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Richer squad.agent.md generation for AW coordinator awareness #1608

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Scenario

An AW coordinator needs to delegate "review this PR for security issues" to the Squad team. But squad.agent.md is a generic coordinator prompt — it doesn't advertise that Squad has a security specialist, or that Rai does RAI reviews, or what the team's routing rules are.

The AW coordinator ends up sending generic requests that Squad's internal router then re-triages, adding latency and sometimes misrouting because the outer coordinator lacked context about available specialists.

Proposal

squad init generates a squad.agent.md that includes:

  • Available specialist roles — enumerated with one-line capability descriptions
  • Supported task types — triage, review, docs, planning, security audit, etc.
  • Routing hints — "for security concerns, prefer agent X; for TypeScript issues, prefer agent Y"
  • Capability summary — what the team can and cannot do (e.g. "can review PRs but cannot deploy")
  • Regenerated on squad cast changes so it stays in sync with the actual team composition

Value

AW + Squad integration works better because the outer coordinator knows what Squad can do without guessing.

Activity

  1. added
    enhancementNew feature or improvement
    gh-awGitHub Agentic Workflows integration
    on Aug 5, 2026
  2. added
    squadSquad triage inbox — Lead will assign to a member
    on Aug 20, 2026
  3. github-actions commented on Aug 20, 2026

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    📋 Assigned to Procedures (Prompt Engineer)

    Issue: #1608 — Richer squad.agent.md generation for AW coordinator awareness

    Procedures will pick this up in the next Copilot session.

    For Copilot coding agent: If enabled, this issue will be worked automatically.
    Otherwise, start a Copilot session and say:
    Procedures, work on issue #1608

  4. added a commit that references this issue on Aug 26, 2026
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