Claude Code Subagent Generator

This generator writes a Claude Code subagent: a markdown file with YAML frontmatter that Claude delegates work to in its own separate context. Describe what you want it to do in a sentence, pick the specialty closest to the job, then answer a few more quick questions. What comes back is one file: a tools list that matches the job, a system prompt that actually says something, and the exact path to save it to.

The specialty matters more than the free-text box does. Pick code review and you get the same read-only procedure a real code-review agent follows: read the diff first, check correctness and edge cases before style, and end with a Must-fix/Should-fix/Nit list. Pick debugging and the steps change: capture the failure, form a hypothesis, confirm it before touching anything. Six specialties are built in - code review, debugging, writing tests, security audits, docs research, and prose editing - each with its own procedure and its own tools list. Pick "something else" and it builds a scaffold straight from your description instead.

Three of the six specialties stay read-only no matter what you pick for capability. Code review and security audits don't get Edit or Write, because an agent that can rewrite the code it's supposed to be auditing isn't auditing anything anymore. Docs research is read-only for a different reason: it gets WebFetch and WebSearch added automatically instead, since a research agent with no way to check a real URL is just guessing with extra steps. None of this is arbitrary - it's the same tool list an agent doing that job for real would need.

The detail people usually get wrong writing these by hand is the description field. Whether Claude reaches for a subagent on its own comes down entirely to how that field reads - there's no separate on/off switch the way slash commands have. This generator writes "Use proactively..." phrasing when you want automatic delegation, and a plain, on-request description when you'd rather type the agent's name yourself.

Once you've got one working subagent, the Claude Code agent teams guide covers running several of these together on one task, and the CLAUDE.md generator builds the instruction file that shapes how every agent behaves in between. If you're not sure a custom agent is even the right move yet, the Claude Code templates library has 9 pre-built ones you can copy first.

I run Claude Code daily and this generator writes the same tool-list and description conventions my own subagents use. If you want the finished version of the whole idea - 9 tuned subagents plus a tuned CLAUDE.md and the full vetted tool stack, installed in one paste - that is what ClockedCode is. The link is at the bottom of this page.

By Neo Zino - builder of ClockedCode