skill-parallel-agents

Use natural language requests like research, build, or review, or force parallel mode with the /octo:multi command. The orchestrate.sh script dispatches the task to available providers such as Codex and Antigravity simultaneously and synthesizes the results.

It is a four-phase methodology: probe (Discover) researches the problem, grasp (Define) builds consensus on requirements, tangle (Develop) implements with quality gates, and ink (Deliver) validates the final output. The embrace command runs all four phases sequentially.

No, one provider is sufficient. The detect-providers command checks availability, and workflows gracefully degrade to a single provider, using it multiple times for tasks that would normally span several providers.

The squeeze command runs a red-team review where one provider implements secure code and another attacks it to find vulnerabilities, followed by remediation and validation phases. Grapple mode similarly makes providers critique each other's proposals.

Avoid it for built-in Claude Code commands, simple file operations, git commands, and basic terminal tasks, which should use standard tools directly. Forcing parallel mode also incurs external API costs of roughly $0.02-0.08 per query.

The tangle phase requires a 75% success rate across parallel agents. If it fails, break the task into smaller subtasks, increase the timeout with the -t flag, or inspect individual agent logs in the workspace logs directory.