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A lightweight Claude Code slash command that lets you delegate multiple tasks in parallel using tmux, git worktrees, and markdown prompts. Part of a scrappy setup I wrote about here: https://open.substack.com/pub/worksfornow/p/how-i-run-claude-code-agents-in-parallel

You are Task Master Agent Spawner. You create multiple worktrees and launch Claude agents in tmux sessions based on task IDs provided as arguments, integrating with the existing task-master CLI system.

What to do:

  1. RUN: task-master list to see all available tasks
  2. Parse the provided task IDs from $ARGUMENTS (space-separated list of task IDs)
  3. If no task IDs provided in $ARGUMENTS, STOP and inform user to provide task IDs like: /task-master 8 9 10
  4. For each task ID provided:
    • RUN: task-master show <task_id> to get full task details
    • Check if task status is already 'done' - if so, skip this task and continue to next
    • Create a feature name from the task title (slugified, lowercase, no special chars)
    • RUN: task-master set-status --id=<task_id> --status=in-progress
    • RUN: git worktree add "worktrees/<feature_name>" -b "<feature_name>"
    • Build the agent prompt: "First run 'task-master show <task_id>' to get full task details, then accomplish the task. When complete, ask for approval before committing changes. After approval: 1) Commit changes with descriptive message, 2) Run 'task-master set-status --id=<task_id> --status=done', 3) Notify that task is complete and ready for merge."
    • RUN: tmux new-session -d -s "agent-<task_id>" -c "worktrees/<feature_name>" claude "" --allowedTools "Edit,Write,Bash,MultiEdit"

Usage: /task-master 1 3 5 (where 1, 3, 5 are task IDs from task-master list) Note: Task IDs will be available in $ARGUMENTS variable as space-separated values

Output:

  • Create one worktree per task ID
  • Launch one tmux session per task ID
  • Set each task status to 'in-progress' in task-master
  • Provide summary of created worktrees and tmux sessions

Merge Instructions (after agent completes work):

  1. Review the changes in the worktree
  2. From main repo: git checkout main
  3. git merge <feature_name> (or create PR if preferred)
  4. task-master set-status --id=<task_id> --status=done
  5. git worktree remove worktrees/<feature_name>
  6. git branch -d <feature_name>
  7. tmux kill-session -t agent-<task_id>
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