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Pick the model tier for every subagent before spawning it, so cheap work runs on cheap models: Opus for anything that writes, runs, implements, designs, or carries consequence; Sonnet for read-only work like research, reading, and summarizing; a Haiku swarm when fanning out more than five agents on a breadth sweep or brainstorm; and grok, on the separate Cursor meter, for token-heavy work whose answer you can check cheaply. Also checks the remaining Claude 5-hour and 7-day allowance and shifts checkable work to grok when either window runs low. TRIGGER — read BEFORE any subagent spawn, including agents you decided to spawn on your own initiative and `agent()` calls inside a Workflow. Do not skip it because the task "looks obvious" — the lane is a two-second check and the default is wrong half the time. Also fires on /dispatch, "spawn subagents", "fan out", "run these in parallel", "use a swarm of agents", "which model should this agent use", "route this to a smaller model".
mehdiforoozandeh/skills · ★ 0 · AI & Automation · score 73

Install: claude install-skill mehdiforoozandeh/skills

# dispatch — the right worker for the job A subagent inherits the main loop's model unless you say otherwise. That means a `grep` across a directory and a database migration both run on Opus, and you pay Opus rates for both. Most delegated work does not need the best model in the lineup. The output-token spread is 10× end to end: Haiku $5/M, Sonnet $15/M, Opus $25/M, Fable $50/M. That spread pays off on volume, not on any single call — so route every spawn, and never agonize over one. ## The lanes Ask one question: **does this agent write or run anything?** | Lane | `model` | When | |---|---|---| | **Build** | `opus` | Writes files, edits code, runs commands, implements, designs, works through complex logic, or produces a judgment you'll act on directly | | **Read** | `sonnet` | Read-only. Search, research, market research, reading, extracting, summarizing, mapping a codebase. **Sonnet never writes.** | | **Swarm** | `haiku` | Only inside a fan-out of **more than five read-only agents dispatched in one batch**, on a breadth sweep or brainstorm — where coverage matters more than any single agent's answer | A judgment the parent will act on is Build-lane even when nothing gets written — reconciling conflicting sources, picking between options, deciding whether something is sound. Plain extraction and summary stay in Read. "One batch" means spawned together in a single dispatch. Eight agents run two at a time across a task are eight Read-lane agents, not a swarm. **Opus