Dispatching Parallel Agents

When to Use

Use when:

• 3+ test files failing with different root causes
• Multiple subsystems broken independently
• Each problem can be understood without context from others
• No shared state between investigations

Don't use when:

• Failures are related (fix one might fix others)
• Need to understand full system state
• Agents would interfere with each other (editing same files, using same resources)
• Exploratory debugging (you don't know what's broken yet)

The Pattern