Wave Coordinator

Manage large-scale subagent dispatch through structured waves. Prevents context exhaustion, ensures output diversity, and avoids duplication across batches. Works alongside Skill(superpowers:dispatching-parallel-agents) — wave-coordinator handles batching and diversity, dispatching-parallel-agents handles the actual subagent spawning mechanics.

The Core Problem

Dispatching 10+ agents at once causes three failures:

1. Context exhaustion — spawning agents is expensive; running out mid-batch leaves work incomplete
2. Homogeneous output — identical prompts produce near-identical results, wasting compute
3. Duplication — later waves repeat what earlier waves already produced

Wave coordination solves all three.

Wave Sizing Rule

Maximum 5 concurrent subagents per wave. If N > 5, divide into sequential waves: