Claude Code Agent Development
anthropics/claude-plugins-official
Explains how to write agents for Claude Code plugins: the markdown file with YAML frontmatter, trigger descriptions, model and color settings, and system prompt design.
Decide when to spawn a subagent vs. An agent skill from Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent.
Install Delegation
$ npx skills add Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent --skill delegation -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent delegation --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/Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/runtime/gideon/extensions/skills/bundled/delegation .claude/skills/delegation && 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 "delegation" agent skill from https://github.com/Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent/tree/main/runtime/gideon/extensions/skills/bundled/delegation into .claude/skills/delegation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegation", 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/Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent/tree/main/runtime/gideon/extensions/skills/bundled/delegationType 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 Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent --skill delegation -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent delegation --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/runtime/gideon/extensions/skills/bundled/delegation .agents/skills/delegation && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "delegation" agent skill from https://github.com/Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent/tree/main/runtime/gideon/extensions/skills/bundled/delegation into .agents/skills/delegation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegation", 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 Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent --skill delegation -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent delegation --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/runtime/gideon/extensions/skills/bundled/delegation .cursor/skills/delegation && 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 "delegation" agent skill from https://github.com/Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent/tree/main/runtime/gideon/extensions/skills/bundled/delegation into .cursor/skills/delegation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegation", 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/Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent.git --path runtime/gideon/extensions/skills/bundled/delegation--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 Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent --skill delegation -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent delegation --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/runtime/gideon/extensions/skills/bundled/delegation .gemini/skills/delegation && 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 "delegation" agent skill from https://github.com/Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent/tree/main/runtime/gideon/extensions/skills/bundled/delegation into .gemini/skills/delegation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegation", 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 Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent delegationInstalls 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 Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent --skill delegation -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/runtime/gideon/extensions/skills/bundled/delegation .github/skills/delegation && 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 "delegation" agent skill from https://github.com/Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent/tree/main/runtime/gideon/extensions/skills/bundled/delegation into .github/skills/delegation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegation", 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 Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent --skill delegation -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent delegation --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/runtime/gideon/extensions/skills/bundled/delegation .opencode/skills/delegation && 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 "delegation" agent skill from https://github.com/Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent/tree/main/runtime/gideon/extensions/skills/bundled/delegation into .opencode/skills/delegation/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "delegation", 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
delegation- GitHub stars
- 217
- Token cost
- ~956 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 487 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 24
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
At a glance
Decide when to spawn a subagent vs. An agent skill from Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent.
- Tasks that involve Subagents
- SKILL.md covers Do it inline (don't spawn), Spawn a subagent (subagent_run), Waiting on the outside world… and External-system handoffs…, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Delegation is an agent skill from Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent. Decide when to spawn a subagent vs. do work inline (cost-tiered) — don't spawn for trivial work; do spawn for parallel independent investigation or isolated long tasks; use wait for external callbacks and hookregister for external-system handoffs.
Its SKILL.md is about 960 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 Agent Workflows, covering Subagents. The repository describes itself as: The companion AI agent that learns, adapts and gets the work done no matter the task. The licence is Apache-2.0.
When your agent uses it
- Tasks that involve Subagents
Example prompts
- “/delegation”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ca531ee. 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
Delegation loads about 956 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 65 tokens; SKILL.md has 487 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 Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent at commit ca531ee, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© Sidiora-Labs). 487 words, ~956 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/delegation/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- delegation
- description
- Decide when to spawn a subagent vs. do work inline (cost-tiered) — don't spawn for trivial work; do spawn for parallel independent investigation or isolated long tasks; use wait for external callbacks and hook_register for external-system handoffs.
- always
- false
- triggers
- subagent, spawn, delegate, parallel, in parallel, background task, fan out, isolate, offload, wait for, callback, hook, handoff
Delegation
Spawning a subagent has real cost — a fresh context, its own token budget, setup and synthesis overhead. Delegate when it pays for itself in parallelism or isolation, and do the work inline when it doesn't. Match the mechanism to the shape of the work.
Tools: subagent_run (spawn a worker), subagent_list / subagent_status
(track them), wait (block for an external signal), hook_register (hand off to
an external system).
Do it inline (don't spawn)
Default to inline. Don't spawn a subagent for trivial or sequential work that shares your context:
- A quick lookup, a single file read/edit, a one-shot command.
