dispatching-parallel-agents

dispatching-parallel-agents is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jxoesneon/Ciel. It costs 23 tokens per session (764 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A pattern for giving several independent coding tasks to separate agents so they can be worked on at the same time. It includes rules for deciding when tasks are safe to run concurrently.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for unrelated bug fixes, separate test failures, or other independent tasks that can be isolated.
Why use it?
It reduces waiting when tasks do not depend on one another, while avoiding conflicts when they share files or state.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for unrelated bug fixes, separate test failures, or other independent tasks that can be isolated.

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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add jxoesneon/Ciel --skill dispatching-parallel-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jxoesneon/Ciel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 764 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 $0.00023 $0.00764
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00382
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00076

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1b056b3dac49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 8d ago.

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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 · 62 lines

How it starts

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CIEL ADAPTATION: Dispatching Parallel Agents (Concurrency Mandate)

This skill formalizes CIEL's approach to concurrency. When the Orchestrator identifies multiple independent tasks (e.g., unrelated bug fixes, distinct test file failures), it MUST dispatch specialized sub-agents in parallel rather than executing them sequentially.

Integration Context

Adapted from ~/.agents/skills/dispatching-parallel-agents/. This is an advanced execution strategy that builds upon subagent-driven-development. While the base skill focuses on isolating context per task, this skill focuses on executing those isolated contexts concurrently to minimize overall turn latency.

The Concurrency Decision Matrix

Before dispatching in parallel, the Orchestrator MUST evaluate the tasks against these conditions:

🟢 Proceed with Parallel Dispatch IF:

  • Tasks operate on distinct, non-overlapping files or subsystems.
  • Fixing/implementing Task A has zero theoretical impact on Task B.
  • The root causes or requirements are entirely independent.

🔴 Fallback to Sequential Dispatch IF:

  • Tasks require modifying the same files (Shared State).
  • Tasks are sequentially dependent (Task B relies on the output of Task A).
  • The Orchestrator does not fully understand the system state and is performing exploratory debugging.

Orchestration Workflow

  1. Identify Domains: Group failures or requirements into strictly independent domains. Check the Knowledge Graph (mempalace_kg_query) for historical implicit dependencies between these domains.
  2. Contextualize: Craft a highly specific, self-contained prompt for each domain. Include the exact error messages, file paths, and success criteria.
  3. Dispatch: Invoke the sub-agents (e.g., via the generalist tool without wait_for_previous set to true) concurrently.
  4. Integration Review:
    • As agents return, read their execution summaries.
    • Run the verification-loop (full test suite) to ensure the parallel fixes did not introduce emergent conflicts.
  5. Evolutionary Feedback (Failure Memory): If parallel agents produce a silent semantic collision or integration failure despite operating on "non-overlapping" files, the Orchestrator MUST log this implicit dependency to the Knowledge Graph (mempalace_kg_add e.g., 'Module A' 'implicitly_depends_on' 'Module B') to prevent future parallel dispatch of these specific domains.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 8d ago First seen · 62 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 1b056b3dac49

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dispatching-parallel-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository jxoesneon/Ciel (1 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 764 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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