passdown-dispatch

A task-routing step for multi-task coding work.

In plain words
What is it for?
For routing and verifying work before executing plans or changes with several tasks or delegated steps.
Why use it?
It decides which tasks should stay in the current session and which can be handed to external command-line agents or approved subagents, then checks their results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the passdown plugin — 4 skills shipped together

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/vunm-io/passdown/passdown-dispatch
Any agent
npx skills add vunm-io/passdown --skill passdown-dispatch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vunm-io/passdown

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install passdown, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,832 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 $0.00054 $0.01832
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00916
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00183

Measured 3d ago against content hash a88b5556a64e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

passdown-dispatch 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/passdown/skills/passdown-dispatch/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.

Passdown Dispatch

The orchestrator session should stay small and cheap. Route each task to the cheapest executor that can do it well; keep only judgment-heavy work in the main session.

Execution gate

Run this skill before execution begins when any of these conditions apply:

  • the plan or change has three or more pending tasks;
  • any task has a [dispatch: ...] tag;
  • any pending task is independently delegable or mechanical; or
  • another installed skill or plugin is about to execute the plan, including Superpowers executing-plans.

Do not enter an inline plan executor, Superpowers executing-plans, an external CLI adapter, or a native subagent executor until routing is complete. The gate may still route every task to main; the required outcome is an explicit per-task routing decision before implementation starts.

Materialize the decision: when the plan lives in a file (a markdown plan or an OpenSpec tasks.md), write the routing decision into that file before execution starts — add the missing [dispatch: ...] tag to each untagged task. A decision that lives only in the session transcript is lost at the next handoff.

A direct user instruction to execute one clearly scoped task does not require this gate unless that task itself requests delegation. When a user explicitly asks to bypass delegation and work only in the current session, honor that choice and route the relevant tasks to main rather than silently skipping the gate.

Configuration (read first)

Build the effective passdown configuration root-to-nearest. Read applicable AGENTS.md files from the workspace/repository root down to the current directory, plus any parent file explicitly referenced by a thin entrypoint. Merge ## passdown keys in that order: nearer values override the same key and inherit omitted keys. Resolve relative paths against the file that declared them.

Read the effective executors entry, cheapest first:

## passdown
- executors: agy, subagent, main   # cheapest first; omit what's unavailable

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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 First seen · 146 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A a88b5556a64e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

passdown-dispatch is a skill published in the GitHub repository vunm-io/passdown (8 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,832 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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