cli-devin

Devin CLI Orchestrator - Cross-AI Task Delegation

CRITICAL — SELF-INVOCATION PROHIBITED

This skill dispatches to the Cognition CLI binary (devin). If the agent currently reading this skill is itself running inside Devin (detection signals listed in §2), the skill MUST refuse to load and return the documented error message instead of generating any devin invocation.

A running CLI skill never dispatches itself. The cli-X skills are for cross-AI delegation only — never self-invocation.

Orchestrate Cognition's Devin CLI for tasks that benefit from a second AI perspective, multi-model selection (DeepSeek, GLM-5.2, GPT-5.6 Luna Max, Grok (4.5 and 4.6), SWE-1.7), subagent delegation with run_subagent, cloud handoff via /handoff, or parallel code generation.

Core Principle: Use Devin for what it does best. Delegate, validate, integrate. The calling AI stays the conductor.

1. WHEN TO USE

Activation Triggers

• Cross-AI Validation — code review second perspective, security audit alternative analysis, bug detection, independent implementation attempts.
• Cloud Handoff — long-running tasks, complex refactors, CI-like validation, browser-dependent workflows offloaded to a cloud Devin session via /handoff.
• Subagent Delegation — specialized profile matches (subagent_explore, subagent_general, custom .devin/agents/[name]/AGENT.md profiles), parallel task processing through Devin's native subagent system.
• Multi-Model Dispatch — tasks that specifically want a model available through Devin's multi-model surface (DeepSeek, GLM-5.2, GPT-5.6 Luna Max, Grok (4.5 and 4.6), SWE-1.7), selected per-dispatch with --model.
• Parallel Code Generation — offloading generation, simultaneous code generations, background docs/test generation through subagents.
• Specialized Generation — explicit Devin requests, test suite generation, code translation, batch documentation, visual input via clipboard paste or @ file mentions.