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 copilot-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/copilot-delegate)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/amelnagdy/delegate-skills/copilot-delegate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/amelnagdy/delegate-skills/copilot-delegate.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00129 | $0.01719 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00064 | $0.00860 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00026 | $0.00344 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00172 |
Grade A, and why
copilot-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 7d 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 — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Copilot Delegate
You are the orchestrator. Delegate a bounded coding task to a separate implementer — the GitHub Copilot CLI — then review what it produced and land it yourself. You write the brief and own the judgment; the implementer makes changes in its own session in a clean working tree; you verify and commit.
The loop needs only a shell command and file access, so any comparable orchestrator can drive it.
When NOT to use this
- The task is small enough to do inline; delegation overhead is not worth it.
- The
copilotCLI is not installed or authenticated. - You need a hard sandbox. Copilot exposes sandbox controls, but they are upstream-experimental
(MXC-based, controlled via the
/sandboxcommand and settings, disabled by default) — this relay does not configure them.--read-onlyonly disables edit tools (--mode plan); shell commands still run. If project files must not change at all, dispatch against a clean or isolated worktree.
Prerequisites (check once)
- Install
copilot(npm install -g @github/copilot; the CLI requires Node 22+, the relay itself runs on Node 18+ — the relay probescopilot version). - Authenticate: run
copilot login(interactive web/device flow), or setCOPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN/GH_TOKEN/GITHUB_TOKENin the environment. - Confirm
copilot versionsucceeds. - Work in, or point
--cdat, the target git repository.
Choose the model (optional)
Copilot picks a default model (auto). To choose another, pass --model <name>.
The relay accepts letters, digits, and . _ : / - only (the value reaches a shell on Windows).
Choose the effort (optional)
Copilot supports a reasoning effort dial: --effort <level> with values
low, medium, high, xhigh, or max. The relay rejects any other value
before dispatch.
The loop
Run these five steps per task. Steps 1, 4, and 5 require judgment; 2 and 3 are mechanical.
1. Write a brief
Copilot sees only the text you send. It cannot read your conversation: the brief must stand alone
with the goal, current state, what to change, what to leave untouched, the project's real
gates, and a report contract. Keep each brief to a single task. Write it to a file and pass it as
the relay's --brief. See references/writing-the-brief.md.
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 141 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A 7f5040cda1a0
copilot-delegate is a skill published in the GitHub repository amElnagdy/delegate-skills (1,695 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 1,719 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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