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use-premium-models-efficiently

v1.0.1

Use premium models for judgment while delegating bounded, token-heavy work to cheaper subagents.

CodexClaude Code1 Skill

By Patrick D'appollonioLicense: MIT8 GitHub starsUpdated last week

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Sep 17, 2026
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Install use-premium-models-efficiently for Codex and Claude Code

Installs for the current user
codex plugin marketplace add patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins
codex plugin marketplace upgrade patrickdappollonio
codex plugin add use-premium-models-efficiently@patrickdappollonio

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Codex. They add and refresh the patrickdappollonio catalog, then install this plugin.

Compatibility: the page URL and API slug “use-premium-models-efficiently” remain stable.

  • Codex: use-premium-models-efficiently@agent-plugin-marketplace → use-premium-models-efficiently@patrickdappollonio

The installer fetches third-party code from the source repository shown on this page. This directory validates manifest structure and source location, but does not perform a security audit; review the manifest, components, and source before installing.

Get the source manually
git clone https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The plugin root is plugins/use-premium-models-efficiently/.

Plugin files

plugins/use-premium-models-efficiently/
├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
└── skills/use-premium-models-efficiently/SKILL.md

Included Skills1

use-premium-models-efficientlyskills/use-premium-models-efficiently/SKILL.md

Use when running a premium model (Claude Fable, Claude Opus, GPT-5.6 Sol, or similar) on codebase-heavy or token-heavy work and the user wants it to orchestrate research, coding, and testing while cheaper subagents (Sonnet, Haiku, Terra, Luna, or similar) do bounded heavy lifting.

Plugin manifests2

plugins/use-premium-models-efficiently/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "name": "use-premium-models-efficiently",
  "version": "1.0.1",
  "description": "Use premium models for judgment while delegating bounded, token-heavy work to cheaper subagents.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Patrick D'appollonio",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins/tree/main/plugins/use-premium-models-efficiently",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "orchestration",
    "subagents",
    "delegation",
    "cost-efficiency"
  ],
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "interface": {
    "displayName": "Use Premium Models Efficiently",
    "shortDescription": "Delegate heavy work while retaining judgment.",
    "longDescription": "Keeps architecture, synthesis, and verification on a premium model while cheaper subagents handle bounded research, coding, and tests.",
    "developerName": "Patrick D'appollonio",
    "category": "Productivity",
    "capabilities": [
      "Orchestrate",
      "Delegate",
      "Review"
    ],
    "defaultPrompt": [
      "Delegate the heavy lifting and verify the result."
    ]
  }
}
plugins/use-premium-models-efficiently/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "name": "use-premium-models-efficiently",
  "description": "Run expensive top-tier models (Claude Fable/Opus, GPT-5.6 Sol, or similar) efficiently — the premium model keeps judgment, architecture, synthesis, and final review, while cheaper subagents (Sonnet, Haiku, Terra, Luna) do bounded token-heavy research, coding, and testing with self-contained handoffs and verified results.",
  "version": "1.0.1",
  "author": {
    "name": "Patrick D'appollonio",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins/tree/main/plugins/use-premium-models-efficiently",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "orchestration",
    "subagents",
    "delegation",
    "cost-efficiency",
    "claude-fable",
    "gpt-5.6"
  ]
}

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