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.
npx agentmods add rules/danielvm-git/bigpowers/dispatch-agentsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowersWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/danielvm-git/bigpowers/dispatch-agents)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/danielvm-git/bigpowers/dispatch-agents"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/danielvm-git/bigpowers/dispatch-agents.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00047 | $0.01245 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00622 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00249 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00125 |
Grade A, and why
dispatch-agents 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 today.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
story: e09s04
story: e45s38
story: e45s30
Dispatch Agents
HARD GATE — HARD GATE — Agent work must be parallelizable and have explicit synchronization points. Do NOT dispatch work that has hidden dependencies between agents.
Run multiple subagents in parallel on independent tasks. Use when tasks are genuinely decoupled — no agent needs the output of another to start.
Distinct from delegate-task: This skill maximizes throughput via concurrency. There is no sequential review gate between tasks. Use delegate-task instead when a single task needs careful two-stage oversight before proceeding.
When to use
- Tasks that can run simultaneously without shared state
- Large plans that can be broken into parallel workstreams
- Exploration: gather information from multiple parts of the codebase at once
When NOT to use
- Task B depends on Task A's output
- You need to review Task A before Task B can start safely
- The tasks share a file and concurrent edits would conflict
Process
1. Confirm independence
Before dispatching, verify each task pair is truly independent:
- No shared files being written
- No shared state (DB migrations, config files)
- No ordering dependency between outcomes
If any two tasks conflict, sequence them with delegate-task or execute-plan instead.
Subagent depth tiers (e45s30)
Map effort: frontmatter and story risk: to prompt depth — do not send minimal_decisive agents a full_maturity brief.
| Tier | When | Brief shape | Token budget |
|---|---|---|---|
full_maturity |
effort: heavy, risk: P0, security-sensitive diffs |
Full task_brief + CONVENTIONS excerpts + threat model if present |
Full envelope |
standard |
effort: standard, risk: P1–P2 |
Standard task_brief fields below |
Default |
minimal_decisive |
effort: light, risk: P3, read-only exploration |
goal + verify + in_scope only |
≤15 lines |
Record depth: <tier> in the Agent tool description when dispatching.
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.
- today First seen · 118 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A cef62a836931
dispatch-agents is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository danielvm-git/bigpowers (163 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,245 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.
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