agent-wave

agent-wave is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from EvolveHQ/docflow. It costs 82 tokens per session (3,472 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that assigns items from a software project’s plan or to-do queue to several coding agents working in parallel.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run implementation work in waves, choose how many agents and items to use, collect their results, and coordinate changes across worktrees.
Why use it?
It helps process independent work items at the same time while accounting for shared files, isolated work areas, budgets, and progress checkpoints.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the docflow plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to run implementation work in waves, choose how many agents and items to use, collect their results, and coordinate changes across worktrees.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/evolvehq/docflow/agent-wave
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 EvolveHQ/docflow --skill agent-wave
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EvolveHQ/docflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install docflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,472 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 $0.00082 $0.03472
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.01389
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00694
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00347

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4841628e4cd7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-wave 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 11d 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.

plugins/docflow/skills/agent-wave/SKILL.md · 272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

agent-wave

Run a declared batch of accepted queue items using the capabilities this host actually exposes. Budgets count items or waves. An optional hours cap stops new waves, never a running item. Long-lived automation uses the host's scheduling facility (see README); this session does not promise to outlive itself.

Preconditions and host capability

Before asking parameters, read the repository's entry point, conventions, queue and autonomous prompt. Resolve all artefact paths, including _agent/, against the recorded root. Require a real gate and the queue it walks.

Recorded mode Execution
Single writer Stop and direct the operator to the sequential autonomous prompt, at every requested width.
Shared checkout, direct integration One executor at a time in that checkout, using item status and lock rows. No claim branch or integration worktree.
Shared checkout, PR integration Stop before claiming; require separate worktrees for PR waves.
Separate worktrees Each executor uses its own worktree; integration follows the recorded model.

Fetch/prune the recorded remote and require its integration branch. Print the fetched base SHA. Compare the local integration ref: report unpushed commits or divergence before proceeding, never silently discard them. A behind, clean checkout may be fast-forwarded when it is safe; otherwise leave it alone. The wave's state and probe come from the fetched base, not uncommitted files in the operator's checkout. If the remote queue is empty but the local queue differs, explain that difference.

Derive whether the host can delegate, isolate checkouts, run concurrently, use an orchestration facility already enabled by the operator, and require shaped results. Choose the highest available rung:

  1. Enabled orchestration facility: one fan-out for this wave only. Keep wave loops, clock checks and questions in the orchestrator.
  2. Plain subagents: parallel if available, sequential otherwise. Use host worktree isolation only if its starting head equals the declared base; otherwise explicitly create each worktree at that base.
  3. The orchestrator executes one item at a time, in its own worktree or the shared checkout as the recorded mode permits.

Read the full file on GitHub · 272 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago Changed · +4 lines 4841628e4cd7
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +27 lines bb9c35286635
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +88 lines · -18 tokens per session 07446586174d
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  5. 1mo ago Changed · +7 lines c4d1ec852f16
  6. 1mo ago First seen · 146 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A ec1fd84059ea

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agent-wave is a skill published in the GitHub repository EvolveHQ/docflow (16 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 3,472 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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