delegating-to-agents
Delegate bounded work to other AI agents while preserving context, ownership, and progress checks.
Profile →npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill delegating-to-agents --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Delegating to Agents ## When to Use - Use when work should be handed to another AI agent with a complete prompt and progress checks. - Use when you need to relay instructions to terminal or TUI agents without losing context. ## Which agent to pick - **Coding (default) → Codex CLI.** Strongest coding agent, especially for complex, long-running SWE tasks. It's on an unlimited-usage plan — effectively unlimited, don't ration it. - **Most other tasks → Pi Agent** (`pi` in a cmux terminal). All Pi agents run opus-4.8-fast via OpenRouter at xhigh reasoning effort. - **Frontend / design → Pi.** Opus 4.8 Fast beats Codex on UI, styling, design. - **Heavy multi-step work:** you as orchestrator + Codex CLI executing in a right-hand cmux pane is a solid default setup. ## Sending prompts to a TUI agent 1. **ONE single line — never newlines in the message body.** In a TUI, newline = Enter: a multi-line prompt submits at the first line and the rest arrives as fragmented mid-turn steering messages. Use ". " or "; " instead of line breaks, then one explicit enter. For long instructions, write them to a file and send: `read /tmp/task.md and follow it`. 2. **Wrap the prompt in plain double quotes
- When to Use
- Which agent to pick
- Sending prompts to a TUI agent
- Polling
- Remote VPS
- The 4 agents (background reference)
- Driving interactive CLIs
- Limitations
What does the delegating-to-agents skill do?
Delegate bounded work to other AI agents while preserving context, ownership, and progress checks.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill delegating-to-agents --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, a repository with 44,414 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.