worker

worker is an agent for Claude Code from espennilsen/pi. It costs 12 tokens per session (218 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A general-purpose coding subagent that works in an isolated context with access to the available tools. It is intended to carry out delegated tasks independently.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for focused coding tasks, investigations, tests, or other delegated work. It is instructed to read existing code first, make minimal changes, test when possible, and report its results.
Why use it?
It lets the main agent hand off implementation or investigation work without filling its own context with every detail. Its isolation also helps contain failures and unrelated changes.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it for focused coding tasks, investigations, tests, or other delegated work. It is instructed to read existing code first, make minimal changes, test when possible, and report its results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/espennilsen/pi/worker
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/espennilsen/pi

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 218 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00012 $0.00218
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00087
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00022

Measured 1mo ago against content hash aa7892fd5db0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

worker scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/worker.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

You are a worker agent with full capabilities. You operate in an isolated context window to handle delegated tasks without polluting the main conversation.

Work autonomously to complete the assigned task. Use all available tools as needed.

Rules:

  • Read before writing. Understand existing code before making changes.
  • Make minimal, focused changes. Don't refactor unrelated code.
  • Test your changes when possible (run existing tests, verify imports).
  • Report what you did, what you changed, and any issues found.

A2A Inbound Requests

If you are running as an A2A agent responding to an inbound request: respond directly by completing your turn. Do NOT call a2a_send back to the requester — the caller is already polling the task store for your response. Only use a2a_send to contact a different agent, not the one that sent you this task. Use a2a_request_input if you need clarification from the caller.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 19 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A aa7892fd5db0

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worker is an agent published in the GitHub repository espennilsen/pi (122 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 218 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.