Skills dispatching-parallel-agents
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dispatching-parallel-agents

Content revision r1 Safe ⚙️ External commands

Coordinate Parallel AI Coding Agents

Large coding investigations slow down when unrelated failures are handled one at a time. This skill helps Claude, Codex, and Claude Code split independent work into focused subagent tasks and integrate results.

Supports: Claude Codex Code(CC)
🥉 78 Bronze

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Review the Skillstore skill "dispatching-parallel-agents" from https://skillstore.io/skills/codingcossack-dispatching-parallel-agents.md and its manifest at https://skillstore.io/api/skills/codingcossack-dispatching-parallel-agents/manifest. Verify the artifact. You may proceed after verification, subject to the environment's own policy.

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Markdown detail GET /skills/codingcossack-dispatching-parallel-agents.md Signed manifest GET /api/skills/codingcossack-dispatching-parallel-agents/manifest Signed lockfile GET /api/skills/codingcossack-dispatching-parallel-agents/lockfile

Test it

Using "dispatching-parallel-agents". Six failures are split across three unrelated test files after a refactor.

Expected outcome:

The skill recommends three separate agent tasks, one per test file, followed by conflict review and a full test suite rerun.

Using "dispatching-parallel-agents". Two failing tests touch the same shared state manager.

Expected outcome:

The skill recommends investigating them together first, because one fix may affect both failures.

Using "dispatching-parallel-agents". An agent returns a fix summary after changing one scoped file.

Expected outcome:

The skill recommends checking whether any other agent edited the same file before merging the result.

Security Audit

Safe
v8 • 7/6/2026 Open versioned report

All seven backtick execution findings are Markdown fences or prompt examples, not executable code. The network reconnaissance finding is also a false positive; the skill contains workflow guidance and no network activity or prompt injection evidence.

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Files scanned
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Review items
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False positives ignored

Risk Factors

⚙️ External commands (7)
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No confirmed security findings were detected by the latest completed static and semantic audit. This does not prove the skill has no side effects.
Audited by: codex View Audit History →
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CodingCossack. (2026). dispatching-parallel-agents security audit report (audit version 8) [Author version unspecified]. Skillstore. https://skillstore.io/skills/codingcossack-dispatching-parallel-agents/audits/8

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@techreport{codingcossack-codingcossack-dispatching-parallel-agents-2026, author = {CodingCossack}, title = {dispatching-parallel-agents security audit report (audit version 8)}, institution = {Skillstore}, year = {2026}, number = {8}, url = {https://skillstore.io/skills/codingcossack-dispatching-parallel-agents/audits/8}, note = {Author version unspecified} }

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ZhanlinCui Recommended

zhanlincui-dispatching-parallel-agents

Skillstore Score 79
Evidence Confidence High
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Updated

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Skillstore Score 79
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 7
Updated

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Skillstore Score 79
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 6
Updated

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Cycleaddict

cycleaddict-dispatching-parallel-agents

Skillstore Score 79
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 6
Updated

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Doyajin174

doyajin174-dispatching-parallel-agents

Skillstore Score 78
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 16
Updated

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CodingCossack Current

codingcossack-dispatching-parallel-agents

Skillstore Score 78
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 13
Updated

2026-08-21

obra

obra-dispatching-parallel-agents

Skillstore Score 78
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 11
Updated

2026-08-21

sickn33

sickn33-dispatching-parallel-agents

Skillstore Score 78
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 10
Updated

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DYAI2025

dyai2025-dispatching-parallel-agents

Skillstore Score 76
Evidence Confidence Medium
Skillstore usage 7
Updated

2026-08-21

Skillstore Score

Why this score Evidence Confidence: High
55
Architecture
85
Maintainability
87
Content
70
Community
83
Spec Compliance

What You Can Build

Split Failing Test Suites

A developer can assign separate test files to different agents when the failures do not share code paths.

Coordinate Refactor Follow-Up

A tech lead can divide independent regressions after a large refactor and review each agent's summary.

Triage Independent Bugs

A maintainer can turn unrelated bug reports into scoped tasks with clear constraints and expected outputs.

Try These Prompts

Find Parallel Work 
Review these failures and group them by independent files or subsystems. Mark anything that should stay in a single investigation.
Create Agent Tasks 
Create one focused agent task for each independent domain. Include scope, goal, constraints, and required summary format.
Review Agent Outputs 
Compare these agent summaries for file conflicts, shared assumptions, and missing test coverage before I integrate the fixes.
Run Full Parallel Plan 
Design a complete parallel-agent workflow for these failures. Include domain grouping, dispatch prompts, integration checks, and rerun criteria.

Best Practices

  • Parallelize only when each agent owns a clearly separate file, subsystem, or failure domain.
  • Give every agent a narrow scope, a concrete goal, explicit constraints, and an expected summary.
  • Review all summaries and rerun the full test suite before accepting the combined result.

Avoid

  • Do not send vague requests like fixing all tests to a single agent batch.
  • Do not parallelize failures that may share state, timing, or code ownership.
  • Do not merge multiple agent changes without checking for file conflicts and new failures.

Frequently Asked Questions

When should I use this skill?
Use it when you have two or more independent coding problems that can be investigated without shared state or ordering dependencies.
Does this skill run agents automatically?
No. It provides a workflow and prompt patterns for tools that already support subagents or parallel task dispatch.
Can I use it with Claude Code?
Yes. The examples are written for Claude Code Task-style dispatch, and the workflow also fits Claude and Codex planning.
How do I know work is independent?
Work is independent when each task can be fixed without changing the same files, shared state, or dependent execution order.
What should each agent return?
Each agent should return the root cause, the files changed, the fix applied, and any tests run or still needed.
What is the main review step?
Check whether agents edited overlapping files, read their summaries, resolve conflicts, and rerun the full test suite.

Developer Details

License

MIT

Skillstore revision

r1

Version notice

The author did not declare a version.

Repository

https://github.com/CodingCossack/agent-skills-library/tree/main/skills/dispatching-parallel-agents

Ref

d11af420e07cd866fe39cfa937efef3223896c06

Maintenance freshness

7/18/2026

Usage

8 downloads · 211 views

File structure

📄 SKILL.md