dispatching-parallel-agents

dispatching-parallel-agents is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from KbWen/agent-virtual-office. It costs 29 tokens per session (336 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of dispatching-parallel-agents, MIT.

A procedure for deciding when to split work among multiple AI agents and how to coordinate their results. Parallel agents are separate agents working on independent parts of a task at the same time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to divide work into independent pieces, define each agent's scope and finished-state criteria, synchronize progress, merge results, and run regression tests.
Why use it?
It helps shorten work that can be safely divided while avoiding coordination problems when tasks depend heavily on each other.

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/kbwen/agent-virtual-office/dispatching-parallel-agents
Any agent
npx skills add KbWen/agent-virtual-office --skill dispatching-parallel-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KbWen/agent-virtual-office

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 336 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00029 $0.00336
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00168
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00034

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7d3c724ebab4, 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to dispatching-parallel-agents — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/dispatching-parallel-agents/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Dispatching Parallel Agents

Overview

Parallel agents are suitable for handling splittable tasks with low coupling. The goal is to shorten total lead time, not to increase coordination overhead.

When to Use

  • Tasks can be decomposed into independent sub-problems (e.g., documentation, testing, separate modules).
  • Dependencies between sub-tasks are low; clear interfaces can be defined.
  • Deadlines are tight, and lead time needs compression.

When NOT to Use

  • Problems are highly coupled and require frequent synchronization.
  • Requirements are still unclear; the cost of decomposition outweighs the benefits.
  • Unable to define unified acceptance criteria.

Four-Step Pattern

  1. Decompose: Split into mutually exclusive, independently verifiable sub-tasks.
  2. Dispatch: Specify each agent's scope, inputs/outputs, constraints, and deadline.
  3. Sync: Perform brief synchronizations at fixed checkpoints to handle conflicts and dependencies.
  4. Merge: Integrate outputs using a unified set of acceptance criteria and run regression tests.

Best Practices

  • Every sub-task MUST have a clear Definition of Done.
  • Collaborate primarily via interface contracts to avoid modifying each other's blocks.
  • Perform a global check before final integration.

Common Mistakes

  • Forcefully splitting non-splittable tasks, leading to rework.
  • Lacking sync checkpoints, resulting in integration explosion at the end.
  • Sub-tasks passing individually but failing global acceptance.
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. 4d ago First seen · 42 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 7d3c724ebab4

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dispatching-parallel-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository KbWen/agent-virtual-office (16 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 336 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to dispatching-parallel-agents, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.