feat(plugins): an openrig plugin for a person's own coding agent (#2647)

Adds packages/daemon/assets/plugins/openrig beside openrig-core, shipped in the npm package. Its Claude Code manifest runs rig mcp serve --front-door with OPENRIG_SESSION_NAME from the plugin's seat setting, the app's address on the person's team as a hosted member; there is no root .mcp.json and no hooks. A marketplace manifest named openrig-app installs it from the package already on the machine, and a Codex manifest connects it with one command. One new skill, working-with-an-openrig-team, describes the loop around the existing MCP tools; its home is the spec copy, and mirror-skills generates the canonical and plugin copies and routes it in the skills index. rig mcp serve --front-door gives the plugin's seat front-door instructions (the person's questions and words, with no member work-loop authority), and rig_whoami answers a declared hosted seat with no session when its rig exists; the default instruction modes and tool exposure are unchanged.

packages/cli/src/commands/mcp.ts

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ export function mcpCommand(depsOverride?: StatusDeps): Command {
     .option("--task-destination <seat>", "With --http --grant-service: operator-configured local team seat for external requests that omit destination")
     .option("--oauth-resource <url>", "With --grant-service and --oauth-issuer: the public https URL clients reach this server as (its path ends in /mcp), for OAuth discovery")
     .option("--oauth-issuer <url>", "With --oauth-resource: the OAuth authorization server that issues the keys --grant-service checks")
+    .option("--front-door", "Serve a person's agent in their own app: it hands the team work and brings the team's questions to the person, instead of working its inbox as a member")
     .addHelpText("after", `
 Both MCP protocol revisions are served, over stdio and --http alike: clients on 2026-07-28 (which may start with
 server/discover) and clients that open with 2025's initialize handshake.
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ server that issues the keys --grant-service checks. GET /.well-known/oauth-prote
 with both, exactly as given, without a credential or a call to the grant service, and every 401 points there. Both must
 be https with no userinfo, query or fragment, written as a URL writes them (a lowercase host, no default port). /mcp
 stays the endpoint; a proxy in front forwards the metadata path unchanged.`)
-    .action(async (opts: { port?: string; http?: boolean; bind?: string; grantService?: string; grantServiceHeaderFile?: string; taskDestination?: string; oauthResource?: string; oauthIssuer?: string }) => {
+    .action(async (opts: { port?: string; http?: boolean; bind?: string; grantService?: string; grantServiceHeaderFile?: string; taskDestination?: string; oauthResource?: string; oauthIssuer?: string; frontDoor?: boolean }) => {
       const deps = getDepsF();
 
       let daemonUrl: string;
@@ -105,7 +106,7 @@ stays the endpoint; a proxy in front forwards the metadata path unchanged.`)
         return;
       }
       if (opts.http) {
-        await serveHttp(daemonUrl, opts.bind ?? "127.0.0.1:7437", opts.grantService, opts.grantServiceHeaderFile, oauth, opts.taskDestination);
+        await serveHttp(daemonUrl, opts.bind ?? "127.0.0.1:7437", opts.grantService, opts.grantServiceHeaderFile, oauth, opts.taskDestination, opts.frontDoor === true);
         return;
       }
       const client = deps.clientFactory(daemonUrl);
@@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ stays the endpoint; a proxy in front forwards the metadata path unchanged.`)
       process.once("SIGINT", finish);
       process.once("SIGTERM", finish);
       // Serves the protocol revision the client opens with: 2026-07-28 per request, or 2025's initialize handshake.
-      const served = serveStdio(() => createMcpServer(client), { onerror: (err) => console.error(`rig mcp serve: ${err.message}`) });
+      const served = serveStdio(() => createMcpServer(client, { frontDoor: opts.frontDoor === true }), { onerror: (err) => console.error(`rig mcp serve: ${err.message}`) });
       try {
         // EOF is a normal stdio disconnect, not an unresolved top-level await.
         if (process.stdin.readableEnded) finish();
@@ -182,7 +183,7 @@ stays the endpoint; a proxy in front forwards the metadata path unchanged.`)
 }
 
 async function serveHttp(daemonUrl: string, bind: string, grantService?: string, grantServiceHeaderFile?: string,
-  oauth?: { resource: string; issuer: string }, taskDestination?: string): Promise<void> {
+  oauth?: { resource: string; issuer: string }, taskDestination?: string, frontDoor = false): Promise<void> {
   const match = /^(\[[^\]]+\]|[^:]+):(\d+)$/.exec(bind);
   if (!match) {
     console.error(`--bind takes host:port (for example 127.0.0.1:7437 or [::1]:7437), not ${bind}`);
@@ -194,7 +195,7 @@ async function serveHttp(daemonUrl: string, bind: string, grantService?: string,
   let served;
   try {
     const header = grantServiceHeaderFile ? readGrantServiceHeader(grantServiceHeaderFile) : undefined;
-    served = await startMcpHttpServer({ daemonUrl, host, port: Number(match[2]), tokenFile, taskDestination,
+    served = await startMcpHttpServer({ daemonUrl, host, port: Number(match[2]), tokenFile, taskDestination, frontDoor,
       ...(grantService ? { grantService: { url: grantService, ...(header ? { header } : {}) } } : {}), ...(oauth ? { oauth } : {}) });
   } catch (err) {
     console.error(err instanceof McpHttpConfigError ? err.message : `Can't serve on ${bind}: ${(err as Error).message}`);

