orchestrating-task-agents

Coordinate Task agents for parallel execution by using structured XML prompts to launch batch processing and delegate workloads. This approach provides agent-type selection and lifecycle coordination patterns to ensure reliable collaboration and improved throughput.

Use Task agents instead of the main conversation when you need to scale batch file processing, run parallel tasks, or delegate multi-phase workflows. Subagents prevent errors and maintain reliability that is hard to achieve in a single conversation thread.

The best way to structure prompts for orchestrating task agents is using an XML format. This provides explicit Skill tool invocation and clear task prompts to enforce coordination patterns and maintain reliability across parallel and sequential workflows.

Delegate a data processing workload by launching multiple Task agents with structured prompts for batch processing. You provide agent-type selection and coordination patterns, then return a consolidated report after the parallel execution completes.

Parallel task coordination fails when delegating work without structured prompts or explicit Skill tool invocation. Enforcing clear task prompts and standardized agent-type selection prevents the error-prone coordination issues that break multi-phase workflows.

Yes, you can run sequential and parallel task coordination patterns in the same workflow. The skill provides standardized patterns for both execution types to coordinate subagent lifecycles and ensure reliable multi-phase collaboration.