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Cicada — Multi-Agent Copilot CLI Orchestrator

Repository: https://github.com/lewiswigmore/cicada

What is Cicada?

Cicada is a PowerShell + Python orchestrator that launches a team of specialized GitHub Copilot CLI agents in Windows Terminal. Each agent has a defined role (PM, Engineer, Reviewer, Tester) and they collaborate through a shared MCP coordination server.

Why it's useful

  • Multi-agent collaboration — agents communicate via team messaging and a shared task board
  • Role specialization — each agent focuses on what it does best (planning, coding, reviewing, testing)
  • Autopilot mode — agents re-prompt automatically when pending work arrives
  • Simple setup — single install script, launch with one command
  • Built for Copilot CLI — designed specifically around GitHub Copilot CLI's capabilities

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Submitting as a Skill — Cicada provides a specialized multi-agent orchestration capability for Copilot CLI users on Windows.

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  • Targets \staged\ branch
  • Includes \SKILL.md\ with frontmatter
  • Skill placed in \skills/cicada/\ directory

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Add Cicada multi-agent orchestrator skill
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🔍 Skill Validator Results

2 resource(s) checked | ✅ All checks passed

Full output 
Found 1 skill(s)
[cicada] 📊 cicada: 351 BPE tokens [chars/4: 365] (compact ✓), 6 sections, 2 code blocks
[cicada]    ⚠  No numbered workflow steps — agents follow sequenced procedures more reliably.
�[32m✅ All checks passed (1 skill(s))�[0m

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Pull request overview

Adds a new Agent Skill (“cicada”) that documents and links to an external multi-agent orchestrator for GitHub Copilot CLI on Windows.

Changes:

  • Introduces a new skills/cicada/ skill with YAML frontmatter and usage/installation guidance.
  • Documents Cicada’s multi-agent roles and MCP-based coordination model.
  • Links to the upstream Cicada repository and installation guide.

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## Links

- [Repository](https://github.com/lewiswigmore/cicada)
- [Installation Guide](https://github.com/lewiswigmore/cicada/blob/master/INSTALL.md)
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Since this PR adds a new skill folder, the generated skills index should be updated as well. Per CONTRIBUTING.md ("Validate and update docs"), please run the skill build/validate step and commit the resulting update so docs/README.skills.md includes an entry for cicada in the skills table.

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lewiswigmore and others added 2 commits April 10, 2026 22:21
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Update skills README with cicada entry
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Update cicada skill for v0.1.2: PM/Engineer roles, --team flag, autop…
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please run npm build to add skill indexing on the readme

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aaronpowell commented Apr 13, 2026

Skills that just clone an external repo and run commands from it represent a security supply chain risk.

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