parallel-setup

parallel-setup is a skill for Claude Code from jpoutrin/product-forge. It costs 15 tokens per session (879 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup command that creates a project folder for organizing work assigned to multiple coding agents. It adds documentation and ignore rules for that folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it once at a project’s root to initialize the parallel-work directory, with an optional technology hint.
Why use it?
It gives parallel development tasks a consistent place and structure before the project is split into smaller pieces.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the product-design plugin — 43 skills, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it once at a project’s root to initialize the parallel-work directory, with an optional technology hint.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jpoutrin/product-forge/parallel-setup
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jpoutrin/product-forge --skill parallel-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpoutrin/product-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install product-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 8 agents.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 879 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 $0.00015 $0.00879
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00352
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00088

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f8f32fc6c53b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

parallel-setup 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.

plugins/product-design/skills/parallel-setup/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

parallel-setup

Category: Parallel Development

Usage

/parallel-setup [--tech django|typescript|go]

Arguments

  • --tech: Optional - Technology stack hint for future decompositions (default: auto-detect)

Purpose

One-time initialization of the parallel/ directory at project root for parallel multi-agent development. This creates the infrastructure for organizing decomposed tasks by Tech Spec.

Run this once per project. Then use /parallel-decompose for each Tech Spec.

Execution Instructions for Claude Code

When this command is run, Claude Code should:

1. Create Directory Structure

mkdir -p parallel

Creates:

parallel/
├── README.md           # Explains parallel development workflow
└── .gitignore          # What to track vs ignore

2. Create README.md

Create parallel/README.md:

# Parallel Development Artifacts

This directory contains artifacts for parallel multi-agent development.

## Structure

Each Tech Spec decomposition creates a subdirectory:

parallel/ ├── TS-0042-inventory-system/ # Keyed by Tech Spec ID │ ├── manifest.json # Regeneration metadata │ ├── context.md # Shared project context │ ├── tasks/ # Task specifications │ ├── contracts/ # Shared types & API schema │ ├── prompts/ # Agent launch prompts │ ├── scripts/ # Launch & monitor scripts │ ├── architecture.md # System design │ └── task-graph.md # Dependency visualization └── ...


## Commands

- `/parallel-decompose <prd> --tech-spec <ts-file>` - Decompose PRD into tasks
- `/parallel-integrate --parallel-dir <dir>` - Verify integration

## Regeneration

Each subdirectory contains a `manifest.json` with metadata to regenerate artifacts:
```bash
# Re-run decomposition with same args
/parallel-decompose docs/prd.md --tech-spec tech-specs/approved/TS-XXXX.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. 1mo ago First seen · 150 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A f8f32fc6c53b

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parallel-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpoutrin/product-forge (16 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 879 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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