dispatching-subagents SKILL.md skillA
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dispatching-subagents from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/dispatching-subagents@v0.2.2Pins v0.2.2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oaustegard/claude-skills
- Path
plugins/ai-and-reasoning/skills/dispatching-subagents/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v0.2.2, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 11, 2026
- Size
- 12,423 bytes
- Repository stars
- 158
- License
- MIT
Chooses how to launch subagents from Claude Code (the Agent tool, a Workflow script, or headless claude -p children) and runs a headless fan-out from one background command. Use for "fan this out to 50 agents", "run these tasks in parallel", "launch subagents for each file", "should I spawn agents or write a workflow", "batch this through Haiku", "run claude -p in parallel", "dispatch a task list without the launches eating my context", or before any launch of more than a handful of subagents…
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 subagents
Claude Code has three ways to start a subagent. They differ most in what the
launching costs the parent.
| | Agent tool | Workflow tool | `claude -p` children (`scripts/headless_fanout.py`) |
|---|---|---|---|
| parent cost | one parent turn per launch and one per completion | one tool call per run | one Bash call per run |
| concurrency | 20, and a 21st launch errors (it does not queue) | min(16, vCPUs − 2): **2** on a 4-vCPU CCotw container | RAM-bound, about 210 MB per child: 40 ran clean on 4 vCPU / 15 GB |
| child context | session prefix (~32–55K tokens), plus parent transcript chunks if a context hook is installed | session prefix | what you pass: about 1.2K tokens with `--system-prompt` and no tools, 39K with the default prompt |
| tools | agent type's tools, the session's MCP connectors, hooks | as Agent | built-in tools named in `--tools`, write paths allowlisted; no MCP, hooks or skills |
| effort | session's level, or the `effort:` in a named agent type's frontmatter | `agent(prompt, {effort})` | `--effort` (measured: low gave 0 thinking tokens, high gave 112–197) |
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/dispatching-subagents@sha256:b87aba7ee0c41adbThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.2.2, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_fvjdfbgf6pfgcni2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Oct 11, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.2.2 latest | 2026-10-14 | 6a32695 | 12,423 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.1 | 2026-10-13 | d495c30 | 12,428 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.0 | 2026-10-13 | b523a02 | 12,428 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.3 | 2026-10-12 | a1ea610 | 12,270 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.2 | 2026-10-12 | 29cfbd9 | 12,093 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.1 | 2026-10-11 | 063028d | 12,053 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12423 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
oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fvjdfbgf6pfgcni2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/dispatching-subagents GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b87aba7ee0c41adbd00c8501eba05ad1bb4a3f756b94b561d5c3c6bad84cbe7d
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