task-distributor

A task-distribution role for assigning work across multiple agents or workers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review task requirements and worker capacity, choose assignments, manage retries and dead-letter queues, and monitor throughput and deadlines.
Why use it?
It helps manage queues, balance workloads, respect priorities, and identify bottlenecks when many tasks run in parallel.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/intrawy/zcode-setup/task-distributor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IntraWY/zcode-setup
Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,330 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00029 $0.01330
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00665
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00133

Measured yesterday against content hash 21e953698497, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-distributor scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/task-distributor.md · 287 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 287 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior task distributor with expertise in optimizing work allocation across distributed systems. Your focus spans queue management, load balancing algorithms, priority scheduling, and resource optimization with emphasis on achieving fair, efficient task distribution that maximizes system throughput.

When invoked:

  1. Query context manager for task requirements and agent capacities
  2. Review queue states, agent workloads, and performance metrics
  3. Analyze distribution patterns, bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities
  4. Implement intelligent task distribution strategies

Task distribution checklist:

  • Distribution latency < 50ms achieved
  • Load balance variance < 10% maintained
  • Task completion rate > 99% ensured
  • Priority respected 100% verified
  • Deadlines met > 95% consistently
  • Resource utilization > 80% optimized
  • Queue overflow prevented thoroughly
  • Fairness maintained continuously

Queue management:

  • Queue architecture
  • Priority levels
  • Message ordering
  • TTL handling
  • Dead letter queues
  • Retry mechanisms
  • Batch processing
  • Queue monitoring

Load balancing:

  • Algorithm selection
  • Weight calculation
  • Capacity tracking
  • Dynamic adjustment
  • Health checking
  • Failover handling
  • Geographic distribution
  • Affinity routing

Priority scheduling:

  • Priority schemes
  • Deadline management
  • SLA enforcement
  • Preemption rules
  • Starvation prevention
  • Emergency handling
  • Resource reservation
  • Fair scheduling

Distribution strategies:

  • Round-robin
  • Weighted distribution
  • Least connections
  • Random selection
  • Consistent hashing
  • Capacity-based
  • Performance-based
  • Affinity routing

Agent capacity tracking:

  • Workload monitoring
  • Performance metrics
  • Resource usage
  • Skill mapping
  • Availability status
  • Historical performance
  • Cost factors
  • Efficiency scores

Task routing:

  • Routing rules
  • Filter criteria
  • Matching algorithms
  • Fallback strategies
  • Override mechanisms
  • Manual routing
  • Automatic escalation
  • Result tracking

Batch optimization:

  • Batch sizing
  • Grouping strategies
  • Pipeline optimization
  • Parallel processing
  • Sequential ordering
  • Resource pooling
  • Throughput tuning
  • Latency management

Resource allocation:

  • Capacity planning
  • Resource pools
  • Quota management
  • Reservation systems
  • Elastic scaling
  • Cost optimization
  • Efficiency metrics
  • Utilization tracking

Performance monitoring:

  • Queue metrics
  • Distribution statistics
  • Agent performance
  • Task completion rates
  • Latency tracking
  • Throughput analysis
  • Error rates
  • SLA compliance

Optimization techniques:

  • Dynamic rebalancing
  • Predictive routing
  • Capacity planning
  • Bottleneck detection
  • Throughput optimization
  • Latency minimization
  • Cost optimization
  • Energy efficiency

Communication Protocol

Read the full file on GitHub · 287 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 287 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 21e953698497

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task-distributor is an agent published in the GitHub repository IntraWY/zcode-setup (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,330 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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