Dispatching Parallel Agents
One agent per independent problem domain: craft self-contained prompts, work concurrently
- What
- One agent per independent problem domain: craft self-contained prompts, work concurrently
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- an AI agent harness that supports subagents (Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Antigravity, Hermes, or Muse)
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Curated by Skill Harbor — one of the original superpowers meta-skills by @obra (the upstream behind the much-forked framework; distinct from the magentosh/bankai-skills forks already in this catalog and from the obra fiches published at lot 33, using-superpowers and executing-plans). When multiple unrelated failures hit (different test files, different subsystems, different bugs), investigating sequentially wastes time — dispatch one agent per independent problem domain and let them work concurrently. Teaches when to use it (3+ failing test files with different root causes, multiple subsystems broken independently, no shared state) and when not to (related failures — fixing one might fix others — or full system state needed), plus the craft: build targeted self-contained prompts so agents never inherit your session's context or history, and avoid the classic mistakes (too broad, no context, no constraints). The explicit counterpart of executing-plans (lot 33), which teaches inline execution WITHOUT subagents — that fiche even says to prefer subagent-driven development in some cases; this skill is that subagent-driven development. By @obra, listed here with credit to its creator. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use.
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Install
Prerequisites: an AI agent harness that supports subagents (Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Antigravity, Hermes, or Muse) Install "Dispatching Parallel Agents" for me. One agent per independent problem domain: craft self-contained prompts, work concurrently Repository: https://github.com/obra/superpowers/blob/main/skills/dispatching-parallel-agents/SKILL.md 1. Fetch the SKILL.md file for the obra-dispatching-parallel-agents skill from the repository into a temporary folder and summarize what it does in one or two sentences. 2. Safety check: review the SKILL.md and scripts for anything suspicious (unexpected network calls, shell commands, credential harvesting). This repo should contain zero secrets in code, credentials only via the secure vault, allowed hosts declared in the SKILL.md. Verify that holds here; STOP on any red flag and tell me. 3. Install it as a skill: copy SKILL.md and its helper files into the agent's skills directory, in a folder named "obra-dispatching-parallel-agents". 4. Verify with no network calls: frontmatter valid, files in place. 5. Report what was installed, where, and what I still need to do myself (e.g. any accounts, API keys, or CLI tools mentioned in the prerequisites above). GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Never require it unless it's in the prerequisites above. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder and the install target. Never ask me to paste secrets in chat — credentials go through the secure vault or environment variables. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.
Questions
How do I install a build?
Every product page includes a copy-paste install prompt. Paste it into your Muse and it sets the build up for you — no manual configuration.
Where does my money go?
Straight to the seller. Skill Harbor never processes payments: checkout happens on the seller’s own page, usually Stripe.
What does the ✓ next to a creator’s name mean?
It means we confirmed the identity of the person behind the listing. It says nothing about the code itself — always check a build before installing it.