Skill: squad-help

Quick reference. If you're reading this because a user said "use squad" or "squad" or "set up a squad", you're in the right place — read on for the correct invocation paths.

Squad is a custom agent, not a skill

The Squad framework registers a custom Copilot CLI agent at .github/agents/squad.agent.md. The agent is named Squad and its description is "Your AI team. Describe what you're building, get a team of specialists that live in your repo."

Copilot CLI agents and skills are different things:

Thing	How to invoke	Example
Skill	`skill(name)` tool call or natural-language match	`skill(squad-commands)`
Agent	`task` tool with `agent_type=<name>`	`task(name="...", agent_type="Squad", prompt="...")`
Slash command	Built-in CLI keyword	`/agent`, `/skills`, `/mcp`

Calling skill(Squad) will fail with "Skill not found: Squad" because Squad is the agent, not a skill. (/squad as a slash command also does not exist — only built-in CLI keywords like /agent, /skills, /mcp are slash commands. There's no way to map a skill name to a slash command without a Copilot CLI feature change.)