Agent skill

Dispatching Parallel Investigations

by K-Dense-AI in K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers

A skill your agent uses when facing 2+ independent investigations that can proceed without shared state - parallel literature survey, multi-dataset replication, or pre-specified robustness checks

Custom licenceAuto-check passedDatabases

Install Dispatching Parallel Investigations

skills CLI
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers --skill dispatching-parallel-investigations -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers dispatching-parallel-investigations --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/dispatching-parallel-investigations .claude/skills/dispatching-parallel-investigations && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
dispatching-parallel-investigations
GitHub stars
350
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
452 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
13
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when facing 2+ independent investigations that can proceed without shared state - parallel literature survey, multi-dataset replication, or pre-specified robustness checks

  • Works in 4 steps: Identify Independent Investigations → Create Focused Agent Tasks → Dispatch in Parallel → …
  • Facing 2+ independent investigations that can proceed without shared state - parallel literature survey
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, The Pre-Registration Guard…, When to Use and The Pattern, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Dispatching Parallel Investigations is an agent skill from K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers. Use when facing 2+ independent investigations that can proceed without shared state - parallel literature survey, multi-dataset replication, or pre-specified robustness checks

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Databases. The repository describes itself as: Composable computational-science methodology skills for AI research agents — pre-registration over TDD. A science-domain reimplementation of Superpowers.

When your agent uses it

  • Facing 2+ independent investigations that can proceed without shared state - parallel literature survey
  • Multi-dataset replication
  • Pre-specified robustness checks

Example prompts

  • “/dispatching-parallel-investigations”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Identify Independent Investigations
  2. Create Focused Agent Tasks
  3. Dispatch in Parallel
  4. Synthesize and Verify

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0374bdf. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are dot and markdown).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Dispatching Parallel Investigations loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 53 tokens; SKILL.md has 452 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~53
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 452 words (~1,311 tokens).

“You delegate investigations to specialized agents with isolated context. By precisely crafting their instructions, you keep each focused and preserve your own context for synthesis. They never inherit your session history — you construct exactly what each needs.”

— opening of SKILL.md by K-Dense-AI, Custom licence
name
dispatching-parallel-investigations

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/dispatching-parallel-investigations of K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0374bdf

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Categories

Questions about Dispatching Parallel Investigations

What does Dispatching Parallel Investigations do?

A skill your agent uses when facing 2+ independent investigations that can proceed without shared state - parallel literature survey, multi-dataset replication, or pre-specified robustness checks. Dispatching Parallel Investigations is an agent skill from K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers.

When should I use Dispatching Parallel Investigations?

Dispatching Parallel Investigations fits situations like: facing 2+ independent investigations that can proceed without shared state - parallel literature survey; multi-dataset replication; pre-specified robustness checks.

How do I install Dispatching Parallel Investigations in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers --skill dispatching-parallel-investigations -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/dispatching-parallel-investigations in K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers) into .claude/skills/dispatching-parallel-investigations in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Dispatching Parallel Investigations in Codex?

Run `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers --skill dispatching-parallel-investigations -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/dispatching-parallel-investigations in K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers) into .agents/skills/dispatching-parallel-investigations in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Dispatching Parallel Investigations in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers --skill dispatching-parallel-investigations -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/dispatching-parallel-investigations, .gemini/skills/dispatching-parallel-investigations, .github/skills/dispatching-parallel-investigations and .opencode/skills/dispatching-parallel-investigations in your project.

What does Dispatching Parallel Investigations need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Dispatching Parallel Investigations is instructions for the agent only.

Does Dispatching Parallel Investigations access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Dispatching Parallel Investigations safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Dispatching Parallel Investigations use?

Dispatching Parallel Investigations has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Dispatching Parallel Investigations use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Dispatching Parallel Investigations?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Dispatching Parallel Investigations: Keeper Stress Analysis (ClickHouse/ClickHouse, 50k stars), Perf Comparison (ClickHouse/ClickHouse, 50k stars), Patch Release Check (ClickHouse/ClickHouse, 50k stars) and Evolving The Data Model (TriliumNext/Trilium, 38k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Dispatching Parallel Investigations?

K-Dense-AI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers, which has 350 GitHub stars. The repository holds 13 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 13, 2026.

Source: K-Dense-AI/science-superpowers on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.