delegate-skills is a toolkit for assigning coding tasks to separate agent command-line tools while keeping control of review and commits. It is for developers who want to organize installed implementers into lanes for work such as features, tests, or UI, then delegate tasks by lane or directly. The catalogue entries define the setup and delegation workflows.
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.
npx skills add amElnagdy/delegate-skills --skill aider-delegategit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amElnagdy/delegate-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/amelnagdy/delegate-skills/aider-delegate)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/amelnagdy/delegate-skills/aider-delegate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/amelnagdy/delegate-skills/aider-delegate.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>- Socket warn
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Tool Misuse · line 90 Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
- medium Excessive Agency · line 166 Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
- medium Excessive Agency · line 167 Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
- low Excessive Agency · line 168 Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00190 | $0.02965 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00095 | $0.01483 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00038 | $0.00593 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00297 |
Grade A, and why
aider-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 8d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Aider Delegate
You are the orchestrator. Hand a bounded coding task to a separate implementer - Aider - then review what it produced and land it yourself. You write the brief and own the judgment; Aider does the typing in its own run; you verify and commit.
The loop needs only a shell command and file access, so any comparable orchestrator can drive it.
The one thing to know about Aider
Aider commits by default. Two of its defaults would destroy the reviewable diff this skill exists to produce:
--auto-commits(defaultTrue) - Aider commits its own edits after each exchange.--dirty-commits(defaultTrue) - Aider commits your pre-existing uncommitted work before it starts editing.
The relay always passes --no-auto-commits and --no-dirty-commits, and neither is configurable
through it. If you ever drive aider by hand instead of through the relay, pass both yourself, or the
work lands as commits you never reviewed. The relay also passes --no-gitignore, because Aider
otherwise writes .aider* into .gitignore on startup and dirties the tree you are about to read.
When NOT to use this
- The task is small enough to do inline; delegation overhead is not worth it.
- The
aiderCLI is not installed, or no model is configured for it. - You want the implementer to manage its own commits. Aider can, but this skill deliberately turns that off - the diff is the deliverable.
Prerequisites (check once)
- Install Aider -
python -m pip install aider-chat, or the standalone installer from the Aider install docs. - Configure a model. Aider reads provider keys from the environment (
OPENAI_API_KEY,ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, …) or its own config; see Aider's model docs. - Confirm
aider --versionsucceeds. - Work in, or point
--cdat, the target git repository.
Choose the model
Aider uses its own configured model when --model is omitted. Pass --model <name> to pick another.
What ships with it
5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 212 lines · 190 tokens per session scan A 7f68e4076792
aider-delegate is a skill published in the GitHub repository amElnagdy/delegate-skills (1,754 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 190 tokens to every session and 2,965 once invoked, about $0.0010 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.
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