Category: Productivity
Dispatching Parallel Agents
A Superpowers skill that dispatches one subagent per independent problem so unrelated tasks run in parallel.
Works with
What it does
- Decides whether tasks are truly independent
- Assigns one dedicated subagent per problem domain
- Gives each agent exactly the context it needs
- Preserves the main agent's context for coordination
When to use it
Use it when several unrelated failures across files or modules would take too long to investigate one by one.
How to install
- Run the command below in your terminal. Pick the agents you use (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and more) and it installs into the right folder.
npx skills add https://github.com/obra/superpowers --skill dispatching-parallel-agents
- To install manually, download the
dispatching-parallel-agentsskill folder from the GitHub repository and copy it into your agent's skills folder, such as~/.claude/skills/or.cursor/skills/. - Ask your agent for a related task and the skill is used automatically.