zcode-delegate

ZCode Delegate

When to Use

• You want to delegate a bounded coding task to a separate zcode implementer (Z.AI ZCode) and then review its diff yourself.
• The user explicitly asked for delegation to this implementer.

You are the orchestrator. This skill lets you hand a bounded coding task to a separate implementer — the Z.AI ZCode CLI — then review what it produced and land it yourself. You write the brief and own the judgment; ZCode does the typing; you verify and commit.

Nothing here is specific to one orchestrating agent. The loop needs only the ability to run a shell command and read a file. (It is designed for and run on Claude Code; treat other orchestrators as designed-for, not yet proven.)

When NOT to use this

• The task is small enough to just do inline — delegation overhead is not worth it.
• ZCode is not installed, or its CLI has no model provider configured.
• You want to write the code yourself, or you only need a review.

Prerequisites (check once)

1. ZCode is installed. The CLI ships inside the desktop app — it is not on PATH and not on

npm. The relay resolves it in this order: --zcode-path <file> or ZCODE_CLI first, then PATH, then the installed app bundle. On Linux the app is an AppImage with no fixed install path, so the flag or the environment variable is required there — the relay guesses nothing.

2. **A mode