Dispatch Tasks to Other Agents

Use oa to delegate scoped coding tasks to a different AI model or backend. This is useful when you want to parallelize work, use a specific model's strengths, or offload a well-defined edit while you continue working.

When to dispatch

Dispatch works best for targeted, self-contained tasks with clear instructions:

• Edit a specific file or function
• Generate a test suite for a module
• Refactor a block of code to match a pattern
• Review a file for a specific concern (security, performance, etc.)

Do not dispatch vague or open-ended tasks. The receiving agent has no access to your conversation context — the prompt must be self-contained.

Basic command

Always pipe the prompt into oa instead of passing it as an argument. This keeps prompt content out of process listings (ps aux):