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title: "Team Composition Patterns - Air Market"
description: "You are about to start a team of agents and the first questions are how many and which kinds. This helps you size the team, choose a shape that matches the job, make sure each role gets an agent that…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/team-composition-patterns"
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[Air Market](/) / [Automation](/category/automation) / Team Composition Patterns

Skill by [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson)

# Team Composition Patterns

Work out how many agents you need and of what kind

## What this does

You are about to start a team of agents and the first questions are how many and which kinds. This helps you size the team, choose a shape that matches the job, make sure each role gets an agent that has the tools it needs, and set up how you want to watch it run. Reach for it before spawning, or when the usual shapes do not fit.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Decide how many agents to spawn for a task
- Choose between a review, feature, or debug team
- Pick the right agent type so each role has its tools

## Information

**Team Composition Patterns at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson) |
| Category | [Automation](/category/automation) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Version | 1.0.2 |
| Size | 20 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [wshobson/agents](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/4bb47e9eeb4e8564642eb23384ec8f7bf1855417/plugins/agent-teams/skills/team-composition-patterns) |
| GitHub stars | 39,077 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 10,019, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Team Composition Patterns and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Team Composition Patterns's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | 4bb47e9eeb4e8564642eb23384ec8f7bf1855417 |
| Content hash | 7b6f886545fbf8d54b8bd74e3dec40af78162345e32f3b1366c4331c638c76d8 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/blob/4bb47e9eeb4e8564642eb23384ec8f7bf1855417/plugins/agent-teams/skills/team-composition-patterns/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Team Composition Patterns](/security/team-composition-patterns)

## About Team Composition Patterns

This covers designing agent team compositions: sizing heuristics, preset configurations, and how to select agent types.

Use it when deciding how many agents to spawn for a task, when choosing between a review team, a feature team, and a debug team, when selecting the correct subagent_type so each role has the tools it needs, when configuring display modes such as tmux, iTerm2 or in-process for a CI or local environment, or when building a custom composition for a non-standard workflow like a migration or a security audit.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/agent-type-selection.md - reference
- references/preset-teams.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Team Composition Patterns safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Team Composition Patterns and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 4bb47e9eeb4e, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/team-composition-patterns.

### How do I install Team Composition Patterns?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/team-composition-patterns on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/4bb47e9eeb4e8564642eb23384ec8f7bf1855417/plugins/agent-teams/skills/team-composition-patterns. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Automation listings](/category/automation)
- [Everything by Seth Hobson](/@wshobson)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/team-composition-patterns>