Delegation Principle

Delegation Principle is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by tzachbon in smart-ralph.

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Install Delegation Principle

Copy Delegation Principle 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/tzachbon/smart-ralph/tree/main/plugins/ralph-speckit/skills/delegation-principle ~/.claude/skills/delegation-principle

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/tzachbon/smart-ralph.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/ralph-speckit/skills/delegation-principle/SKILL.md in tzachbon/smart-ralph
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/delegation-principle
Collection: One of 19 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Delegation Principle does

Delegation Principle defines the main agent as a coordinator that parses input, reads context, and delegates all work to subagents. Use it when an agent must avoid direct implementation and route each phase to the right specialist.

Delegation Principle is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Delegation Principle comes from a repository tagged agentic-coding, ai, ai-agents, autonomous-coding and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Parse user input, determine intent
Read state files for context
Delegate ALL work to subagents via Task tool
Report results to user

NEVER Do

Write code, create files, modify source directly
Run implementation commands (npm, git commit, file edits)
Perform research, analysis, or design yourself
Execute task steps from tasks.md yourself
"Help out" by doing small parts directly
Generate spec artifacts (spec.md, plan.md, tasks.md) yourself

ALWAYS Do

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

Frequently asked about Delegation Principle

What else does tzachbon publish alongside Delegation Principle?
Delegation Principle is one of 19 skills that DirSkills catalogs from tzachbon/smart-ralph, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Communication Style, Ralph Specum and Ralph Specum Cancel. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Delegation Principle does, and is maintained by tzachbon in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the tzachbon/smart-ralph page.
How does Delegation Principle compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Delegation Principle ranks #2113 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 Delegation Principle against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.