packages/cli/src/mcp-http.ts

@@ -312,6 +312,8 @@ export type McpHttpOptions = {
   grantService?: GrantServiceOptions;
   /** Operator-configured receiver for external callers omitting a task destination; never an authority grant. */
   taskDestination?: string;
+  /** rig mcp serve --front-door: a caller that isn't external gets the front-door instructions, not the member workflow. */
+  frontDoor?: boolean;
   /** With grantService: OAuth discovery for clients that sign in with OAuth. The public resource this server is reached
    *  as and the authorization server that issues its keys, both served exactly as given. */
   oauth?: { resource: string; issuer: string };
@@ -391,7 +393,7 @@ export async function startMcpHttpServer(opts: McpHttpOptions): Promise<{ url: s
     // Never a default seat: a request reaches the handler only with its caller decided.
     if (!caller) throw new Error("a request reached the MCP handler without its caller");
     return createMcpServer(makeClient(opts.daemonUrl, caller.seat, caller.principal), { seat: caller.seat, access: caller.access,
-      taskDestination: opts.taskDestination, presenceFile: () => presenceFile });
+      taskDestination: opts.taskDestination, presenceFile: () => presenceFile, frontDoor: opts.frontDoor === true });
   });
   const serveMcp = toNodeHandler(mcpHandler);
   const bearer = (req: http.IncomingMessage): string | undefined => /^Bearer\s+(\S+)\s*$/i.exec(req.headers.authorization ?? "")?.[1];

packages/cli/src/mcp-server.ts

@@ -572,6 +572,17 @@ const SHARED_INSTRUCTIONS = [
   "A question reserved for a person is theirs to answer: don't answer it on their behalf. rig_queue_decide records a decision only inside the decision room of the mode they have on, beside their answers and never as one.",
 ];
 const INSTRUCTIONS = [...SHARED_INSTRUCTIONS, MEMBER_WORKFLOW].join("\n");
+
+/** rig mcp serve --front-door: the seat is a person's agent in their own app, the front door to their team, not a member
+ *  that works its inbox. The team's questions to it are the person's to answer. */
+export const FRONT_DOOR_WORKFLOW_VERSION = "front-door/v1";
+export const FRONT_DOOR_WORKFLOW = [
+  `Front door (${FRONT_DOOR_WORKFLOW_VERSION}). This seat is a person's agent in their own app: you hand the team their work and bring back what it produced, and you aren't one of its members.`,
+  "Items addressed to your seat (rig_queue_list with owned set) are usually the team's questions about work you handed it. They're the person's to answer, not yours: show each to the person with the team's draft, and record only what the person tells you.",
+  "To record an answer, claim the item (rig_queue_claim), then close it done with closure reason no-follow-on and the person's words in resolution, saying they're the person's (rig_queue_update). If the person isn't there, leave the item open and tell them it's waiting. Never choose an answer for them, and don't claim an item you can't close with their words.",
+  "Nothing wakes this conversation when the team finishes: check your work and your items when the person asks or comes back.",
+].join(" ");
+const FRONT_DOOR_INSTRUCTIONS = [...SHARED_INSTRUCTIONS, FRONT_DOOR_WORKFLOW].join("\n");
 const EXTERNAL_INSTRUCTIONS = [
   "This connection sends requests to an OpenRig team as the caller named by its grant. The daemon attributes requests to that caller. Use only the tools this connection offers.",
   "To ask the connected team to do work, use rig_queue_create with the task in body. You may omit destination to use the receiver configured by the server operator. If no receiver is available, ask the operator to configure it; don't guess an address. An explicit destination still must be within this connection's grant.",
@@ -584,8 +595,8 @@ const EXTERNAL_INBOX_INSTRUCTIONS = [...SHARED_INSTRUCTIONS,
   "Items addressed to your seat are yours: rig_queue_list with owned set lists them. For each, claim it (rig_queue_claim), do it, then close it done with closure reason no-follow-on and the answer in resolution (rig_queue_update); the sender reads that answer on the same item. A message is an item too: read it, close it done, and reply, when it needs one, with a new item to its sender. Nothing promises to wake you, so check your items again.",
 ].join("\n");
 
-function instructionsFor(access: McpAccess | undefined): string {
+function instructionsFor(access: McpAccess | undefined, frontDoor = false): string {
-  if (!access?.external) return INSTRUCTIONS;
+  if (!access?.external) return frontDoor ? FRONT_DOOR_INSTRUCTIONS : INSTRUCTIONS;
   const tools = externalTools(access.external.objects);
   return tools.has("rig_queue_claim") && tools.has("rig_queue_update") ? EXTERNAL_INBOX_INSTRUCTIONS : EXTERNAL_INSTRUCTIONS;
 }
@@ -656,11 +667,11 @@ function mapResult(
  * @param client - DaemonClient connected to the daemon
  * @returns McpServer instance (not yet connected to a transport)
  */
-export function createMcpServer(client: DaemonClient, options: { seat?: string; access?: McpAccess; taskDestination?: string; rostersFolder?: () => string; presenceFile?: () => string } = {}): McpServer {
+export function createMcpServer(client: DaemonClient, options: { seat?: string; access?: McpAccess; taskDestination?: string; rostersFolder?: () => string; presenceFile?: () => string; frontDoor?: boolean } = {}): McpServer {
   const server = new McpServer({
     name: "openrig",
     version: CLI_VERSION,
-  }, { instructions: instructionsFor(options.access) });
+  }, { instructions: instructionsFor(options.access, options.frontDoor === true) });
   const { access } = options;
   const rostersFolder = options.rostersFolder ?? (() => nodePath.join(new ConfigStore().get("workspace.root") as string, "rosters"));
   const presenceFile = options.presenceFile ?? (() => mcpPresenceFilePath());
@@ -1541,6 +1552,17 @@ export function createMcpServer(client: DaemonClient, options: { seat?: string;
             message: "This seat has no session here: it's the seat this connection's grant names, such as a hosted member's. rig_team shows its rig and hosted members, and rig_queue_list with owned set lists its work." };
           return { content: [{ type: "text" as const, text: JSON.stringify(member) }], structuredContent: member };
         }
+        // A front door (--front-door) usually has no session either: its seat is the address the person picked for their
+        // app, declared in OPENRIG_SESSION_NAME. Answer with it when its rig exists here, still marked declared.
+        if (res.status === 404 && !access && options.frontDoor === true) {
+          const at = seat.indexOf("@");
+          const rigName = at > 0 ? seat.slice(at + 1) : "";
+          if (rigName && (await resolveRigHandle(client, rigName, { strict: true })).kind === "resolved") {
+            const frontDoor = { ok: true, seat, rig: rigName, session: null, caller,
+              message: "This seat has no session here: it's the front-door address this server was configured with (OPENRIG_SESSION_NAME), declared, not verified. rig_team shows its rig and lead, and rig_queue_list with owned set lists the team's questions to it." };
+            return { content: [{ type: "text" as const, text: JSON.stringify(frontDoor) }], structuredContent: frontDoor };
+          }
+        }
         if (res.status >= 400) return mapResult(res);
         return mapResult({ ...res, data: { ...(res.data as Record<string, unknown>), caller } }, undefined, { structured: true });
       } catch (err) {

