agent-manager

agent-manager is a skill for Claude Code from chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork. It costs 14 tokens per session (333 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A control layer for managing multiple agents working within the current conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting, directing, and managing multiple coding agents.
Why use it?
It helps coordinate agent activity when a task is split across several workers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Starting, directing, and managing multiple coding agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork/agent-manager
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 chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork --skill agent-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 333 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 $0.00014 $0.00333
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00133
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00033

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 69e99c857452, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-manager 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (impl.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/agent-manager/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Agent Manager Skill

This skill exposes dedicated tools to manage persisted sub-agents in the current conversation.

Capabilities

  1. spawn_agent: create a sub-agent for a task.
  2. send_input: continue an existing sub-agent with another user message.
  3. wait_agent: wait until one or more sub-agents complete.
  4. close_agent: stop and close a sub-agent.
  5. list_agents: inspect persisted sub-agent summaries.

Usage Guidelines

  • These tools are only available to the main agent.
  • Sub-agents are not allowed to spawn or manage other sub-agents.
  • Agent records and transcripts are persisted in ChatStorage (agents and agent_messages tables).
  • Agent profiles in Settings can define reusable names, descriptions, system prompts, and selected skill scopes for session-level mentions.
  • Mentioning a configured agent from the prompt toolbar injects that profile into the current run context; the same selected-skill scope is enforced by tool visibility and tool calls.
  • Favorites always launch through the main agent. Agent profiles remain scoped to explicit mentions in the current conversation.
  • Agent-management tools are not read-only and must not be invoked through parallel_tools.
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. 1mo ago First seen · 32 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 69e99c857452

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 333 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-04.

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