subspawn

subspawn is a skill for Codex from BjornMelin/dev-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,483 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A workflow for delegating bounded tasks to subagents and combining their results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for explicit subagent spawning, parallel task distribution, routing work to custom agents, and evidence-based result synthesis.
Why use it?
It helps control when work is delegated, how many agents are used, and how their findings are checked before synthesis.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it for explicit subagent spawning, parallel task distribution, routing work to custom agents, and evidence-based result synthesis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bjornmelin/dev-skills/subspawn
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 BjornMelin/dev-skills --skill subspawn
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BjornMelin/dev-skills

Made for: Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,483 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 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 $0.00037 $0.02483
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01241
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00497
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00248

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5d0a0ed050a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

subspawn 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/subspawn_plan.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/subspawn/SKILL.md · 320 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. 9d ago First seen · 320 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 5d0a0ed050a4

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subspawn is a skill published in the GitHub repository BjornMelin/dev-skills (7 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,483 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.