Forky - Parallel Claude Session Manager

forky

Fork Claude sessions to handle side tasks in parallel. Use when the user wants to spawn a parallel Claude session, delegate a task to a background agent, monitor forked sessions, or when they mention "forky", "fork", "spawn", or "parallel task".

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Forky - Parallel Claude Session Manager

Forky lets you spawn parallel Claude sessions to handle side tasks without interrupting your main workflow.

CRITICAL: Never Wait for Forks

Forks are fire-and-forget. After spawning, IMMEDIATELY continue with the next task. NEVER:

Say "I'll wait for the fork to complete"
Poll the fork status
Defer work pending fork completion

Forks notify you when done. Just spawn and move on.

Spawning a Fork

ALWAYS run forky spawn as a background shell operation. This ensures you don't block waiting for the spawn to complete.

# Use run_in_background=true with the Bash tool
~/bin/forky spawn "your task description here"

The binary is at ~/bin/forky (NOT ~/.forky/bin/).

Model Selection

Always use Opus (the default). Do NOT use -m haiku or -m sonnet without asking the user first.

When to Fork

Good:

Code review while continuing development
Research while implementing
Test generation for code you just wrote
Documentation tasks
Any independent background work

Avoid:

Tasks requiring immediate user input
Modifying same files (use --worktree if needed)
Very short tasks (overhead > benefit)

Monitoring

~/bin/forky serve              # Start observability UI
~/bin/forky list forks         # List all forks
~/bin/forky messages <id>      # View fork messages

For Forked Agents

If you ARE a fork (check your callback instruction), call done when finished:

~/bin/forky done <your-fork-id> "summary of what was accomplished"

Install skill

Copy and run in your terminal

npx -y skills add https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill forky

View on GitHub

skills/data/forky/SKILL.md

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