Is the Outsourcerer skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from alexgreensh/outsourcerer. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

How do I install Outsourcerer?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use Outsourcerer with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

Outsourcerer

Offload grunt work to a cheaper engine while Claude orchestrates

by alexgreensh · alexgreensh/outsourcerer

Tested · Didn't pass

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Test report

Verdict: Tested · Didn't pass
Tested: Jul 17, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Aug 10, 2026 · 3a05f9d

⚠ The author changed this skill after we tested it. The verdict below describes the version we ran on Jul 17, 2026; it's queued for a re-test.

Tried to delegate a real job — write pytest tests for a fizzbuzz module — and could not get a single lane to run: devin, gemini, droid and cursor-agent are not installed, there is no OpenRouter key, the local codex turned out to be a shell alias rather than a PATH binary, and the claude-native fallback died on a 401 because headless auth is separate from an interactive login. So the central claim, that a cheaper engine does the grunt work, is unmeasured here rather than confirmed or denied. What did run is genuinely careful: the cloud disclosure fired before anything left the machine, and the source deliberately extracts one named key from ~/.env with a comment explaining that sourcing the file would leak every other secret to a third-party model. Two real gaps though — with no OpenRouter key the advertised live-benchmark model picking collapses into a nine-way tie at score 55, and advise then recommended the codex lane that its own doctor had already reported as not ready.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 4/5
Output vs. baseline 4/10
Docs & honesty 3/5

What Outsourcerer does

An orchestration copilot that delegates mechanical work to cheaper backends (OpenRouter, Codex, Gemini, Devin, local models) while Claude keeps the judgment calls, with a cost ledger, cloud-consent gate and background job watchdog. Triggers on outsource, offload, delegate, conserve tokens, or asking for a second opinion.

How to install Outsourcerer

git clone https://github.com/alexgreensh/outsourcerer.git
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cd outsourcerer && cp -r plugins/outsourcerer/skills/outsourcerer ~/.claude/skills/outsourcerer

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ (per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.

Commands — how to trigger Outsourcerer

/outsourcerer Offload grunt work to a cheaper engine while Claude orchestrates

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

Delegate writing these pytest tests to a cheaper model while you review
Can you offload this grunt refactor to Codex and just check the diff after
I want a cost ledger before you hand this task off to another model

Frequently asked questions

Is the Outsourcerer skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from alexgreensh/outsourcerer. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does Outsourcerer work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 17, 2026. Verdict: Tested · Didn't pass. Tried to delegate a real job — write pytest tests for a fizzbuzz module — and could not get a single lane to run: devin, gemini, droid and cursor-agent are not installed, there is no OpenRouter key, the local codex turned out to be a shell alias rather than a PATH binary, and the claude-native fallback died on a 401 because headless auth is separate from an interactive login. So the central claim, that a cheaper engine does the grunt work, is unmeasured here rather than confirmed or denied. What did run is genuinely careful: the cloud disclosure fired before anything left the machine, and the source deliberately extracts one named key from ~/.env with a comment explaining that sourcing the file would leak every other secret to a third-party model. Two real gaps though — with no OpenRouter key the advertised live-benchmark model picking collapses into a nine-way tie at score 55, and advise then recommended the codex lane that its own doctor had already reported as not ready.
How do I install Outsourcerer?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use Outsourcerer with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.