dispatching-parallel-agents

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• 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

You delegate tasks to specialized agents with isolated context. By precisely crafting their instructions and context, you ensure they stay focused and succeed at their task. Provide the context they need, using a bounded brief when full session history is unnecessary. This also preserves your own context for coordination work. Multiple unrelated failures can benefit from concurrent investigation. Compare the expected benefit with briefing, rediscovery, and integration costs; the parent may investigate directly when that is simpler. Core principle: When delegation is worthwhile, give each worker an independent bounded problem and avoid shared mutations. Use when: 3+ test files failing with different root causes Multiple subsystems broken independently Each problem can be understood without context from others No shared state between investigations Don't use when: Failures are related (fix one might fix others) Need to understand full system state Agents would interfere with each other Group failures by what's broken: File A tests: Tool approval flow File B tests: Batch completion behavior File C tests: Abort functionality Each domain is independent - fixing tool approval doesn't aff

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