dispatching-parallel-agents is agent-read markdown (skill) from ganyuanran/aegis: Use when facing 2+ independent tasks without a written plan, with no conflicting shared mutable state or sequential dependencies, where parallel delegation beats inline cost; otherwise inline. Planned tasks use subagent-driven-development..
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# Dispatching Parallel Agents
## Purpose
Use parallel children for two or more ad-hoc, bounded tasks only when their
independence is already credible and concurrency is worth the coordination.
Parallelism changes elapsed time; it does not relax evidence, ownership, or
completion requirements.
## Dispatch Gate
Dispatch only when all are true:
- there are `2+` distinct tasks or evidence questions;
- one task's result is not needed to define or start another;
- the tasks do not require overlapping writes or the same mutable resource;
- a shared root cause is unlikely based on current evidence;
- each result can be returned with bounded evidence and unresolved unknowns;
- available concurrency and expected work justify coordination cost.
Keep work inline when decomposition is still exploratory, failures may share a
root cause, full-system context is required, or tasks are too small to repay the
handoff. A written implementation plan routes to
`aegis:subagent-driven-development`, not this ad-hoc workflow.
## Context And Ownership
Choose the live host's context inheritance mode deliberately. Give each child
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ganyuanran/aegis · 1,280 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
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