subagents

A way to hand a focused coding, research, review, or checking task to a separate DevSpace worker. You choose a configured worker or provider and give it a self-contained brief.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to delegate code changes, investigate a question, review code, or verify work through the DevSpace command line.
Why use it?
It keeps a separate task from competing with the main conversation for context. It also lets you use a suitable specialist or ask the same worker to follow up.

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/waishnav/devspace/subagents
Any agent
npx skills add Waishnav/devspace --skill subagents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Waishnav/devspace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 534 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 $0.00044 $0.00534
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00267
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00053

Measured yesterday against content hash 29fbb364ecfc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

subagents 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 yesterday.

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/subagents/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevSpace subagents

Use the DevSpace CLI through the shell or process tool. Run commands from the project the subagent should work on.

Choose a target

Discover usable targets instead of guessing names:

devspace agents targets --json

Configured profiles include a description and may define provider, model, effort, and task instructions. Choose a matching profile when one fits. Use a provider target when no profile fits or a specific provider is needed.

Usually rely on the target's configured model and effort. Pass --model or --effort only with a value supported by that provider. DevSpace passes these values through without translating them between providers.

Start work

Give the subagent a self-contained brief. Include the objective, relevant paths, constraints, decisions it needs from the current conversation, and the expected result. The subagent receives the brief and its profile instructions, not the parent conversation.

devspace agents run <profile-or-provider> "<brief>" --json
devspace agents run <profile-or-provider> --model <model> --effort <effort> "<brief>" --json

The result contains a DevSpace agent id and its current status. Execution continues independently, so retain the ID for later inspection or follow-up.

Inspect and continue

devspace agents show <id> --json
devspace agents continue <id> "<follow-up brief>" --json
devspace agents ls --json
  • show waits briefly for active work, then returns the current status and any available response or error.
  • continue gives the same subagent another turn with its existing provider session and context.
  • ls returns sessions belonging to the current project.

Run devspace agents show <id> --json again later while the status is running. completed includes the response. failed includes a structured error, and stopped is terminal without a successful response. Continue an agent when its existing context is useful; start another agent for unrelated work.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. yesterday First seen · 58 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 29fbb364ecfc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

subagents is a skill published in the GitHub repository Waishnav/devspace (4,271 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 534 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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