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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 | $0.00026 | $0.01830 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00915 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00366 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00183 |
Grade A, and why
delegating-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 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Delegating Work
Scope
Covers
- Delegating a specific project/problem/decision to a direct report (or cross-functional owner)
- Transferring context without control (clear outcomes + guardrails, not step-by-step instructions)
- Setting decision rights, check-in cadence, and "in-the-details" quality reviews without micromanaging
When to use
- "Help me delegate this project/task to someone on my team."
- "I'm holding onto too much / I need to give away my Lego."
- "I'm worried I'm micromanaging—how do I stay in the details but empower ownership?"
- "Draft a delegation brief + decision rights + check-in plan."
When NOT to use
- The work is primarily a performance problem (use coaching/feedback workflows instead)
- You need to decide what work to do (prioritization/scope first)
- You lack a clear outcome, constraints, or success criteria (do a quick problem-definition first)
- You need to coach a PM's professional development over weeks (use
coaching-pms) - You need to manage up or influence your own manager's decisions (use
managing-up) - You need to design a 1:1 meeting cadence or agenda (use
running-effective-1-1s) - You need to coordinate across teams without a clear delegation hierarchy (use
cross-functional-collaboration)
Inputs
Minimum required
- The work item to delegate (project/problem/decision) + why now
- Desired outcome (definition of done) + success metrics or acceptance criteria
- Constraints/non-negotiables (timeline, budget, quality bar, policies, stakeholders)
- Delegatee context (role, current load, experience level, growth goals if relevant)
Missing-info strategy
- Ask up to 5 questions from references/INTAKE.md.
- If details are unavailable, proceed with explicit assumptions and label unknowns.
Outputs (deliverables)
Produce a Delegation Pack (Markdown in-chat, or files if requested) in this order:
- Delegation brief (outcome, context, constraints, stakeholders, timeline)
- Decision rights + guardrails (what they can decide, escalation triggers, review points)
- Context handoff pack (links, background, "known gotchas", example outputs)
- Execution cadence (check-ins, update format, what "good" looks like)
- Review plan (how to be in the details without telling them how to do it)
- Debrief plan (learning capture + ownership updates)
- Risks / Open questions / Next steps (always included)
What ships with it
13 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.
- eval/eval_config.json 403 B
- eval/SHOWCASE.md 4.8 KB
- eval/with_skill.md 25 KB
- eval/without_skill.md 9.9 KB
- README.md 1.6 KB
- references/CHECKLISTS.md 1.7 KB
- references/EXAMPLES.md 1.3 KB
- references/INTAKE.md 1.6 KB
- references/RUBRIC.md 2.4 KB
- references/SOURCE_SUMMARY.md 1.6 KB
- references/TEMPLATES.md 2.3 KB
- references/WORKFLOW.md 3.7 KB
- skillpack.json 361 B
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 131 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 117244cb5e2e
delegating-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus (52 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,830 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 2026-08-30.
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