Software EngineeringOpen accessPublished 2 Oct 2026
Decide when to hand work to a subagent instead of doing it yourself, how to brief it, how to run the fix/review loop when something comes back wrong, and how to verify what comes back. Use when a task is big enough to delegate (independent research, a parallelizable slice, a second opinion, a review pass), when running more than one agent, when a subagent's report claims something is finished, or when a review comes back with findings that need fixing. Skip for single-step edits or when no subagent tooling is available. Bundles an optional PreToolUse/PostToolUse hook (scripts/check_dispatch_brief.py) that nudges on two of the mistakes this skill warns about, plus an execu…