Skip to content
Development
Skill

/delegation-triggers

Use when deciding whether to spawn subagents — explicit rules for when delegation pays off and when direct work is faster. Opus 4.8 under-delegates by default; these rules correct that.

From plugin
modelharness
363 skills1 agent3 commands1 hook
Install
$ npx -y skills add vitaliikapliuk/modelharness --skill delegation-triggers --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/delegation-triggers

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Use when deciding whether to spawn subagents — explicit rules for when delegation pays off and when direct work is faster. Opus 4.8 under-delegates by default; these rules correct that.

SKILL.md

delegation-triggers.SKILL.md
name: delegation-triggers
description: Use when deciding whether to spawn subagents — explicit rules for when delegation pays off and when direct work is faster. Opus 4.8 under-delegates by default; these rules correct that.

Delegation Triggers

Opus 4.8 is documented to under-reach for subagents. Apply these rules instead of intuition.

Delegate (spawn subagents, in parallel where independent) when:

  • Work fans out across **independent items**: reading/searching many files, auditing

several modules, running several independent investigations.

  • You need a **broad search** where only the conclusion matters (use a read-only

explore subagent; you keep the answer, not the file dumps).

  • You need **fresh-context verification** of your own work (see verification-loop).
  • Two or more workstreams have **no shared state** and no ordering dependency — launch

them in one message so they run concurrently.

Work directly when:

  • A single file read or a known-location lookup would answer the question.
  • Edits are sequential and each depends on the previous result.
  • The task is small enough that subagent setup costs more than it saves.

How

  • Give each subagent a self-contained brief: goal, exact scope, what to return.
  • Don't duplicate a delegated search yourself — wait for the result.
  • Prefer asynchronous delegation: keep working on the main thread while subagents run;

intervene only if one goes off track.

Read more
Ships withmodelharness

Make every model cheaper or better. Measured on four Claude models — none got worse. What it actually is: a zero-config Claude Code plugin.

Get the whole plugin
Stats
36
Stars
1
Forks
Maintained
Maintenance
Python
Language
MIT
License
3mo ago
Last commit
3mo ago
Created

Repo: vitaliikapliuk/modelharness

Other skills on modelharness.