Treat your coding tools as interchangeable subagents, not rival apps

A pattern gaining traction: route a single task across Codex, Claude Code, Cursor CLI, and Gemini CLI as cooperating subagents, using MCP as the shared wire protocol. The open-source sub-agents-skills project packages this as an Agent Skill so you can delegate from whichever tool you're driving. The takeaway for engineers: stop picking one winner and start composing them — MCP is now mature enough that cross-tool orchestration is a real workflow, not a demo.

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Sources: sub-agents-skills (GitHub) · Claude Code is the engine, Cursor is the cockpit