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Jesse Vincent
e7a4285985 fix(sdd): batch small same-shape tasks into one dispatch
Plans sometimes enumerate many tiny, same-shape edits (one-line fixes,
constant changes, a field added across files) as separate tasks. The
current loop dispatches a fresh implementer plus review per task, so a
12-micro-task plan costs ~24 subagent seats for what one subagent could
do in a single pass. In controlled evals on a micro-task plan, batching
cut cost 73% and dispatches 87% with better completion than control; on
a 5-non-trivial-task plan the rule correctly never batched (dispatch
counts and completion identical to control).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0185AJr98gHx5EmwqNeft4Sy
2026-08-02 19:36:55 -07:00

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@@ -142,24 +142,17 @@ a ledger file, not only in todos.
Read the plan once, note its context and Global Constraints, and create a Read the plan once, note its context and Global Constraints, and create a
todo per task. todo per task.
Before dispatching Task 1, scan the plan once for conflicts, writing down Before dispatching Task 1, scan the plan once for conflicts:
what you checked as you check it:
- tasks that contradict each other or the plan's Global Constraints - tasks that contradict each other or the plan's Global Constraints
- anything the plan explicitly mandates that the review rubric treats as a - anything the plan explicitly mandates that the review rubric treats as a
defect (a test that asserts nothing, verbatim duplication of a logic block) defect (a test that asserts nothing, verbatim duplication of a logic block)
The scan's output is a table, not a verdict. One row for every pair of tasks Present everything you find to your human partner as one batched question —
that share a file or an interface: the two tasks, what one produces against each finding beside the plan text that mandates it, asking which governs —
what the other consumes, and what you found. One row for every task: whether before execution begins, not one interrupt per discovery mid-plan. If the
its own text agrees with itself — the tests it specifies against the code it scan is clean, proceed without comment. The review loop remains the net for
specifies, the files it creates against the files it later touches. "The scan conflicts that only emerge from implementation.
is clean" without those rows is not a scan you ran.
Write the table to the ledger. Rule on each conflict it surfaces — the spec
is the binding authority, the plan is its argument — record the ruling beside
its row, and dispatch Task 1. The review loop remains the net for conflicts
that only emerge from implementation.
## Model Selection ## Model Selection
@@ -200,6 +193,14 @@ that implementer. Single-file mechanical fixes also take the cheapest tier.
## The Task Loop ## The Task Loop
**Batch small same-shape work.** When the plan lists several tasks that are
each a small, independent edit of the same kind — the same one-line fix,
constant change, or field addition repeated across files — do not dispatch
one subagent per task. Compose ONE dispatch brief listing every file and
its change, send the whole batch to a single subagent, and review its diff
as one unit. Reserve one-dispatch-per-task for work that needs its own
judgment, its own tests, or its own review surface.
Everything you paste into a dispatch prompt — and everything a subagent Everything you paste into a dispatch prompt — and everything a subagent
prints back — stays resident in your context for the rest of the session prints back — stays resident in your context for the rest of the session
and is re-read on every later turn. Hand artifacts over as files. and is re-read on every later turn. Hand artifacts over as files.