team-topologyInstalls into the current project.
Run `npx skills use "https://github.com/cotal-ai/cotal" --skill "cotal-ai/cotal/team-topology"` and follow the generated skill instructions now. Read its complete output, redirecting it to a temporary file first if necessary. Resolve relative paths from the supporting-files directory it provides.
Use the skills in "https://github.com/cotal-ai/cotal" that are relevant to the current task. Run `npx skills add "https://github.com/cotal-ai/cotal"` and select the relevant skills, then follow their instructions.