delegation

delegation is a skill for Claude Code from HiAgencia/hi-claude. It costs 147 tokens per session (812 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for delegating investigation work to other agents or subagents while keeping decisions and changes with the main agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before assigning research or parallel investigation, and again when reviewing results, especially when another agent must locate evidence without changing project files.
Why use it?
It helps make delegated findings checkable by requiring evidence such as file locations, commands, or returned data before relying on them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the hi-claude plugin — 8 skills, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it before assigning research or parallel investigation, and again when reviewing results, especially when another agent must locate evidence without changing project files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hiagencia/hi-claude/delegation
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 HiAgencia/hi-claude --skill delegation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HiAgencia/hi-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hi-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 6 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 147 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 812 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 $0.00147 $0.00812
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.00406
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00081

Measured 11d ago against content hash f0d9098445a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 11d 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/delegation/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Delegation (hi-claude)

A subagent INVESTIGATES. It never decides what gets done and never touches the project's artefacts — a PreToolUse policy enforces that, with no escape switch. This skill is the other half: what the dispatcher asks for, and what it does with what comes back.

Before dispatching

  • Delegate the LOOKING, never the DECIDING. "Find every place X happens, with file:line" is a task. "Decide whether we should migrate" is not — that one is yours, and a subagent asked for it returns a confident answer you cannot audit.
  • Never delegate the change. Not an additive one, not a rename, not a "quick fix". The main agent applies every change, so the reasoning behind an edit lives in one place.
  • Name the evidence you want back: file:line, the command that reproduces it, the payload, the row. A finding without evidence cannot be verified, which makes it unusable here.
  • Different lenses beat more agents. Three copies of one question find one thing. Dispatching several is worth it when each carries a distinct angle — say the angle in its prompt.
  • Scope it so the answer is checkable. If you would not know how to disprove the report, the task was too broad to be worth delegating.

When the report comes back

  1. Read it whole, not a summary of it. What a subagent brings is INPUT to your judgement, never a substitute for it.
  2. Verify first-hand before anything rests on it. Open the file, run the command, read the row. A finding is a HYPOTHESIS until you have seen the thing yourself — and this applies just as much to a report that agrees with you as to one that does not.
  3. A confident tone is not evidence. Rank findings by what was shown, never by how it was phrased.
  4. What does not survive verification is struck WITH the datum that struck it. That is worth as much as a confirmed finding, and it stops the same claim from returning next month.
  5. You own the decision, and you say it in your own words. The report never decides.

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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. 11d ago First seen · 53 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A f0d9098445a8

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delegation is a skill published in the GitHub repository HiAgencia/hi-claude (2 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 812 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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