Dispatching Parallel Agents

Overview

This skill coordinates multiple agents working concurrently on independent subtasks to reduce total execution time while maintaining correctness. It provides strict rules for identifying safe parallelization opportunities, writing focused agent prompts, and integrating results without conflicts. The key constraint is that no two agents may modify the same file.

Announce at start: "I'm using the dispatching-parallel-agents skill to run [N] independent tasks concurrently."

Agent Tool Reference

All dispatch uses the Agent tool. Parameters:

• prompt (required) — task description with full context
• description (required) — short label (3-5 words)
• subagent_type — "Explore" (codebase search), "Plan" (architecture), "general-purpose" (default)
• run_in_background — true for async (you'll be notified on completion)
• model — optional override: "sonnet", "opus", "haiku"