What happens if I don't have Agent Teams enabled?

If SHIPYARD_TEAMS_ENABLED is not set, the skill silently falls back to using standard subagents for parallel tasks without prompting for a choice.

What is the difference between Teammates and Subagents in this skill?

Teammates are independent Claude Code instances with their own context windows, ideal for maximum isolation. Subagents are spawned within your current session and share the working directory but have a fresh context for specific tasks.

How does the skill prevent race conditions?

The Shipyard dispatch pattern pre-assigns tasks to specific owners before spawning agents and uses a centralized TaskList to monitor progress until all tasks reach a terminal state.

When should I avoid using parallel dispatch?

Avoid parallel dispatch when failures are related (fixing one might fix others), when you need to understand the full system state first, or when agents would interfere by editing the same files.

Parallel Dispatch & Agent Orchestration

Name: Parallel Dispatch & Agent Orchestration
Author: lgbarn

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生产力与工作流

Orchestrates multiple independent AI agents to resolve concurrent tasks and test failures simultaneously without shared state conflicts.

Parallel Dispatch is a specialized capability for Claude Code designed to optimize project lifecycles by breaking down complex, multi-faceted problems into independent workstreams. By identifying tasks that lack sequential dependencies—such as unrelated test failures or isolated subsystem bugs—it allows Claude to spawn multiple agents or teammates to work in parallel. This significantly reduces total resolution time and prevents a single agent from becoming overwhelmed by unrelated context, ensuring a disciplined and efficient approach to building, planning, and shipping code.

主要功能

01Standardized 'Detect/Ask/Branch' workflow for multi-agent coordination

02Automated detection of independent task domains for parallel execution

03Support for both internal subagents and independent Claude Code Teammates

04Conflict prevention logic to avoid agents modifying the same resources

0538 GitHub stars

06Integrated Team mode lifecycle management including task pre-assignment and cleanup

使用场景

01Implementing unrelated features or subsystems defined in a single development plan

02Fixing multiple failing test files with different root causes across a large codebase

03Performing broad architectural mapping or documentation updates across disparate directories

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add lgbarn/shipyard parallel-dispatch

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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