Codex Parallel Subagents

DEPRECATED: This skill is deprecated. Use evolving-workflow instead, which provides a declarative workflow API with built-in parallel execution support via .concurrency(n).

Run multiple AI agent threads concurrently with bounded parallelism and collect results safely.

When to use this skill

• Running multiple agent tasks in parallel
• Fan-out work across files, packages, or repositories
• Batch processing with rate limiting
• Streaming progress from concurrent tasks
• Collecting structured outputs from multiple agents

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Production-ready assets

Copy these to jumpstart your implementation:

How to use these assets

1. Copy the asset directory to your project
2. Customize run_task() (or the main processing function) for your use case
3. Adjust structs (TaskInput, etc.) if you need additional fields
4. Set environment variables as needed (CODEX_WORKDIR, PARALLELISM)

See each asset's README for detailed usage and options.

Key rules

1. One thread per task - never share threads across concurrent tasks
2. Use semaphores - guard parallel runs with @async.Semaphore::new(n) to avoid rate limits
3. Set working directory - use ThreadOptions::new(working_directory=...) for task isolation
4. Allow failures - use allow_failure=true and capture errors per task
5. Avoid conflicts - for tasks that modify shared resources (e.g., building software, editing same files), use git worktrees or separate directories to isolate each agent