claude-code-subagents

A guide for creating and configuring Claude Code subagents, which are specialized assistants with their own instructions, context, and tool access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create subagents, set their prompts and permissions, organize their files, and troubleshoot how they are invoked.
Why use it?
It helps divide work into focused assistants and keep their settings organized for a project, a user, or a plugin.

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/emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins/claude-code-subagents
Any agent
npx skills add emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins --skill claude-code-subagents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,249 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 $0.00055 $0.02249
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01125
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00450
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00225

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7cce767637a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-code-subagents 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/create_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.

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.

plugins/claude-code-meta/skills/claude-code-subagents/SKILL.md · 318 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 318 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Subagents

Guide Claude through creating and configuring specialized subagents for Claude Code.

Purpose

Subagents are pre-configured AI personalities that handle specific types of tasks with their own context windows, custom system prompts, and tool configurations. This skill helps create well-structured subagents that improve task delegation, context management, and specialized workflows.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Creating new custom subagents (project, personal, or plugin)
  • Configuring subagent properties (tools, model, system prompts)
  • Setting up specialized workflows with subagent delegation
  • Troubleshooting subagent invocation or behavior

Subagent Types

Project Subagents

  • Stored at: .claude/agents/
  • Shared with the team (versioned in git)
  • Highest priority when name conflicts occur
  • Team-specific workflows and conventions

Personal Subagents

  • Stored at: ~/.claude/agents/
  • Available across all projects
  • Lower priority than project subagents
  • Personal preferences and workflows

Plugin Subagents

  • Stored at: agents/ in plugin root
  • Distributed via plugin marketplaces
  • Shown as (plugin:plugin-name) in /agents
  • Support all configuration features
  • Can be invoked explicitly or automatically

Creating Subagents

Quick Creation with Helper Script

Use the bundled creation script for fast, templated subagent setup:

# Create project subagent with code-reviewer template
scripts/create_subagent.sh code-reviewer --project --template code-reviewer

# Create personal subagent with custom template
scripts/create_subagent.sh my-agent --user --template debugger

# Create plugin subagent (auto-detects plugin from current directory)
scripts/create_subagent.sh my-agent --plugin

# Create plugin subagent for specific plugin
scripts/create_subagent.sh my-agent --plugin my-plugin-name

# Available templates: code-reviewer, debugger, custom

The script is located at: scripts/create_subagent.sh

Read the full file on GitHub · 318 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 318 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 7cce767637a0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-code-subagents is a skill published in the GitHub repository emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,249 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 2026-08-30.

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