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Agent skills: distinguish parallel-safe vs sequential-only execution

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Description

Currently there is no distinction between skills that can be dispatched in parallel (e.g. perception queries, lookups) and skills that must run sequentially because they are physical actions (e.g. navigate, pick, place). The agent has no way to know which skills are safe to chain concurrently and which require ordered execution.

We need a mechanism (decorator flag, capability annotation, or similar) so the agent can parallelize independent queries while still enforcing sequential ordering for action skills that mutate world state.


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Start by locating the skill dispatch and execution entry points, then trace how independent queries and physical actions are currently scheduled. Define how skills declare parallel safety and how the agent enforces ordering for state-changing actions. Done means the distinction is represented in the skill system and covered by tests for concurrent queries and sequential actions.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
ai, robotics
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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Quiet
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
48/100

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