Bundled upstream support

Supporting files are included at skill-relative paths. See UPSTREAM-NOTICE.md for their pinned sources, licenses, hashes, and import changes.

Warp Delegate

When to Use

• You want to delegate a bounded coding task to a separate warp implementer (Warp Agent CLI) and then review its diff yourself.
• The user explicitly asked for delegation to this implementer.

You are the orchestrator. Delegate a bounded coding task to a separate implementer - the Warp Agent CLI - then review what it produced and land it yourself. You write the brief and own the judgment; the implementer makes changes in its own conversation; you verify and commit.

The loop needs only a shell command and file access, so any comparable orchestrator can drive it.

The binary is oz, not warp

Warp ships two different programs, and only one of them can be delegated to:

• oz - the Warp Agent CLI. Headless and scriptable; oz agent run executes an agent against a local directory. This is what the relay drives.
• warp - the interactive Warp TUI. It requires a terminal device, has no prompt or print flag (its only options are --resume, --auto-approve, --api-key, and the provider-key commands), and exits with Device not configured when stdin is a pipe. It cannot be relayed.

If oz is missing but warp is installed, you have the TUI, not the CLI.

When NOT to use this

• The task is small enough to do inline; delegation overhead is not worth it.
• The oz CLI is not installed or authenticated.
• You need a sandboxed or read-only implementer. oz agent run has no sandbox, no permission mode, and no read-only run - see Autonomy and permissions.
• The work must stay off Warp's servers. oz agent run uploads an end-of-run workspace snapshot unless --no-snapshot is passed, and conversations live server-side.

Prerequisites (check once)

1. Install the Warp Agent CLI - see https://docs.warp.dev/cli/.
2. Authenticate: oz login, or set WARP_API_KEY for CI, a container, or any headless host.
3. Confirm the account has AI quota. A working login is not enough - unlike the other CLIs in this package. oz whoami can succeed while every dispatch fails with In order to use Warp's AI features, subscribe to a Warp plan, or bring your own inference. Warp records this internally as QuotaLimit / "lack of AI quota", so it is a credit condition on the account rather than a CLI-specific entitlement: oz runs the same agent harness as the Warp app and draws on the same account, plan, and credits. Check that oz whoami names the account holding the plan - if it does not, oz logout && oz login fixes it. Otherwise confirm the plan's AI credits are not spent, or store your own provider key - warp --set-provider-api-key <openai|anthropic|google|grok>, or /api-keys inside the TUI. Bring-your-own-key needs no paid Warp plan.
4. Confirm oz --version succeeds and oz whoami prints your user.
5. Work in, or point --cd at, the target git repository.

On macOS the CLI is distributed as a signed Developer ID binary; a first run may be held by Gatekeeper until it is approved.

Choose the model (optional)

Omit --model to use Warp's configured default. To pick another, choose an id from oz model list and pass it verbatim. The relay accepts letters, digits, and . _ : / - only, so a value cannot be mistaken for another oz flag.

The loop

Run these five steps per task. Steps 1, 4, and 5 require judgment; 2 and 3 are mechanical.

1. Write the brief

Warp sees only the text you send plus what it can inspect in the workspace - no chat history or shared context. Include the goal, current state, what to change, what to leave untouched, the project's actual gates, and a report contract. Tell it not to commit. Keep one task per brief. The brief is delivered as the --prompt value on argv, so it is visible in the host process list - keep secrets out of it and reference workspace files instead. See references/writing-the-brief.md.

2. Dispatch

Use the bundled relay. It runs oz agent run --output-format ndjson, captures the event stream, and writes result.json. (<skill-dir> is the installed folder containing this SKILL.md.)

node "<skill-dir>/scripts/relay.mjs" --brief brief.txt --cd /path/to/repo

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