parallel-dev-cycle

parallel-dev-cycle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow. It costs 53 tokens per session (4,241 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A multi-agent development workflow that moves from requirements and codebase exploration to implementation, validation, and a written progress summary.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for analyzing a requirement, planning changes, developing code, debugging, validating the result, and recording progress.
Why use it?
It separates the main development concerns into focused workers while keeping the overall process coordinated and iterative.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also installed under .codex/. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit It is for analyzing a requirement, planning changes, developing code, debugging, validating the result, and recording progress.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/catlog22/claude-code-workflow/parallel-dev-cycle
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 catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow --skill parallel-dev-cycle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,241 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00053 $0.04241
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.01696
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00848
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00424

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 67bdb098e662, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

parallel-dev-cycle 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 1mo 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.

.codex/skills/parallel-dev-cycle/SKILL.md · 410 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 410 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Parallel Dev Cycle

Multi-agent parallel development cycle using Codex subagent pattern with four specialized workers:

  1. Requirements Analysis & Extension (RA) - Requirement analysis and self-enhancement
  2. Exploration & Planning (EP) - Codebase exploration and implementation planning
  3. Code Development (CD) - Code development with debug strategy support
  4. Validation & Archival Summary (VAS) - Validation and archival summary

Orchestration logic (phase management, state updates, feedback coordination) runs inline in the main flow — no separate orchestrator agent is spawned. Only 4 worker agents are allocated.

Each agent maintains one main document (e.g., requirements.md, plan.json, implementation.md) that is completely rewritten per iteration, plus auxiliary logs (changes.log, debug-log.ndjson) that are append-only.

Architecture Overview

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    User Input (Task)                        │
└────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┘
                             │
                             v
              ┌──────────────────────────────┐
              │  Main Flow (Inline Orchestration)  │
              │  Phase 1 → 2 → 3 → 4              │
              └──────────────────────────────┘
                             │
        ┌────────────────────┼────────────────────┐
        │                    │                    │
        v                    v                    v
    ┌────────┐         ┌────────┐         ┌────────┐
    │  RA    │         │  EP    │         │  CD    │
    │Agent   │         │Agent   │         │Agent   │
    └────────┘         └────────┘         └────────┘
        │                    │                    │
        └────────────────────┼────────────────────┘
                             │
                             v
                         ┌────────┐
                         │  VAS   │
                         │ Agent  │
                         └────────┘
                             │
                             v
              ┌──────────────────────────────┐
              │    Summary Report            │
              │  & Markdown Docs             │
              └──────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 410 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 410 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 67bdb098e662

Subscribe to this mod's changes

parallel-dev-cycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow (2,124 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 4,241 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 2026-09-03.

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