dispatch-agent

dispatch-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from EmpiricaAI/empirica. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,115 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for sending coding tasks to subagents while passing along relevant findings and failed approaches from earlier work. A subagent is a separate agent that handles part of a larger task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them before spawning non-trivial subagents, especially when earlier investigation, decisions, or dead ends should influence the delegated work.
Why use it?
They prevent delegated agents from repeating abandoned approaches or missing important context about the task.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the empirica plugin — 17 skills, 2 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use them before spawning non-trivial subagents, especially when earlier investigation, decisions, or dead ends should influence the delegated work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/empiricaai/empirica/dispatch-agent
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 EmpiricaAI/empirica --skill dispatch-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EmpiricaAI/empirica

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install empirica, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 2 commands, 4 agents.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,115 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00069 $0.01115
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00558
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00112

Measured 10d ago against content hash 223fa09ac01a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dispatch-agent 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 10d 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.

empirica/plugins/claude-code-integration/skills/dispatch-agent/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Epistemic Agent Dispatch

Retrieve what this practice already learned about the task, and put it in the subagent's prompt before spawning.

A fresh subagent has the repo and the harness, not your practice's history. It cannot know which approach was already tried and abandoned, because that lives in your epistemic graph and nothing puts it in front of them. The enrichment step is the whole skill; everything below serves it.

subagent_type: "fork" is the exception — a fork inherits your full conversation context, so enrichment is redundant there. Use fork when the subagent needs what you know right now; use enrichment when it needs what the practice learned before this session.

1. Retrieve the graph

Pass the knowledge graph, not a hand-picked subset of it. This is the same surface PREFLIGHT and the post-compact hook already inject into you — reuse it rather than assembling something bespoke:

empirica bootstrap-context --output json     # the three circles, all types
empirica project-search --task "<the subagent's task>" --output json   # task-scoped pull

bootstrap-context returns active state (open goals, subtasks, recent findings / decisions / dead-ends / mistakes), persistent reference (decisions with active outcomes, verified assumptions, sources) and the topic-relevant backlog (open unknowns and assumptions, relevant dead-ends). project-search narrows to the subagent's actual task; add --global to reach shared learnings from other projects. Cortex equivalent: mcp__cortex__investigate({query, limit}).

There is no --list on the *-log verbs: they WRITE, and retrieval is semantic.

2. Trim, don't curate

Pass every type that came back — unknowns and assumptions included. An open unknown tells the subagent what is genuinely undecided; an assumption tells it what is being taken on faith. Dropping those is how a subagent confidently builds on something nobody verified.

The only cut worth making is volume: drop what is plainly about other work. Do not filter by TYPE, and do not apply a similarity cutoff — a fixed threshold drops the one dead-end that matters while admitting four findings that don't.

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 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. 10d ago First seen · 123 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 223fa09ac01a

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dispatch-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository EmpiricaAI/empirica (247 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,115 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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