subagent-delegation

A skill for asking configured DevSpace subagents to carry out coding work or provide another opinion. DevSpace is a local layer that lets coding agents work with a project and coordinate bounded helpers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run a named subagent, continue an existing subagent session, compare approaches, or request a second opinion.
Why use it?
It provides a defined way to delegate work while keeping the user informed about which subagent is involved.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cyzice/devs-codex/subagent-delegation
Any agent
npx skills add CYZice/devs-codex --skill subagent-delegation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CYZice/devs-codex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 969 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00018 $0.00969
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00485
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00194
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00097

Measured 2d ago against content hash 11d45746aa4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

subagent-delegation 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 2d 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-delegation/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Subagent Delegation

Use this skill when the user explicitly asks to delegate work to another coding agent, use a named subagent, get a second opinion, compare approaches, or run a subagent-like workflow.

Do not use subagents silently. Tell the user when another subagent is being used.

Core commands

Use only these commands for normal delegation:

devspace agents ls
devspace agents run <profile-or-provider> "<prompt>"
devspace agents continue <id> "<prompt>"
devspace agents show <id>

ls shows existing subagent sessions for the current workspace. DevSpace scopes it automatically from the shell environment injected by the workspace tool. Use the returned logical agt_... ID with continue; provider session IDs and prefixes are not interchangeable with logical agent IDs.

run <profile> "<prompt>" starts a new configured profile and prints a DevSpace agent id.

run <provider> "<prompt>" starts a raw built-in provider when no configured profile is needed. Built-in providers are listed by open_workspace.

continue <id> "<prompt>" sends a follow-up to an existing agent. Do not use run <id> for continuation.

Continuation supports the same per-turn model and thinking overrides:

devspace agents continue <id> --model <model> "<prompt>"
devspace agents continue <id> --thinking <level> "<prompt>"

show <id> prints status and the latest response. If the agent is still running, show waits briefly. If there is still no final response, call show again later.

The commands automatically start the internal devspace-agentd process when needed. devspace serve is not required for local-agent execution. The daemon owns shared agent sessions and provider runtimes for the configured DevSpace state directory.

Do not run provider CLIs such as codex, claude, opencode, pi, cursor-agent, or copilot directly unless you are explicitly debugging DevSpace agent integration.

Choosing a profile

Choose profiles from the compact subagent profile catalog returned by open_workspace. Use the profile name with devspace agents run. If no profile fits and delegation is still appropriate, use a built-in provider name from open_workspace.

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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. 2d ago First seen · 149 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 11d45746aa4e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

subagent-delegation is a skill published in the GitHub repository CYZice/devs-codex (0 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 969 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 2026-08-31.

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