What is use-premium-models-efficiently?

A workflow for assigning different coding tasks to AI models with different costs and abilities. A higher-cost model handles design decisions and final review, while lower-cost models handle bounded research, coding, and testing.

Use it to divide research, implementation, tests, architecture, and final review among multiple AI workers with written handoffs.

It helps limit expensive model use while keeping human-important decisions and review with the selected top-tier model.

use-premium-models-efficiently — Plugin by patrickdappollonio

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.

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins

agentmods

npx agentmods add plugins/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins/use-premium-models-efficiently

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

use-premium-models-efficiently 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.

plugins/use-premium-models-efficiently/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "use-premium-models-efficiently",
  "description": "Run expensive top-tier models (Claude Fable/Opus, GPT-5.6 Sol, or similar) efficiently — the premium model keeps judgment, architecture, synthesis, and final review, while cheaper subagents (Sonnet, Haiku, Terra, Luna) do bounded token-heavy research, coding, and testing with self-contained handoffs and verified results.",
  "version": "1.0.1",
  "author": {
    "name": "Patrick D'appollonio",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins/tree/main/plugins/use-premium-models-efficiently",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": ["orchestration", "subagents", "delegation", "cost-efficiency", "claude-fable", "gpt-5.6"]
}

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.

2d ago First seen · 13 lines scan A b7f747d28870

Subscribe to this mod's changes

use-premium-models-efficiently is a plugin published in the GitHub repository patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins (9 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-08-31.

Building agents

use-premium-models-efficiently

Getting it into your agent

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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