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.
npx agentmods add skills/xuiltul/animaworks/subagent-clinpx skills add xuiltul/animaworks --skill subagent-cligit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xuiltul/animaworksWhat 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 | $0.00052 | $0.02822 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00026 | $0.01411 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00564 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00282 |
Grade A, and why
subagent-cli 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 352 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
subagent-cli
Run external AI agent CLIs as subprocesses via Bash to delegate complex coding tasks. Use as a "power tool" to extend execution capability while keeping your identity, judgment, and memory.
Relationship with Framework Execution Modes
This skill applies only when the Bash tool is available.
| Mode | Implementation | Bash | Skill Applicability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mode S | agent_sdk.py (Claude Agent SDK) |
Available by default | Applies. Read/Write/Edit/Bash/Grep/Glob/WebFetch/WebSearch available |
| Mode C | codex_sdk.py (Codex SDK) |
Depends on Codex CLI toolset | codex exec not needed — Framework runs Codex directly. cursor-agent / claude -p can be invoked via Bash (when Bash is available) |
| Mode D | Cursor Agent (cursor-agent subprocess) | Depends on Cursor CLI toolset | cursor-agent -p not needed — Framework runs cursor-agent directly. MCP integration. Tool access similar to Mode S but via the cursor-agent binary. codex exec / claude -p can be invoked via Bash (when Bash is available) |
| Mode G | Gemini CLI (gemini subprocess) | Depends on Gemini CLI toolset | Manual gemini invocation not needed — Framework runs it directly. MCP integration, stream-json output. Other CLIs can be invoked via Bash (when Bash is available) |
| Mode A/B | LiteLLM + tool_use / 1-shot | Only when permitted in permissions.json | Applies if Bash is permitted |
Important: For Mode C (codex/*), Mode D (cursor/*), and Mode G (gemini/*), the framework runs each engine directly. You do not need to call codex exec (Mode C), cursor-agent -p (Mode D), or the Gemini CLI (Mode G) from Bash yourself. Refer to the relevant sections only when you explicitly want a different CLI (cursor-agent, claude -p, codex exec, etc.).
Windows exception: On native Windows, if shell execution becomes policy blocked, or codex exec exited with code 1 keeps recurring, stop retrying local codex exec. For shell-required tasks, use machine as the standard fallback with engine=claude and an explicit working_directory.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 352 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 6a7133bcf655
subagent-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository xuiltul/animaworks (254 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,822 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 2026-08-30.
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