parallel-agents

parallel-agents is a skill for Claude Code from bostonaholic/rpikit. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,570 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for sending several independent coding tasks to separate agents at the same time. It is intended for work that does not share files, data, or dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for independent test failures, unrelated broken subsystems, separate plan steps, or bulk work across unrelated files.
Why use it?
It reduces waiting when unrelated problems can be investigated or fixed separately.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the rpikit plugin — 16 skills, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for independent test failures, unrelated broken subsystems, separate plan steps, or bulk work across unrelated files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bostonaholic/rpikit/parallel-agents
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.

Any agent
npx skills add bostonaholic/rpikit --skill parallel-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bostonaholic/rpikit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rpikit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 7 agents.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,570 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 266
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00038 $0.01570
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00785
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00157

Measured 8d ago against content hash ade36013c175, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

parallel-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 8d 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.

skills/parallel-agents/SKILL.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Parallel Agents

Dispatch multiple agents concurrently for independent problems.

Purpose

Sequential investigation of independent problems wastes time. When multiple issues have different root causes and don't affect each other, dispatching agents in parallel reduces total resolution time significantly.

When to Use

Use parallel agents when:

  • 3+ test files failing with different root causes
  • Multiple subsystems broken independently
  • Independent tasks in a plan that don't share state
  • Bulk operations across unrelated files

Do NOT use when:

  • Failures might be related (fixing one might fix others)
  • Tasks have sequential dependencies
  • Changes could conflict with each other
  • Shared state exists between tasks

Decision Framework

Before parallelizing, ask:

1. Are these problems truly independent?
   - Different files?
   - Different subsystems?
   - No shared data or state?

2. Could fixing one affect another?
   - Shared dependencies?
   - Common configuration?
   - Overlapping code paths?

3. Will changes conflict?
   - Same file modifications?
   - Related API changes?
   - Interconnected tests?

If any answer suggests dependency, work sequentially instead.

The Parallel Process

Step 1: Identify Independent Problems

Group failures or tasks by independence:

Test failures example:
- auth.test.js: Login validation errors (auth subsystem)
- api.test.js: Endpoint routing issues (api subsystem)
- db.test.js: Connection pool exhaustion (database subsystem)

Assessment: Independent subsystems, can parallelize

Step 2: Create Focused Agent Prompts

Each agent needs a self-contained, focused prompt:

Good prompt structure:
- ONE clear problem to solve
- ALL necessary context included
- SPECIFIC about expected output
- NO dependencies on other agents

Example prompts:

Agent 1 - Auth fixes:
"Fix the login validation errors in auth.test.js.
The tests expect [specific behavior].
Current error: [error message].
Do not modify files outside src/auth/."

Agent 2 - API fixes:
"Fix the endpoint routing issues in api.test.js.
Routes should map to [expected handlers].
Current error: [error message].
Do not modify files outside src/api/."

Agent 3 - Database fixes:
"Fix the connection pool exhaustion in db.test.js.
Pool should handle [expected load].
Current error: [error message].
Do not modify files outside src/db/."

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 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. 8d ago First seen · 296 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A ade36013c175

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parallel-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository bostonaholic/rpikit (20 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,570 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 2026-08-30.

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