delegate

delegate is a command for coding agents from MadAppGang/claude-code. It costs 15 tokens per session (156 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that routes a task to the specialized software agent best matched to it. It uses a task-routing table and delegates the work instead of handling it directly.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for choosing the appropriate agent for a task and sending that task to them for execution.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that a task is handled by an agent without the right expertise. This keeps specialized work aligned with the intended process.

Command

Part of the dev plugin — 47 skills, 12 commands, 14 agents 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/madappgang/claude-code/delegate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MadAppGang/claude-code

Or install dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 12 commands, 14 agents.

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README.md
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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 156 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 $0.00015 $0.00156
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00078
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00016

Measured yesterday against content hash 566ae520b50e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/dev/commands/delegate.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

You have been given a task to delegate to a specialized agent. The dev:task-routing skill has been loaded with the routing table.

Your ONLY job is to:

  1. Read the routing table from the loaded skill
  2. Match the user's task to the correct agent
  3. Delegate the task using the Task tool with the matched subagent_type

Do NOT handle the task yourself. Do NOT use Glob, Grep, or Read to start working on it. Delegate immediately.

User's task: $ARGUMENTS

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. yesterday First seen · 19 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 566ae520b50e

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delegate is a command published in the GitHub repository MadAppGang/claude-code (279 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 156 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 2026-09-03.