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.
npx skills add jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill delegate-workgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffreytse/grimoire-coreWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/delegate-work)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/delegate-work"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/delegate-work/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/delegate-work"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/delegate-work.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00041 | $0.01941 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00971 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00388 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00194 |
Grade A, and why
delegate-work 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 9d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Delegate Work
Transfer a task or responsibility to a direct report with clear scope, authority level, and success criteria — so the work moves completely without bouncing back through ambiguity or over-checking.
Why This Is Best Practice
Adopted by: Oncken & Wass's 1974 HBR article "Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey?" is one of the three most-reprinted articles in Harvard Business Review history, establishing the principle that managers who do not delegate effectively become bottlenecks carrying their team's work; Hackman & Oldham's Job Characteristics Model (1976), the standard framework for work design at most large organizations, identifies autonomy as the primary driver of intrinsic motivation; Google's Project Oxygen manager effectiveness framework lists "empowers the team and does not micromanage" among the top manager behaviors Impact: Gallup's meta-analysis (2015) found that delegating CEOs — those who excelled at delegating — generated 33% greater revenue than non-delegating CEOs in a study of 143 CEOs at Inc. 500 companies; Hackman & Oldham's field research (1976, replicated extensively) found that autonomy — the degree to which a job provides freedom and discretion — is the single strongest predictor of internal work motivation; managers who do not delegate accumulate work until they become the team's bottleneck, reducing throughput and developing no one Why best: Delegation failures trace to three causes: (1) unclear scope — the employee takes over work outside the intended boundary; (2) unclear authority — the employee brings every decision back to the manager (reverse delegation); (3) unclear success criteria — the employee completes the task but delivers something the manager considers wrong; all three are cured by explicit upfront definition, not by better follow-up
Sources: Oncken & Wass, Harvard Business Review (November 1974); Hackman & Oldham "Motivation Through the Design of Work" (Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 1976); Appelo "Management 3.0" (Addison-Wesley, 2010); Gallup "State of the American Manager" (2015)
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 135 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A e5816895d2a7
delegate-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,941 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.
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