# orchestrate

A skill for running several independent agents with explicit ownership, dependencies and verification. Useful when a task splits into separate lanes.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 668 installs · ★ 36
- Author: hyperb1iss
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/hyperb1iss/hyperskills/tree/HEAD/skills/orchestrate/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/hyperb1iss-orchestrate

## What it does

The skill lays out how to split work across independent agents and still land one coherent result. Partitioning follows the questions, artifacts and resources that can move on their own. The coordinator owns integration and the final claim of completion.

Before dispatch, it tells you to inspect the available tools and their current schemas. Hosts differ in agent lifecycle, inherited context, filesystem sharing, worktree isolation, asynchronous results and permissions, so those properties are worth discovering rather than inferring from a product name. Work shape picks the pattern: independent research questions go to parallel investigators, disjoint features with stable interfaces to parallel builders plus a designated integration owner, and dependent edits or shared mutable state to a single owner.

Isolation gets its own section. Worktrees separate tracked files and the index, not ports, databases or external services, so collisions there are yours to handle. For a shared tree the skill suggests workers report patches and checks while one coordinator stages and commits scoped changes. Every worker gets a brief covering outcome and scope, current evidence, dependencies, authority, verification and the return format. User instructions outrank the skill's guidelines, and delegation stays subject to the host's permissions.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hyperb1iss/hyperskills --skill orchestrate -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/orchestrate/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/orchestrate/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hyperb1iss/hyperskills --skill orchestrate -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/orchestrate/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hyperb1iss/hyperskills --skill orchestrate -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/orchestrate/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install hyperb1iss/hyperskills orchestrate
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/orchestrate/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hyperb1iss/hyperskills --skill orchestrate -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/hyperb1iss/hyperskills --path skills/orchestrate
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/orchestrate/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add hyperb1iss/hyperskills --skill orchestrate -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/hyperb1iss/hyperskills/tree/HEAD/skills/orchestrate/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- split a large task into independent lanes
- name an integration owner so finished branches get combined
- isolate parallel edits with worktrees
- write a dispatch brief with dependencies and authority
- verify a change with a separate read-only reviewer

## Example prompts
- split this task into parallel lanes and name the integration owner
- dispatch parallel investigators for these questions and synthesize the evidence
- check worktree isolation before launching the builders

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: orchestrate
description: Use this skill when coordinating independent agents with explicit ownership, dependencies, integration, and verification. Activates on mentions of swarm, parallel agents, multi-agent, orchestrate, fan-out, wave dispatch, research army, unleash, dispatch agents, or parallel work.
---

# Multi-Agent Orchestration

Use independent agents to add useful capacity while keeping one coherent result. Partition by the questions, artifacts, and resources that can progress independently. The coordinator owns integration and the final claim of completion.

The user's instructions take precedence over this skill's guidelines. Delegation, tools, and external actions remain subject to current host instructions and authorization. This skill does not grant a worker broader authority than the coordinator has.

## Check Capabilities Before Dispatch

Inspect the available tools and their current schemas. Hosts differ in agent lifecycle, inherited context, filesystem sharing, worktree isolation, asynchronous results, and permissions. Discover those properties instead of inferring them from a product name or copying stale arguments.

Use the host's supported delegation tools when permitted. An external CLI reviewer still consumes resources and remains subject to delegation and permission rules; it is not an escape hatch around a restriction. Without a suitable delegation surface, execute directly or prepare tasks for authorized external workers. A task queue alone does not launch an agent.

## Choose the Shape by Dependency

| Work shape                                        | Coordination pattern                                                     |
| ------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Independent research questions                    | Parallel investigators, evidence-based synthesis                         |
| Disjoint feature ownership with stable interfaces | Parallel builders, designated integration owner                          |
| One change repeated across modules                | Scoped automated transform or partitioned workers, combined verification |
| Dependent edits or shared mutable state           | One owner for the dependency, parallelize work around it                 |
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