local-subagents

local-subagents is a skill for Claude Code from dryvist/claude-code-plugins. It costs 58 tokens per session (2,761 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for sending routine work to locally running or low-cost AI models through a shared service. It covers which tasks to delegate and which decisions to keep for yourself.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize files, logs, transcripts, or code changes; classify batches; extract fields; inspect unfamiliar code; draft boilerplate; and reduce command or test output.
Why use it?
It reduces the amount of simple reading, sorting, and drafting work handled in your main session. This leaves more context for decisions, risks, and the final response.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it to summarize files, logs, transcripts, or code changes; classify batches; extract fields; inspect unfamiliar code; draft boilerplate; and reduce command or test output.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dryvist/claude-code-plugins/local-subagents
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 local-subagents
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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README.md
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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,761 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 $0.00058 $0.02761
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.01104
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00552
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00276

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8de9fbe5c6e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

local-subagents 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.

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.

curl -fsS --max-time 10 -H "Authorization: Bearer $ROUTER_KEY" \
ai-delegation/skills/local-subagents/SKILL.md · 238 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

local-subagents

Doctrine: the project's delegation guidance. This skill is how you act on it — when to hand work out, how to find out what is serving right now, and how to place the call.

Your own inference is the scarcest and most expensive thing in the session. Local models may cost nothing per token and sit idle; use them when they can do the work.

1. When to delegate — the default is yes

Delegate a step when its result can be checked from concrete evidence:

Delegate Keep
Summarizing a file, log, or diff What the user actually wants
Classifying or triaging a batch Architecture and design choices
Extracting structured fields into a schema Tradeoffs, risk, security judgment
A first pass over unfamiliar code ("where is X handled") Resolving contradictory evidence
Drafting boilerplate text from a stated pattern Reviewing anything risky
Reading and reducing command or test output The final answer to the user
Code edits — the router never writes code; implementation chunks go to Codex or a scoped worker subagent

Two rules that keep this honest:

  • Split the job; never escalate the whole job. One hard step inside a task does not make the task premium work. Delegate the other eight steps.
  • Capable judges the subtask, not the parent task. A 9B model summarizing a log is the right tool even inside a hard architectural task.
  • Router tiers earn re-checkable lookups and bulk reads, not code edits. Delegate to a router tier only when the result can be verified against concrete evidence (a grep hit, a test pass, a schema match). Route code edits to Codex or a scoped worker subagent. A misread search or a silently wrong edit from a cheap tier costs more than doing it yourself.

1b. Cheap first, escalate on checked failure

When a delegated batch has a verification command (a test, a lint, a diff against expected output), run the cheapest capable tier first and re-run only the failures at the next tier up:

Read the full file on GitHub · 238 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 · +1 lines 8de9fbe5c6e2
  2. 11d ago Changed d9107aee6913
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  5. 1mo ago Changed · +22 lines · -62 tokens per session c665bd5150cf
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  7. 1mo ago First seen · 185 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 827ffc8d897e

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local-subagents is a skill published in the GitHub repository dryvist/claude-code-plugins (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,761 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 2026-09-06.

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