qwen-code

qwen-code is a skill for Claude Code from amirkiarafiei/subagent-cli-skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,687 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A delegation tool that sends large, multi-step coding or repository tasks to the Qwen-Code command-line tool, which works in a separate session. The handoff includes the goal, prior decisions, scope, and constraints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for multi-file implementation, migrations, test-suite work, documentation sweeps, or when Qwen is explicitly requested.
Why use it?
It lets long edits, broad refactors, deep exploration, or batch work run as a bounded separate task while the main session coordinates the work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it for multi-file implementation, migrations, test-suite work, documentation sweeps, or when Qwen is explicitly requested.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/amirkiarafiei/subagent-cli-skills/qwen-code
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.

Any agent
npx skills add amirkiarafiei/subagent-cli-skills --skill qwen-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amirkiarafiei/subagent-cli-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,687 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00077 $0.01687
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00843
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00337
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00169

Measured 8d ago against content hash eab112892eda, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qwen-code 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.

skills/qwen-code/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Qwen-Code CLI (subagent/task delegation)

Use Qwen-Code CLI to run a separate long-horizon pass over the repo: multi-step implementation, broad refactors, batch file writes, or deep exploration—similar to handing a task to a subagent. You stay orchestrator: smaller prompts, less context burn, often lower spend than doing the same work entirely in-session.

Qwen-Code is highly optimized for deep architectural changes and complex code generation, with the latest Qwen3 series supporting robust tool-calling and environment interaction.

When to use Qwen-Code CLI

  • Large or multi-step work: several files, phases, or checkpoints (feature slice, migration, test suite, docs sweep).
  • Heavy code generation or editing: Qwen-Code drives tool use while you summarize outcomes and merge.
  • Agentic Coding: Optimized for tool-calling and environment interaction through the latest qwen3-coder stack.
  • Parallel mental lane: you continue planning or reviewing while Qwen-Code runs a bounded task (optionally background—see reference.md).
  • User explicitly asks for Qwen or “use Qwen for this.”

When not to use

  • Small / single-step tasks answerable with one or two edits or a short explanation.
  • Tight feedback loops where the user wants rapid back-and-forth refinement in one thread.
  • Secrets or policy-sensitive flows—avoid piping credentials; redact before delegating.
  • Already-loaded context where duplicating the whole plan adds no value—handle locally.
  • Low ROI (Return on Investment): If the task is "needle-in-a-haystack" (requires high precision over a single line) or if the time to compose the Handoff Table exceeds the time to simply edit the file locally. Delegation should only be used when the "mental offloading" outweighs the "handoff overhead."

Delegation and context (critical)

Isolated subagent context saves tokens but splits the story: Qwen-Code does not see the main session's full thread. Poor handoffs cause misread subtasks, conflicting assumptions (stack, style, APIs), and wasted edits—see Cognition’s discussion of sharing context and implicit decisions in multi-step setups.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 107 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A eab112892eda

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qwen-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository amirkiarafiei/subagent-cli-skills (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,687 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.