What is rlm-subagent?

A workflow for carrying out repository work with multiple helper agents, or with one agent when helpers are unavailable. It also defines review and testing stages, and requires each helper to track its unfinished tasks.

Use it to assign separate implementation sub-phases, run code review, test independent changes in parallel, or execute the same work step by step.

It helps divide independent work into smaller parts while keeping implementation, review, and testing organized. The fallback mode lets work continue when parallel helpers cannot be used.

rlm-subagent — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by spideynolove

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 spideynolove/claude-dotfiles --skill rlm-subagent

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/spideynolove/claude-dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,597 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00084	$0.02597
Opus 5	$0.00042	$0.01299
Sonnet 5	$0.00017	$0.00519
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00260

Measured 9d ago against content hash 138bba2bcbfe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rlm-subagent 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 9d 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.

.agents-global/skills/rlm-workflow/skills/rlm-subagent/SKILL.md · 390 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 390 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Subagent-Driven Execution with Fallback

This skill provides parallel subagent execution for RLM Phase 3 (Implementation), Phase 3.5 (Code Review), and Phase 4 (Testing) with automatic fallback to sequential mode when subagents are unavailable.

Trigger examples

Parallelize Phase 3 across independent sub-phases
Dispatch an implementer subagent for each SP
Run a separate code-reviewer subagent before Phase 4
Subagents aren't available; fall back to sequential mode

Quick Reference

Scenario	Action
Multiple independent sub-phases	Use Parallel Mode (subagents)
Single sub-phase or subagents unavailable	Use Sequential Mode (fallback)
Code review needed	Use Phase 3.5 (subagent or self-review)
Parallel testing	Use Phase 4 parallel dispatch

TODO Discipline for Subagents

The Iron Law: NO SUBAGENT COMPLETION REPORT WITHOUT ALL TODOS CHECKED.

Subagent TODO Requirements

Each subagent (implementer, code-reviewer) MUST:

Include ## TODO section in their work output
Check off items as work progresses
Verify ALL items checked before reporting completion

Implementer Subagent TODO Template

## TODO

- [ ] Read and understand assigned SP specification
- [ ] Ask clarifying questions (if any)
- [ ] Write failing test (RED phase)
- [ ] Run test and verify failure
- [ ] Implement minimal code (GREEN phase)
- [ ] Run test and verify pass
- [ ] Refactor while keeping tests green
- [ ] Run integration tests
- [ ] Self-review against plan
- [ ] Document changes made
- [ ] Report completion to controller

Code Reviewer Subagent TODO Template

## TODO

- [ ] Read original plan (Phase 3)
- [ ] Read implementation summary (Phase 3)
- [ ] Review git diff (BASE_SHA..HEAD_SHA)
- [ ] Verify plan alignment
- [ ] Assess code quality
- [ ] Check TDD compliance
- [ ] Categorize issues (Critical/Important/Minor)
- [ ] Document positive findings
- [ ] Render verdict
- [ ] Report review completion

Read the full file on GitHub · 390 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.

9d ago First seen · 390 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 138bba2bcbfe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rlm-subagent is a skill published in the GitHub repository spideynolove/claude-dotfiles (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 2,597 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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