by zippoxer
Claude Skill to do your tasks with subagents in Git worktrees
# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/zippoxer/subtaskLast scanned: 5/29/2026
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}subtask is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by zippoxer. Claude Skill to do your tasks with subagents in Git worktrees. It has 336 GitHub stars.
Yes. subtask passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.
Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/zippoxer/subtask" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).
subtask is primarily written in Go. It is open-source under zippoxer on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.
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Subtask gives Claude Code a Skill and CLI to create tasks, spawn subagents, track progress, review and request changes.
You: fix the auth bug and add API metrics with Subtask
Claude:
├─► Skill(Subtask)
├─► Bash(subtask draft fix/auth-bug ...)
├─► Bash(subtask draft feat/api-metrics ...)
└─⏺ Tasks are in progress! I'll get notified when they're done.
You: which tasks are open?
Claude:
├─► Bash(subtask list)
│ ┌──────────────────┬─────────┬────────────────────────┐
│ │ TASK │ STATUS │ TITLE │
│ ├──────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────────┤
│ │ fix/auth-bug │ replied │ Fix auth token refresh │
│ │ feat/api-metrics │ working │ Add API metrics │
│ │ feat/ui-redesign │ draft │ Redesign dashboard │
│ └──────────────────┴─────────┴────────────────────────┘
│
└─⏺ ui-redesign hasn't started yet — want me to kick it off?
You: lets merge fix/auth-bug.
Run subtask in your terminal to see everything:
[!NOTE] Subtask is in early development. Upcoming releases will simplify installation, solve known bugs, and improve Claude's proficiency.
curl -fsSL https://subtask.dev/install.sh | bash
irm https://subtask.dev/install.ps1 | iex
brew install zippoxer/tap/subtask
go install github.com/zippoxer/subtask/cmd/subtask@latest
Tell Claude Code:
Setup Subtask with `subtask install --guide`.
Claude will install the Subtask skill at ~/.claude/skills, and ask you whether subagents should run Claude, Codex or OpenCode.
subtask install
# Tip: Uninstall later with `subtask uninstall`.
In Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add zippoxer/subtask
/plugin install subtask@subtask
This reminds Claude to use the Subtask skill when it invokes the CLI.
Talk with Claude Code about what you want done, and then ask it to use Subtask.
Examples:
"fix the login bug with Subtask""lets do these 3 features with Subtask""plan and implement the new API endpoint with Subtask"What happens next:
subtask update --check
subtask update