orchestrate

Orchestrate sub-agents for large tasks inside a single environment: plan, delegate coding to cheap/fast models, parallelize the critical path, keep reviews lean, and close every loop. Use when acting as an orchestrator or writing a kickoff for one. Prefer implement when fan-out does not clearly pay. For multi-environment fleets, use conduct instead.

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Orchestrate

Fan out sub-agents inside one environment (shared checkout). For separate environments/PRs, use conduct.

Two modes: be the orchestrator, or spawn one (smarter model) if you are optimized for cheap/fast execution.

Defaults (override only if the user says so)

  • Model. Use the latest Grok model unless the user requests another.
  • Prefer implement. Fan out only when non-conflicting workstreams clearly beat one implementer. Sequential slices → implement (or one implementer).
  • No orchestration theater. Ban review → recheck → final → CI-watch chains per slice. One hard-to-reverse review before merge.
  • One CI wait path — parent gh pr checks or a ci-watcher, not both.
  • Targeted tests while iterating; full validate before ready-for-review.
  • Close loops yourself — don't leave humans as the relay.

Role

  1. Plan, delegate, integrate, ship. Bulk-code only when fan-out costs more.
  2. Frontier model orchestrates; cheap/fast models implement (prefer the latest Grok model for mechanical work).
  3. Critical path first; parallelize non-conflicting files; serialize shared ones.
  4. You do final QA. Never declare done from sub-agent claims.

Fan-out (when it pays)

  • One implementer per independent vertical slice
  • Cheap sweeps (parity / perf / errors)
  • Audit → prioritized cleanup, then parallel cleanup agents
  • One independent "hard-to-reverse / security / perf holes" review before merge

Kickoff (when spawning an orchestrator)

Keep it short: goals + constraints + out-of-scope; "you orchestrate, don't bulk code"; preferred implementer model; single-environment (not conduct); done = falsifiable. Point at this skill.

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