delegating-work

delegating-work is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cnfeat/top-pm-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (964 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for deciding what work to delegate and how to give it to other people. Delegation means assigning responsibility while providing enough context, boundaries, and feedback.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing delegation candidates, matching the level of involvement to the situation, and setting up clear handoffs and feedback loops.
Why use it?
It helps address problems such as holding on to too much work, low trust, or unclear ownership. The guidance supports more independent team work without removing useful oversight.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Choosing delegation candidates, matching the level of involvement to the situation, and setting up clear handoffs and feedback loops.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/delegating-work
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 cnfeat/top-pm-skills --skill delegating-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cnfeat/top-pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 964 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 $0.00038 $0.00964
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00482
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00193
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00096

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8cc6c81ae166, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

delegating-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 10d 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.

参考skill/lenny-skills-main (2)/lenny-skills-main/skills/delegating-work/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Delegating Work

Help the user delegate effectively using frameworks from 38 product leaders who have scaled themselves and their organizations.

How to Help

When the user asks for help with delegating:

  1. Diagnose the blocker - Determine if they're holding on due to identity, control, or lack of trust
  2. Identify what to delegate - Use energy audits and the Eisenhower Matrix to find candidates
  3. Match delegation style to context - Help them calibrate between autonomy and involvement
  4. Design for success - Set up the delegation with context, parameters, and feedback loops

Core Principles

Context, not control

Ray Cao: "The number one thing is context, not control. That's the reason why we're always encouraging people to see themselves as a business owner." Provide all necessary information so employees can 'connect the dots' themselves rather than waiting for instructions.

Refuse to rule

Boz: "One of the most powerful things we do is refuse to rule. Someone will bring me a thing. I'll be like, 'Nope, but look, I think you've got it.'" Intentionally step back when the team is struggling with the 'right' problems to build their autonomy.

Give away your Legos

Cam Adams: "Finding joy in the other things of building a team, passing on your experience, helping other people do great writing or great product building is really what giving away your Lego is about." Find fulfillment in enabling others to succeed rather than holding onto tasks for personal identity.

Being in details is not micromanagement

Brian Chesky: "There's a difference between micromanagement, which is like telling people exactly what to do, and being in the details. If you don't know the details, how do you know people are doing a good job?" Deep involvement ensures quality; micromanagement prescribes every action.

Don't delegate your superpower

Brian Chesky (citing Ben Horowitz): "A lot of people tell product led founders to step away and delegate their product to other people, but suddenly they've delegated away the thing they're best at. The thing that is hardest for them to replace." Retain direct involvement in your core competency.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 10d ago First seen · 71 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 8cc6c81ae166

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delegating-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository cnfeat/top-pm-skills (48 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 964 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 2026-08-30.

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