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dispatching-parallel-agents skillA

Name: dispatching-parallel-agents
Author: jnpiyush

dispatching-parallel-agents is agent-read markdown (skill) from jnpiyush/agentx: Fan out independent work to multiple subagents with context isolation. Covers when to parallelize (independent reads, multi-file searches, parallel analysis), when not to (writes, dependent steps, shared mutable state), bounded concurrency limits, and the anti-patterns that turn parallel dispatch into corruption. Use whenever the active agent is tempted to run more than one subagent at the same time..

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

What the file says

# Dispatching Parallel Agents

> WHEN: The active agent is about to spawn more than one subagent in the same step. The temptation is to parallelize everything for speed. The reality is that parallel writes, parallel state mutation, and parallel coupled steps create races that single-threaded execution would have caught.

## When to Use This Skill

Load this skill when:

- The agent is about to launch more than one subagent in the same step
- A task fans out into many independent reads (search, doc lookup, file inspection)
- A long analysis can be split into independent slices that each return a structured summary
- A research phase needs N viewpoints on the same artifact (council pattern)
- Skip when the work has any cross-subagent dependency, writes the same files, or mutates shared state

## Prerequisites

- Knowledge of whether the work is read-only or write-bearing
- A bounded concurrency primitive available (e.g. `tests/bounded-parallel-behavior.ps1`, language-native parallel runner, or `Start-ThreadJob` with a throttle)
- A structured return contract for each subagent (JSON / Markdown section with a stable schema) -- free-form prose is hard to merge

## Rationalization Table
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How to install

Latest version

mdr add jnpiyush/agentx/dispatching-parallel-agents@git:20260915.f17c505

Exact content

mdr add jnpiyush/agentx/dispatching-parallel-agents@sha256:eb9dd8021c11e67a

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260915.f17c505 latest	2026-09-15	f17c505	7,410 B	A	view · diff
git:20260626.fe4fedd	2026-06-26	fe4fedd	7,406 B	A	view · diff
git:20260521.3686a4a	2026-05-21	3686a4a	7,383 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7410 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

jnpiyush/agentx · 16 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-21 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_46u765ssgrlweqds
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jnpiyush/agentx/dispatching-parallel-agents
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/eb9dd8021c11e67a509ecf8fc55c63fa2afd8c5ecec52ce53384e5848f914d0b

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