agent-dispatch

A skill that translates instructions for activating specialist software agents into the runtime actions needed to dispatch them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an orchestrator needs to start, resume, revise, or amend work by another agent, with input documents and an expected output.
Why use it?
It separates the decision about which agent to use from the mechanics of sending that agent a task and interpreting its result.

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/lync-cyber/cataforge/agent-dispatch
Any agent
npx skills add lync-cyber/CataForge --skill agent-dispatch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lync-cyber/CataForge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,036 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

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 $0.00055 $0.02036
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01018
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00407
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00204

Measured 3d ago against content hash c3301606ce9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-dispatch 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 3d 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.

.cataforge/skills/agent-dispatch/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

子代理调度 (agent-dispatch)

能力边界

  • 能做: 将"激活Agent X执行任务Y"指令翻译为当前运行时环境的具体操作
  • 不做: 决定激活哪个Agent(由orchestrator决定)、决定任务内容(由上游Agent决定)

调度输入

调用方(orchestrator)提供:

  • agent_id: 目标Agent目录名 (如 "architect", "reviewer")
  • task: 任务描述
  • task_type: new_creation | revision | continuation | amendment(恢复协议见 SUB-AGENT-PROTOCOLS)
  • input_docs: 输入文档路径列表
  • expected_output: 期望产出类型
  • 仅revision: REVIEW报告路径
  • 仅continuation: 用户回答、中间产出路径、恢复指引
  • 仅amendment: change-analysis 结果(XML格式)、用户变更描述

reflector 家族任务(retrospective / skill-improvement / apply-learnings)经 orchestrator inline 或 CLI cataforge agent run --task-type 触发,不走本调度枚举。

Agent-Skill 依赖映射

单一事实来源: 各 AGENT.md 的 skills: 字段(由 subagent_type 自动加载)。 本文件不维护映射副本。查询当前映射请运行:

cataforge agent list --skills

平台调度实现

当前运行时平台由 .cataforge/platforms/{platform_id}/profile.yaml 声明。 调度工具名和参数由 profile.yaml 的 dispatch 段定义。

prompt 主模板: .cataforge/skills/agent-dispatch/templates/dispatch-prompt.md。 平台特异性覆盖: .cataforge/platforms/{platform_id}/overrides/dispatch-prompt.md(若存在)。

调度前 orchestrator 自行 Read 主模板 + 当前平台 override(若有),两者由 LLM 上下文合并使用 —— OVERRIDE 块边界在源文件中以 <!-- OVERRIDE:<section> --> 注释标识,便于 LLM 识别替换语义。主模板已含平台分支(如 "Claude: .claude/rules,Cursor: .cursor/rules"),override 只在需要补充平台特异性内容时才填充对应块。

deploy 阶段无运行时合并器;frontmatter 能力标识符翻译由 cataforge.runtime.agent.translator.translate_agent_md 负责,agent 返回值解析由 orchestrator 主循环按下方 §返回值解析与容错 处理。

修改 prompt 模板影响所有通过 agent-dispatch 调度的 Agent,请谨慎变更并做 diff review。 TDD 子代理由 tdd-engine 直接调度,仅传入任务信息,通用约束和返回格式依赖 AGENT.md 自动加载,无需同步。

返回值解析与容错

orchestrator 收到子代理返回后,按以下优先级解析:

  1. 正常解析: 提取 <agent-result> 标签内容,获取 status/outputs/summary
  2. 标签缺失兜底: 如果返回文本中不含 <agent-result>:
    • 使用 Glob docs/{doc_type}/ 检查是否有新文件产出
    • 有新文件 → 推断为 completed,outputs 为新文件路径列表
    • 无新文件 → 标记为 blocked,记录原因"子代理未返回结构化结果"
  3. 标签不完整兜底: 如果 <agent-result> 缺少必填字段(status/outputs):
    • 缺 status → 默认为 completed (如果有 outputs)
    • 缺 outputs → 使用 Glob 扫描 docs/ 推断产出
  4. maxTurns 截断恢复: 如果子代理明显被截断(返回文本不含结束标签):
    • 通过 git status docs/ 检查是否有自本次调度后新增或修改的文件(untracked 或 modified)
    • 有新增/修改文件 → 检查文件内容是否含非空章节(至少一个 ## 标题下有实际内容),有则以 continuation 模式重新调度同一Agent
    • 无新增/修改文件或文件仅含空骨架 → 标记 blocked 并请求人工介入

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 3d ago First seen · 101 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A c3301606ce9b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-dispatch is a skill published in the GitHub repository lync-cyber/CataForge (128 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,036 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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