call-claude
Delegate an arbitrary prompt to Claude and return the output.
Arguments
Required: a prompt.
Optional flags (parsed from the user's message):
| Flag | Values | Default |
|---|---|---|
--model |
opus, sonnet, haiku, or a full model ID |
opus |
--effort |
low, medium, high, xhigh, max |
(omitted) |
Process
- Parse the user's message — extract the prompt and any
--model/--effortoverrides. - Invoke the wrapper script that ships alongside this SKILL.md:
For multi-line prompts, pipe via stdin:"$(dirname "$0")/call-claude.sh" [--model <alias>] [--effort <level>] "<prompt>"echo "<prompt>" | "$(dirname "$0")/call-claude.sh" --model opus - Return Claude's full output to the user. Don't summarize unless asked.
claude -p is non-interactive and prints the final answer to stdout, so the wrapper output can be captured directly.
Prerequisite
Claude Code must be installed — verify with claude --version.
Examples
# Default (opus)
./call-claude.sh "explain what this repo does"
# Override model
./call-claude.sh --model sonnet "summarize the README"
# Override model + effort
./call-claude.sh --model opus --effort high "design a caching layer"