YugabyteDB ASH Instrumentation
yugabyte/yugabyte-db
Procedure for adding or changing YugabyteDB Active Session History wait states in TServer and DocDB C++ code, including the macro to use for sync and async paths.
Delegate one independent, context-heavy task to an isolated asynchronous analyst or reviewer.
Install Delegate Work
$ npx skills add aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore --skill delegate-work -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore delegate-work --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/delegate-work .claude/skills/delegate-work && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "delegate-work" agent skill from https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore/tree/main/chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/delegate-work into .claude/skills/delegate-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegate-work", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore/tree/main/chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/delegate-workType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore --skill delegate-work -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore delegate-work --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/delegate-work .agents/skills/delegate-work && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "delegate-work" agent skill from https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore/tree/main/chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/delegate-work into .agents/skills/delegate-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegate-work", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore --skill delegate-work -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore delegate-work --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/delegate-work .cursor/skills/delegate-work && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "delegate-work" agent skill from https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore/tree/main/chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/delegate-work into .cursor/skills/delegate-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegate-work", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore.git --path chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/delegate-work--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore --skill delegate-work -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore delegate-work --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/delegate-work .gemini/skills/delegate-work && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "delegate-work" agent skill from https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore/tree/main/chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/delegate-work into .gemini/skills/delegate-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegate-work", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore delegate-workInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore --skill delegate-work -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/delegate-work .github/skills/delegate-work && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "delegate-work" agent skill from https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore/tree/main/chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/delegate-work into .github/skills/delegate-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegate-work", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore --skill delegate-work -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore delegate-work --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/delegate-work .opencode/skills/delegate-work && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "delegate-work" agent skill from https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore/tree/main/chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/delegate-work into .opencode/skills/delegate-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegate-work", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
delegate-work- GitHub stars
- 194
- Token cost
- ~610 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 292 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 24
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Delegate one independent, context-heavy task to an isolated asynchronous analyst or reviewer.
- The parent can continue without the result and the task has one concrete deliverable
- SKILL.md covers Scope the task, Select a profile, Select task complexity and Execute, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Simple questions
What it does
Delegate Work is an agent skill from aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Delegate one independent, context-heavy task to an isolated asynchronous analyst or reviewer. Use when the parent can continue without the result and the task has one concrete deliverable. Do not use for simple questions, tightly coupled next steps, external side effects, or broad open-ended work.
Its SKILL.md is about 610 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Development, covering Async programming. The repository describes itself as: Reference architecture for agentic AI chatbots with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- The parent can continue without the result and the task has one concrete deliverable
- Simple questions
- Tightly coupled next steps
- External side effects
Example prompts
- “/delegate-work”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6dd9d13. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Delegate Work loads about 610 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 292 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore at commit 6dd9d13, republished under its MIT licence (© aws-samples). 292 words, ~610 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/delegate-work/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- delegate-work
- description
- Delegate one independent, context-heavy task to an isolated asynchronous analyst or reviewer. Use when the parent can continue without the result and the task has one concrete deliverable. Do not use for simple questions, tightly coupled next steps, external side effects, or broad open-ended work.
Delegate Work
Delegate only work that is independent enough to finish in an isolated context.
Scope the task
- Give one concrete goal and one deliverable.
- Provide observable acceptance criteria.
- Pass only the workspace paths and context required for the task.
- State explicit non-goals in
constraints. - Never copy the full conversation into
context_summary. - Split unrelated deliverables into separate delegations.
Do not delegate requests such as "investigate everything", "fix all issues", or "continue helping with this project". Narrow them first.
Select a profile
- Use
analystfor data inspection, computation, experiments, and generated artifacts. It can use the session Code Interpreter. - Use
reviewerfor an independent read-only review. It cannot execute code or modify source files.
Select task complexity
- Use
lowfor narrow extraction, classification, or simple checks. - Use
mediumfor normal analysis and review work. - Use
highonly for genuinely difficult reasoning or broad synthesis. - Omit
task_complexitywhen the delegated agent should inherit the parent model unchanged.
Execute
Call delegate_task once. It returns an acceptance receipt immediately.
Continue the foreground conversation without waiting for completion.
Never expose or invent internal job identifiers; they are orchestration metadata
owned by the activity UI and backend.
Use get_delegation only when the user asks for status or the result is needed
before another decision. Filter by profile or distinctive goal text. Use
cancel_delegation only for an explicit request to cancel a background job;
if multiple jobs match, narrow the goal instead of guessing.
Boundaries
- Do not delegate recursively.
- Do not use delegation for Gmail, Calendar, Notion, GitHub writes, OAuth, or other external side effects.
- Do not ask the subagent to modify files outside its output directory.
- Do not assume an interrupt of the foreground response cancels an accepted delegation.
- Treat the mailbox completion as the authoritative terminal result.
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Files
Just SKILL.md in chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/delegate-work of aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6dd9d13
Compare with similar skills
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delegate Work this skillaws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore | 194 | — | ~610 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| YugabyteDB ASH Instrumentationyugabyte/yugabyte-db | 11k | — | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Mirage VFS Adapter Authoringstrukto-ai/mirage | 3.7k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Golang Patternsantoniopaya22/go-rest-template | 172 | 9 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Rust Async Patternsdiodeme/Gold-Band | 143 | 9 repos | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | |
| Swift Concurrencyhenrypldev/react-native-nitro-mlx | 100 | 3 repos | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Delegate Work
What does Delegate Work do?
Delegate one independent, context-heavy task to an isolated asynchronous analyst or reviewer. Delegate Work is an agent skill from aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Delegate one independent, context-heavy task to an isolated asynchronous analyst or reviewer.
When should I use Delegate Work?
Delegate Work fits situations like: the parent can continue without the result and the task has one concrete deliverable; simple questions; tightly coupled next steps; external side effects.
How do I install Delegate Work in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore --skill delegate-work -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/delegate-work in aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore) into .claude/skills/delegate-work in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Delegate Work in Codex?
Run `npx skills add aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore --skill delegate-work -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/delegate-work in aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore) into .agents/skills/delegate-work in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Delegate Work in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore --skill delegate-work -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/delegate-work, .gemini/skills/delegate-work, .github/skills/delegate-work and .opencode/skills/delegate-work in your project.
What does Delegate Work need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Delegate Work is instructions for the agent only.
Does Delegate Work access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Delegate Work safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Delegate Work use?
Delegate Work is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Delegate Work use?
About 610 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Delegate Work?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Delegate Work: YugabyteDB ASH Instrumentation (yugabyte/yugabyte-db, 11k stars), Mirage VFS Adapter Authoring (strukto-ai/mirage, 3.7k stars), Golang Patterns (antoniopaya22/go-rest-template, 172 stars) and Rust Async Patterns (diodeme/Gold-Band, 143 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Delegate Work?
aws-samples (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore, which has 194 GitHub stars. The repository holds 24 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.
Source: aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.