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dispatching-parallel-agents

Use when facing 2+ independent tasks that can be worked on without shared state or sequential dependencies

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The canonical home for this skill is dispatching-parallel-agents in obra/superpowers

SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is a well-structured, actionable instruction skill: the pattern steps, example agent prompt, and mistake pairings give Claude exactly what to do, and verification checkpoints are present for the batch operation. Its main weaknesses are redundancy — the same session example appears twice and the 'when not to use' guidance is duplicated — and motivational sections that spend tokens without adding instruction.

Suggestions

Merge the duplicated negative-guidance lists ('Don't use when' and 'When NOT to Use') into a single section and cut the motivational 'Key Benefits' section, which restates what the pattern already demonstrates.

Collapse 'Real Example from Session' and 'Real-World Impact' into one example — both narrate the identical 6-failures/3-files session.

Add an explicit recovery step to the Verification workflow (what to do when agents' fixes conflict or the full suite is still red) to close the feedback loop.

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Conciseness

The core instructional sections ('The Pattern', 'Agent Prompt Structure', 'Common Mistakes') are tight and operational, but there is measurable padding: 'Key Benefits' and 'Real-World Impact' are motivational filler, 'Real-World Impact' repeats the same session already narrated in 'Real Example from Session', and 'Don't use when' plus 'When NOT to Use' are near-duplicate lists. Mostly efficient but could be tightened.

3 / 5

Actionability

Concrete, adaptable guidance throughout: a copy-paste-ready example agent prompt with specific test names, failures, constraints and required output; the explicit dispatch rule 'Multiple dispatch calls in one response = parallel execution. One per response = sequential'; and paired bad/good prompt examples. Minor gap: no concrete dispatch syntax or command is shown.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear 4-step sequence (identify domains, create focused tasks, dispatch in parallel, review and integrate) is followed by a 'Verification' section with explicit checkpoints ('Run full suite', 'Check for conflicts', 'Spot check — agents can make systematic errors'). It falls short of a 5 because no error-recovery loop is given for when verification fails (e.g. what to do if agents edited the same code).

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

No bundle files exist (references/, scripts/, assets/ are absent) and the body references none, so there are no dangling or nested references. The single-file body is organized with clear section headers and content is reasonably placed inline for a concept-only skill; duplication between 'Real Example from Session' and 'Real-World Impact' is the main organization gap.

4 / 5

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description has a clear, explicit trigger condition but is missing the capability half entirely — it reads as a pure 'Use when' clause with no 'what'. Adding a concrete statement of what the skill does (parallel subagent dispatch) and natural trigger words like 'parallel' or 'concurrent' would substantially improve it.

Suggestions

Add a 'what' clause before the trigger, e.g. 'Dispatches specialized subagents to work on independent problems concurrently. Use when facing 2+ independent tasks...' so the description answers both what the skill does and when to use it.

Include natural trigger terms users would actually say — 'parallel', 'in parallel', 'concurrent', 'at the same time', 'fan out' — alongside the current condition-based wording.

Name the domain explicitly (agent/subagent dispatch) to reduce overlap risk with general orchestration or task-management skills.

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Specificity

The description states precise trigger conditions ('facing 2+ independent tasks', 'without shared state or sequential dependencies') but names no concrete action or capability — it never says what the skill does (dispatch parallel subagents). It names conditions rather than the domain's actions, sitting between the vague anchor and the '1-2 concrete actions' anchor.

2 / 5

Completeness

An explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause is present, but only the 'when' is stated with no 'what' — the description never describes the capability itself, matching the 'only when present without what' anchor. It cannot score 3 because the 'what' is not even weakly implied.

2 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

'independent tasks' is a phrase users would naturally say, but the most common natural terms — 'parallel', 'concurrent', 'at the same time', 'fan out' — are absent, while 'shared state' and 'sequential dependencies' lean technical. Some relevant keywords exist but common variations and synonyms are missing.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The independence criteria ('2+ independent tasks', 'no shared state', 'no sequential dependencies') are fairly specific and unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, but with no stated capability the description could still overlap with general orchestration or multi-task management skills.

3 / 5

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Validation

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