Agent skill

Qwen Agent

by thananon in thananon/9arm-skills

Delegate menial, well-scoped coding tasks to a cheap Qwen-backed subagent via the claude-9arm command instead of burning Claude tokens/quota.

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Install Qwen Agent

skills CLI
$ npx skills add thananon/9arm-skills --skill qwen-agent -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install thananon/9arm-skills qwen-agent --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thananon/9arm-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/engineering/qwen-agent .claude/skills/qwen-agent && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
qwen-agent
GitHub stars
3.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
736 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
6
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Delegate menial, well-scoped coding tasks to a cheap Qwen-backed subagent via the claude-9arm command instead of burning Claude tokens/quota.

  • Works in 5 steps: Confirm the task is menial and low-risk… → Check it fits qwen's 128k context window… → Write a fully self-contained prompt with… → …
  • The work is mechanical and low-risk — bulk renames
  • SKILL.md covers The command, Writing the task prompt (most…, Mind the context window (128k) and Working directory, plus 4 more sections
  • Calls claude

What it does

Qwen Agent is an agent skill from thananon/9arm-skills. Delegate menial, well-scoped coding tasks to a cheap Qwen-backed subagent via the claude-9arm command instead of burning Claude tokens/quota. Use when the work is mechanical and low-risk — bulk renames, formatting, boilerplate, find-replace, grep-style search & summarization, reading/condensing logs or files, test/docstring/comment scaffolding, or running builds/linters/tests and reporting pass-fail. Also use when the user says "use qwen", "delegate this", "send it to 9arm/qwen", or "do this cheaply". Do NOT use…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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 Project scaffolding, Linting and formatting and Technical documentation. It works with Qwen.

When your agent uses it

  • The work is mechanical and low-risk — bulk renames
  • Grep-style search & summarization
  • Reading/condensing logs
  • Test/docstring/comment scaffolding

Example prompts

  • “use qwen”
  • “delegate this”
  • “send it to 9arm/qwen”
  • “/qwen-agent”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Confirm the task is menial and low-risk (see description). If it needs design judgment or this chat's context, do it yourself — don't…
  2. Check it fits qwen's 128k context window — estimate the file footprint and split large jobs into bounded per-file/per-dir chunks (see…
  3. Write a fully self-contained prompt with absolute paths and acceptance criteria.
  4. Run claude-9arm -p "..." --allowedTools Bash Read Edit Write Glob Grep (foreground), or background-redirect for parallel jobs.
  5. Verify the output yourself — qwen is cheaper and less reliable. Check the file/result actually meets the acceptance criteria before…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit a1fc303. 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:

    • claude

    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

Qwen Agent loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 163 tokens; SKILL.md has 736 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~163
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 736 words (~1,483 tokens).

“Offload menial, self-contained tasks to a Qwen model running inside a headless Claude Code instance (claude-9arm). Keeps expensive Claude reasoning for work that needs it.”

— opening of SKILL.md by thananon
name
qwen-agent

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/engineering/qwen-agent of thananon/9arm-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a1fc303

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Questions about Qwen Agent

What does Qwen Agent do?

Delegate menial, well-scoped coding tasks to a cheap Qwen-backed subagent via the claude-9arm command instead of burning Claude tokens/quota. Qwen Agent is an agent skill from thananon/9arm-skills. Delegate menial, well-scoped coding tasks to a cheap Qwen-backed subagent via the claude-9arm command instead of burning Claude tokens/quota.

When should I use Qwen Agent?

Qwen Agent fits situations like: the work is mechanical and low-risk — bulk renames; grep-style search & summarization; reading/condensing logs; test/docstring/comment scaffolding.

How do I install Qwen Agent in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add thananon/9arm-skills --skill qwen-agent -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/engineering/qwen-agent in thananon/9arm-skills) into .claude/skills/qwen-agent in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Qwen Agent in Codex?

Run `npx skills add thananon/9arm-skills --skill qwen-agent -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/engineering/qwen-agent in thananon/9arm-skills) into .agents/skills/qwen-agent in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Qwen Agent 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 thananon/9arm-skills --skill qwen-agent -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/qwen-agent, .gemini/skills/qwen-agent, .github/skills/qwen-agent and .opencode/skills/qwen-agent in your project.

What does Qwen Agent need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Qwen Agent needs the command-line tools its instructions call (claude).

Does Qwen Agent 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 Qwen Agent 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 Qwen Agent use?

No licence was found for Qwen Agent or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Qwen Agent use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.9k 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 Qwen Agent?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Qwen Agent: WooCommerce Markdown Guidelines (woocommerce/woocommerce, 11k stars), Unslop Code (JCarterJohnson/vibecoded-design-tells, 513 stars), Lint Rule Development (biomejs/biome, 26k stars) and Rust Hygiene Audit (tsz-org/tsz, 577 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Qwen Agent?

thananon (a GitHub user) maintains it in thananon/9arm-skills, which has 3,212 GitHub stars. The repository holds 6 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 14, 2026.

Source: thananon/9arm-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.