subagent-driven-development

subagent-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code from Azzygoatcoder/agent-useful-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,971 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A development process that assigns each planned implementation task to a fresh coding agent, reviews the result, and then checks the completed branch.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to execute a multi-task implementation plan with independent task workers, task-by-task reviews, and a final whole-branch review.
Why use it?
It separates tasks and reviews so mistakes or missed requirements are more likely to be caught before the work is finished.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the superpowers plugin — 9 skills, 1 hook 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/azzygoatcoder/agent-useful-skills/subagent-driven-development
Any agent
npx skills add Azzygoatcoder/agent-useful-skills --skill subagent-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azzygoatcoder/agent-useful-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 hook.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for subagent-driven-development

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/azzygoatcoder/agent-useful-skills/subagent-driven-development"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/azzygoatcoder/agent-useful-skills/subagent-driven-development.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,971 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 5.1 $0.00035 $0.02971
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01486
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00594
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00297

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4e8679ba90e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

subagent-driven-development scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

delete this plan's workspace (`rm -rf <workspace>`) — the git history is
plugins/superpowers/skills/subagent-driven-development/SKILL.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Subagent-Driven Development

Execute plan by dispatching a fresh implementer subagent per task, a task review (spec compliance + code quality) after each, and a broad whole-branch review at the end.

Why subagents: You delegate tasks to specialized agents with isolated context. By precisely crafting their instructions and context, you ensure they stay focused and succeed at their task. They should never inherit your session's context or history — you construct exactly what they need. This also preserves your own context for coordination work.

Core principle: Fresh subagent per task + task review (spec + quality) + broad final review = high quality, fast iteration

Narration: between tool calls, narrate at most one short line — the ledger and the tool results carry the record.

Continuous execution: Do not pause to check in with your human partner between tasks. Execute all tasks from the plan without stopping. The only reasons to stop are: BLOCKED status you cannot resolve, ambiguity that genuinely prevents progress, or all tasks complete. "Should I continue?" prompts and progress summaries waste their time — they asked you to execute the plan, so execute it.

When to Use

digraph when_to_use {
    "Have implementation plan?" [shape=diamond];
    "Tasks mostly independent?" [shape=diamond];
    "Subagents available?" [shape=diamond];
    "subagent-driven-development (subagent mode)" [shape=box];
    "subagent-driven-development (sequential mode)" [shape=box];
    "Manual execution or brainstorm first" [shape=box];

    "Have implementation plan?" -> "Tasks mostly independent?" [label="yes"];
    "Have implementation plan?" -> "Manual execution or brainstorm first" [label="no"];
    "Tasks mostly independent?" -> "Subagents available?" [label="yes"];
    "Tasks mostly independent?" -> "Manual execution or brainstorm first" [label="no - tightly coupled"];
    "Subagents available?" -> "subagent-driven-development (subagent mode)" [label="yes"];
    "Subagents available?" -> "subagent-driven-development (sequential mode)" [label="no - separate session"];
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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. 6d ago First seen · 217 lines · 35 tokens per session scan C 4e8679ba90e5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

subagent-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository Azzygoatcoder/agent-useful-skills (4 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,971 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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