subagent-patterns SKILL.md skillA
subagent-patterns from ahgraber/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ahgraber/skills/subagent-patterns@git:20260819.209d97bPins git:20260819.209d97b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ahgraber/skills
- Path
skills/subagent-patterns/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260819.209d97b, committed Aug 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 12, 2026
- Size
- 16,980 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- CC0-1.0
Use when dispatching development work to one or more subagents and deciding how to shape each dispatch. Triggers: "use subagents", "orchestrate subagents", "delegate to a cheaper/stronger model", "big:little" / "little:big", "verifier / adversary / explorer / oracle subagent", "run this with subagents", "get an independent second opinion". Not for: the parallel code-review path (use `code-review`), or driving a separate agent CLI non-interactively.
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 Patterns ## Overview This skill helps you decide what to dispatch to a subagent and how. Each dispatch comes down to five choices: whether to dispatch at all, which model, what job the worker does, why to isolate it, and how to wire several together. Make those choices deliberately instead of reaching for a named pattern. Resolve the five decisions in order, then apply the rules that hold for every dispatch. > Harness note: this skill says _dispatch_, _worker_, and _the model on the dispatch_ for whatever your harness calls its subagent tool and per-call model parameter — substitute the equivalents. ## When to Use - You're about to farm work out to one or more subagents and want the shape right: how many, which model, what job, what to withhold. - Executing a multi-task plan (e.g. an `sdd-apply` run) with a coordinator that gates each task. - A cheap primary keeps hitting decisions above its weight and needs an on-demand expert. - You want a genuinely independent second opinion, from a fresh context or a stronger model. - Long autonomous runs are drowning in their own history and you need to move state to files. ## When Not to Use …
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How to install
mdr add ahgraber/skills/subagent-patterns@sha256:dd62580fc9688e44The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260819.209d97b, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jul 12, 2026 and Aug 19, 2026, about one every 13 days.
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| git:20260819.209d97b latest | 2026-08-19 | 209d97b | 16,980 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.a14db3a | 2026-07-28 | a14db3a | 16,776 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260713.0e410f5 | 2026-07-13 | 0e410f5 | 16,776 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260712.b980670 | 2026-07-12 | b980670 | 15,640 B | A | view |
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Source
ahgraber/skills · 6 stars · license CC0-1.0 · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zrd6vjqrqhocz2y7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ahgraber/skills/subagent-patterns GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dd62580fc9688e444d599a68330baf8e9af77e23a2edff9e3955cac976f0aa60
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.