delegate

A skill for sending messages between separate coding-agent sessions, such as sessions in different terminals or worktrees.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to delegate a small task, request progress, share a change, or coordinate work across sessions.
Why use it?
It avoids manually copying status updates, questions, and findings between sessions.

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/stefan-jansen/coding-agent-toolkit/delegate
Any agent
npx skills add stefan-jansen/coding-agent-toolkit --skill delegate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stefan-jansen/coding-agent-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 150 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,930 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 $0.00150 $0.01930
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.00965
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00386
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00193

Measured 2d ago against content hash aabfa8222fb4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (resolve-session.sh), 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.

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/delegate/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

delegate — coordinate your other Claude Code sessions

Deliver a piece of text from this session to another of your Claude Code sessions, and drive the delegate/coordinate/monitor loop that a fleet of tmux-pane or git-worktree agents runs on. Two tools do it: ListAgents discovers who you can reach; SendMessage delivers one plain-text message to a peer by name (SendMessage({to: "<name>", message: "..."})).

Full reference: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging

When to use this vs. something else

Use messaging when a session that already exists and is being steered separately needs one piece of information from this one, or vice versa:

  • Hand over a finding — you changed something that breaks what a peer is building on; warn that peer.
  • Coordinate worktrees — tell the other worktrees what landed on the shared repo.
  • Pull status — ask a long-running migration/test session to report back.
  • Delegate a scoped ask — hand a peer a self-contained unit and collect its reply.

Do not reach for messaging when a purpose-built mechanism fits better:

Need Use instead
Continue one conversation elsewhere / share its context resume the session (--resume, /resume)
A team of agents THIS session spawns and supervises subagents (Agent tool) / agent teams
Push external events (CI, chat) into a session channels
Steer a session yourself from another device Remote Control

A message carries only its text — never conversation history or files. If the peer needs your context, resume it; don't try to narrate the whole session into a message.

Preflight (once per session, when a send fails or peers look missing)

claude --version          # need >= 2.1.224 (>= 2.1.232 for @-mention + /config row)
# messaging live iff the socket is bound:
[ -n "$CLAUDE_CODE_MESSAGING_SOCKET" ] && echo "messaging on" || echo "messaging OFF"

If /list-agents isn't recognized, the session predates the feature or a feature-flag-killing env var is set (CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC, DISABLE_TELEMETRY, DO_NOT_TRACK, DISABLE_GROWTHBOOK) — unset it and restart.

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 146 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A aabfa8222fb4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

delegate is a skill published in the GitHub repository stefan-jansen/coding-agent-toolkit (22 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 1,930 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 2026-08-30.