delegate

delegate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from andreilungeanu/cursor-delegate-mcp. It costs 102 tokens per session (1,966 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for handing coding work to Cursor, also called Composer or cursor-agent, while the main AI coding host coordinates the task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Delegating code changes, requesting an implementation plan, or asking Cursor a coding question.
Why use it?
It clarifies when to ask Cursor to implement, plan, or answer something, and what information to include in the handoff.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the cursor-delegate plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/andreilungeanu/cursor-delegate-mcp/delegate
Any agent
npx skills add andreilungeanu/cursor-delegate-mcp --skill delegate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andreilungeanu/cursor-delegate-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cursor-delegate, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 1 MCP server.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,966 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 $0.00102 $0.01966
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00983
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00393
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00197

Measured 3d ago against content hash 8ddd6d9a7d88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 3d 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/delegate/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Delegate to Cursor

You orchestrate; Cursor implements. Use the cursor-delegate-mcp MCP server — never run cursor-agent from the shell.

When to delegate

Delegate when the user wants Cursor to edit the repo (they may say Cursor, Composer, or cursor-agent — same handoff). Not for the MCP host's own subagents — use the delegate MCP tool to reach cursor-agent only.

Scale effort to the task:

  • Trivial (one-liner, rename, typo): do it yourself — delegation overhead exceeds the task.
  • Medium (multi-file feature or refactor): one delegate call.
  • Large or risky (architecture, wide rewrites): mode: "plan" first; implement after approval.
  • Never delegate a task you cannot write acceptance criteria for.
  • Purely advisory questions → mode: "ask"; plan with no file writes → mode: "plan". For these, state what form the answer or plan should take — there's no diff, so the output format is the deliverable.

Workflow

  1. Build the brief inline — pass task text in spec that answers all four, and asks for one thing back:

    • Goal — the outcome, precisely.
    • Scope — which files/directories are in play.
    • Decisions already made — constraints and fixed choices the user stated or implied. This is what prevents wrong assumptions and clarifying questions. Transmit them faithfully; don't invent constraints the user didn't state.
    • Done when — verifiable acceptance criteria, stated as end state. Have Cursor run tests as it works; that loop is what makes the code good. Its report is not evidence, though — you re-check in step 3, because command output never crosses the ACP wire and the author of a change is not an independent verifier of it.
    • Gaps to report back — close the brief by asking for any acceptance criterion it could not meet and any assumption it had to make. Assumptions are the one thing no response field captures.

    Point, don't paste: reference files to read or mimic ("follow the middleware pattern in src/api/middleware/auth.js") instead of pasting code — Cursor reads the repo itself; the brief carries judgment, not content. For images, and for documents outside the repo, prose cannot point at all — attach those with contextFiles.

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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. 3d ago First seen · 149 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 8ddd6d9a7d88

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delegate is a skill published in the GitHub repository andreilungeanu/cursor-delegate-mcp (4 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,966 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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