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Dispatching Parallel Agents skill

dispatching-parallel-agentsSuperpowersskills/dispatching-parallel-agents/SKILL.md

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

303kMIT

always on

26 tokname + description

once used

1,329 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

0

installs

217kskills.sh

Install the Dispatching Parallel Agents skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/obra/superpowers --skill dispatching-parallel-agents

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/obra/superpowers.git /tmp/superpowers
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/superpowers/skills/dispatching-parallel-agents ~/.claude/skills/dispatching-parallel-agents

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description26 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions1,329 tok
Only if openedNo bundled files—

Until it is used, dispatching-parallel-agents costs about 52× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 15 skills from obra/superpowers would load 489 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

  • Dispatching Parallel Agents
  • Overview
  • When to Use
  • The Pattern
  • 1. Identify Independent Domains
  • 2. Create Focused Agent Tasks
  • 3. Dispatch in Parallel
  • 4. Review and Integrate
  • Agent Prompt Structure
  • Common Mistakes
  • When NOT to Use
  • Real Example from Session
  • Verification

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