What is dispatch-worker?

A command that runs one worker cycle in an AI software-development workflow. It takes one queued task, asks a developer subagent to handle it, records the result, and waits for more work.

Use it to claim tasks from a dispatch queue, run the developer review or implementation step, save success or failure details, and continue processing later tasks.

It lets several separate coding-agent sessions process queued tasks in parallel. When no tasks are available, it pauses instead of repeatedly checking and wasting usage.

dispatch-worker — Command for Claude Code by ai-sdlc-framework/ai-sdlc

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-sdlc-framework/ai-sdlc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-sdlc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 23 commands, 14 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 162 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00038	$0.00162
Opus 5.5	$0.00015	$0.00065
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00008	$0.00032
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00016

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2a992517af53, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dispatch-worker 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 6d ago.

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.

ai-sdlc-plugin/commands/dispatch-worker.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

/ai-sdlc dispatch-worker (retired)

This command's prose was retired by AISDLC-763. Launch and supervise parallel work with the hierarchy executor sessions (/ai-sdlc executor); see docs/operations/cli-hierarchy.md. The shell path node pipeline-cli/bin/cli-orchestrator.mjs tick --spawner <kind> is unchanged. Tell the operator this, then stop.

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.

6d ago Changed · -413 lines · -153 tokens per session 2a992517af53
7d ago Changed a97b29799f25
10d ago Changed · +9 lines 4a33fe66fe00
11d ago Changed 5ede36d2b74b
1mo ago Changed 48ece990b373
1mo ago First seen · 418 lines · 191 tokens per session scan A 0a27360bfa22

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dispatch-worker is a command published in the GitHub repository ai-sdlc-framework/ai-sdlc (414 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 162 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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dispatch-worker

Getting it into your agent

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What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

/ai-sdlc dispatch-worker (retired)

What this file has done since we first saw it

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