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subagent-delegation from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/subagent-delegation@git:20260728.819a393Pins git:20260728.819a393 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
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- MIT
Split work across subagents so each has a focused context, and combine their results deliberately. Use when a task is too large for one context or has independent parallel parts.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Subagent delegation Delegating to subagents buys parallelism and context isolation at the cost of coordination. It helps when parts are genuinely independent and hurts when the work needs one coherent view. ## Method 1. **Delegate genuinely independent work.** Searching several areas, reviewing along different dimensions, or handling separate files (see agent-map-reduce). 2. **Give each subagent a complete brief.** It cannot see your conversation, so the task, constraints, and output format must be self-contained (see agent-handoff-protocol). 3. **Specify the return shape.** Structured results are combinable; free-form prose from five subagents is another synthesis problem (see output-format-control). 4. **Do not delegate work needing continuity.** Sequential reasoning where each step depends on the last belongs in one context. 5. **Reserve the main context for synthesis.** Subagents gather and filter; the orchestrator decides, which is what keeps the decision coherent. 6. **Cap the fan-out.** Each subagent costs tokens and time, and beyond a handful the coordination exceeds the benefit. …
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How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/subagent-delegation@sha256:1282ccc4ed29beceThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.819a393, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gef434sl6wabcvxn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/subagent-delegation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1282ccc4ed29bece5bbc357312481a8c138e8c065807971fc84af68017996a8b
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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