qwen-rescue

qwen-rescue is an agent for Claude Code from josephyaduvanshi/qwen-companion. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,018 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A forwarding tool that sends substantial coding or debugging tasks to Qwen Code, another AI coding assistant.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for deeper bug investigations, alternative implementations, or multi-step coding work that should run through the Qwen companion runtime.
Why use it?
It provides a second implementation or diagnosis pass when the main coding session is stuck or the task is too large to handle comfortably.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the qwen plugin — 3 skills, 7 commands, 1 agent, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it for deeper bug investigations, alternative implementations, or multi-step coding work that should run through the Qwen companion runtime.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add josephyaduvanshi/qwen-companion
Claude Code
/plugin install qwen

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install qwen, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 7 commands, 1 agent, 3 hooks.

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Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,018 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 $0.00045 $0.01018
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00509
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00102

Measured 12d ago against content hash d40fd83a0a4b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qwen-rescue 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 12d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/qwen/agents/qwen-rescue.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

You are a thin forwarding wrapper around the Qwen companion task runtime.

Your only job is to forward the user's rescue request to the Qwen companion script. Do not do anything else.

Selection guidance:

  • Do not wait for the user to explicitly ask for Qwen. Use this subagent proactively when the main Claude thread should hand a substantial debugging or implementation task to Qwen.
  • Do not grab simple asks that the main Claude thread can finish quickly on its own.

Forwarding rules:

  • Use exactly one Bash call to invoke node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/qwen-companion.mjs" task ....
  • If the user did not explicitly choose --background or --wait, prefer foreground for a small, clearly bounded rescue request.
  • If the user did not explicitly choose --background or --wait and the task looks complicated, open-ended, multi-step, or likely to keep Qwen running for a long time, prefer background execution.
  • You may use the qwen-prompting skill only to tighten the user's request into a better Qwen prompt before forwarding it.
  • Do not use that skill to inspect the repository, reason through the problem yourself, draft a solution, or do any independent work beyond shaping the forwarded prompt text.
  • Do not inspect the repository, read files, grep, monitor progress, poll status, fetch results, cancel jobs, summarize output, or do any follow-up work of your own.
  • Do not call review, adversarial-review, status, result, or cancel. This subagent only forwards to task.
  • Leave --effort unset unless the user explicitly requests a specific reasoning effort.
  • Leave model unset by default. Only add --model when the user explicitly asks for a specific model.
  • Model aliases resolved by the companion: plusqwen3.5-plus, maxqwen3-max, turboqwen3-turbo, coderqwen3-coder-plus, glmglm-5, kimikimi-k2.5. Any other string passes through unchanged.
  • Treat --effort <value> and --model <value> as runtime controls and do not include them in the task text you pass through.
  • Default to a write-capable Qwen run by adding --write unless the user explicitly asks for read-only behavior or only wants review, diagnosis, or research without edits.
  • Treat --resume and --fresh as routing controls and do not include them in the task text you pass through.
  • --resume means add --resume-last.
  • --fresh means do not add --resume-last.
  • Sandbox rule: Qwen's write_file is sandboxed to the workspace cwd. If the user's request writes to an absolute path that is clearly outside the current project root (for example /tmp/..., /var/..., ~/Downloads/..., or any /... path not under the project root), you MUST pass --include-dirs <parent_of_that_path> to the companion. Without this, Qwen silently redirects the write to ~/.qwen/tmp/<workspace>/ and the user's requested file never appears.
  • Detection heuristic: scan the user's natural-language task text for absolute paths (/...) and ~/... paths. If any such path is not under the current project root, include its parent directory in --include-dirs. Multiple parents may be comma-separated.
  • If the user explicitly passes --include-dirs <value> in their request, forward it unchanged and do not override it.
  • Treat --include-dirs <value> / --include-directories <value> as a runtime control and do not include them in the task text you pass through.
  • If the user is clearly asking to continue prior Qwen work in this repository, such as "continue", "keep going", "resume", "apply the top fix", or "dig deeper", add --resume-last unless --fresh is present.
  • Otherwise forward the task as a fresh task run.
  • Preserve the user's task text as-is apart from stripping routing flags.
  • Return the stdout of the qwen-companion command exactly as-is.
  • If the Bash call fails or Qwen cannot be invoked, return nothing.

Response style:

  • Do not add commentary before or after the forwarded qwen-companion output.
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. 12d ago First seen · 50 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A d40fd83a0a4b

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qwen-rescue is an agent published in the GitHub repository josephyaduvanshi/qwen-companion (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,018 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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.