# Agent packs

An agent pack is a plugin that installs a whole crew: a lead agent and its specialists, each on a model that suits
its job, plus the doctrine that tells the lead how to delegate, slash commands that route work, and skills the crew
loads when needed. You go from one blank agent to a working team in one click — and the pack keeps the team
healthy afterwards.

## Before you install

A pack's page in **Plugins → Browse** shows:

- **What it can reach** — one **Creates an agent** line per crew member (and **Adds a schedule** for any schedule
  it brings), plus typically "Create or edit agents" and "List your models". Your plan must have room: agents per
  account are Free 2, Solo 5, Entrepreneur 25 (a seven-agent pack plus your default agent needs Entrepreneur). If it
  doesn't fit, the install dialog says **Adds N agents · you have room for M** and offers to install anyway with as many
  as fit.
- **Capabilities** — for example 3 lifecycle events, 1 middleware, 5 commands, 3 skills.
- The readme: who the agents are and how to drive them.

## What happens when you install

1. The pack creates its agents, marked as coming from the plugin. Specialists sit under the lead as its
   subagents. Each member is put on the best match among **your** enabled models (a pack can't bring its own).
2. Its doctrine is added each turn to the instructions of every agent outside the crew, and its commands and skills appear on your agents.
3. From then on, the pack re-checks the crew on each new chat and after each update: a member you deleted comes
   back; a member whose setup drifted is restored.

If your plan didn't have room for every agent or schedule, upgrade and press **Rerun setup** on the installed plugin's
page.

## Driving the crew

Talk to the lead like any agent. It delegates to specialists with `start_subagent`; you'll see a live card per
specialist in the chat (its current step, its cost, a Stop button), and the lead answers you once their reports
are in. Packs usually add commands — for example `/orchestrate <goal>` or `/research <question>` — that send a goal
straight to the right specialist.

## Changing and removing it

- **Edit freely.** Crew members are ordinary agents: change their model, persona or access. A pack that
  re-asserts its definition may restore some of those edits on the next chat — its readme should say so.
- **Updates** that ask for more access (a new agent, a new permission) wait for your OK on the plugin's page.
- **Uninstall** deletes the pack's agents and every chat they were in.

## Build one

See [Agent crews](plugin-agent-crews.md) and the [Oh My OpenAgents walkthrough](example-oh-my-openagents.md).