delegate

Delegate to Specialist CLI

When the user uses @cli syntax (e.g., @kimi, @gemini, @codex), delegate the task to that CLI.

Syntax

• @kimi <task> - Delegate to Kimi (frontend/design specialist)
• @gemini <task> - Delegate to Gemini (research/search specialist)
• @codex <task> - Delegate to Codex (large context specialist)
• @k, @g, @c - Shorthand aliases

Execution Steps

When you see @cli syntax in a user message:

1. Parse the request: Extract CLI name and task

   • @kimi design a modal → cli=kimi, task="design a modal"
   • @k build a navbar → cli=kimi, task="build a navbar"

2. Check CLI availability: Run the registry check

   ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/registry.sh check <cli>
   

3. If available: Execute the delegation

   ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/process-manager.sh run <cli> "<task>" "$(pwd)"
   

4. Stream output: Show the CLI's response with attribution

5. Summarize: After completion, briefly summarize what the specialist did

CLI Specialties

CLI	Strengths	Color
kimi	Frontend, design, UI/UX, CSS, animations, React, Vue, Tailwind	Magenta
gemini	Research, search, documentation, explanations, comparisons	Blue
codex	Large context analysis, codebase-wide refactoring, legacy code	Green

Example Interaction

User: @kimi design a modern dashboard with charts

Response:

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 kimi  Starting...
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
[kimi] Creating Dashboard.tsx...
[kimi] Adding chart components...
[kimi] Styling with Tailwind...
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 kimi  ✓ Complete · 12s
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Summary: Kimi created a Dashboard component with LineChart and BarChart using Recharts, styled with Tailwind CSS dark theme.

Error Handling

If the CLI is not found:

[kimi:error] CLI not found. Is it installed?

To install Kimi CLI:
  uv tool install kimi-cli

Or use a different specialist:
  @gemini for research tasks
  @codex for large codebase analysis

Notes

• Always use the process manager for execution to get proper streaming and attribution
• The working directory is passed to the CLI so it can access project files
• Timeout is CLI-specific (configured in registry.yaml)