Agent skill · software engineering · aiskillstore
spawn
Skills for spawning external processes - AI coding agents and generic CLI commands in new terminal windows. Parent skill category for agent and terminal spawning.
Why this skill is useful
Adds the ability to spawn external AI agents and CLI commands in isolated terminal sessions, which is not commonly available in standard AI capabilities.
What it needs
Requires fork_terminal installed locally. About 1k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 405 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
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 forkterminal utility to create isolated terminal sessions. Child Skills Skill Description Use Case ------- ------------- ---------- agent Spawn AI coding agents Multi-provider orchestration terminal Spawn generic CLI commands Non-AI command execution 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 forkterminal Python utility: Quick Reference 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
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills aiskillstore/spawn