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/subordinate-managementnpx skills add xuiltul/animaworks --skill subordinate-managementgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xuiltul/animaworksWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/xuiltul/animaworks/subordinate-management)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/xuiltul/animaworks/subordinate-management"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xuiltul/animaworks/subordinate-management.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00053 | $0.01242 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00026 | $0.00621 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00248 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00124 |
Grade A, and why
subordinate-management 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 5d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Skill: Subordinate Management (Supervisor Tools)
Supervisor tools automatically enabled for Anima that have subordinates. Most tools work on all descendants (children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc.). delegate_task is restricted to direct subordinates only.
Available Tools
All Descendants (Children, Grandchildren, and Beyond)
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
disable_subordinate |
Pause descendant (status.json enabled: false → process stop + prevent auto-resume) |
enable_subordinate |
Resume paused descendant |
set_subordinate_model |
Change descendant's main LLM model (updates status.json; requires restart_subordinate to take effect) |
set_subordinate_background_model |
Change descendant's background model (for heartbeat/cron; updates status.json; requires restart_subordinate to take effect; empty string to clear) |
restart_subordinate |
Restart descendant process (status.json restart_requested flag; Reconciliation restarts within ~30 seconds) |
delegate_task |
Delegate task to direct subordinate only (queue add + DM send + tracking entry on your side) |
org_dashboard |
Tree view of process status, last activity, current task, and task count for all descendants |
ping_subordinate |
Liveness check for descendants (name omitted = all at once, specified = single) |
read_subordinate_state |
Read descendant's current_state.md |
audit_subordinate |
Comprehensive audit of descendant's recent activity (summary, tasks, errors, tool usage, communication) |
Delegated Task Tracking
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
task_tracker |
Track progress of tasks delegated via delegate_task from the subordinate's queue (status: all / active / completed; default: active) |
Auto-sync (sync_delegated): After each heartbeat completes, the framework may scan subordinates' task queues and automatically update the supervisor's tracking entries to done/failed when delegated work completes or fails (archived tasks are included in the search). You do not have to call task_tracker for every sync; status tends to align around the next heartbeat cycle.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 114 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A d859c240f01f
subordinate-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository xuiltul/animaworks (254 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,242 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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