task-coordination-strategies

task-coordination-strategies is a skill for Claude Code from wshobson/agents. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,054 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for breaking complex work into smaller tasks and coordinating them across multiple agents. It maps dependencies, assigns clear ownership, and balances the workload.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to divide projects by layer, component, concern, or file ownership; define task requirements; manage dependencies; and monitor team progress.
Why use it?
It makes parallel work easier to plan and shows which tasks must finish before others can start. Clear task boundaries also reduce duplicated effort and conflicts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agent-teams plugin — 6 skills, 7 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to divide projects by layer, component, concern, or file ownership; define task requirements; manage dependencies; and monitor team progress.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wshobson/agents/task-coordination-strategies
About the project

Agentic Plugin Marketplace is a collection of reusable plugins, agents, skills, commands, and rules for coding-agent tools including Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, and GitHub Copilot. It is for developers assembling agentic workflows across multiple harnesses from shared Markdown sources, and the catalogue entries are examples or subsets of those workflow components.

wshobson/agents · 39,476 stars · on GitHub · sethhobson.com

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.

Any agent
npx skills add wshobson/agents --skill task-coordination-strategies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wshobson/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-teams, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 7 commands, 4 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,054 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 17 Feb 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00049 $0.01054
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00527
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00105

Measured 9d ago against content hash e6e0c3f64b01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-coordination-strategies 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 9d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/agent-teams/skills/task-coordination-strategies/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task Coordination Strategies

Strategies for decomposing complex tasks into parallelizable units, designing dependency graphs, writing effective task descriptions, and monitoring workload across agent teams.

When to Use This Skill

  • Breaking down a complex task for parallel execution
  • Designing task dependency relationships (blockedBy/blocks)
  • Writing task descriptions with clear acceptance criteria
  • Monitoring and rebalancing workload across teammates
  • Identifying the critical path in a multi-task workflow

Task Decomposition Strategies

By Layer

Split work by architectural layer:

  • Frontend components
  • Backend API endpoints
  • Database migrations/models
  • Test suites

Best for: Full-stack features, vertical slices

By Component

Split work by functional component:

  • Authentication module
  • User profile module
  • Notification module

Best for: Microservices, modular architectures

By Concern

Split work by cross-cutting concern:

  • Security review
  • Performance review
  • Architecture review

Best for: Code reviews, audits

By File Ownership

Split work by file/directory boundaries:

  • src/components/ — Implementer 1
  • src/api/ — Implementer 2
  • src/utils/ — Implementer 3

Best for: Parallel implementation, conflict avoidance

Dependency Graph Design

Principles

  1. Minimize chain depth — Prefer wide, shallow graphs over deep chains
  2. Identify the critical path — The longest chain determines minimum completion time
  3. Use blockedBy sparingly — Only add dependencies that are truly required
  4. Avoid circular dependencies — Task A blocks B blocks A is a deadlock

Patterns

Independent (Best parallelism):

Task A ─┐
Task B ─┼─→ Integration
Task C ─┘

Sequential (Necessary dependencies):

Task A → Task B → Task C

Diamond (Mixed):

        ┌→ Task B ─┐
Task A ─┤          ├→ Task D
        └→ Task C ─┘

Using blockedBy/blocks

TaskCreate: { subject: "Build API endpoints" }         → Task #1
TaskCreate: { subject: "Build frontend components" }    → Task #2
TaskCreate: { subject: "Integration testing" }          → Task #3
TaskUpdate: { taskId: "3", addBlockedBy: ["1", "2"] }  → #3 waits for #1 and #2

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 164 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A e6e0c3f64b01

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task-coordination-strategies is a skill published in the GitHub repository wshobson/agents (39,476 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,054 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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