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Wait for another agent to enter WAITING state, then execute follow-up instructions
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Resolve an agent name or description to an exact mngr agent name. Used by other skills that target agents.
Send a message to another mngr agent. Use when you need to communicate with a peer agent.
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| name | wait-for-agent |
| description | Wait for another agent to enter WAITING state, then execute follow-up instructions |
The user's message contains an agent name and optional follow-up instructions. Extract the agent name (the first word) and treat everything after it as follow-up instructions.
Skip this step if the user seems to have provided the exact name of the agent -- just use the first word of their input directly as the target. Otherwise (for example they pasted a branch name like mngr/foo, or described the agent instead of naming it), run the /imbue-mngr-skills:find-agent skill, which explains how to find the exact agent name.
Run the following bash command (with a 600000ms timeout), substituting AGENT_NAME with the resolved agent name. The loop returns immediately if the agent is already in a ready state:
while true; do
OUTPUT=$(mngr list --include 'name == "AGENT_NAME"' --format '{state}|{plugin.claude.waiting_reason}' 2>/dev/null | head -1)
STATE="${OUTPUT%%|*}"
REASON="${OUTPUT#*|}"
echo "[$(date '+%H:%M:%S')] Agent 'AGENT_NAME' state: ${STATE:-NOT_FOUND} (reason: ${REASON:-none})"
case "$STATE" in
DONE|STOPPED) echo "Agent 'AGENT_NAME' is ready (state: $STATE)"; break ;;
WAITING)
if [ "$REASON" = "PERMISSIONS" ]; then
echo "Agent 'AGENT_NAME' waiting on permissions, continuing to poll..."
sleep 60
else
echo "Agent 'AGENT_NAME' is ready (state: $STATE)"; break
fi ;;
"") echo "Agent 'AGENT_NAME' not found, stopping"; break ;;
*) sleep 60 ;;
esac
done
If this command times out (after 10 minutes), check on the agent by running tmux capture-pane -t mngr-AGENT_NAME -p -S -30 to see its recent output. The tmux session name format is mngr-AGENT_NAME. If it looks like the agent is still actively working, re-run the polling loop. If it looks stuck or dead, inform the user.
Once the agent is in WAITING (without a permissions reason), DONE, or STOPPED state, carry out the user's follow-up instructions. If no follow-up instructions were provided, inform the user that the agent is ready.