Delegate Work
paperclipai/paperclip
Delegate user-requested work to an existing Paperclip agent, with a durable task reference and clear execution expectations.
Delegate bounded work to other AI agents while preserving context, ownership, and progress checks.
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Install Delegating To Agents
$ npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill delegating-to-agents -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills delegating-to-agents --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/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/delegating-to-agents .claude/skills/delegating-to-agents && 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 "delegating-to-agents" agent skill from https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/tree/main/skills/delegating-to-agents into .claude/skills/delegating-to-agents/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegating-to-agents", 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/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/tree/main/skills/delegating-to-agentsType 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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill delegating-to-agents -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills delegating-to-agents --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/delegating-to-agents .agents/skills/delegating-to-agents && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "delegating-to-agents" agent skill from https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/tree/main/skills/delegating-to-agents into .agents/skills/delegating-to-agents/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegating-to-agents", 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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill delegating-to-agents -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills delegating-to-agents --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/delegating-to-agents .cursor/skills/delegating-to-agents && 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 "delegating-to-agents" agent skill from https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/tree/main/skills/delegating-to-agents into .cursor/skills/delegating-to-agents/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegating-to-agents", 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/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.git --path skills/delegating-to-agents--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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill delegating-to-agents -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills delegating-to-agents --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/delegating-to-agents .gemini/skills/delegating-to-agents && 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 "delegating-to-agents" agent skill from https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/tree/main/skills/delegating-to-agents into .gemini/skills/delegating-to-agents/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegating-to-agents", 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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills delegating-to-agentsInstalls 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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill delegating-to-agents -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/delegating-to-agents .github/skills/delegating-to-agents && 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 "delegating-to-agents" agent skill from https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/tree/main/skills/delegating-to-agents into .github/skills/delegating-to-agents/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegating-to-agents", 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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill delegating-to-agents -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills delegating-to-agents --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/delegating-to-agents .opencode/skills/delegating-to-agents && 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 "delegating-to-agents" agent skill from https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/tree/main/skills/delegating-to-agents into .opencode/skills/delegating-to-agents/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegating-to-agents", 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
delegating-to-agents- GitHub stars
- 47k
- Used in
- 1 other repo
- Token cost
- ~1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 514 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 1,497
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Delegate bounded work to other AI agents while preserving context, ownership, and progress checks.
- Works in 3 steps: ONE single line — never newlines in the… → Wrap the prompt in plain double quotes —… → Exact command names: cmux send --surface…
- SKILL.md covers When to Use, Which agent to pick, Sending prompts to a TUI agent and Polling, plus 5 more sections
- Calls codex and claude
What it does
Delegating To Agents is an agent skill from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. Delegate bounded work to other AI agents while preserving context, ownership, and progress checks.
Its SKILL.md is about 1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
The repository describes itself as: AAS Core is the local, agent-first control plane for complete catalog discovery, agent-owned selection, stack validation, and planning, backed by 2,400+ agentic skills. Includes… The licence is MIT.
Example prompts
- “/delegating-to-agents”
Workflow steps
3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- ONE single line — never newlines in the message body. In a TUI, newline = Enter: a multi-line prompt submits at the first line and the…
- Wrap the prompt in plain double quotes — NEVER escaped. cmux send --surface surface:N "your prompt". The recurring bug is emitting \" — in…
- Exact command names: cmux send --surface surface:N then cmux send-key --surface surface:N enter. There is NO send-surface or…
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b84d35a. 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
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
codexclaude
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
Delegating To Agents loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 30 tokens; SKILL.md has 514 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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills at commit b84d35a, republished under its MIT licence (© sickn33). 514 words, ~1,033 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/delegating-to-agents/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- delegating-to-agents
- description
- Delegate bounded work to other AI agents while preserving context, ownership, and progress checks.
- category
- agent-orchestration
- risk
- critical
- source
- community
- source_repo
- davidondrej/skills
- source_type
- community
- date_added
- 2026-07-07
- author
- davidondrej
- tags
- agents, delegation, orchestration
- tools
- claude, codex
- license
- MIT
Delegating to Agents
When to Use
- Use when work should be handed to another AI agent with a complete prompt and progress checks.
- Use when you need to relay instructions to terminal or TUI agents without losing context.
Which agent to pick
- Coding (default) → Codex CLI. Strongest coding agent, especially for complex, long-running SWE tasks. It's on an unlimited-usage plan — effectively unlimited, don't ration it.
