Dispatching Parallel Agents

Purpose

Use parallel children for two or more ad-hoc, bounded tasks only when their independence is already credible and concurrency is worth the coordination. Parallelism changes elapsed time; it does not relax evidence, ownership, or completion requirements.

Dispatch Gate

Dispatch only when all are true:

• there are 2+ distinct tasks or evidence questions;
• one task's result is not needed to define or start another;
• the tasks do not require overlapping writes or the same mutable resource;
• a shared root cause is unlikely based on current evidence;
• each result can be returned with bounded evidence and unresolved unknowns;
• available concurrency and expected work justify coordination cost.