name: spawn description: "Skills for spawning external processes - AI coding agents and generic CLI commands in new terminal windows. Parent skill category for agent and terminal spawning." type: category

Spawn Skills

This directory contains skills for spawning external processes in new terminal windows.

Overview

Spawn skills enable Claude Code to launch external processes:

• AI coding agents (Claude, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, OpenCode, Copilot)
• Generic CLI commands (ffmpeg, curl, python, npm, etc.)

Both use the fork_terminal utility to create isolated terminal sessions.

Child Skills

When to Use

Use spawn:agent when:

• Delegating tasks to external AI providers
• Need interactive CLI sessions with AI agents
• Browser-based authentication is required
• Real-time streaming output needed

Use spawn:terminal when:

• Running non-AI CLI commands (ffmpeg, curl, etc.)
• Need interactive terminal for user input
• Long-running processes that shouldn't block Claude

Use orchestration:native-invoke instead when:

• Automating multi-provider tasks
• Need parallel execution across providers
• Clean result collection is important
• No interactive/TTY requirements

Core Utility

Both skills use the fork_terminal Python utility:

# Located at: ./agent/fork_terminal.py
from fork_terminal import fork_terminal

# Basic usage
result = fork_terminal("command", capture=True)

# With logging
result = fork_terminal("command", log_to_file=True, log_agent_output=True)

Quick Reference

spawn/
├── SKILL.md           # This file
├── agent/             # AI agent spawning
│   ├── SKILL.md
│   ├── cookbook/      # Per-agent cookbooks
│   │   ├── claude-code.md
│   │   ├── codex-cli.md
│   │   ├── gemini-cli.md
│   │   ├── cursor-cli.md
│   │   ├── opencode-cli.md
│   │   └── copilot-cli.md
│   └── prompts/       # Reusable prompt templates
└── terminal/          # Generic CLI spawning
    ├── SKILL.md
    └── cookbook/
        └── cli-command.md

Related Skills

• orchestration/native-invoke - Task-based CLI invocation (preferred for automation)
• multi-agent-orchestration - Higher-level provider routing
• model-discovery - Current model names for providers

See Also

• .claude/ai-dev-kit/dev-tools/orchestration/providers/ - Shell scripts for each provider
• /ai-dev-kit:delegate - Command for manual delegation