orchestrate-agent-subagents

orchestrate-agent-subagents is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bikeread/promethos. It costs 27 tokens per session (708 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for safely assigning parts of a software task to multiple agents. It defines each agent’s responsibility, output, context, and limits on which files or areas it may change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after deciding that delegation is appropriate, to split work into owned units and define how the results are combined.
Why use it?
It prevents duplicated work, unclear handoffs, and conflicting changes when several agents contribute to one task.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it after deciding that delegation is appropriate, to split work into owned units and define how the results are combined.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bikeread/promethos/orchestrate-agent-subagents
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 bikeread/promethos --skill orchestrate-agent-subagents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bikeread/promethos

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 708 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.
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 $0.00027 $0.00708
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00354
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 8d ago against content hash 89653c624856, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestrate-agent-subagents 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 8d 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/orchestrate-agent-subagents/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Goal

Use subagents only when they create real leverage, with clear ownership and safe integration.

Inputs

  • Main task shape
  • Chosen architecture or explicit decision that delegation is warranted
  • Available agent capabilities
  • Shared context and integration constraints

Non-Goals

  • Making the top-level single-agent vs multi-agent architecture choice
  • Using subagents for status or novelty
  • Delegating urgent blocking work without a clear handoff

Workflow

Trigger signals

  • Architecture calls for multiple agents but ownership boundaries are not drawn
  • User asks "怎么分工" or "how should we split the work"
  • Subagents are being launched without clear context contracts or merge rules

1. Restate the delegation boundary

Confirm what part of the system or workflow is already designated for delegation and what must remain local to the coordinating agent. Success criteria: The orchestration work starts from an explicit delegation decision instead of reopening the architecture choice.

2. Split the work into owned units

Assign each subagent a distinct responsibility, output artifact, and write scope. Success criteria: Ownership boundaries prevent duplicated work and merge conflicts.

3. Define context and handoff contracts

Specify what context each subagent receives, what it must return, and what it must not assume. Success criteria: The delegation plan has minimal but sufficient context and clear artifact expectations.

4. Freeze permission, approval, and side-effect inheritance

State which parent-agent permission limits, approval requirements, write scopes, and side-effect restrictions are inherited by each subagent. Specify whether a subagent may execute side effects directly or may only return proposals for the coordinating agent to act on. Success criteria: Delegation does not silently widen autonomy, tool access, or side-effect authority.

5. Define synchronization and merge rules

State when results are needed, how conflicts are resolved, and what main-agent review is required before integration. Success criteria: The orchestration includes a predictable reintegration path instead of ad hoc waiting and trust.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 92 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 89653c624856

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orchestrate-agent-subagents is a skill published in the GitHub repository bikeread/promethos (33 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 708 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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