---
title: Hand a task to another coding agent
description: Let a second agent build the task while your current agent reviews and verifies the result.
url: https://openplanr.dev/docs/prompts/delegate-to-another-agent
updated: 2026-10-06
related:
  - https://openplanr.dev/docs/prompts/ship-a-direct-fix.md
  - https://openplanr.dev/docs/prompts/ship-one-task.md
  - https://openplanr.dev/docs/prompts/ship-within-preserve.md
---

# Hand a task to another coding agent

Let a second agent build the task while your current agent reviews and verifies the result.

## Prompt

Claude Code:

```text
/delegate Ask another coding agent to implement T-003, then review and verify its changes before you integrate them.
```

If /delegate runs another command, use /planr:delegate.

Codex:

```text
$delegate Ask another coding agent to implement T-003, then review and verify its changes before you integrate them.
```

With the OpenPlanr plugin for Codex, use $planr:delegate.

Cursor:

```text
@planr-delegate Ask another coding agent to implement T-003, then review and verify its changes before you integrate them.
```

Cursor applies the planr-delegate rule when you mention it in chat.

Parts to fill in, shown with their example text:

- The agent that builds it: another coding agent
- The task: T-003

## Why this works

Delegate is for work you explicitly hand to another agent's CLI. That agent builds and tests in its own worktree; your current agent reviews the observed changes, runs its own checks, and applies accepted changes as an uncommitted diff.

## Make it stick

[Delegate implementation through a native coding CLI](https://openplanr.dev/docs/guides/delegation.md)