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SKILL.md skill

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Delegate context-heavy or independently valuable work through compact context packets, reusable workers, and a shared validation ledger. Use only when the user explicitly requests subagents or delegation, or when an explicitly invoked orchestration skill requires it; authorization is not a quota.

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What the file says

# Pragmatic Subagent Delegation

Preserve the coordinator's context without increasing total work unnecessarily.
Delegation is useful only when its benefit exceeds context-transfer,
coordination, and review costs.

## Delegation Is Not A Quota

An explicit request to use subagents authorizes delegation but does not require
delegating every phase. Keep a phase with the coordinator unless at least one
of these advantages is concrete:

- an independent review or perspective is required;
- the phase spans enough files, consumers, or subsystems to materially burden
  the coordinator context;
- an independent context line can run in parallel without overlapping files or
  decisions;
- the worker will be reused for several phases sharing the same domain, files,
  decisions, and validation strategy.

Do not delegate status checks, small preflights, checkbox updates, formatting,
single-purpose command execution, integration, archive, final reconciliation,
or work whose handoff costs as much as doing it locally.

Before spawning, record a compact decision: phase, explicit delegation
advantage, context line, worker, and validation owner. Use a full matrix only
…

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How to install

mdr add code-dimension/code-dimension-skills/subagent-delegation@sha256:51f6edc3f5038eb3

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GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_b4e4sff5wawazrrj
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=code-dimension/code-dimension-skills/subagent-delegation
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/51f6edc3f5038eb39887ea5bb775f28812254a160051790bfd0c002c9178e375

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