name: invoking-subagents description: Invokes ad-hoc subagents to read through lots of data and extract relevant information. Use only on explicit user request for exploring other repositories, reading series of git logs, looking at large diffs, and anything else that might produce copious amounts of text. compatibility: Requires synu shell plugin and claude CLI tool license: AGPL-3.0-or-later metadata: author: Amolith amolith@secluded.site

Invoke with synu claude --flags -p 'prompt'.

Use a precise and thorough prompt. Aggressively restrict which tools it can interact with; if it doesn't need Edit, don't give it Edit. If it needs to read files, Glob, Grep, and Read are probably sufficient. Task can be helpful. Notebook, Slash, Write, Web, Edit, etc. should almost never be necessary. Execute them in the background. You make invoke multiple when appropriate and in parallel if helpful. Once they're running, you may either stop and wait for me to tell you they're finished or continue with other work.

A more thorough example using the fish plugin from another shell:

fish -c "synu claude --disallowed-tools 'Bash(*) Explore Edit Read WebFetch WebSearch Glob Grep NotebookEdit NotebookRead SlashCommand Write' --allowed-tools 'Bash(git log:*) Bash(git show:*)' -p 'Using only `git log` and `git show`, summarise the major user-facing changes in HASH..HASH. Do not provide code snippets or technical details. Consider user-facing changes, like being able to set a port-out PIN or adding a new button or changing font sizes.'"

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