task-routing

task-routing is a skill for Claude Code from MadAppGang/claude-code. It costs 70 tokens per session (464 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A routing guide for choosing the right specialized agent for complex development tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before delegating work to select an appropriate agent for tasks such as building features, investigating code, debugging bugs, or reviewing agents and plugins.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork when deciding whether a task needs research, implementation, code investigation, debugging, architecture, or quality review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the dev plugin — 47 skills, 12 commands, 14 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it before delegating work to select an appropriate agent for tasks such as building features, investigating code, debugging bugs, or reviewing agents and plugins.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/madappgang/claude-code/task-routing
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 MadAppGang/claude-code --skill task-routing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MadAppGang/claude-code

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 12 commands, 14 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 464 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 $0.00070 $0.00464
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00186
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00046

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4a8406ba20c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-routing 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 1mo 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.

plugins/dev/skills/task-routing/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Task Routing - Agent Delegation

IMPORTANT: For complex tasks, prefer delegating to specialized agents via the Task tool rather than handling inline. Delegated agents run in dedicated context windows with sustained focus, producing higher quality results.

Routing Table

Task Pattern Delegate To Trigger
Research: web search, tech comparison, multi-source reports dev:researcher 3+ sources or comparison needed
Implementation: creating code, new modules, features, building with tests dev:developer Writing new code, adding features, creating modules - even if they relate to existing codebase
Investigation: READ-ONLY codebase analysis, tracing, understanding code-analysis:detective Only when task is to UNDERSTAND code, not to WRITE new code
Debugging: error analysis, root cause investigation dev:debugger Non-obvious bugs or multi-file root cause
Architecture: system design, trade-off analysis dev:architect New systems or major refactors
Agent/plugin quality review agentdev:reviewer Agent description or plugin assessment

Key Distinction

If the task asks to IMPLEMENT/CREATE/BUILD → dev:developer. If the task asks to UNDERSTAND/ANALYZE/TRACE → code-analysis:detective.

When to Use This Skill

Consult this routing table BEFORE making any delegation decision. If the user's task matches any row in the table above, delegate to the specified agent rather than handling the task inline.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 33 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 4a8406ba20c4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task-routing is a skill published in the GitHub repository MadAppGang/claude-code (286 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 464 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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