dispatch-agents

A method for sending several independent tasks to multiple coding agents at the same time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate separate code areas, handle unrelated failures, or split a large plan into independent workstreams.
Why use it?
It reduces waiting when tasks do not depend on one another or share files and other state.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/danielvm-git/bigpowers/dispatch-agents
Any agent
npx skills add danielvm-git/bigpowers --skill dispatch-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,251 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 $0.00051 $0.01251
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00626
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00250
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00125

Measured yesterday against content hash f53405b08a1e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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 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.

.cline/skills/dispatch-agents/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 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 GATEHARD 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: P1P2 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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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 · 119 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A f53405b08a1e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dispatch-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielvm-git/bigpowers (156 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,251 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 2026-08-30.

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