agent-delegate

agent-delegate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mrobinson2/AzureAgentForge. It costs 111 tokens per session (3,987 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for assigning work to other coding agents through PaperClip, a task-tracking system. It creates real child issues for individual agents or coordinated groups of agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a task should be routed to a coding, infrastructure, or other specialist agent, including multi-agent projects.
Why use it?
It ensures delegated work reaches another agent as an actual assigned task instead of merely being mentioned in a comment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when a task should be routed to a coding, infrastructure, or other specialist agent, including multi-agent projects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mrobinson2/azureagentforge/agent-delegate
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 mrobinson2/AzureAgentForge --skill agent-delegate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrobinson2/AzureAgentForge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,987 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 288
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 321
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00111 $0.03987
Opus 5.5 $0.00044 $0.01595
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00797
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00399

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 10d084dd0ba5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-delegate scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/pc-delegate.sh, scripts/test_verify_claim.py, scripts/verify_claim.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

## Use the helper, not raw curl
apps/hermes/overrides/skills/playbooks/agent-delegate/SKILL.md · 372 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 372 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Delegate or Coordinate Tasks via PaperClip Child Issues

A comment that says "I delegated this to X" is not delegation. The other agent has no way to see your comment. The only way to delegate is to create a real PaperClip issue with that agent's assigneeAgentId.

This skill covers two patterns:

  • Single-agent delegation — one parent task, one child issue, one specialist.
  • Coordination — one parent task, two or more child issues, multiple specialists.

Both patterns use the same API and the same helper script.


Runtime environment

Required environment variables

Variable Purpose
PAPERCLIP_API_KEY Bearer token for the PaperClip API (ctx.authToken for embedded Orchestrator; automation JWT for standalone Hermes)
PAPERCLIP_BASE_URL PaperClip API base URL — varies by runtime (see table below)
PAPERCLIP_ORIGIN Origin header value sent with every API request
PAPERCLIP_COMPANY_ID PaperClip company UUID (default: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000)

PAPERCLIP_API_KEY is required. If the others are unset the helper defaults apply:

  • PAPERCLIP_BASE_URL → http://localhost:3099 (direct backend; correct for PaperClip-embedded Orchestrator)
  • PAPERCLIP_ORIGIN → http://localhost:3100
  • PAPERCLIP_COMPANY_ID → 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Helper path — resolve before first use each session

The helper script lives in different locations depending on which runtime the agent is executing in. Always discover the path dynamically; never hardcode it.

DELEGATE_HELPER=""
for _p in \
  "/paperclip/.hermes/skills/playbooks/agent-delegate/scripts/pc-delegate.sh" \
  "/app/skills/playbooks/agent-delegate/scripts/pc-delegate.sh" \
  "/opt/data/skills/playbooks/agent-delegate/scripts/pc-delegate.sh"; do
  if [ -x "$_p" ]; then DELEGATE_HELPER="$_p"; break; fi
done
[ -z "$DELEGATE_HELPER" ] && { echo "ERROR: pc-delegate.sh not found in any known location" >&2; exit 2; }

Read the full file on GitHub · 372 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

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 · 372 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A 10d084dd0ba5

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agent-delegate is a skill published in the GitHub repository mrobinson2/AzureAgentForge (24 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 3,987 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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