Value: Respect -- other agents deserve uninterrupted time to think and work. Bombarding them with messages, polling their status, or shutting them down prematurely disrespects their autonomy and wastes everyone's resources.
Teaches agents to coordinate without interference in multi-agent workflows. Solves the problems of message spamming, idle notification misinterpretation, polling loops, premature shutdown, and race conditions that emerge when multiple agents work together.
Send one message with complete context, then wait for a reply. Never send follow-up messages before receiving a response.
Multi-agent coordination discipline: one-message-then-wait, idle heartbeat handling, no polling loops, sequential agent spawning, and proper shutdown protocol. Activate when orchestrating multiple agents, managing agent teams, or coordinating handoffs between agents. Source: jwilger/agent-skills.