Forked Subagent | Agent Skills Atlas

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Dispatch a sub-agent as a real OS subprocess (the claude CLI, non-interactive) with its cwd hard-scoped to a target directory — optionally a dedicated git worktree it creates for you — instead of the in-process Agent tool's shared checkout. Use this whenever a sub-agent will write files and you want filesystem-enforced isolation rather than directory-ownership convention: implementation work, anything with real file-write risk, or any task where a confused sub-agent writing outside its assigned scope would be a real problem. Not a full replacement for the in-process Agent tool — for read-only research, quick lookups, or anything that doesn't write files, Agent remains lower-overhead (no subprocess spin-up, no worktree bookkeeping).

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forked-subagent

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Dispatch a sub-agent as a real OS subprocess (the `claude` CLI, non-interactive) with its cwd hard-scoped to a target directory — optionally a dedicated git worktree it creates for you — instead of the in-process Agent tool's shared checkout. Use this whenever a sub-agent will write files and you want filesystem-enforced isolation rather than directory-ownership convention: implementation work, anything with real file-write risk, or any task where a confused sub-agent writing outside its assigned scope would be a real problem. Not a full replacement for the in-process Agent tool — for read-only research, quick lookups, or anything that doesn't write files, Agent remains lower-overhead (no subprocess spin-up, no worktree bookkeeping).

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Category: Science & research
Reported license: MIT
Listing language (estimated): English
Review status: Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility: Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.