Cross Talk

Cross-Talk (Agent Federation Protocol)

When to activate

Activate when you encounter a highly specific, proprietary error or pattern that is not in your training data, and the user invokes /cross-talk.

When NOT to use

Do not use for general programming questions (e.g., "How does React useState work?").

Instructions

1. Identify the Knowledge Gap: Clearly articulate the proprietary problem you cannot solve (e.g., "I don't know how to authenticate with the internal AcmeCorp microservice").
2. Federated Query: Ask the user to provide the endpoint URL of a federated team knowledge base, a shared MEMORY_BANK.md network drive, or a custom MCP server connected to the team's central Claude instance.
3. Query the Hive: Use Bash (via curl) or MCP tools to send your specific query to the shared repository.
4. Ingest & Apply: Read the returned context from the federated system, apply it to the current local problem, and explain to the user how the cross-team knowledge solved the issue.

Example

User: /cross-talk How do we bypass the staging firewall? Claude: [Queries internal MCP server]. The platform team's agent responded. We need to add the X-Acme-Staging-Bypass header. I will add that to the API call now.