subscaler

subscaler is a skill for Claude Code from SoliEstre/EstreGenesis. It costs 145 tokens per session (2,925 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A model-routing tool that assigns different AI model levels and work intensity to separate parallel tasks. It can be turned on, turned off, or checked with slash commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before splitting work into parallel tasks to choose a suitable model level and effort for each task.
Why use it?
It avoids using the most expensive or capable model for every task. Fully specified tasks can often be handled by a lower model level without losing much.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the superscalar plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before splitting work into parallel tasks to choose a suitable model level and effort for each task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/soliestre/estregenesis/subscaler
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 SoliEstre/EstreGenesis --skill subscaler
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SoliEstre/EstreGenesis

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superscalar, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,925 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 $0.00145 $0.02925
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01463
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00585
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00293

Measured 3d ago against content hash 34db975f70a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

subscaler 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 3d 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/superscalar/skills/subscaler/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/subscaler — tiered model composition

/superscalar decides how eagerly to fan out. This skill decides what each lane runs on — tier and effort. The two are orthogonal; set them independently.

The mechanism that makes a tier drop safe is spec completion before offload: a fully-specified lane loses little from one tier down, an underspecified one loses a lot. Spec completeness is the quality moderator, not model size.

Toggle contract

  • State = one marker file: .agent/subscaler.json{"on": true, "family": "<vendor>", "effort": "<level>"}. Read at invocation time; never mirror the state into other settings surfaces (duplicated per-role model bindings have shipped state-convergence bugs).
  • /subscaler on writes it · /subscaler off removes it (or sets "on": false) · /subscaler status reads it back and reports where it would apply next.
  • Default OFF. ON is recommended where fan-out has already forfeited the shared prompt cache. A delegated subagent starts cache-cold on its own model, so a small, cache-hot, deep-context edit loses money on delegation.

Step 0 — frontier-main cost gate (when the orchestrator itself is T1)

If the main conversation runs on a T1 model (a Fable-class flagship), inheritance is the failure mode: the Agent tool resolves a subagent's model as per-invocation model → frontmatter modelCLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL (a default, not a pin, since v2.1.251 — before that the env var came first) → the main model, and a Workflow agent() that omits opts.model inherits the same way. Nothing in that chain says "frontier" — it just is. Two env facts sit outside the chain: CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL_FORCE=1 (v2.1.257+) overrides every binding including the ones you wrote, and on the Claude API the built-in Explore agent inherits with an Opus cap (a Fable main runs Explore on Opus 5) — neither is visible from the spawn request, so verify with /tasks (v2.1.242+), which names each running subagent's model and effort. And ultracode sends xhigh to the model as a session setting, which every unbound lane inherits too. So, before any fan-out on a T1 main:

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 3d ago Changed · +11 lines 34db975f70a1
  2. 9d ago First seen · 87 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A 2c6974553528

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subscaler is a skill published in the GitHub repository SoliEstre/EstreGenesis (8 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 2,925 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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