parallel-execution-strategy

parallel-execution-strategy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aneja5/forge-skills. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,874 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning process for having multiple developers or coding agents work on independent tasks at the same time. It maps dependencies, file conflicts, branches, merge order, and integration checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a sprint or concurrent implementation effort when several independent tasks are ready.
Why use it?
It lowers the chance that parallel work collides or creates difficult merge problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the forge-skills plugin — 42 skills, 36 commands, 13 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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 skills/aneja5/forge-skills/parallel-execution-strategy
Any agent
npx skills add aneja5/forge-skills --skill parallel-execution-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aneja5/forge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install forge-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills, 36 commands, 13 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,874 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 $0.00059 $0.01874
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00937
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00375
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00187

Measured yesterday against content hash b924eb3f5e38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

parallel-execution-strategy 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.

skills/parallel-execution-strategy/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Parallel Execution Strategy

Overview

Plan parallel agent execution before dispatching — so two agents never edit the same file, so integration is verified between merges, and so the merge order is fixed in advance. Output is .forge/parallel-plan.md — dependency-free task groups, file-conflict risk per group, branching strategy (one branch per task), PR sequencing, agent isolation (separate worktrees), and integration-test cadence. Pairs with planning-and-task-breakdown (the source tasks.yaml) and git-workflow (the branch and PR mechanics).

When to Use

  • .forge/tasks.yaml has 3+ tasks marked ready and they appear independent
  • Multiple engineers or agents are about to start work in the same week
  • A prior parallel run caused merge conflicts at the end and the team wants a better plan
  • A sprint is about to begin and capacity is "split N ways"

When NOT to Use

  • Only one task is ready — sequential is correct
  • Tasks form a strict dependency chain — sequential is correct
  • The team is two people working on the same file all day — coordinate live, no plan needed

Common Rationalizations

Thought Reality
"We'll just merge at the end" Merge conflicts at the end compound. Each agent's mental model of the codebase has diverged. Resolving 5 PRs simultaneously is 5x more work than resolving them in sequence.
"Agents can share files, git will sort it out" Git produces unresolvable conflicts when two agents edit the same function with no shared context. The "resolution" is one engineer hand-merging both versions.
"We don't need integration tests between merges" Silent integration failures accumulate. By PR 5, nobody knows which of the previous 4 PRs introduced the bug.
"Sequential is safer than parallel" Sequential wastes parallelizable work. The cost of planning beats the cost of unparallelized execution.
"We'll figure out merge order as we go" First-merger-wins creates rebase chaos. Set the order at dispatch time.
"One worktree is fine, agents can take turns" Agents don't "take turns" — they overwrite each other's working tree state. Each agent needs isolation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 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 · 165 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A b924eb3f5e38

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parallel-execution-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository aneja5/forge-skills (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,874 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.