dispatching-parallel-agents SKILL.md skillA
dispatching-parallel-agents from jamditis/claude-skills-journalism is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/dispatching-parallel-agents@git:20261024.21f0bb2Pins git:20261024.21f0bb2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jamditis/claude-skills-journalism
- Path
superjawn/skills/dispatching-parallel-agents/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261024.21f0bb2, committed Oct 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 7, 2026
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- 6,903 bytes
- Repository stars
- 443
- 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
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Adapted from obra/superpowers dispatching-parallel-agents skill (v5.0.7),
MIT-licensed, copyright 2025 Jesse Vincent. Modifications copyright 2026 Joe Amditis.
v0.5.0 ports as a consumer category, no research phase per the v0.2.0
architecture, since dispatching parallel agents is a fan-out utility called by
other skills whose research conclusions already determined that parallelism
applies.
See CREDITS.md.
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# Dispatching Parallel Agents
## Overview
You delegate tasks to a subagent or parallel worker if your client supports one. Give each worker isolated, focused context. 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. If the client does not support workers, do the same tasks in sequence in the current session.
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
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How to install
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Source
jamditis/claude-skills-journalism · 443 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch master
API
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