spawn

A command that breaks a large request into smaller tasks and coordinates their execution. It can run independent tasks in parallel or handle dependent tasks in sequence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for projects spanning several technical areas, with subtasks, dependencies, and results that need to be combined.
Why use it?
It makes complex work easier to organize and keeps relationships between tasks visible.

Command

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/superclaude-org/superclaude_framework/spawn
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 702 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 $0.00012 $0.00702
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00351
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00070

Measured 2d ago against content hash fa49398ce13d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spawn 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • spawn — 92% identical, 30 lines differ
plugins/superclaude/commands/spawn.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/sc:spawn - Meta-System Task Orchestration

Triggers

  • Complex multi-domain operations requiring intelligent task breakdown
  • Large-scale system operations spanning multiple technical areas
  • Operations requiring parallel coordination and dependency management
  • Meta-level orchestration beyond standard command capabilities

Usage

/sc:spawn [complex-task] [--strategy sequential|parallel|adaptive] [--depth normal|deep]

Behavioral Flow

  1. Analyze: Parse complex operation requirements and assess scope across domains
  2. Decompose: Break down operation into coordinated subtask hierarchies
  3. Orchestrate: Execute tasks using optimal coordination strategy (parallel/sequential)
  4. Monitor: Track progress across task hierarchies with dependency management
  5. Integrate: Aggregate results and provide comprehensive orchestration summary

Key behaviors:

  • Meta-system task decomposition with Epic → Story → Task → Subtask breakdown
  • Intelligent coordination strategy selection based on operation characteristics
  • Cross-domain operation management with parallel and sequential execution patterns
  • Advanced dependency analysis and resource optimization across task hierarchies

MCP Integration

  • Native Orchestration: Meta-system command uses native coordination without MCP dependencies
  • Progressive Integration: Coordination with systematic execution for progressive enhancement
  • Framework Integration: Advanced integration with SuperClaude orchestration layers

Tool Coordination

  • TodoWrite: Hierarchical task breakdown and progress tracking across Epic → Story → Task levels
  • Read/Grep/Glob: System analysis and dependency mapping for complex operations
  • Edit/MultiEdit/Write: Coordinated file operations with parallel and sequential execution
  • Bash: System-level operations coordination with intelligent resource management

Key Patterns

  • Hierarchical Breakdown: Epic-level operations → Story coordination → Task execution → Subtask granularity
  • Strategy Selection: Sequential (dependency-ordered) → Parallel (independent) → Adaptive (dynamic)
  • Meta-System Coordination: Cross-domain operations → resource optimization → result integration
  • Progressive Enhancement: Systematic execution → quality gates → comprehensive validation

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

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 · 85 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A fa49398ce13d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spawn is a command published in the GitHub repository SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework (23,856 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 702 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 2026-08-30.