Scale Your Productivity with Parallel Background Agents
Delegate secondary tasks to background agents without stopping your flow.
Use the /fork command to launch background agents for parallel collaboration on different parts of your codebase.
The Scenario
You are in the middle of a refactoring task but suddenly need to generate unit tests for a separate module without stopping your current flow.
Before & after
A developer handles one task at a time, or manually opens multiple terminal tabs to juggle different parts of a project. This context switching takes 20-30 minutes of mental effort.
Using the /fork command, you can spawn background agents to handle secondary tasks simultaneously. This parallel execution takes only 5-10 minutes of oversight.
The Prompt
/fork [TASK_FOR_BACKGROUND_AGENT]
The /fork command allows for parallel collaboration by creating background agents that can work on different tasks or experimental branches simultaneously.
Source
Qwen Code Blog: AI Coding Updates and Guides | Qwen Code Docs"lauch Agent Team parallel collaboration... Qwen Code v0.18.0-preview launches /fork background agents."