subagent

A way to delegate bounded coding tasks to other AI agents while one main agent remains in control.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run specialist passes in parallel or separately for locating code, analyzing behavior, finding patterns, researching, debugging, or simplifying.
Why use it?
It reduces the need for one agent to handle every investigation or debugging step itself.

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/bastani-inc/atomic/subagent
Any agent
npx skills add bastani-inc/atomic --skill subagent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bastani-inc/atomic

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,873 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00062 $0.08873
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.04437
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.01775
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00887

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2783427de9eb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

subagent 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.

packages/subagents/skills/subagent/SKILL.md · 600 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 600 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 2783427de9eb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

subagent is a skill published in the GitHub repository bastani-inc/atomic (712 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 8,873 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.