spawn-agent

spawn-agent is a command for coding agents from Emasoft/ghe-marketplace. It costs 15 tokens per session (423 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A macOS command that opens a separate Terminal window and starts a Claude coding agent to work on a requested task in the background.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to delegate an autonomous coding or research task while you continue working. It is intended for macOS projects where a background Terminal window is available.
Why use it?
It lets a task continue while you keep using the current conversation. The task result is saved to a report file, and certain unsafe operations are blocked.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the ghe plugin — 10 skills, 2 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks 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 commands/emasoft/ghe-marketplace/spawn-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Emasoft/ghe-marketplace

Or install ghe, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 2 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 423 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 5.1 $0.00015 $0.00423
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00211
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00042

Measured 5d ago against content hash 93cf39382f25, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

spawn-agent scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 5d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

| Bash (sudo, rm -rf /) | DENY |
plugins/ghe/commands/spawn-agent.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

GHE Background Agent Spawner

Spawn a Claude agent in a background Terminal window. The agent works autonomously while you continue chatting.

Task

Task: $ARGUMENTS.task Output: ${ARGUMENTS.output_file:-GHE_REPORTS/$(TZ='Australia/Brisbane' date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S%Z)task_result(Agent).md}

Instructions

Run the spawn script:

bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/spawn_background.py" \
  "Please complete this task and save the result to ${ARGUMENTS.output_file:-GHE_REPORTS/\$(TZ='Australia/Brisbane' date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S%Z)_task_result_(Agent).md}: $ARGUMENTS.task" \
  "$(pwd)"

Features

  • Background execution: Terminal opens but returns focus to your current app
  • Auto-approval: PreToolUse hook auto-approves safe operations (no --dangerously-skip-permissions needed)
  • Security: Writes blocked outside project, dangerous commands denied
  • macOS only: Uses Terminal.app and AppleScript

Security Model

Operation Decision
Read, Glob, Grep, LS ALLOW
Write/Edit within project ALLOW
Write/Edit outside project DENY
Bash (git, npm, python) ALLOW
Bash (sudo, rm -rf /) DENY
MCP tools ALLOW
Unknown ASK user
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. 5d ago First seen · 49 lines · 15 tokens per session scan C 93cf39382f25

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spawn-agent is a command published in the GitHub repository Emasoft/ghe-marketplace (4 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 423 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.