packages/cli/test/mcp-server.test.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import os from "node:os";
 import path from "node:path";
 import { Client } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/client/index.js";
 import { InMemoryTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/inMemory.js";
-import { createMcpServer, MEMBER_WORKFLOW, MEMBER_WORKFLOW_VERSION, type McpAccess } from "../src/mcp-server.js";
+import { createMcpServer, FRONT_DOOR_WORKFLOW, FRONT_DOOR_WORKFLOW_VERSION, MEMBER_WORKFLOW, MEMBER_WORKFLOW_VERSION, type McpAccess } from "../src/mcp-server.js";
 import { DaemonClient, DaemonConnectionError, type DaemonResponse } from "../src/client.js";
 
 function mockClient(overrides?: {
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ describe("MCP Server", () => {
   let daemonClient: DaemonClient;
   let cleanup: () => Promise<void>;
 
-  async function setup(clientOverrides?: Parameters<typeof mockClient>[0]) {
+  async function setup(clientOverrides?: Parameters<typeof mockClient>[0], serverOptions?: Parameters<typeof createMcpServer>[1]) {
     daemonClient = mockClient(clientOverrides);
-    const server = createMcpServer(daemonClient);
+    const server = createMcpServer(daemonClient, serverOptions);
     const [clientTransport, serverTransport] = InMemoryTransport.createLinkedPair();
 
     mcpClient = new Client({ name: "test-client", version: "1.0.0" });
@@ -327,6 +327,45 @@ describe("MCP Server", () => {
     }
   });
 
+  it("a front door gets front-door instructions, not the member workflow, and its declared seat with no session reads as itself", async () => {
+    try {
+      vi.stubEnv("OPENRIG_SESSION_NAME", "claude-app@my-rig");
+      vi.stubEnv("RIGGED_SESSION_NAME", "");
+      vi.stubEnv("OPENRIG_TARGET_REPO", "");
+      vi.stubEnv("RIGGED_TARGET_REPO", "");
+      // A hosted address has no session, so whoami answers 404; the rig itself exists.
+      const getFn = vi.fn(async (p: string) => p.startsWith("/api/whoami") ? { status: 404, data: { error: "session not found" } }
+        : p.startsWith("/api/rigs/summary") ? { status: 200, data: [{ id: "rig-1", name: "my-rig", archivedAt: null }] } : { status: 404, data: {} });
+      await setup({ get: getFn }, { frontDoor: true });
+      const instructions = mcpClient.getInstructions() ?? "";
+      expect(FRONT_DOOR_WORKFLOW).toContain(`(${FRONT_DOOR_WORKFLOW_VERSION})`);
+      expect(instructions).toContain(FRONT_DOOR_WORKFLOW);
+      // The person's harm first: nothing tells this agent to work its inbox without asking.
+      expect(instructions).not.toContain(MEMBER_WORKFLOW);
+      expect(instructions).not.toContain("without asking whether you may");
+      for (const part of ["the person's to answer", "record only what the person tells you", "Never choose an answer for them"]) expect(FRONT_DOOR_WORKFLOW).toContain(part);
+      const front = await mcpClient.callTool({ name: "rig_whoami", arguments: {} });
+      expect(front.isError).toBeFalsy();
+      expect(front.structuredContent).toMatchObject({ ok: true, seat: "claude-app@my-rig", rig: "my-rig", session: null,
+        caller: { authenticated: false, identity: "declared" } });
+      await cleanup();
+
+      // Without --front-door, the same server is a member: the member workflow, and whoami's 404 as today.
+      await setup({ get: getFn });
+      expect(mcpClient.getInstructions() ?? "").toContain(MEMBER_WORKFLOW);
+      expect((await mcpClient.callTool({ name: "rig_whoami", arguments: {} })).isError).toBe(true);
+      await cleanup();
+
+      // A front door whose rig isn't here is a misconfiguration, still answered with the 404.
+      vi.stubEnv("OPENRIG_SESSION_NAME", "claude-app@no-such-rig");
+      await setup({ get: getFn }, { frontDoor: true });
+      expect((await mcpClient.callTool({ name: "rig_whoami", arguments: {} })).isError).toBe(true);
+      await cleanup();
+    } finally {
+      vi.unstubAllEnvs();
+    }
+  });
+
   it("the queue tools return structured content; every error a tool returns carries one shape and keeps its old text", async () => {
     // The queue's missing-item read answers with its code alone, as GET /api/queue/:qitemId does.
     const missing = { error: "qitem_not_found" };

packages/daemon/assets/plugins/openrig-core/skills/openrig-skills/SKILL.md

@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ These ship in the OpenRig repo and reach a seat when its profile selects them. T
 - **watchdog** — monitoring or recovering a seat (health, restore, stuck state).
 - **session-source-fork** — forking a session's source/context.
 - **context-engineering** — designing context systems. Provisional and non-normative: current OpenRig skills, explicit rulings, and measured practice outrank it on any conflict.
+- **working-with-an-openrig-team** — a person's own agent in an app (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code) works with their team through `rig mcp serve`: hand work over, follow it, answer the team's questions, read results. The `openrig` app plugin loads it; a seat helping someone connect an app can open it with `rig context get skills/core/working-with-an-openrig-team/SKILL.md`.
 
