Claude Subagent Reference

jamie-bitflight/claude-subagent-reference

Reference spec and schema for Claude Code subagents — covers built-in agents (Explore, Plan, general-purpose), all frontmatter fields (name, description, tools, disallowedTools, model, permissionMode, maxTurns, skills, mcpServers, hooks, memory, background, effort, isolation, color, initialPrompt), scope and file locations, invocation patterns (@-mention, --agent, --agents CLI), tool restrictions, and example subagent definitions. Use when creating, configuring, or debugging a subagent definition file, looking up a frontmatter field, choosing between subagents and agent teams, or understanding what loads at subagent startup.

13k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills --skill claude-subagent-reference

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take jamie-bitflight/claude-subagent-reference from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.