dispatch-analysis

A read-only planning check that finds the largest group of planned work items that can safely run at the same time, then moves that group to a staging column on a Kanban board. A Kanban board is a visual list of work items grouped by status.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing planned coding tasks, detecting file-level conflicts, and selecting a safe batch of tasks to prepare for parallel work.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of starting work items that would edit the same files and conflict with each other. It also keeps plans that cannot safely run together in the planned column.

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/tentacleopera/switchboard/dispatch-analysis
Any agent
npx skills add TentacleOpera/switchboard --skill dispatch-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TentacleOpera/switchboard

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,574 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 $0.00000 $0.02574
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01287
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00515
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00257

Measured 2d ago against content hash 83115ec24cd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dispatch-analysis 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 2d 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.

.agents/protocols/dispatch-analysis/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dispatch Analysis — Parallel-Safety Selection for Planned Plans

Read-only analysis pass that examines all plans in the PLAN REVIEWED (Planned) column, identifies the largest subset that can safely run in parallel without file-level conflicts, and moves that subset to the STAGING column. Plans that cannot be parallelized remain in Planned. This skill never modifies plan files — it only moves cards via the API.

When This Skill Runs

This skill is dispatched by the Kanban board's Analyze button on the Planned column. The board sends a dispatch-analysis instruction to the existing planner agent, which routes to this skill. It is NOT invoked ad hoc by the user.

Inputs

The prompt provides:

  • WORKSPACE_ROOT — the workspace root path
  • API_PORT — the LocalApiServer port
  • PROJECT — the board's active project filter (optional; see step 1)
  • PLANS TO PROCESS — a list of candidate plan IDs/files

Steps

1. Fetch the current Planned column — scoped to the board the user is looking at

Query the API for the latest board state (the plan list in the prompt may be stale by the time analysis runs — always re-query for freshness):

GET http://localhost:{API_PORT}/kanban/board?workspaceRoot={WORKSPACE_ROOT}

Filter for cards where kanbanColumn === 'PLAN REVIEWED'.

Then scope the result — the board endpoint returns every project, the board the user pressed Analyze on does not. Analysing cards from another project stages work the user cannot see in the column they clicked, which is never what they asked for.

Prompt carries Scope the re-queried Planned column to
PROJECT=<name> cards where project === <name>
PROJECT=<unassigned> cards with an empty project
PROJECT=<all> every card — the user is viewing the unfiltered board
no PROJECT line exactly the plans listed in PLANS TO PROCESS — do not widen

The re-query is for freshness (a card may have moved, a plan may have been edited) and to catch late additions inside that scope. It is never a licence to analyse a wider set than the prompt described.

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 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. 2d ago First seen · 199 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 83115ec24cd5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dispatch-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository TentacleOpera/switchboard (213 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,574 tokens. 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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