dispatching-parallel-agents

A way to assign separate coding agents to independent problems at the same time. An agent is a software worker that can investigate or change code within an assigned area.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when several failures or tasks are clearly independent and can be divided into separate parts of the codebase.
Why use it?
It shortens work on multiple unrelated failures while avoiding shared files or dependencies that could cause conflicts.

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/jpm1118/threadwork/dispatching-parallel-agents
Any agent
npx skills add JPM1118/Threadwork --skill dispatching-parallel-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JPM1118/Threadwork

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,979 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
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Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00989
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00396
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00198

Measured 2d ago against content hash b9c9d285b42d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dispatching-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 2d 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/dispatching-parallel-agents/SKILL.md · 319 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 319 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dispatching Parallel Agents Skill

Resolve multiple independent problems concurrently by deploying separate agents to different failure domains.

Core Principle

PARALLELIZE INDEPENDENT WORK

If problems don't share state or dependencies, solve them simultaneously.

When to Use This Skill

Use parallel agents when:

  • You have 3+ independent failures (tests, bugs, tasks)
  • Problems are in different areas of the codebase
  • Agents can work without shared state
  • You want to accelerate multi-issue resolution

When NOT to Use This Skill

Don't parallelize when:

  • Problems share state or files
  • One problem's fix might affect another
  • Problems are in the same module
  • Sequential execution provides important context

Prerequisites

  1. Clear problem decomposition
  2. Verified problem independence
  3. Specific scope for each agent
  4. Conflict detection plan

The Parallel Dispatch Process

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                Parallel Agent Dispatch Flow                  │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                             │
│  Step 1: DECOMPOSE                                          │
│     ↓    Identify independent problems                      │
│                                                             │
│  Step 2: VERIFY INDEPENDENCE                                │
│     ↓    Confirm no shared state/files                      │
│                                                             │
│  Step 3: SCOPE EACH AGENT                                   │
│     ↓    Narrow task, specific context, clear objective     │
│                                                             │
│  Step 4: DISPATCH ALL                                       │
│     ↓    Launch simultaneously (not sequentially)           │
│                                                             │
│  Step 5: COLLECT RESULTS                                    │
│     ↓    Gather completion reports                          │
│                                                             │
│  Step 6: INTEGRATE                                          │
│          Verify no conflicts, validate full suite           │
│                                                             │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 319 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. 2d ago First seen · 319 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A b9c9d285b42d

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dispatching-parallel-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository JPM1118/Threadwork (5 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,979 tokens. 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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