Agent Dispatch (DEPRECATED)

This skill is deprecated. It requires an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY with per-token API billing, which is not compatible with Max/Pro subscriptions. Use parallel agents in-session or manual spike execution instead.

Dispatches swain-design artifacts to background agents via GitHub Issues. The agent runs autonomously using anthropics/claude-code-action@v1 on a GitHub Actions runner.

Note: In projects using the trunk+release branch model (ADR-013), dispatched work targets trunk (the development branch), not release (the distribution branch).

Prerequisites

Three things must be in place before dispatch works:

1. Claude GitHub App — installed on the repo from https://github.com/apps/claude (grants Contents, Issues, Pull Requests read/write)
2. Workflow file — .github/workflows/claude.yml (or agent-dispatch.yml) with the claude-code-action step
3. ANTHROPIC_API_KEY repo secret — API key (not Max/Pro subscription; per-token billing required)

Step 0 — Preflight check