What is subagent-gate?

A set of rules for deciding when coding work may be delegated to another agent. Delegation means asking a separate agent to handle a bounded part of the task.

Use it when planning parallel agents or worker tasks to define their scope, expected output, evidence, and verification.

It helps avoid vague assignments, duplicated investigation, and unusable results from delegated work.

subagent-gate — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by lemos999

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 lemos999/codex-active-orchestration --skill subagent-gate

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lemos999/codex-active-orchestration

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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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.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 166 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00022	$0.00166
Opus 5.5	$0.00009	$0.00066
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00004	$0.00033
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00017

Measured 2mo ago against content hash b415658e328e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

subagent-gate 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 2mo 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-gate/SKILL.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

Subagent Gate

Delegate only when the task can be bounded, parallel, and independently useful. Do not delegate the immediate blocker on the critical path. Do not ask multiple agents to inspect the same broad area unless disagreement testing is the point.

A delegated task must include:

objective:
owned_scope:
excluded_scope:
required_output:
evidence_required:
maximum_report_shape:

Subagent reports should be short: findings, touched files if any, evidence locators, risks, and verification status. The parent remains responsible for final judgment, artifact alignment, and user-facing claims.

Load repo-root references/subagent-economics.md before launching or integrating delegated work.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 24 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A b415658e328e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

subagent-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository lemos999/codex-active-orchestration (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 166 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Building agents Planning

subagent-gate next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
subagent-gatelemos999/codex-active-orchestration	Skill	2	5mo ago	MIT	A	22	Claude Code, Codex
imagegenopenai/codex	Skill	134k	today	Apache-2.0	A	113	Codex
local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	today	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
playwright-climicrosoft/playwright	Skill	99k	today	Apache-2.0	A	19	Claude Code
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next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	today	MIT	A	95	Claude Code
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