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Delegate Issue

by Agent-Field

Delegate Issue is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by Agent-Field in SWE-AF.

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Install Delegate Issue
Copy Delegate Issue into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/Agent-Field/SWE-AF/tree/main/.claude/skills/delegate-issue ~/.claude/skills/delegate-issue

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Agent-Field/SWE-AF.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
.claude/skills/delegate-issue/SKILL.md in Agent-Field/SWE-AF
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/delegate-issue
Collection
One of 2 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Delegate Issue does

Delegate Issue sends a fully specified coding issue to a SWE-AF node as a separate branch for implementation. Use it to offload independent tasks, then review and merge the returned branch.

Delegate Issue is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Delegate Issue comes from a repository tagged agent-factory, agentfield, agentic-ai, ai-agents and ai-factory.

Documentation

README

Delegate scoped issues to SWE-AF

You are the main harness. SWE-AF is the sub-harness: it implements one fully-scoped issue per call on an isolated branch, using cheap models, and hands the branch back. You keep planning, merging, review, and CI.

When to delegate (and when not to)

Delegate an issue only when ALL of these hold:

  • The change is fully specified: you can name the files, the behavior, and the acceptance criteria without the sub-harness needing to plan anything.
  • It is independent of your other in-flight edits (no shared files with another delegation or with your own uncommitted work).
  • The repo is reachable by the SWE-AF node (same machine or shared volume) and has at least one commit.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Delegate Issue

  • What else does Agent-Field publish alongside Delegate Issue?

    Delegate Issue is one of 2 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Agent-Field/SWE-AF, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include SWE AF. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Delegate Issue does, and is maintained by Agent-Field in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Agent-Field/SWE-AF page.

  • How does Delegate Issue compare to other AI Engineering skills?

    Delegate Issue ranks #1380 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Delegate Issue against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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