subagent-driven-development

subagent-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jxoesneon/Ciel. It costs 28 tokens per session (716 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An orchestration pattern for splitting a complex implementation plan among short-lived specialist agents. It also checks each completed task against its requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Delegating implementation tasks, passing only relevant context, and checking returned code against acceptance criteria.
Why use it?
It keeps the main agent's context focused and makes multi-step coding work easier to review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Delegating implementation tasks, passing only relevant context, and checking returned code against acceptance criteria.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jxoesneon/ciel/subagent-driven-development
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jxoesneon/Ciel --skill subagent-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jxoesneon/Ciel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 716 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 $0.00028 $0.00716
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00358
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00072

Measured 9d ago against content hash 37efd658c907, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

subagent-driven-development 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.

skills/subagent-driven-development/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CIEL ADAPTATION: Subagent-Driven Development (Delegation Mandate)

This skill formalizes CIEL's orchestration philosophy regarding context management and task execution. To preserve the Orchestrator's context window, independent implementation tasks MUST be delegated to fresh, ephemeral sub-agents (e.g., the generalist tool or specific skill agents).

Integration Context

Adapted from ~/.agents/skills/subagent-driven-development/. This skill represents the transition from the Strategy Layer (make-plan) to the Execution Layer (do).

The Core Loop (Per Task)

When executing an approved implementation plan, the Orchestrator executes the following loop for each discrete task:

1. Dispatch (The Implementer)

  • Extract the specific task, relevant context, and strict acceptance criteria from the plan.
  • Dispatch a sub-agent (e.g., generalist) with a highly focused prompt.
  • Rule: Do NOT pass the entire session history. Pass ONLY what the sub-agent needs to succeed.

2. Stage 1: Spec Compliance Review (The Verifier)

  • Once the Implementer returns, the Orchestrator (or a secondary sub-agent) evaluates the diff strictly against the original task specification.
  • Goal: Did it build exactly what was asked, without over-engineering (YAGNI) or missing requirements?
  • If it fails, dispatch a sub-agent to fix the specific gaps.

3. Stage 2: Code Quality Review (The Auditor)

  • After Spec Compliance is verified, evaluate the diff against CIEL's coding-standards.
  • Goal: Is it readable? Does it respect immutability? Are there code smells (deep nesting, long functions)?
  • If it fails, dispatch a sub-agent to refactor for quality.

Orchestrator Responsibilities

  • Blocker Resolution: If a sub-agent reports it is BLOCKED or NEEDS_CONTEXT, the Orchestrator must analyze the failure, gather the missing context (using read_file, grep_search, etc.), and re-dispatch with a refined prompt. Do NOT attempt to manually implement the fix in the main session.
  • Sequential Safety: Ensure tasks that depend on the same files are not dispatched concurrently to avoid race conditions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 9d ago First seen · 63 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 37efd658c907

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subagent-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository jxoesneon/Ciel (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 716 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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