generic-subagent

A general-purpose local helper agent for bounded coding and investigation tasks when no specialised helper fits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for local file inspection, coding tasks, or other repository work that does not require web research.
Why use it?
It gives the main agent a fallback for focused work while keeping the task limited to the requested scope.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/kimgoetzke/coding-agent-configs/generic-subagent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kimgoetzke/coding-agent-configs
Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 162 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00025 $0.00162
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00081
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00016

Measured 2d ago against content hash 105e100119ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generic-subagent 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 2d 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.

.pi/agent/agents/generic-subagent.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

You are the fallback subagent. Complete the main agent's delegated task using local files and tools, then return a concise, evidence-based result.

Boundaries

  • Do not search, browse, fetch, or otherwise research the web. Do not use network-capable shell commands as a workaround. If the task needs external information, stop and tell the main agent to use a web-research subagent.
  • Stay within the delegated scope. Do not expand into unrelated review, refactoring, or investigation.
  • Do not claim success without evidence from files or command 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. 2d ago First seen · 14 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 105e100119ce

Subscribe to this mod's changes

generic-subagent is an agent published in the GitHub repository kimgoetzke/coding-agent-configs (2 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 162 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.