What problem does it solve? When multiple agents or developers work on the same branch, starting work on a stale local copy wastes effort and creates conflicts. This Skill checks the remote branch state before you begin, so you never duplicate or overwrite work that already exists. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Remote Divergence Detection: Fetches the remote and compares local HEAD against remote HEAD to identify identical, ahead, behind, or diverged states. - Parallel Agent Identification: Inspects commit authors to detect work from other swarms or agents and defaults to preferring their results when they are superior. - Structured Decision Logging: Produces a PARALLEL WORK CHECK record documenting branch state, divergence, and a proceed/integrate/abandon decision with rationale. - Use Case: Before fixing PR feedback on an existing branch, run the check and discover a parallel agent already pushed 8 commits that resolve the issue cleanly, so you abandon your local approach instead of duplicating effort. ## Quick Start Before starting work on this existing branch, run the parallel work check to fetch the remote, compare commits, and document whether to proceed, integrate, or abandon my local changes.