- Most other tasks → Pi Agent (
piin a cmux terminal). All Pi agents run opus-4.8-fast via OpenRouter at xhigh reasoning effort. - Frontend / design → Pi. Opus 4.8 Fast beats Codex on UI, styling, design.
- Heavy multi-step work: you as orchestrator + Codex CLI executing in a right-hand cmux pane is a solid default setup.
Sending prompts to a TUI agent
- ONE single line — never newlines in the message body. In a TUI, newline = Enter: a multi-line prompt submits at the first line and the rest arrives as fragmented mid-turn steering messages. Use ". " or "; " instead of line breaks, then one explicit enter. For long instructions, write them to a file and send:
read /tmp/task.md and follow it. - Wrap the prompt in plain double quotes — NEVER escaped.
cmux send --surface surface:N "your prompt". The recurring bug is emitting\"— in bash that's literal-broken and dies withunexpected EOF. Inside the prompt, avoid apostrophes and literal double quotes (write "dont", "wont", "lets"); rephrase instead of escaping. If a send failed, the cause was the escaped\", not the quote type. - Exact command names:
cmux send --surface surface:Nthencmux send-key --surface surface:N enter. There is NOsend-surfaceorsend-key-surface.
Polling
Keep sleeps SHORT: start at 3-5s, re-check, repeat. Don't sleep 30. Pi and Hermes (opus-4.8-fast) launch and respond within seconds; scale up only for genuinely heavy tasks. After every check, send the user a one-line status: what the agent is doing and whether it's on track.
Claude Code note: after it finishes, it may prefill a predicted next user message — that draft is Claude, not the user.
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Remote VPS
SSH in first and launch the agent ON the VPS (e.g. codex --yolo), then drive that on-box agent. Don't run an agent locally and have it SSH for every step.
The 4 agents (background reference)
All four use the portable SKILL.md standard; project skills win over global.
- Pi (pi.dev, open-source TS): minimal read/write/edit/bash core, self-extends via TS extensions; true BYOK; best-in-class session branch/fork/resume. Skills:
~/.pi/agent/skills/. - Codex CLI (OpenAI, Rust): fastest startup; kernel-level sandboxing;
codex execfor CI; reads AGENTS.md. Skills:~/.codex/skills/. - Claude Code (Anthropic, TS): deepest Claude integration,
.claude/conventions, live skill hot-reload. Skills:~/.claude/skills/. - Hermes (Nous Research, Python): persistent autonomous agent — cross-session memory, built-in scheduler, 40+ tools; can orchestrate the other CLIs as workers. Skills:
~/.hermes/skills/.
Driving interactive CLIs
- Codex, Pi, OpenCode: need
pty=true. - Claude Code: prefer
claude --print --permission-mode bypassPermissions(no PTY).
Example
User request:
Delegate these independent work items with complete context, clear ownership, and progress checks.
Limitations
- Adapted from
davidondrej/skills; verify local paths, tools, credentials, and agent features before acting. - For commands, remote access, scheduling, browser automation, or file-changing workflows, get explicit user approval and confirm the target environment first.
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Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/delegating-to-agents of sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit b84d35a
Used in 1 other repository
We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.
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| Agent Delegation PromptsQwenLM/qwen-code | 28k | — | ~847 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
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Questions about Delegating To Agents
What does Delegating To Agents do?
Delegate bounded work to other AI agents while preserving context, ownership, and progress checks. Delegating To Agents is an agent skill from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. Delegate bounded work to other AI agents while preserving context, ownership, and progress checks.
How do I install Delegating To Agents in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill delegating-to-agents -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/delegating-to-agents in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills) into .claude/skills/delegating-to-agents in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Delegating To Agents in Codex?
Run `npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill delegating-to-agents -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/delegating-to-agents in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills) into .agents/skills/delegating-to-agents in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Delegating To Agents 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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill delegating-to-agents -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/delegating-to-agents, .gemini/skills/delegating-to-agents, .github/skills/delegating-to-agents and .opencode/skills/delegating-to-agents in your project.
What does Delegating To Agents need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Delegating To Agents needs the command-line tools its instructions call (codex and claude).
Does Delegating To Agents 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 Delegating To Agents 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 Delegating To Agents use?
Delegating To Agents is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Delegating To Agents use?
About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.1k 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 Delegating To Agents?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Delegating To Agents: Delegate Work (paperclipai/paperclip, 99k stars), Event Delegation (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars), Sub-Agent Delegation (codewhale-hq/Codewhale, 41k stars) and Agent Delegation Prompts (QwenLM/qwen-code, 28k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Delegating To Agents?
sickn33 (a GitHub user) maintains it in sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, which has 47,405 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,497 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.
Source: sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.