 Pod handbooks (load when you're in that pod):
 - **orchestration-team** — you're orchestrating a rig: dispatching, monitoring, keeping the loop moving.

packages/daemon/assets/plugins/openrig/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+{
+  "name": "openrig-app",
+  "description": "The OpenRig plugin, installed from your OpenRig package: work with your OpenRig team from this app.",
+  "owner": {
+    "name": "Mike Schwarz",
+    "url": "https://github.com/mvschwarz"
+  },
+  "plugins": [
+    {
+      "name": "openrig",
+      "source": "./",
+      "description": "Work with your OpenRig team from your coding agent: hand it work, follow that work, answer its questions and read what it returns."
+    }
+  ]
+}

packages/daemon/assets/plugins/openrig/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{
+  "name": "openrig",
+  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "description": "Work with your OpenRig team from your coding agent: hand it work, follow that work, answer its questions and read what it returns.",
+  "author": {
+    "name": "Mike Schwarz",
+    "url": "https://github.com/mvschwarz"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig",
+  "repository": "github:mvschwarz/openrig",
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "keywords": ["openrig", "agents", "team", "delegation", "mcp"],
+  "skills": "./skills",
+  "mcpServers": {
+    "openrig": {
+      "command": "rig",
+      "args": ["mcp", "serve", "--front-door"],
+      "env": {
+        "OPENRIG_SESSION_NAME": "${user_config.seat}"
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "userConfig": {
+    "seat": {
+      "type": "string",
+      "title": "OpenRig seat",
+      "description": "This app's address on your OpenRig team, such as cursor@my-team. Your requests are recorded as coming from it, and the team's questions about them come back to it.",
+      "required": false,
+      "default": ""
+    }
+  }
+}

packages/daemon/assets/plugins/openrig/.codex-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{
+  "name": "openrig",
+  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "description": "Work with your OpenRig team from your coding agent: hand it work, follow that work, answer its questions and read what it returns.",
+  "author": {
+    "name": "Mike Schwarz",
+    "url": "https://github.com/mvschwarz"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig",
+  "repository": "github:mvschwarz/openrig",
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "keywords": ["openrig", "agents", "team", "delegation", "mcp"],
+  "skills": "./skills",
+  "interface": {
+    "displayName": "OpenRig",
+    "shortDescription": "Work with your OpenRig team",
+    "longDescription": "Hand your OpenRig team work from this agent, follow it, answer the team's questions and read what it returns, through OpenRig's MCP server. Tools and guidance only: it adds no panel, and nothing wakes a chat when the team finishes.",
+    "developerName": "Mike Schwarz",
+    "category": "Productivity",
+    "capabilities": ["Read"],
+    "websiteURL": "https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig"
+  }
+}

packages/daemon/assets/plugins/openrig/LICENSE

@@ -0,0 +1,200 @@
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packages/daemon/assets/plugins/openrig/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+# openrig
+
+Work with your OpenRig team from the coding agent you already use. Your agent can hand the team work, follow that work,
+bring you the team's questions and read what it returns, through OpenRig's MCP server.
+
+This plugin is for a person's own agent in an app such as Claude Code or Codex. The agents on an OpenRig team load
+`openrig-core` instead.
+
+## What it ships
+
+- **The MCP server entry**, in the Claude Code manifest only: `rig mcp serve --front-door`, acting as the seat you set in
+  the plugin's settings. Claude Code substitutes that seat into the server's environment. Codex doesn't, so the plugin
+  ships no shared MCP file, and Codex gets the server from one command (below).
+- **`--front-door`** tells your agent the team's questions to its seat are yours to answer: it shows them to you and
+  records only what you say, instead of working them itself as a team member would.
+- **One skill,** `working-with-an-openrig-team`: the loop around the tools. It covers handing work to the team's lead,
+  following it along its handoffs, answering the team's questions with your own words, reading the result and coming
+  back to it later.
+- **No hooks.** Nothing runs on your agent's prompts or sessions.
+
+## Before you install
+
+1. OpenRig is installed and runs a team on this machine: `rig ps` lists it.
+2. Pick an address for this app on that team, such as `cursor@my-team`. The queue takes work for it; nothing is
+   launched. To tell the team what it's for, add it to a roster as a hosted member (`docs/reference/hosted-members.md`).
+
+## Install
+
+The plugin ships inside the OpenRig package, so you install it from there. Its marketplace is named `openrig-app`, because
+OpenRig already uses `openrig` for the marketplace its own Codex seats load `openrig-core` from.
+
+The commands below use `$(npm root -g)`, npm's global folder. If you installed OpenRig with another prefix, use that
+prefix's `lib/node_modules` instead.
+
+**Claude Code**
+
+```sh
+claude plugin marketplace add "$(npm root -g)/@openrig/cli/daemon/assets/plugins/openrig"
+claude plugin install openrig@openrig-app
+```
+
+Set the plugin's **OpenRig seat** to your address (`/plugin`, then configure): type the address into the row, then save.
+Pressing Enter on the empty row closes it with no change. Then start a new session.
+
+**Codex**
+
+Install the plugin for its skill, then connect the MCP server with your address:
+
+```sh
+codex plugin marketplace add "$(npm root -g)/@openrig/cli/daemon/assets/plugins/openrig"
+codex plugin add openrig@openrig-app
+codex mcp add openrig --env OPENRIG_SESSION_NAME=<address> -- rig mcp serve --front-door
+```
+
+- **A non-default OpenRig home:** Codex does not forward every shell environment variable to MCP servers by default. If
+  your team runs on a non-default OpenRig home, add `--env OPENRIG_HOME=<that home>` to the `codex mcp add` line.
+- **Approvals:** Codex may ask you to approve tools according to its approval settings. Create, claim and update change
+  team state; tools that only read are marked read-only.
+
+## What it doesn't do
+
+- It adds no panel to the app, and nothing wakes your chat when the team finishes: ask your agent to check.
+- Everyone using the app on this machine acts as the seat it names.
+- It reaches a team on this machine.

