subagent

subagent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bastani-inc/atomic. It costs 62 tokens per session (9,589 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

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

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to run specialist passes in parallel or separately for locating code, analyzing behavior, finding patterns, researching, debugging, or simplifying.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,589 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Prompt Injection · line 68
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 68
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 93
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00062 $0.09589
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.03836
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.01918
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00959

Measured 27d ago against content hash 6b3ec1f8e8ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 27d 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 · 632 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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. 27d ago Changed · +26 lines 6b3ec1f8e8ee
  2. 28d ago Changed bf4742ed4c63
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines 16d3cdbd633d
  4. 1mo ago Changed 2aa18c3bb4a6
  5. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines 65c53c22b3a7
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  7. 1mo ago Changed b3e3d60bbe5c
  8. 1mo ago First seen · 600 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 2783427de9eb

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subagent is a skill published in the GitHub repository bastani-inc/atomic (861 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 9,589 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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