dispatching-parallel-agents SKILL.md skillA
dispatching-parallel-agents from jnpiyush/agentx is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jnpiyush/agentx/dispatching-parallel-agents@git:20260925.244da72Pins git:20260925.244da72 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jnpiyush/agentx
- Path
.github/skills/development/dispatching-parallel-agents/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260925.244da72, committed Sep 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 21, 2026
- Size
- 7,432 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- Apache-2.0
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.
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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
mdr add jnpiyush/agentx/dispatching-parallel-agents@sha256:2df91afc38d14817The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.244da72, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between May 21, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026, about one every 42 days.
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| git:20260925.244da72 latest | 2026-09-25 | 244da72 | 7,432 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.f17c505 | 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 |
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Source
jnpiyush/agentx · 19 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-04 · 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/2df91afc38d14817b6e6684fcfabb31e902fdc5adbe9f8f138670d24e38622b8
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