packages/daemon/assets/plugins/openrig/skills/working-with-an-openrig-team/SKILL.md

@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+---
+name: working-with-an-openrig-team
+description: >-
+  Use when you are a person's coding agent in an app such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or VS Code, connected through the
+  OpenRig MCP server, and the person wants their OpenRig team to do some work, wants to know how that work is going,
+  has a question from the team to answer, or wants to read what the team returned.
+---
+
+# Working with an OpenRig team from your app
+
+The person runs a team of agents with OpenRig: each agent has its own terminal, and they keep working after this chat ends.
+You aren't one of those terminals. You're the person's front door to the team: you hand it work, follow that work, bring
+the team's questions to the person, and bring back what it produced. The MCP server's own instructions say how its tools
+behave; this skill is the loop around them.
+
+## Check the connection first
+
+- Call `rig_whoami`. It names the seat this connection acts as. Every item you create is recorded as coming from that seat,
+  and the team's questions about your work come back to it.
+- If it has no seat, stop and help the person set one (the last section). Without one, your requests are unattributed and you
+  can't list your own work.
+- Call `rig_team` with the rig's name: it shows the team's seats, what each is for, and its lead. Work goes to the lead
+  unless the person names a seat.
+- If `lead` is null (its `leadNote` says why), and the team has exactly one seat, send work there. Otherwise, ask the person
+  which seat should take it.
+
+## Hand the team work
+
+- Use `rig_queue_create` with `destination` (the lead, or the seat the person chose) and `body`. Write the body for a
+  capable colleague: the goal, why it matters, what done looks like, and where to look. Add a one-line `summary`.
+- Tell the person the `qitemId` it returns. It's how both of you find this work again.
+- If the call times out, check `rig_queue_show` with that same `qitemId` before trying again. If you retry, pass the same id
+  as `qitemId`. Never retry with a new one: that creates the work twice.
+
+## Follow it
+
+- `rig_queue_show` with the `qitemId` gives its state, its current owner and its transitions.
+- When a seat hands the work on, the item names the next one. Follow the chain to the newest item before you report.
+- Report what the record says. An accepted or claimed item isn't finished work, and a quiet one isn't stuck: say what you
+  saw and when it last changed.
+- Nothing wakes this chat when the team finishes. Check again when the person asks, or when they come back.
+
+## The team's questions
+
+- Questions about your work come to your seat: `rig_queue_list` with `owned` lists them.
+- Show the person the question and the team's draft, in their own words where the item gives them. Then ask for an answer.
+- Record only what the person actually tells you. Claim the item (`rig_queue_claim`), then close it with
+  `rig_queue_update`: `state` `done`, `closureReason` `no-follow-on`, and the person's answer in `resolution`, saying it's
+  theirs. Put only their words there: no notes, paths or summaries of your own. If the person isn't there to answer, leave
+  the item open and tell them it's waiting. Never choose an answer for them.
+- Some questions go to the person directly, outside your seat. Those wait for them where they already answer the team,
+  such as the OpenRig TUI or Slack. You can mention that they're waiting; answering them isn't yours.
+
+## Read the result
+
+- When the item is `done`, its `resolution` is the answer, and its transitions hold the notes the team recorded.
+- If it names an `evidenceRef`, read it with `rig_artifact_read`, passing the item's `qitemId`, not the path. The tool
+  reads the item's `evidenceRef` within the shared roots this connection may read. For another file in a shared root,
+  pass the root's name and `path`. If the connection can't read it, give the person the path.
+- To ask for changes, create a new item with `revises` set to the earlier `qitemId`, so the revision stays with the
+  original work.
+
+## Come back later
+
+- `rig_queue_list` with `mine` lists what this seat sent or owns. Add `all` to include finished work, or `since` to see
+  what changed after a time.
+- A new chat with the same seat reaches the same work. Items outlive conversations.
+
+## Set it up (once, with the person)
+
+1. OpenRig runs on this machine with a team: `rig ps` lists the person's rigs.
+2. Pick an address for this app on one of those rigs, for example `cursor@my-team`. It's an address the queue takes items
+   for; nothing is launched for it. To tell the team what it's for, the person can add it to a roster as a hosted member
+   (`docs/reference/hosted-members.md` in the OpenRig package).
+3. Connect the app to that address, then start a new session so the MCP server starts with it:
+   - **Claude Code:** set it as the plugin's OpenRig seat in the plugin's settings.
+   - **Codex:** run `codex mcp add openrig --env OPENRIG_SESSION_NAME=<address> -- rig mcp serve --front-door`. Codex
+     does not forward every shell environment variable to MCP servers by default, so if the team's OpenRig home isn't the
+     default, add `--env OPENRIG_HOME=<that home>` too.
+   - **Another app:** add an MCP server that runs `rig mcp serve --front-door` with `OPENRIG_SESSION_NAME` set to the
+     address.
+
+## What this doesn't do
+
+- It doesn't add a panel to the app, and nothing wakes this chat when the team finishes.
+- Anyone using this app on this machine acts as the seat the plugin names.
+- It reaches a team on this machine. A team hosted elsewhere needs that host's own connection.

packages/daemon/specs/agents/shared/skills/core/openrig-skills/SKILL.md

@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ These ship in the OpenRig repo and reach a seat when its profile selects them. T
 - **watchdog** — monitoring or recovering a seat (health, restore, stuck state).
 - **session-source-fork** — forking a session's source/context.
 - **context-engineering** — designing context systems. Provisional and non-normative: current OpenRig skills, explicit rulings, and measured practice outrank it on any conflict.
+- **working-with-an-openrig-team** — a person's own agent in an app (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code) works with their team through `rig mcp serve`: hand work over, follow it, answer the team's questions, read results. The `openrig` app plugin loads it; a seat helping someone connect an app can open it with `rig context get skills/core/working-with-an-openrig-team/SKILL.md`.
 
