subagent-driven-development

subagent-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code from brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator. It costs 108 tokens per session (6,860 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for carrying out a software plan with separate implementation and review agents for each task, followed by staged checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to execute multi-task plans in parallel, have fresh agents implement and review tasks, apply fixes, and perform a final branch review.
Why use it?
It separates coding from review, tracks task progress, and catches specification or quality problems before work is marked complete.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the superpowers-orchestrator plugin — 28 skills, 2 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to execute multi-task plans in parallel, have fresh agents implement and review tasks, apply fixes, and perform a final branch review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator/subagent-driven-development
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 brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator --skill subagent-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superpowers-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 2 agents, 6 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,860 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 $0.00108 $0.06860
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.03430
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.01372
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00686

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1d90b6a9c530, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

subagent-driven-development 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 7d 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/subagent-driven-development/SKILL.md · 483 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 483 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Subagent-Driven Development

Execute a plan with fresh subagents per task and strict review gates.

Required Start

Announce: I'm using subagent-driven-development to execute this plan.

Core Flow

digraph sdd_process {
    rankdir=TB;

    subgraph cluster_per_task {
        label="Per Task";
        "Record BASE, write task brief, dispatch implementer" [shape=box];
        "Implementer asks questions?" [shape=diamond];
        "Answer questions, provide context" [shape=box];
        "Implementer implements, tests, self-reviews, writes report file" [shape=box];
        "Generate review package, dispatch task reviewer" [shape=box];
        "Spec ✅ and quality approved?" [shape=diamond];
        "Dispatch fix subagent (spec + quality findings together)" [shape=box];
        "Mark task complete, append ledger line" [shape=box];
    }

    "Read plan, extract all tasks, create tracking" [shape=box];
    "More tasks?" [shape=diamond];
    "Final whole-branch review loop (multi-code-review)" [shape=box];
    "Shut down spawned subagents" [shape=box];
    "Invoke finishing-a-development-branch" [shape=doublecircle];

    "Read plan, extract all tasks, create tracking" -> "Record BASE, write task brief, dispatch implementer";
    "Record BASE, write task brief, dispatch implementer" -> "Implementer asks questions?";
    "Implementer asks questions?" -> "Answer questions, provide context" [label="yes"];
    "Answer questions, provide context" -> "Record BASE, write task brief, dispatch implementer";
    "Implementer asks questions?" -> "Implementer implements, tests, self-reviews, writes report file" [label="no"];
    "Implementer implements, tests, self-reviews, writes report file" -> "Generate review package, dispatch task reviewer";
    "Generate review package, dispatch task reviewer" -> "Spec ✅ and quality approved?";
    "Spec ✅ and quality approved?" -> "Dispatch fix subagent (spec + quality findings together)" [label="no"];
    "Dispatch fix subagent (spec + quality findings together)" -> "Generate review package, dispatch task reviewer" [label="re-review"];
    "Spec ✅ and quality approved?" -> "Mark task complete, append ledger line" [label="yes"];
    "Mark task complete, append ledger line" -> "More tasks?";
    "More tasks?" -> "Record BASE, write task brief, dispatch implementer" [label="yes"];
    "More tasks?" -> "Final whole-branch review loop (multi-code-review)" [label="no"];
    "Final whole-branch review loop (multi-code-review)" -> "Shut down spawned subagents";
    "Shut down spawned subagents" -> "Invoke finishing-a-development-branch";
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 483 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 7d ago First seen · 483 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A 1d90b6a9c530

Subscribe to this mod's changes

subagent-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 6,860 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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