05-core-delegate-to-cheaper-llm-via-shelllisted

CORE — never delete. HARD MANDATE — this is your SANCTIONED SUBAGENT TOOL for quick, conversational, per-task delegation. Trigger whenever a task can be handed to a subagent: a self-contained reasoning sub-task, a second opinion, a draft/summary/classification/extraction over text, a focused chunk of thinking you'd otherwise give a Task/Agent thread. Native subagents stay BANNED (rule 20c); you delegate through a SHELL CALL to a cheap model instead — `bun delegate.mjs "<prompt>"` hits an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with a vault key and returns text, so CLAUDE.md/gates/vault stay intact and no context-blind subagent ever spawns. CRUCIAL ADVANTAGE OVER THE OLD MCP: a payload can be PIPED IN UNREAD (`Get-Content big.txt | bun delegate.mjs "..."`) so the file's bytes never enter YOUR context. Underutilizing delegation is a defect.
markkennethbadilla/public-agent-provisioning · ★ 0 · AI & Automation · score 72

Install: claude install-skill markkennethbadilla/public-agent-provisioning

# Delegate to a cheaper LLM — via SHELL (SANCTIONED SUBAGENT TOOL) ## The mandate (why this skill is HARD) Native subagents (`Task`/`Agent`) are **banned** (rule 20c) — they don't share your context and can't use a custom model/key. **A shell call to a cheap model IS your subagent tool.** Any time you'd reach for a subagent — bounded reasoning, a second opinion, "draft/summarize/classify/extract this," a focused unit of thinking — you delegate it **here, from your main thread**. CLAUDE.md, the gates, and the vault stay intact (it's just a model call; YOU still own the work, edits, deploys). **Never underutilize it.** "I'll just reason through this myself when a cheap model could carry it" is a missed delegation — the same defect as reading a whole file instead of using jcodemunch. ### Why SHELL, not an MCP (this is the whole point) The old `deepseek-delegate` MCP took the prompt as a string param, so the payload **always passed through your context** and burned your tokens. A shell script lets the payload be **piped in, unread by you**: ``` Get-Content big.txt | bun delegate.mjs "summarize the decisions" # PowerShell cat big.txt | bun delegate.mjs "summarize the decisions" # bash bun delegate.mjs "summarize the decisions" --file=big.txt # or --file ``` The bytes flow stdin/file → HTTP → model; **only the short reply returns to you.** ### What you DO vs DON'T delegate - **DELEGATE:** bounded reasoning, drafting, summarizing, c