Collaboration Session Management

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Entry point to start or resume collaboration sessions. Manages session creation, listing, and state through an MCP state machine.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
ProductivityIntermediate
406/2/2026
Claude Code
#collaboration#session-management#mcp#workflow

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Our review

Handles starting and resuming collaborative sessions using a dedicated MCP plugin.

Strengths

  • Automates session creation and management
  • Seamless integration with an MCP state machine for step routing
  • Allows resuming existing sessions with state snapshots
  • Delegates task routing to the plugin, avoiding manual logic

Limitations

  • Requires the MCP server to be running
  • Only handles session management, not brainstorming or rough-draft actions
  • Depends on the MCP plugin for advanced features
When to use it

When you need to initiate or resume a structured collaborative workflow session with an AI assistant.

When not to use it

For simple or ad-hoc tasks that do not require a multi-step session managed by a state machine.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score85/100

The skill uses Bash only to start a known collab server if not running, with no destructive or exfiltrating commands. It relies on MCP tools for session management, which operate within the collab service's safe API surface. No sensitive data handling or risky operations are performed.

No concerns found

Examples

Start a new collab session
Start a new collaboration session for my current project.
Resume an existing session
Resume the collab session I had yesterday.
List and select session
List my collaboration sessions and let me choose one to resume.

name: collab description: Start or resume a collab session - session management only user-invocable: true allowed-tools: mcp__plugin_mermaid-collab_mermaid__*, Read, Glob, Grep, Bash

Collab Sessions

Entry point for collab workflow. Handles session management and delegates to MCP state machine.

Step 1: Check Server

Tool: mcp__plugin_mermaid-collab_mermaid__check_server_health
Args: {}

If not healthy: "Server not running. Start with: bun run bin/mermaid-collab.ts start" STOP if server not running.

Step 2: Find/Create Session

List sessions for this project:

Tool: mcp__plugin_mermaid-collab_mermaid__list_sessions
Args: {}

If sessions exist: Present list with "Create new" option If no sessions: Go to Step 3

Step 3: Create New Session

  1. Generate name: mcp__plugin_mermaid-collab_mermaid__generate_session_name()
  2. Ask user to confirm or pick own name
  3. Initialize state:
    Tool: mcp__plugin_mermaid-collab_mermaid__update_session_state
    Args: { "project": "<cwd>", "session": "<name>", "phase": "brainstorming", "currentItem": null }
    
  4. Get first skill from state machine:
    Tool: mcp__plugin_mermaid-collab_mermaid__complete_skill
    Args: { "project": "<cwd>", "session": "<name>", "skill": "collab-start" }
    
  5. Invoke: result.next_skill

Step 4: Resume Existing Session

  1. Get session state: mcp__plugin_mermaid-collab_mermaid__get_session_state()
  2. Check for snapshot:
    • If snapshot exists: Load it, delete it, invoke snapshot.activeSkill
    • If no snapshot: Call complete_skill with current phase's skill, invoke result.next_skill

No Manual Routing

This skill does NOT:

  • Route by item type (MCP state machine does this)
  • Invoke brainstorming/rough-draft directly (complete_skill returns next skill)
  • Manage the work item loop (routing nodes handle this)
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