Parallel Agents

About this skill

Parallel Agents is a skill in parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 (3.9k stars). Its SKILL.md is about 812 tokens, and copies of it appear in 1 other owners' repositories. Licence: MIT.

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1No TaskOutput calls - TaskOutput returns full agent output, bloating context
2. 2Run in background - Always use run_in_background: true
3. 3File-based confirmation - Agents write status to files, not return values
4. 4Append, don't overwrite - Multiple agents can write to same status file

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d07ff4b. 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 bash, markdown and typescript).

  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

Parallel Agents loads about 812 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 11 tokens; SKILL.md has 209 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~11

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~812

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

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

The full file from parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 at commit d07ff4b, republished under its MIT licence (© parcadei). 209 words, ~812 tokens.

name

parallel-agents

description

Parallel Agent Orchestration

user-invocable

false

# Agent writes to shared status file
echo "COMPLETE: <task-name> - $(date)" >> .claude/cache/<batch-name>-status.txt

.claude/cache/agents/<task-type>/<agent-id>/
├── output.md      # Main findings
├── artifacts/     # Any generated files
└── status.txt     # Completion confirmation

# Task: <TASK_NAME>

## Your Mission
<clear objective>

## Output
When done, write confirmation:
\`\`\`bash
echo "COMPLETE: <identifier> - $(date)" >> .claude/cache/<batch>-status.txt
\`\`\`

Do NOT return large output. Complete work silently.

// Launch all in single message block (parallel)
Task({
  description: "Task 1",
  prompt: "...",
  subagent_type: "general-purpose",
  run_in_background: true
})
Task({
  description: "Task 2",
  prompt: "...",
  subagent_type: "general-purpose",
  run_in_background: true
})
// ... up to 15 parallel agents

# Check completion status
cat .claude/cache/<batch>-status.txt

# Count completions
wc -l .claude/cache/<batch>-status.txt

# Watch for updates
tail -f .claude/cache/<batch>-status.txt

# Status file
.claude/cache/provider-backfill-status.txt

# Each agent appends on completion
echo "COMPLETE: anthropic - Thu Jan 2 12:34:56 2025" >> .claude/cache/provider-backfill-status.txt
echo "COMPLETE: openai - Thu Jan 2 12:35:12 2025" >> .claude/cache/provider-backfill-status.txt

cat .claude/cache/provider-backfill-status.txt
# COMPLETE: anthropic - Thu Jan 2 12:34:56 2025
# COMPLETE: openai - Thu Jan 2 12:35:12 2025

© parcadei, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/parallel-agents of parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d07ff4b

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• vibeeval/vibecosystemskills/parallel-agents