skill-subagent-usage

skill-subagent-usage is a cursor rule for Cursor from Chachamaru127/claude-code-harness. It costs 230 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule encouraging agents to actively look for relevant skills and specialised subagents, which are focused helpers for independent parts of a task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide when to inspect and apply a skill, when to delegate work to a subagent, and how to announce that choice before starting.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that a task is handled without available expertise or useful parallel work.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to decide when to inspect and apply a skill, when to delegate work to a subagent, and how to announce that choice before starting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/chachamaru127/claude-code-harness/skill-subagent-usage
About the project

Claude Code Harness is a development workflow for coding agents that organizes work into planning, implementation, review, synchronization, and release stages. It helps developers keep specifications, tests, independent reviews, and release evidence connected while using tools such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, or Grok.

Chachamaru127/claude-code-harness · 3,169 stars · on GitHub

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Chachamaru127/claude-code-harness

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 230 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 230 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00230 $0.00230
Opus 5.5 $0.00092 $0.00092
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00046 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00023

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4c37cfd57b6d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-subagent-usage 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 1mo 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.

.cursor/rules/skill-subagent-usage.mdc · 19 lines

What it actually says

Skill と Subagent を積極活用する

使い分け

  • Skill: 専門知識が必要なタスク → 作業開始前に SKILL.md を読み、手順/制約をそのまま適用する。宣言だけで終わらせない。
  • Subagent: 独立コンテキストが有効なタスク(リファクタリング・レビュー・広範囲探索など)、または並列実行したい場合に委任する。

※ 両者は併用可。Skill の知識を Subagent に渡して実行することもある。 ※ 小さいタスクで該当する Skill/Subagent がない場合は、通常フローで進める。

利用時は明示

使用する Skill/Subagent と理由は1行で明記してから進める。

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. 1mo ago First seen · 19 lines · 230 tokens per session scan A 4c37cfd57b6d

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skill-subagent-usage is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Chachamaru127/claude-code-harness (3,169 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 230 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.