- Anything that needs your current conversation context to make sense.
- Sequential steps where each depends on the last — there's nothing to parallelize, and a subagent just adds overhead and a context hand-off.
If spawning would cost more (setup + synthesis) than just doing it, do it.
Spawn a subagent (subagent_run)
Delegate when the work is either parallel or isolatable:
- Parallel independent investigation — several sub-questions or candidate causes with no ordering dependency and no shared mutable state. Fan them out at once (e.g. probe three hypotheses, research several topics) and synthesize the returns. This is the biggest win: wall-clock time drops.
- Isolated long task — a self-contained chunk of work that would otherwise flood your context with intermediate detail (a deep search, a long grind, a bounded build). Hand it off with a clear deliverable so only the result comes back, keeping your own context lean.
Give each subagent a self-contained task and an explicit deliverable — it
doesn't share your conversation, so spell out what "done" returns. Track them
with subagent_list / subagent_status. Don't fan out units that touch the
same mutable state — parallel workers racing on the same files corrupt each
other; parallelize only genuinely independent work.
(For an open-ended grind toward a goal — "keep working until done" — a goal loop
fits better than a raw subagent; see loop-worker and task-and-project.)
Show full SKILL.md (171 more words)Show less
Waiting on the outside world (wait)
When the next step depends on something external that will arrive later — an
async job finishing, an approval, an out-of-band reply — use wait to block for
that signal instead of busy-polling or spawning a worker whose only job is to
sleep. wait is for "pause until the callback comes", not for parallel compute.
External-system handoffs (hook_register)
When an external system should drive future work — an inbound webhook, an
event from another service, a deferred trigger that fires outside this session —
register a hook with hook_register so Gideon responds when the event
arrives. This is the handoff for "when X happens out there, do Y here," distinct
from spawning a worker now (subagent_run) or blocking on one specific signal
(wait).
Decision summary
- Trivial / sequential / needs my context → inline.
- Independent units, want them concurrent →
subagent_run(parallel). - Self-contained long task polluting my context →
subagent_run(isolate). - Open-ended grind toward a definition of done → goal loop.
- Pause until an external signal/callback →
wait. - Let an external system trigger future work →
hook_register.
© Sidiora-Labs, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
Just SKILL.md in runtime/gideon/extensions/skills/bundled/delegation of Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit ca531ee
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delegation this skillSidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent | 217 | — | ~956 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Claude Code Agent Developmentanthropics/claude-plugins-official | 38k | 7 repos | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Subagent Driven DevelopmentAsvarox/allkaraoke | 261 | 37 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Dispatching Parallel Agentsultralisp/ultralisp | 258 | 40 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Paseo Advisor Second Opiniongetpaseo/paseo | 20k | 1 repos | ~756 | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Task Observerrebelytics/one-skill-to-rule-them-all | 3.2k | 1 repos | ~11k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-4.0 |
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Questions about Delegation
What does Delegation do?
Decide when to spawn a subagent vs. An agent skill from Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent. Delegation is an agent skill from Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent. Decide when to spawn a subagent vs.
When should I use Delegation?
Delegation fits situations like: tasks that involve Subagents.
How do I install Delegation in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent --skill delegation -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (runtime/gideon/extensions/skills/bundled/delegation in Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent) into .claude/skills/delegation in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Delegation in Codex?
Run `npx skills add Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent --skill delegation -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (runtime/gideon/extensions/skills/bundled/delegation in Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent) into .agents/skills/delegation in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Delegation 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 Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent --skill delegation -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/delegation, .gemini/skills/delegation, .github/skills/delegation and .opencode/skills/delegation in your project.
What does Delegation need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Delegation is instructions for the agent only.
Does Delegation 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 Delegation 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 Delegation use?
Delegation is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Delegation use?
About 956 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.8k 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 Delegation?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Delegation: Claude Code Agent Development (anthropics/claude-plugins-official, 38k stars), Subagent Driven Development (Asvarox/allkaraoke, 261 stars), Dispatching Parallel Agents (ultralisp/ultralisp, 258 stars) and Paseo Advisor Second Opinion (getpaseo/paseo, 20k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Delegation?
Sidiora-Labs (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent, which has 217 GitHub stars. The repository holds 24 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.
Source: Sidiora-Labs/centra-gideon-agent on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.