dispatching-parallel-agents SKILL.md skillA
dispatching-parallel-agents from obra/superpowers is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add obra/superpowers/dispatching-parallel-agents@git:20260724.6dbbbdaPins git:20260724.6dbbbda in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- obra/superpowers
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skills/dispatching-parallel-agents/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260724.6dbbbda, committed Jul 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 17, 2025
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- 6,078 bytes
- Repository stars
- 302,424
- License
- MIT
Use when facing 2+ independent tasks that can be worked on without shared state or sequential dependencies.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Dispatching Parallel Agents
## Overview
You delegate tasks to specialized agents with isolated context. By precisely crafting their instructions and context, you ensure they stay focused and succeed at their task. They should never inherit your session's context or history — you construct exactly what they need. This also preserves your own context for coordination work.
When you have multiple unrelated failures (different test files, different subsystems, different bugs), investigating them sequentially wastes time. Each investigation is independent and can happen in parallel.
**Core principle:** Dispatch one agent per independent problem domain. Let them work concurrently.
## When to Use
```dot
digraph when_to_use {
"Multiple failures?" [shape=diamond];
"Are they independent?" [shape=diamond];
"Single agent investigates all" [shape=box];
"One agent per problem domain" [shape=box];
"Can they work in parallel?" [shape=diamond];
"Sequential agents" [shape=box];
"Parallel dispatch" [shape=box];
"Multiple failures?" -> "Are they independent?" [label="yes"];
"Are they independent?" -> "Single agent investigates all" [label="no - related"];
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add obra/superpowers/dispatching-parallel-agents@sha256:1968923066f3b707The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260724.6dbbbda, 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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The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Oct 17, 2025 and Jul 24, 2026, about one every 70 days.
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| git:20260724.6dbbbda latest | 2026-07-24 | 6dbbbda | 6,078 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260616.f0e5117 | 2026-06-16 | f0e5117 | 6,644 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260312.9ccce3b | 2026-03-12 | 9ccce3b | 6,441 B | A | view · diff |
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| git:20251017.48410c7 | 2025-10-17 | 48410c7 | 6,192 B | A | view |
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Source
obra/superpowers · 302,424 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
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