superdelegate

A guide for handing work to other coding agents, running Autopilot, and processing issue backlogs with controlled parallel work. Parallel work means handling independent tasks at the same time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to delegate one task, split the same task across agents, continue work with Autopilot, or process multiple backlog issues.
Why use it?
It helps divide larger jobs safely and choose an appropriate way to delegate them instead of doing every task in one session.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openagentsinc/openagents/superdelegate
Any agent
npx skills add OpenAgentsInc/openagents --skill superdelegate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenAgentsInc/openagents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,863 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00032 $0.01863
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00932
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00186

Measured 2d ago against content hash f7e240bc4be7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

superdelegate 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 2d 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/superdelegate/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Handing work out

Which lane

The work Use
One command, one answer shell
The same thing to N independent parts delegate
Run Autopilot / keep going from context Autopilot below
A backlog of issues, in parallel the method below

Run a single command yourself. Starting an agent to run pwd costs minutes and real money and hands back an answer nobody watched being produced.

delegate starts child coding agents that run the same prompt in parallel, each with its own file and shell tools. Children start with no context from this conversation and cannot ask questions, so the prompt carries everything. Every child gets the same prompt and is told its own number separately — write for whichever child is reading rather than naming one.

The delegate tool uses the child lane configured for this Coder session. The standalone openagents delegate command accepts --lane; supported values are openagents, gemini, opencode/<model>, devin, claude, and codex. Choose the lane before you start a fan-out.

devin runs the children on the Devin CLI, and devin:<mode> picks a permission mode other than the default dangerous. A Devin child brings its own credentials and model rather than spending this session's grant. Prefer it over running devin yourself through shell: a fleet child renders, stops with ctrl+x, and does not block the turn, while a shell child is one opaque call that freezes the session until it ends.

Autopilot

When the person says run Autopilot, start it. Do not reimplement the loop in this session.

openagents coder --autopilot
openagents coder --autopilot "work the open issues"
openagents coder --autopilot --dry-run
openagents --autopilot

The CLI takes stock of this workspace, recent local Coder sessions, and open issues, then keeps iterating until a stop condition. --dry-run prints that plan without calling a model. Hosted lanes need a token; --lane local can run unsigned when Ollama answers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 168 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A f7e240bc4be7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

superdelegate is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenAgentsInc/openagents (446 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,863 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.