delegate

delegate is a skill for Codex from dayfinggg/openai-codex-agent-skills. It costs 56 tokens per session (441 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bounded assignment for a subagent, with a clear goal, scope, inputs, evidence requirements, and completion check.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a separate agent can independently complete a well-defined engineering task and return evidence for review.
Why use it?
It prevents delegated work from becoming vague, overlapping with other work, or changing shared state without verification.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it when a separate agent can independently complete a well-defined engineering task and return evidence for review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dayfinggg/openai-codex-agent-skills/delegate
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 dayfinggg/openai-codex-agent-skills --skill delegate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dayfinggg/openai-codex-agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 441 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 $0.00056 $0.00441
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00220
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00044

Measured yesterday against content hash 5e19ea97ed0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

delegate 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 yesterday.

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.

codex/skills/delegate/SKILL.md · 31 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 31 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Delegate

Follow the governing instructions and the user's requirements for communication, code style, authorization, and delegation. This skill supplies task-specific guidance, not permission to expand the task. Its workflow and output fields describe internal checks and relevant content, not a mandatory response layout or a progress report. When used within broader authorized work, continue that work through completion rather than stopping to deliver this skill's intermediate result.

Delegate an outcome, not a vague topic or a copy of the whole parent task.

Confirm fit

Delegate only when the user or governing instructions authorize delegation and the collaboration tools are available. This skill does not itself grant that authorization. Respect a request to work personally without subagents. Do not ask again when delegation is already authorized. The subtask must have a clear boundary, enough context to start, an observable completion condition, and no need for ongoing parent judgment. Keep work that owns shared state or final integration with the primary agent.

Write the brief

State the objective, why it matters, exact scope, inputs, relevant paths or sources, constraints, allowed side effects, expected artifact or answer, required evidence, and stopping condition. Include exclusions that prevent overlap with the parent or another agent.

When uncertainty or external dependencies can delay the lane, name their owner, an early-warning threshold, and the parent integration checkpoint. Do not let a delegated estimate silently become a parent-level commitment.

Provide raw evidence rather than the intended conclusion when the subagent is evaluating or reviewing. Do not preload a suspected answer that would bias an independent result.

Integrate

Inspect the returned evidence and artifacts. Verify claims that affect the parent outcome. Do not accept completion based only on the subagent's status message.

Output

Return or send one self-contained brief. If delegation is unavailable or prohibited by a higher-priority instruction, keep the work local rather than inventing a delegation mechanism.

Read the full file on GitHub · 31 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. yesterday Changed · +2 lines 5e19ea97ed0c
  2. 3d ago Changed · +2 lines · -1 tokens per session b66564173a8f
  3. 8d ago First seen · 27 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 0523eceeba9e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

delegate is a skill published in the GitHub repository dayfinggg/openai-codex-agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 441 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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