 Pod handbooks (load when you're in that pod):
 - **orchestration-team** — you're orchestrating a rig: dispatching, monitoring, keeping the loop moving.

packages/daemon/specs/agents/shared/skills/core/working-with-an-openrig-team/SKILL.md

@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+---
+name: working-with-an-openrig-team
+description: >-
+  Use when you are a person's coding agent in an app such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or VS Code, connected through the
+  OpenRig MCP server, and the person wants their OpenRig team to do some work, wants to know how that work is going,
+  has a question from the team to answer, or wants to read what the team returned.
+---
+
+# Working with an OpenRig team from your app
+
+The person runs a team of agents with OpenRig: each agent has its own terminal, and they keep working after this chat ends.
+You aren't one of those terminals. You're the person's front door to the team: you hand it work, follow that work, bring
+the team's questions to the person, and bring back what it produced. The MCP server's own instructions say how its tools
+behave; this skill is the loop around them.
+
+## Check the connection first
+
+- Call `rig_whoami`. It names the seat this connection acts as. Every item you create is recorded as coming from that seat,
+  and the team's questions about your work come back to it.
+- If it has no seat, stop and help the person set one (the last section). Without one, your requests are unattributed and you
+  can't list your own work.
+- Call `rig_team` with the rig's name: it shows the team's seats, what each is for, and its lead. Work goes to the lead
+  unless the person names a seat.
+- If `lead` is null (its `leadNote` says why), and the team has exactly one seat, send work there. Otherwise, ask the person
+  which seat should take it.
+
+## Hand the team work
+
+- Use `rig_queue_create` with `destination` (the lead, or the seat the person chose) and `body`. Write the body for a
+  capable colleague: the goal, why it matters, what done looks like, and where to look. Add a one-line `summary`.
+- Tell the person the `qitemId` it returns. It's how both of you find this work again.
+- If the call times out, check `rig_queue_show` with that same `qitemId` before trying again. If you retry, pass the same id
+  as `qitemId`. Never retry with a new one: that creates the work twice.
+
+## Follow it
+
+- `rig_queue_show` with the `qitemId` gives its state, its current owner and its transitions.
+- When a seat hands the work on, the item names the next one. Follow the chain to the newest item before you report.
+- Report what the record says. An accepted or claimed item isn't finished work, and a quiet one isn't stuck: say what you
+  saw and when it last changed.
+- Nothing wakes this chat when the team finishes. Check again when the person asks, or when they come back.
+
+## The team's questions
+
+- Questions about your work come to your seat: `rig_queue_list` with `owned` lists them.
+- Show the person the question and the team's draft, in their own words where the item gives them. Then ask for an answer.
+- Record only what the person actually tells you. Claim the item (`rig_queue_claim`), then close it with
+  `rig_queue_update`: `state` `done`, `closureReason` `no-follow-on`, and the person's answer in `resolution`, saying it's
+  theirs. Put only their words there: no notes, paths or summaries of your own. If the person isn't there to answer, leave
+  the item open and tell them it's waiting. Never choose an answer for them.
+- Some questions go to the person directly, outside your seat. Those wait for them where they already answer the team,
+  such as the OpenRig TUI or Slack. You can mention that they're waiting; answering them isn't yours.
+
+## Read the result
+
+- When the item is `done`, its `resolution` is the answer, and its transitions hold the notes the team recorded.
+- If it names an `evidenceRef`, read it with `rig_artifact_read`, passing the item's `qitemId`, not the path. The tool
+  reads the item's `evidenceRef` within the shared roots this connection may read. For another file in a shared root,
+  pass the root's name and `path`. If the connection can't read it, give the person the path.
+- To ask for changes, create a new item with `revises` set to the earlier `qitemId`, so the revision stays with the
+  original work.
+
+## Come back later
+
+- `rig_queue_list` with `mine` lists what this seat sent or owns. Add `all` to include finished work, or `since` to see
+  what changed after a time.
+- A new chat with the same seat reaches the same work. Items outlive conversations.
+
+## Set it up (once, with the person)
+
+1. OpenRig runs on this machine with a team: `rig ps` lists the person's rigs.
+2. Pick an address for this app on one of those rigs, for example `cursor@my-team`. It's an address the queue takes items
+   for; nothing is launched for it. To tell the team what it's for, the person can add it to a roster as a hosted member
+   (`docs/reference/hosted-members.md` in the OpenRig package).
+3. Connect the app to that address, then start a new session so the MCP server starts with it:
+   - **Claude Code:** set it as the plugin's OpenRig seat in the plugin's settings.
+   - **Codex:** run `codex mcp add openrig --env OPENRIG_SESSION_NAME=<address> -- rig mcp serve --front-door`. Codex
+     does not forward every shell environment variable to MCP servers by default, so if the team's OpenRig home isn't the
+     default, add `--env OPENRIG_HOME=<that home>` too.
+   - **Another app:** add an MCP server that runs `rig mcp serve --front-door` with `OPENRIG_SESSION_NAME` set to the
+     address.
+
+## What this doesn't do
+
+- It doesn't add a panel to the app, and nothing wakes this chat when the team finishes.
+- Anyone using this app on this machine acts as the seat the plugin names.
+- It reaches a team on this machine. A team hosted elsewhere needs that host's own connection.

scripts/mirror-skills.mjs

@@ -906,12 +906,13 @@ function validateAuthoringLayout(layout) {
   }
   const edgeNames = Object.keys(layout.edges).sort();
   const requiredEdges = ["canonical", "plugin", "spec"];
+  // A further edge is another shipped plugin's copy of skills authored on spec or plugin (the openrig bundle's).
   if (
-    edgeNames.length !== requiredEdges.length ||
+    requiredEdges.some((edge) => !edgeNames.includes(edge)) ||
-    edgeNames.some((edge, index) => edge !== requiredEdges[index])
+    edgeNames.some((edge) => !requiredEdges.includes(edge) && layout.edges[edge]?.layout !== "flat")
   ) {
     throw new Error(
-      "Layout control must contain exactly canonical, plugin, and spec edges",
+      "Layout control must contain canonical, plugin, and spec edges; any other edge must be a flat plugin copy",
     );
   }
   if (!isRecord(layout.skills) || Object.keys(layout.skills).length === 0) {

scripts/mirror-skills.test.mjs

@@ -922,6 +922,31 @@ test("authoring regeneration writes each generated copy from the skill's one hom
   }
 });
 
