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Task Coordination Strategies

A playbook for decomposing complex work into parallel units, designing dependency graphs, writing precise task specs, and balancing workload across agent teams.

AutomationIntermediate★ 41,988⑂ 4,443AI score 8/10Last updated: Oct 26, 2026

What it does

  • Decomposition strategies: four approaches — by architectural layer, by component, by cross-cutting concern, and by file ownership — with guidance on when each fits best.
  • Dependency graph design: principles (minimize chain depth, find the critical path, avoid cycles) plus Independent / Sequential / Diamond patterns and concrete blockedBy/blocks usage.
  • Task description template: a copy-ready 6-part structure — Objective, Owned Files, Requirements, Interface Contract, Acceptance Criteria, Out of Scope.
  • Workload monitoring: a signal-to-action table for idle, stuck, blocked, and overloaded teammates, plus a 5-step rebalancing loop.

Who it's for

  • Tech leads orchestrating multiple agents or engineers in parallel
  • Full-stack / monorepo developers who need conflict-free concurrent edits
  • Anyone who wants a template to stop writing vague tickets
  • Users of the agent-teams plugin's Task tooling

Example uses

  1. Parallel auth feature: split into backend API, frontend UI, and integration testing, then set addBlockedBy: ["1","2"] so testing waits on both.
  2. Code audit: split by concern (security, performance, architecture) so three reviewers work fully independently.
  3. Rebalancing: when one teammate holds 3x the tasks, run TaskList to assess, TaskUpdate to reassign, and SendMessage to notify.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wshobson/agents/HEAD/plugins/agent-teams/skills/task-coordination-strategies/SKILL.md

What I want: (describe your task here)

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Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Copy the plugins/agent-teams/skills/task-coordination-strategies folder from the GitHub repo wshobson/agents into my ~/.claude/skills/task-coordination-strategies/.
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git /tmp/agents && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/agents/plugins/agent-teams/skills/task-coordination-strategies ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal and clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git /tmp/agents
  2. Create the skills folder if needed: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Copy just this skill: cp -r /tmp/agents/plugins/agent-teams/skills/task-coordination-strategies ~/.claude/skills/
  4. Verify with ls ~/.claude/skills/task-coordination-strategies and confirm SKILL.md is present.
  5. Restart Claude Code, then try a prompt like "break this feature into parallel tasks for an agent team".
  6. (Optional) To actually invoke TaskCreate/TaskUpdate/SendMessage, install the full agent-teams plugin as well.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT