herdr-dispatch SKILL.md skillA
herdr-dispatch from gaia-research/gaia-skill-heaven is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add gaia-research/gaia-skill-heaven/herdr-dispatch@git:20260808.44f0e9dPins git:20260808.44f0e9d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- gaia-research/gaia-skill-heaven
- Path
packages/core/skills/herdr-dispatch/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260808.44f0e9d, committed Aug 8, 2026
- Size
- 10,018 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Dispatch coding workers into visible Herdr panes instead of hidden in-harness subagents. Use whenever you need to hand work to another agent (Claude, pi, codex, hermes, grok) and the operator must be able to watch it happen. Covers pane layout, agent start, prompting, waiting, reading results, and teardown.
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
# Herdr Dispatch — visible workers Every dispatched worker runs in a pane the operator can see. **Nothing runs hidden.** This applies to nested subagents too: a worker that dispatches further work uses this same skill, so the whole tree stays on screen. An in-harness subagent (the `Agent`/`Task` tool) is invisible to the operator. Use one only for **read-only scouting**. Anything that writes code, commits, or opens a PR goes into a pane. --- ## Rule 0 — every harness invocation runs in a pane **Never invoke `claude`, `pi`, `codex`, `hermes`, or `grok` through your Bash tool.** Run them in a herdr pane so the full argv — especially `--model` — appears on screen. A probe the operator could not see is not evidence. This applies to workers as much as to orchestrators, and it is the single most common thing a dispatched worker gets wrong. Create one probe pane and reuse it: ```bash PROBE_PANE=$(herdr pane split --current --direction down --ratio 0.4 --cwd "$PWD" \ | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['result']['pane']['pane_id'])") herdr pane run "$PROBE_PANE" pi --model openai-codex/gpt-5.6-luna:low --print --no-session "probe text" …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add gaia-research/gaia-skill-heaven/herdr-dispatch@sha256:b93e9019f0171a95The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260808.44f0e9d, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 8, 2026.
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Source
gaia-research/gaia-skill-heaven · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gv3kfdqcgvfqr52y GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gaia-research/gaia-skill-heaven/herdr-dispatch GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b93e9019f0171a95202971555b54c138a1e5b3d21218ac5fb0d3f94e296ee6f7
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.