aider-delegate

aider-delegate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (3,021 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A controlled handoff for asking Aider, a separate coding tool, to implement a bounded task. The main agent keeps responsibility for reviewing the changes and committing them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a user explicitly asks for Aider to implement a defined coding task, then inspect, verify, and land its changes yourself.
Why use it?
It preserves a reviewable diff instead of allowing the delegated tool to commit edits automatically or commit work that was already in progress.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for aider. Also seen: built for aider.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is # see all options: node .../relay.mjs --help.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when a user explicitly asks for Aider to implement a defined coding task, then inspect, verify, and land its changes yourself.

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About the project

AAS Core is a local control plane for coding agents that lets them search a large catalogue of skills, choose a stack, validate it, and create a reproducible plan. It is used to assemble and review agent workflows through its CLI, local MCP server, catalogue, plugins, and Workbench. The catalogue add-ons provide the skills, plugins, bundles, and workflows that AAS Core helps agents select and validate.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/aider-delegate

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,021 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. Third-party audits
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to high

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 →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 98
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 174
    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 Excessive Agency · line 175
    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.
  • low Excessive Agency · line 176
    Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.
    Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
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 $0.00033 $0.03021
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01510
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00604
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00302

Measured 5d ago against content hash d30bb1d5c001, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aider-delegate 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 5d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/aider-delegate/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Aider Delegate

When to Use

  • You want to delegate a bounded coding task to a separate aider implementer (Aider) and then review its diff yourself.
  • The user explicitly asked for delegation to this implementer.

You are the orchestrator. Hand a bounded coding task to a separate implementer - Aider - then review what it produced and land it yourself. You write the brief and own the judgment; Aider does the typing in its own run; you verify and commit.

The loop needs only a shell command and file access, so any comparable orchestrator can drive it.

The one thing to know about Aider

Aider commits by default. Two of its defaults would destroy the reviewable diff this skill exists to produce:

  • --auto-commits (default True) - Aider commits its own edits after each exchange.
  • --dirty-commits (default True) - Aider commits your pre-existing uncommitted work before it starts editing.

The relay always passes --no-auto-commits and --no-dirty-commits, and neither is configurable through it. If you ever drive aider by hand instead of through the relay, pass both yourself, or the work lands as commits you never reviewed. The relay also passes --no-gitignore, because Aider otherwise writes .aider* into .gitignore on startup and dirties the tree you are about to read.

When NOT to use this

  • The task is small enough to do inline; delegation overhead is not worth it.
  • The aider CLI is not installed, or no model is configured for it.
  • You want the implementer to manage its own commits. Aider can, but this skill deliberately turns that off - the diff is the deliverable.

Prerequisites (check once)

  1. Install Aider - python -m pip install aider-chat, or the standalone installer from the Aider install docs.
  2. Configure a model. Aider reads provider keys from the environment (OPENAI_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, …) or its own config; see Aider's model docs.
  3. Confirm aider --version succeeds.
  4. Work in, or point --cd at, the target git repository.

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 5d ago First seen · 228 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A d30bb1d5c001

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aider-delegate is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,230 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 3,021 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 2026-09-05.