dispatch-ready

dispatch-ready is a skill for Claude Code from Sassy-Dog/sassydog-skills. It costs 174 tokens per session (18,732 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A repeated dispatcher that takes ready-to-start GitHub issues and assigns work up to a configured concurrency limit. It uses GitHub as the source of truth for issue status, assignments, branches, and pull requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reconcile open pull requests, dispatch issues marked Ready, respect dependencies and migration or code-generation order, and continue until no Ready issues remain.
Why use it?
It keeps implementation work moving across repeated runs without relying on conversation memory or manually tracking in-flight tasks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the sassy-dog plugin — 21 skills, 10 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to reconcile open pull requests, dispatch issues marked Ready, respect dependencies and migration or code-generation order, and continue until no Ready issues remain.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Sassy-Dog/sassydog-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install sassy-dog

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sassy-dog, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 10 agents.

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Per session 174 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 18,732 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00174 $0.18732
Opus 5 $0.00087 $0.09366
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.03746
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.01873

Measured 3d ago against content hash 383fc8b63e0a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

dispatch-ready scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

!`root="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)"; echo "CONFIG_SOURCE: ${root:-<not a git repo>}"; cat "$root/.claude/sassy-dog/dispatch-ready.md" 2>/dev/null || echo "NO_CONFIG"`
skills/dispatch-ready/SKILL.md · 1,074 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,074 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dispatch-Ready

One invocation = one tick of a drain loop.

All state lives in GitHub — status, assignees, PRs, branches — never in conversation memory, because under /loop each tick may run with no recollection of the previous one. The contract with groom-backlog: dispatch-ready pulls exclusively from Ready and trusts that Ready means dispatchable. Anything that smells undispatchable gets bounced back, never patched up inline.

Formerly drain-it. The "drain it" trigger still resolves here.

1. Repo config

!root="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)"; echo "CONFIG_SOURCE: ${root:-<not a git repo>}"; cat "$root/.claude/sassy-dog/dispatch-ready.md" 2>/dev/null || echo "NO_CONFIG"

Check CONFIG_SOURCE before using any of this. It is the repo root resolved from the session's working directory at skill-load time — not necessarily the repo you are about to act on — and cwd resets between Bash calls, so you cannot influence it. If it names a repo other than the one you are working in, discard the block above, read that repo's own .claude/sassy-dog/dispatch-ready.md by absolute path, and use that instead. Config is meant to be applied exactly as written, so the wrong one silently applies another repo's rules: on 2026-08-18 two agents shipping in sassydog-routines and sassydog-skills were each handed platform's Terraform gates, and caught it only by noticing the mismatch themselves.

Frontmatter supplies max_in_flight and review_site, plus the optional board, migrations, codegen, merge_queue, execution_site, and stacked_prs keys. Contract: sassy-dog:setup-configreferences/config-contract.md.

review_site: decides WHERE this loop's review gate runsagent, each dispatched sub-agent reviewing its own diff before it opens a PR (§5), or coordinator, this tick reviewing each open PR before it merges (§2). Absent selects agent, the fail-safe site. It never decides whether a review runs or which agent runs it. That is review_agent:'s resolution order, owned by send-it and unchanged by this key — read it from sassy-dog:setup-configreferences/config-contract.md (review_agent) rather than re-deriving it here.

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,074 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. 3d ago Changed · +97 lines 383fc8b63e0a
  2. 5d ago Changed · +158 lines · +6 tokens per session 5b370e42b855
  3. 8d ago Changed · +17 lines 236735e1f975
  4. 12d ago First seen · 802 lines · 168 tokens per session scan B f0dc2789e9a3

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dispatch-ready is a skill published in the GitHub repository Sassy-Dog/sassydog-skills (0 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 174 tokens to every session and 18,732 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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