How do I install the Delegate Early skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add tomevault-io/delegate-early in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

What does the Delegate Early skill do?

Compatibility alias for delegation-first workflows. Prefer `delegation-usage` as the canonical skill. Use when this capability is needed. It is listed under Coding & Dev Tools on SkillMD.

Is Delegate Early safe to use?

This skill has not completed SkillMD's automated safety review yet. Independent scanners report: SkillSpector: PASS, Skill Scanner: PASS. SkillMD never runs a skill's scripts for you; review the SKILL.md before installing.

Which AI agents work with Delegate Early?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Delegate Early free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

Who published Delegate Early?

tomevault-io (@tomevault-io) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Delegate Early by tomevault-io — Agent Skill

Name: Delegate Early
Author: tomevault-io

File contents

Delegate Early (Compatibility Alias)

delegate-early is kept for backward compatibility. The canonical delegation workflow now lives in delegation-usage.

Required behavior

Immediately follow delegation-usage for setup, spawn semantics, question queue handling, confirmation flow, and manifest usage.
Keep delegation MCP enabled by default; enable other MCP servers only when relevant to the task.
Preserve delegation evidence (task-id stream naming + manifest path capture) exactly as documented in delegation-usage.

Quick routing

Use delegation-usage as the source of truth.
Apply early fan-out only when streams are clearly independent and acceptance criteria are explicit.
Keep summaries short and artifact-first; avoid long chat dumps.

Note

If guidance in this file conflicts with delegation-usage, follow delegation-usage.

Related skills

delegation-usage: canonical delegation control-plane workflow and source of truth.
collab-subagents-first: role-split stream planning for bounded parallel execution.
long-poll-wait: patience-first monitoring for delegated long-running streams.

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