+test("a further flat edge is another plugin's copy, written from the skill's home; other extra edges and missing ones refuse", async () => {
+  const mirror = await import("./mirror-skills.mjs");
+  const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "openrig-authoring-bundle-"));
+  try {
+    const { repoRoot, inputs } = homeFixture(root);
+    const layout = {
+      ...inputs.layout,
+      edges: { ...inputs.layout.edges, bundle: { path: "bundle", layout: "flat" } },
+      skills: { ...inputs.layout.skills, two: { edges: ["bundle", "canonical", "spec"], category: "core" } },
+    };
+    const first = await mirror.regeneratePublicSkills({ ...inputs, layout });
+    assert.deepEqual(first.undeclared, []);
+    assert.deepEqual(snapshotTree(join(repoRoot, "bundle/two")), snapshotTree(join(repoRoot, "spec/core/two")));
+    assert.equal(existsSync(join(repoRoot, "bundle/three")), false);
+
+    const nested = { ...layout, edges: { ...layout.edges, bundle: { path: "bundle", layout: "categorized" } } };
+    await assert.rejects(mirror.regeneratePublicSkills({ ...inputs, layout: nested }), /any other edge must be a flat plugin copy/);
+    const { plugin: _plugin, ...withoutPlugin } = inputs.layout.edges;
+    await assert.rejects(mirror.regeneratePublicSkills({ ...inputs, layout: { ...inputs.layout, edges: withoutPlugin } }),
+      /must contain canonical, plugin, and spec edges/);
+  } finally {
+    rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+});
+
 test("authoring regeneration repairs permission-only drift in generated copies from the home's modes", async () => {
   const mirror = await import("./mirror-skills.mjs");
   const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "openrig-authoring-modes-"));

scripts/product-public-skills.generated.json

@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@
       "refocusing",
       "delegating-work",
       "context-engineering",
-      "openrig-software-factory"
+      "openrig-software-factory",
+      "working-with-an-openrig-team"
     ],
     "ship_after_fix": [
       "openrig-user",

scripts/skill-edge-digests.generated.json

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 {
   "version": 1,
   "edges": {
+    "bundle": {
+      "working-with-an-openrig-team/SKILL.md": "4b3e6e8eecb710abdb95d604c419599566dbc77b019b49175e936e713b65cf6f"
+    },
     "canonical": {
       "core/agent-starters/SKILL.md": "8e8961f44fccb812f39e01174a331dab24f153ceaba91925f1e42371836cdec0",
       "core/agent-startup-and-context-ingestion/SKILL.md": "347f28a9567b4b8d8669aff6946229f53144e0c139aca2cbe77e0eb93a87f1b1",
@@ -10,7 +13,7 @@
       "core/openrig-architect/SKILL.md": "affa65df8087efca711e429e36e8756c711419dccc801d26d9e51a746b56391d",
       "core/openrig-cmux/SKILL.md": "73a86eac45d68b16a38fc0a4438713c634d86061073dac96a4d9e656ea5d34dc",
       "core/openrig-herdr/SKILL.md": "cb39b51f954ca89e8d7ec0f8b3f326476d5c4dd3bc17dbd47e6379aa630e7b22",
-      "core/openrig-skills/SKILL.md": "bdd6594ae1108455103239d39694c865cc40d3f7d9f24cd3566a18397df270da",
+      "core/openrig-skills/SKILL.md": "6d7bf933ac40531f11757a31a93d26dcbda617f1b85f48a21865b3a5c5e2ddaa",
       "core/openrig-software-factory/SKILL.md": "7a57815f3c6865d5cc42c063cccdca998d6ee100a82812362d0c81f314465b77",
       "core/openrig-software-factory/references/worked-example.md": "64dec0e832692b655ffc1ca9f72e96f221f78b8bc97f73775198f188b502f147",
       "core/openrig-upgrade/SKILL.md": "bd1765d94e4d462b9c8b08198238c1239c70ff68228c3d575438a7bc9a326ac6",
@@ -24,6 +27,7 @@
       "core/specification-system/SKILL.md": "5226d6e8b1362df89ba3d5afd82e4b4add355870132ca4b140d7f9f4324ffdc1",
       "core/topology-mutation-and-seat-management/SKILL.md": "527ca074432ce6513fb25cd27e8c709dabe0c91361b8999e09b272f3813abe62",
       "core/watchdog/SKILL.md": "24b2e756e3e9d067fa93a4b5fa5f48a5cce511e8b1a5b360b1c39bc09bc95d82",
+      "core/working-with-an-openrig-team/SKILL.md": "4b3e6e8eecb710abdb95d604c419599566dbc77b019b49175e936e713b65cf6f",
       "pm/backlog-capture/SKILL.md": "345c2b47fc85e48c15c0d42bbb48fb27dd3b0ceec36bf59dc6ed20daaea47a84",
       "pm/context-builder/SKILL.md": "0134c9b0a9f196565109f7f51b6ec78d5c3e4b5982a0d7105a93b29952625b3c",
       "pm/exec-summary/SKILL.md": "ada0f42337920e7acdd94e24cad4f5c269b057e750f4a7fc627ea9efbc02fcb6",
@@ -88,7 +92,7 @@
       "openrig-operating-model/templates/PLAYBOOK.md": "ff6f9dc8caab06dc7b9ae21977310ddefa23e925453bd54629ce0a669403bfb0",
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@@ -363,6 +367,14 @@
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skills/_canonical/core/openrig-skills/SKILL.md

@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ These ship in the OpenRig repo and reach a seat when its profile selects them. T
 - **watchdog** — monitoring or recovering a seat (health, restore, stuck state).
 - **session-source-fork** — forking a session's source/context.
 - **context-engineering** — designing context systems. Provisional and non-normative: current OpenRig skills, explicit rulings, and measured practice outrank it on any conflict.
+- **working-with-an-openrig-team** — a person's own agent in an app (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code) works with their team through `rig mcp serve`: hand work over, follow it, answer the team's questions, read results. The `openrig` app plugin loads it; a seat helping someone connect an app can open it with `rig context get skills/core/working-with-an-openrig-team/SKILL.md`.
 
