fast-subagent

fast-subagent is a skill for Claude Code from dryvist/claude-code-plugins. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,146 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A helper for sending routine, checkable work to a shared language-model subagent. Examples include summarising files, extracting information, classifying content, reformatting text, and reducing command output.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with repeated first-pass tasks such as reading test output, summarising logs, drafting boilerplate, and extracting details from files.
Why use it?
It keeps repetitive work separate from decisions that require architectural judgement or risk assessment. It also warns not to send secrets, private system details, or personal data.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ai-delegation plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps with repeated first-pass tasks such as reading test output, summarising logs, drafting boilerplate, and extracting details from files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dryvist/claude-code-plugins/fast-subagent
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 dryvist/claude-code-plugins --skill fast-subagent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dryvist/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-delegation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,146 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00059 $0.01146
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00458
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00115

Measured 10d ago against content hash e677cc7b1b3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fast-subagent scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/fast-subagent.sh), 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

relative to this file; it needs only `bash`, `curl`, `jq`). It reads the
ai-delegation/skills/fast-subagent/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

fast-subagent

Doctrine: local-subagents (same plugin) says why and what to delegate and how a busy single-slot tier behaves. This skill is the one-command how, tuned for reuse: call it early, call it often, call it again.

1. When — every routine step, all session long

The Delegate column of local-subagents §1 is the list. The habit this skill adds: do not decide once. Each time a new routine step appears — the fifth log to reduce, the third file to summarize, the test output to read — send it the same way. Repeated calls from one harness keep the backend's prompt cache warm and the lock held, so the tenth call is cheaper than the first.

Keep for yourself: intent, architecture, tradeoffs, risk, anything you would not accept from a smaller model without checking. Never send secrets, secret store context, private topology, or personal data.

The router is not a Claude subagent and never writes code.

2. How — one command

printf '%s\n' "$INSTRUCTION" "$INPUT" | fast-subagent.sh

fast-subagent.sh lives in this skill's scripts/ directory (resolve it relative to this file; it needs only bash, curl, jq). It reads the endpoint from the environment — LLM_ROUTER_URL + LLM_ROUTER_TOKEN_FILE, or the local proxy's OPENAI_API_BASE_URL + LITELLM_LOCAL_KEY — sends one bounded request for role small, prints the answer on stdout and model=<what answered> fallbacks=<n> on stderr.

Options: --model medium (a capability name), --system TEXT, --max-tokens N, --timeout SEC, --raw (full JSON), --release (see §4).

Write the prompt for a small model — short imperatives, an explicit output shape, a row cap, a hard STOP:

Extract every failing test from the input. Do not explain or fix.
Output ONLY: test name | file | first error line. At most 40 rows. STOP.

Send only what the step needs. A call that carries your whole conversation costs more than doing the step yourself.

3. What the router decides, not you

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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 Changed · -17 lines e677cc7b1b3a
  2. 11d ago Changed · +17 lines f8368060ebe6
  3. 15d ago Changed · +2 lines 62d21f229bd2
  4. 1mo ago Changed · -57 tokens per session c01171859d01
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 100 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A e934ad234901

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fast-subagent is a skill published in the GitHub repository dryvist/claude-code-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,146 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-19.