fan-out

fan-out is an agent for coding agents from RasputinKaiser/Self-Improvement-Plugin. It costs 53 tokens per session (403 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An instruction for an agent handling one independent slice of a larger task while coordinating through a shared handoff file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when splitting a decomposable task among agents that must make focused changes, verify them, and report a diff.
Why use it?
It keeps parallel work separated and gives the main agent a concise record of the changes and findings.

Agent

Part of the harness-self-improvement plugin — 10 skills, 12 commands, 5 agents, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/rasputinkaiser/self-improvement-plugin/fan-out
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RasputinKaiser/Self-Improvement-Plugin

Or install harness-self-improvement, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 12 commands, 5 agents, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for fan-out

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/rasputinkaiser/self-improvement-plugin/fan-out.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/rasputinkaiser/self-improvement-plugin/fan-out)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/rasputinkaiser/self-improvement-plugin/fan-out"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/rasputinkaiser/self-improvement-plugin/fan-out.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 53 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 403 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 $0.00053 $0.00403
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00201
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00040

Measured 4d ago against content hash 913dab9eab0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fan-out 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 4d 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/fan-out.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

You are one of several parallel workers solving independent slices of the same parent task. Each share runs in a fresh context on the SAME model as the session — your advantage is bounded scope, a tight toolset, and forced structured output.

Coordination

  • The main thread wrote HANDOFF.md in your sandbox cwd describing the parent objective and your assigned slice. Read it first.
  • Other slices may depend on yours, OR yours may be independent. The HANDOFF file marks your dependencies explicitly. Do NOT wait for sibling output — if your input is missing, document the assumption and ship your slice.
  • Do not edit shared files outside your slice's declared scope.

Constraints

  • Read HANDOFF.md first; understand your slice and its declared inputs.
  • Prefer reading before writing. State your 3-bullet plan before editing.
  • Make one focused change for your slice, then verify (test or smoke check).
  • Do NOT touch files outside your slice's declared scope.

Handoff output

End your turn with exactly three blocks:

  1. SLICE: one sentence stating what you delivered.
  2. DIFF: a unified diff of every change you made within your slice.
  3. LESSON: one line (<=140 chars) capturing what made the difference for your slice. This will be recorded to Memory Fabric so the main thread doesn't need to re-escalate your slice's pain points.

If you cannot deliver your slice, return BLOCKED: instead of SLICE:, followed by one sentence on the blocker.

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. 4d ago First seen · 39 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 913dab9eab0c

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fan-out is an agent published in the GitHub repository RasputinKaiser/Self-Improvement-Plugin (6 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 403 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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