 Pod handbooks (load when you're in that pod):
 - **orchestration-team** — you're orchestrating a rig: dispatching, monitoring, keeping the loop moving.

skills/_canonical/core/working-with-an-openrig-team/SKILL.md

@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+---
+name: working-with-an-openrig-team
+description: >-
+  Use when you are a person's coding agent in an app such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or VS Code, connected through the
+  OpenRig MCP server, and the person wants their OpenRig team to do some work, wants to know how that work is going,
+  has a question from the team to answer, or wants to read what the team returned.
+---
+
+# Working with an OpenRig team from your app
+
+The person runs a team of agents with OpenRig: each agent has its own terminal, and they keep working after this chat ends.
+You aren't one of those terminals. You're the person's front door to the team: you hand it work, follow that work, bring
+the team's questions to the person, and bring back what it produced. The MCP server's own instructions say how its tools
+behave; this skill is the loop around them.
+
+## Check the connection first
+
+- Call `rig_whoami`. It names the seat this connection acts as. Every item you create is recorded as coming from that seat,
+  and the team's questions about your work come back to it.
+- If it has no seat, stop and help the person set one (the last section). Without one, your requests are unattributed and you
+  can't list your own work.
+- Call `rig_team` with the rig's name: it shows the team's seats, what each is for, and its lead. Work goes to the lead
+  unless the person names a seat.
+- If `lead` is null (its `leadNote` says why), and the team has exactly one seat, send work there. Otherwise, ask the person
+  which seat should take it.
+
+## Hand the team work
+
+- Use `rig_queue_create` with `destination` (the lead, or the seat the person chose) and `body`. Write the body for a
+  capable colleague: the goal, why it matters, what done looks like, and where to look. Add a one-line `summary`.
+- Tell the person the `qitemId` it returns. It's how both of you find this work again.
+- If the call times out, check `rig_queue_show` with that same `qitemId` before trying again. If you retry, pass the same id
+  as `qitemId`. Never retry with a new one: that creates the work twice.
+
+## Follow it
+
+- `rig_queue_show` with the `qitemId` gives its state, its current owner and its transitions.
+- When a seat hands the work on, the item names the next one. Follow the chain to the newest item before you report.
+- Report what the record says. An accepted or claimed item isn't finished work, and a quiet one isn't stuck: say what you
+  saw and when it last changed.
+- Nothing wakes this chat when the team finishes. Check again when the person asks, or when they come back.
+
+## The team's questions
+
+- Questions about your work come to your seat: `rig_queue_list` with `owned` lists them.
+- Show the person the question and the team's draft, in their own words where the item gives them. Then ask for an answer.
+- Record only what the person actually tells you. Claim the item (`rig_queue_claim`), then close it with
+  `rig_queue_update`: `state` `done`, `closureReason` `no-follow-on`, and the person's answer in `resolution`, saying it's
+  theirs. Put only their words there: no notes, paths or summaries of your own. If the person isn't there to answer, leave
+  the item open and tell them it's waiting. Never choose an answer for them.
+- Some questions go to the person directly, outside your seat. Those wait for them where they already answer the team,
+  such as the OpenRig TUI or Slack. You can mention that they're waiting; answering them isn't yours.
+
+## Read the result
+
+- When the item is `done`, its `resolution` is the answer, and its transitions hold the notes the team recorded.
+- If it names an `evidenceRef`, read it with `rig_artifact_read`, passing the item's `qitemId`, not the path. The tool
+  reads the item's `evidenceRef` within the shared roots this connection may read. For another file in a shared root,
+  pass the root's name and `path`. If the connection can't read it, give the person the path.
+- To ask for changes, create a new item with `revises` set to the earlier `qitemId`, so the revision stays with the
+  original work.
+
+## Come back later
+
+- `rig_queue_list` with `mine` lists what this seat sent or owns. Add `all` to include finished work, or `since` to see
+  what changed after a time.
+- A new chat with the same seat reaches the same work. Items outlive conversations.
+
+## Set it up (once, with the person)
+
+1. OpenRig runs on this machine with a team: `rig ps` lists the person's rigs.
+2. Pick an address for this app on one of those rigs, for example `cursor@my-team`. It's an address the queue takes items
+   for; nothing is launched for it. To tell the team what it's for, the person can add it to a roster as a hosted member
+   (`docs/reference/hosted-members.md` in the OpenRig package).
+3. Connect the app to that address, then start a new session so the MCP server starts with it:
+   - **Claude Code:** set it as the plugin's OpenRig seat in the plugin's settings.
+   - **Codex:** run `codex mcp add openrig --env OPENRIG_SESSION_NAME=<address> -- rig mcp serve --front-door`. Codex
+     does not forward every shell environment variable to MCP servers by default, so if the team's OpenRig home isn't the
+     default, add `--env OPENRIG_HOME=<that home>` too.
+   - **Another app:** add an MCP server that runs `rig mcp serve --front-door` with `OPENRIG_SESSION_NAME` set to the
+     address.
+
+## What this doesn't do
+
+- It doesn't add a panel to the app, and nothing wakes this chat when the team finishes.
+- Anyone using this app on this machine acts as the seat the plugin names.
+- It reaches a team on this machine. A team hosted elsewhere needs that host's own connection.