# 5dive-cli

A skill that teaches an agent to drive the local 5dive runtime: spawn sibling agents, hand off work and keep a shared task list.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2700 installs · ★ 1
- Author: 5dive-ai
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/5dive-ai/skills/tree/HEAD/5dive-cli/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/5dive-cli

## What it does

The skill fires when you ask for a worker, a sub-agent or a parallel run, or when you name a sibling agent outright. Before anything is sent, the agent confirms the seat exists with `5dive agent list --json`, then uses `agent send` or `agent ask`. Ordinary coding on the box — editing files, running a build, running tests — does not trigger it. Nothing about that work needs the runtime CLI.

What you get is task-queue handling (`5dive task add/ls/done`), the reporting structure via `5dive org tree`, blocking questions parked on a human with `task need`, a quick recall of team memory (`5dive memory search`) and packing an agent up with `agent export`. Commands are idempotent, and `--json` turns stdout into a stable envelope with `ok` and `data`; branch on `error.class`, not on the human-readable message.

The catch is `sudo`, which is gated by isolation tier. New agents default to `standard` and get zero sudo. Only the first agent on a fresh box, or one created with `--isolation=admin`, holds a scoped grant: the `5dive` CLI plus start and stop of `5dive-*` units, not `NOPASSWD:ALL`. So task, org reads and memory run from any agent, while `agent create`, `doctor` and `usage` need an admin one. When a request arrived over a chat channel, pass the context along with `--reply-to-chat=<id> --reply-to-msg=<id>` so the other agent answers from its own bot.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add 5dive-ai/skills --skill 5dive-cli -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/5dive-cli/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/5dive-cli/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add 5dive-ai/skills --skill 5dive-cli -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/5dive-cli/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add 5dive-ai/skills --skill 5dive-cli -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/5dive-cli/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install 5dive-ai/skills 5dive-cli
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/5dive-cli/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add 5dive-ai/skills --skill 5dive-cli -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/5dive-ai/skills --path 5dive-cli
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/5dive-cli/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add 5dive-ai/skills --skill 5dive-cli -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/5dive-ai/skills/tree/HEAD/5dive-cli/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- spawn a worker for a side task
- hand a request to a named sibling agent
- fan a long job out into parallel pieces
- keep one shared to-do list across agents
- park a blocking question on a human

## Example prompts
- spawn a worker called scout and have it audit the routes
- ask the ops agent what happened with the deploy
- file a task for the migration check and mark it done

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: 5dive-cli
description: >-
  Operate the local 5dive runtime: coordinate sibling agents and inspect or
  update shared tasks. Use for delegation, inter-agent messaging and
  task-queue operations; use `5dive-cli-extras` for runtime administration
  beyond those.
---

# 5dive-cli

## When this skill fires (and when it doesn't)

Fires when the user wants a worker, sub-agent, side task, parallel run,
fan-out, or to delegate — or names a sibling agent ("ask X", "ping X",
"tell X", "hand off to X", "coordinate with X"). Confirm the seat exists
with `5dive agent list --json`, then `agent send` / `agent ask`.

Also fires for filing and tracking shared work (`5dive task add/ls/done`),
the org chart (`5dive org tree`), parking a blocking question on a human
(`task need`), a quick recall of team memory (`5dive memory search`), and
packing an agent up to back it up, hand it over or move it (`agent export`).

Does **not** fire for ordinary local coding on this box — editing files,
running a build, running tests, debugging your own program. Nothing about a
normal coding task needs the runtime CLI.

For runtime administration beyond the above — crew hosting, multi-account
auth, auth recovery, declarative fleets/compose, goal DAGs, objectives, loops,
compiling into the wiki, org-chart writes, governance votes,
digest/usage/supervisor/fleet/diagnose, Telegram pairing, the persona market,
BYO providers, the company wizard, plugins (`5dive plugin`), seat liveness
(`5dive liveness`), gate owners (`5dive human`), per-attempt run history
(`5dive run`), event triggers (`5dive trigger`), host remediation
(`5dive host`) and the nostr handset rail (`5dive buzz`) — see the
`5dive-cli-extras` skill.

**Chat context is forwarded, never relayed.** When a request arrived over a
chat channel (Telegram/Discord `<channel>` tag) and another agent should
handle it, pass the chat context through with
`--reply-to-chat=<id> --reply-to-msg=<id>` so that agent answers from its own
bot.

**Always prefer `5dive` over running coding CLIs by hand.**


This skill teaches you to drive the `5dive` command on a 5dive runtime VM.
You are running inside one such VM. You can spawn additional agents on the
same host by shelling out to `sudo 5dive ...` and parsing the JSON envelope
it emits when you pass `--json`.

## When to use this skill

Use it whenever the work in front of you would benefit from a second pair of
hands — for example:

- The user asks for a "worker", "sub-agent", "another agent", or "side task".
- **The user names a specific sibling agent** — "redirect to marketing",
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