zcode-delegate

zcode-delegate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from amElnagdy/delegate-skills. It costs 124 tokens per session (2,390 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for sending a bounded coding task to the Z.AI ZCode command-line tool as a background implementer, then reviewing its changes and applying them yourself.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you explicitly want ZCode to implement, fix, or refactor a task, provided the ZCode tool and a model provider are configured.
Why use it?
It separates code writing from the final review, so you can delegate implementation while retaining control over what enters the codebase.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/amelnagdy/delegate-skills/zcode-delegate
Any agent
npx skills add amElnagdy/delegate-skills --skill zcode-delegate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amElnagdy/delegate-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,390 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 $0.00124 $0.02390
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.01195
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00478
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00239

Measured 4d ago against content hash 623b66c309fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zcode-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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/relay.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/zcode-delegate/SKILL.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ZCode Delegate

You are the orchestrator. This skill lets you hand a bounded coding task to a separate implementer — the Z.AI ZCode CLI — then review what it produced and land it yourself. You write the brief and own the judgment; ZCode does the typing; you verify and commit.

Nothing here is specific to one orchestrating agent. The loop needs only the ability to run a shell command and read a file. (It is designed for and run on Claude Code; treat other orchestrators as designed-for, not yet proven.)

When NOT to use this

  • The task is small enough to just do inline — delegation overhead is not worth it.
  • ZCode is not installed, or its CLI has no model provider configured.
  • You want to write the code yourself, or you only need a review.

Prerequisites (check once)

  1. ZCode is installed. The CLI ships inside the desktop app — it is not on PATH and not on npm. The relay resolves it in this order: --zcode-path <file> or ZCODE_CLI first, then PATH, then the installed app bundle. On Linux the app is an AppImage with no fixed install path, so the flag or the environment variable is required there — the relay guesses nothing.
  2. A model provider is configured for the CLI, with a key it can actually reach. Being signed into the desktop app is not enough — see below.
  3. You are in (or will point --cd at) the target git repository.

The relay records the CLI version and how it was resolved into result.json, so a surprising install is visible after the fact.

Authenticating the headless CLI

Signing into the ZCode desktop app does not authenticate the CLI this relay drives. The CLI keeps its own config at ~/.zcode/cli/config.json, separate from the desktop app's, and nothing bridges the two. zcode login is the intended path, but where it fails with OAuth response is not valid JSON the way in is a Z.AI API key.

Two pieces are needed, and they are separate:

  1. The provider block must exist in ~/.zcode/cli/config.json. It defines the provider, its endpoint and its models — the environment cannot supply this:

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 lines

Files

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.

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. 4d ago First seen · 185 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A 623b66c309fd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

zcode-delegate is a skill published in the GitHub repository amElnagdy/delegate-skills (1,641 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 2,390 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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