delegate-bounded-work

delegate-bounded-work is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from biggora/claude-plugins-registry. It costs 79 tokens per session (853 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for assigning a narrowly defined piece of work to another coding agent and checking the result independently.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is used for large repository surveys, specialist tasks, fresh-context reviews, and explicit handoffs with clear success criteria.
Why use it?
It helps decide when delegation is worthwhile and keeps delegated work bounded and verifiable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the project-delivery-orchestrator plugin — 34 skills, 1 command, 5 agents 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/biggora/claude-plugins-registry/delegate-bounded-work
Any agent
npx skills add biggora/claude-plugins-registry --skill delegate-bounded-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/biggora/claude-plugins-registry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install project-delivery-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 1 command, 5 agents.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 853 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 $0.00079 $0.00853
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00426
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00085

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8db5f3a12376, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

delegate-bounded-work 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 4d 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.

src/skills/delegate-bounded-work/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Delegate Bounded Work

Keep orchestration small, explicit, and evidence-driven. Retain end-to-end responsibility as the orchestrator.

Choose the Execution Mode

  1. Default to single-agent execution for a small coherent edit, a local investigation, or work whose context and verification already fit one agent. Avoid delegation when coordination cost exceeds its measurable benefit.
  2. Choose Mode 1: Bounded Delegation when one separable deliverable benefits from specialist knowledge, parallel discovery, context isolation, or a distinct tool surface.
  3. Choose Mode 2: Independent Fresh-Context Review when an existing artifact needs unbiased acceptance verification.
  4. State the chosen mode, the reason it adds value, assumptions, task boundary, and success evidence. Do not create a swarm to compensate for unclear scope.

Mode 1: Bounded Delegation

Delegate one atomic deliverable to one appropriate specialist. Keep dependent or cross-cutting integration with the orchestrator unless another boundary is independently verifiable.

Before dispatch, write a contract containing:

  • Role: one specialized responsibility.
  • Context: only repository and product facts needed for this deliverable.
  • Task: exact actions, locations, and behavior.
  • Constraints, tools, and authority: required skills/tools, quality rules, allowed mutations, and actions that require approval.
  • Input: exact files, data, artifacts, or prior verified outputs.
  • Expected output and acceptance criteria: deliverable format plus measurable proof.
  • Example: one representative correct result or stable reference.
  • Stop condition: completion boundary and conditions that require returning control rather than expanding scope.

Require the delegate to return the artifact or precise artifact location, a concise result summary, verification evidence, assumptions, and limitations. Do not request a full reasoning trace.

Inspect the result against every contract field. Grade it PASS, FAIL, or PARTIAL. Accept only PASS; for FAIL or PARTIAL, re-delegate with the failed criterion, observed evidence, and correction boundary instead of silently patching the delegate's work. Escalate a repeated identical blocker rather than adding agents or broadening authority.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 4d ago First seen · 58 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 8db5f3a12376

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delegate-bounded-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository biggora/claude-plugins-registry (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 853 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.

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