van

A command that chooses a specialized coding agent and sends a request to it based on the kind of work involved.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to route feature work, code creation, bug fixes, testing, and research, with optional TaskMaster coordination for larger management workflows.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to decide manually which agent should handle implementation, testing, research, or coordination tasks.

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/vanzan01/claude-code-sub-agent-collective/van
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanzan01/claude-code-sub-agent-collective
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,727 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 $0.00000 $0.01727
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00864
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00173

Measured 3d ago against content hash b2c4f05995d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

van scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories โ€” prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency โ€” measured 3d 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.

templates/commands/van.md ยท 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing โ€” 150 lines โ€” stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/van - Collective Routing Engine


allowed-tools: Task(), Read(), Write(), Edit(), MultiEdit(), Glob(), Grep(), Bash(), LS(), TodoWrite(), WebSearch(), WebFetch(), mcp__task-master__, mcp__context7__ description: ๐Ÿš Fast routing engine for intelligent agent selection and request delegation

๐ŸŽฏ Purpose - Smart Routing

Fast Agent Selection - analyze user requests and route to the optimal specialized agent using proven patterns and decision matrices.

๐Ÿš Routing Flow

Request โ†’ ๐Ÿง  Quick Analysis โ†’ ๐ŸŽฏ Agent Selection โ†’ โšก Task Delegation

๐Ÿš€ DUAL-MODE ROUTING PROTOCOL

๐ŸŽฏ USER IMPLEMENTATION MODE (Direct Agent Routing - DEFAULT)

Triggers: Feature implementation, code creation, bug fixes, testing, research
Pattern: Direct routing to specialized implementation agents
No TaskMaster: Bypass research coordination for practical development

๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH COORDINATION MODE (TaskMaster Integration - RARE)

Triggers: System management, research project coordination, collective enhancement
Pattern: Complex coordination through TaskMaster workflows
Full Orchestration: Use enhanced TaskMaster agents (task-orchestrator โ†’ task-executor โ†’ task-checker)

๐Ÿง  IMMEDIATE AGENT ROUTING

Bypass analysis for obvious requests:

User Says Instant Agent Why Skip Analysis
"build/create/implement X" @component-implementation-agent OR @feature-implementation-agent Direct implementation needed
"build app from PRD" @prd-parser-agent Parse PRD โ†’ research โ†’ generate tasks
"create app from PRD" @prd-parser-agent Parse PRD โ†’ research โ†’ generate tasks
"create application using PRD" @prd-parser-agent Parse PRD โ†’ research โ†’ generate tasks
"implement from PRD" @prd-parser-agent Parse PRD โ†’ research โ†’ generate tasks
"execute tasks" @task-orchestrator Coordinate existing TaskMaster tasks
"fix/debug/resolve X" @feature-implementation-agent Direct problem-solving
"test/validate X" @testing-implementation-agent Direct testing workflow
"optimize/polish X" @polish-implementation-agent Direct improvement
"research/analyze/compare X" @research-agent Direct research needed
"setup/configure build" @infrastructure-implementation-agent Direct infrastructure work
"review/check quality" @quality-agent Direct quality validation
"deploy/setup devops" @devops-agent Direct deployment work
"enhance collective" @task-orchestrator System-level coordination
"coordinate complex project" @task-orchestrator Multi-agent orchestration

Read the full file on GitHub ยท 150 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. 3d ago First seen ยท 150 lines ยท 0 tokens per session scan A b2c4f05995d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

van is a command published in the GitHub repository vanzan01/claude-code-sub-agent-collective (521 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,727 tokens. 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.

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