A command for sending a task to DeepSeek Harness in the background while you continue working in Claude Code.

Use it to delegate analysis, investigation, or file-modifying work, then check the run and retrieve its result later.

Long-running tasks can otherwise block the current conversation. It also separates tasks that inspect files from tasks allowed to change them.

delegate — Command for Claude Code by hekmon8

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 hekmon8/awesome-claude-code-plugins

Claude Code

/plugin install dsh

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dsh, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 10 commands, 1 agent.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 178 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00013	$0.00178
Opus 5.5	$0.00005	$0.00071
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00036
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00018

Measured 2mo ago against content hash b672f2980189, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

delegate 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 2mo 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

This is a copy

100% identical to delegate — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/dsh/commands/delegate.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Delegate the described task to DeepSeek Harness. For substantial tasks, prefer the dsh-delegate subagent (it manages the run lifecycle without cluttering this conversation). For quick tasks, call the bridge directly:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/dsh-bridge.mjs" run --background --write "$ARGUMENTS"

Rules:

Include --write only when the task is supposed to modify files; omit it for analysis/investigation tasks.
Immediately relay the returned run id to the user, then continue with other work.
Check progress with /dsh:runs <run-id> and fetch the result with /dsh:show <run-id> when it finishes.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 16 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A b672f2980189

Subscribe to this mod's changes

delegate is a command published in the GitHub repository hekmon8/awesome-claude-code-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 178 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to delegate, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Building agents

delegate next to 6 commands from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
delegatehekmon8/awesome-claude-code-plugins	Command	5	1mo ago	CC0-1.0	A	13	Claude Code
checklistgithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	13	Claude Code
clarifygithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	27	Claude Code
specifygithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	13	Claude Code
analyzegithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	26	Claude Code
convergegithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	35	Claude Code
implementgithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	14	Claude Code