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parallel-feature-development

Coordinate parallel feature development

parallel-feature-development is an agent skill from the wshobson/agents collection for splitting a feature into work streams that several implementer agents, or developers, can build at the same time without colliding. The skill covers the decomposition of a feature into parallel pieces, and the file ownership strategies that keep each piece in its own area. Ownership can be assigned by directory, so each implementer owns specific folders, and the skill sets out conflict avoidance rules for the places where two streams must touch the same file. It covers the interface contracts that let parallel streams agree on how their parts fit together before they are built, and the choice of integration strategy, such as a vertical slice that delivers a complete thin feature or a horizontal layer that builds one layer across the feature. It also covers managing branches and merges so the parallel work comes together cleanly. The skill applies when decomposing a feature for parallel implementation, establishing file ownership boundaries between agents, designing interface contracts between streams, choosing between vertical and horizontal integration, and managing the branch and merge workflow. It helps coordination rather than writing the code itself, and the integration step is where the team checks that the pieces fit. The skill is installed with the skills CLI from the wshobson/agents repository. Its skills.sh page showed about 9.7K installs and passing results from three security audits at the time of the scan.