delegation-triggers

delegation-triggers is a skill for Claude Code from vitaliikapliuk/modelharness. It costs 46 tokens per session (314 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for deciding when to split work among independent helper agents and when to handle it directly.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports decisions about parallel investigations, broad searches, and fresh-context reviews, while keeping dependent edits together.
Why use it?
It helps balance the time saved by parallel work against the setup cost and coordination involved.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the modelharness plugin — 3 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It supports decisions about parallel investigations, broad searches, and fresh-context reviews, while keeping dependent edits together.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vitaliikapliuk/modelharness/delegation-triggers
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 vitaliikapliuk/modelharness --skill delegation-triggers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vitaliikapliuk/modelharness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install modelharness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 314 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 $0.00046 $0.00314
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00157
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00031

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2fd22e4fff34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

delegation-triggers 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 12d 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/delegation-triggers/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Delegation Triggers

Opus 4.8 is documented to under-reach for subagents. Apply these rules instead of intuition.

Delegate (spawn subagents, in parallel where independent) when:

  • Work fans out across independent items: reading/searching many files, auditing several modules, running several independent investigations.
  • You need a broad search where only the conclusion matters (use a read-only explore subagent; you keep the answer, not the file dumps).
  • You need fresh-context verification of your own work (see verification-loop).
  • Two or more workstreams have no shared state and no ordering dependency — launch them in one message so they run concurrently.

Work directly when:

  • A single file read or a known-location lookup would answer the question.
  • Edits are sequential and each depends on the previous result.
  • The task is small enough that subagent setup costs more than it saves.

How

  • Give each subagent a self-contained brief: goal, exact scope, what to return.
  • Don't duplicate a delegated search yourself — wait for the result.
  • Prefer asynchronous delegation: keep working on the main thread while subagents run; intervene only if one goes off track.
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. 12d ago First seen · 30 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 2fd22e4fff34

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delegation-triggers is a skill published in the GitHub repository vitaliikapliuk/modelharness (38 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 314 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.

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