orchestrator

Status: shipped-beta · Ships to: env+ tier arm (GETFF_SKILLS_ENV, setup.d/lib.sh:62) · Fires at: Claude Code skill auto-activation on orchestration triggers («оркестратор», "delegate", "umbrella", "batch fixes", task decomposing into ≥3 independent subtasks, …)

What it is

The operator-side orchestration workflow, titled "Orchestrator — the senior coordinates, juniors execute and verify" (.claude/skills/orchestrator/SKILL.md:15). Its frontmatter description is a block scalar (.claude/skills/orchestrator/SKILL.md:3), with the trigger vocabulary in a when_to_use: field (line 10). The skill is authoritative for "the operator-side orchestration workflow — the Mode A/B dispatch choice rule …, the task-size decision matrix, quota zones, the Phase -1 → Phase 4.5 phase sequence, and the Queue-mode entry conditions" (.claude/skills/orchestrator/SKILL.md:17-19).

How it works

The 480-line skill is organized as a phase sequence over a shared vocabulary:

• Dispatch channels: Mode A (inline Agent on Opus) is the default; "Mode B — an explicit option, not the default" for file-prompt dispatch to a cheaper model, taken only under specific conditions (N-way parallelism, audit-trail need, explicit user ask, or Opus pool under load) (.claude/skills/orchestrator/SKILL.md:92,101).
• Task-size triage: "Task size picks the mechanism (small → the senior's own Edit, bulk → an isolated inline Agent, a queue of research kickoffs → Queue mode)" (.claude/skills/orchestrator/SKILL.md:57).
• Cross-session dispatch: "worktree by default" (.claude/skills/orchestrator/SKILL.md:139), with in-session sub-agent isolation via the Agent tool's worktree isolation (line 156).
• Quota monitoring: a cross-cutting rule "active from Phase 3" with zones, responses, reset windows, and anti-patterns (.claude/skills/orchestrator/SKILL.md:187).
• Phase -1: cold self-review of a kickoff before dispatch (.claude/skills/orchestrator/SKILL.md:225 heading).

Harness posture: cc-native-with-fallback — Agent-tool subagent dispatch is portable; Skill-tool invocation degrades to direct file reads (.claude/skills/orchestrator/SKILL.md:6 area).

Satellites & companions

• USES: superpowers:subagent-driven-development for the executor loop; superpowers:using-git-worktrees for isolation mechanics; channel definitions in its own references/glossary.md (SKILL.md:17 area, NOT-authoritative header).
• ADAPTS: the portable worker-discipline subset that travels into aif containers — packages/core/templates/shared/skill-context/aif-orchestrator-discipline/SKILL.md (named at SKILL.md:17 area; drafted as census C21/E15).
• ADDS: the Mode A/B choice rule, quota zones, Phase -1 dual-review, and Queue-mode entry conditions — none of which the wrapped upstream skills own.
• Census family satellites: A4 (installer tiers/lanes context).

Anchors

• .claude/skills/orchestrator/SKILL.md:2 — name: orchestrator
• .claude/skills/orchestrator/SKILL.md:3 — description: | (block scalar; body carries the trigger text, lines 4-9)
• .claude/skills/orchestrator/SKILL.md:15 — # Orchestrator — the senior coordinates, juniors execute and verify
• .claude/skills/orchestrator/SKILL.md:57 — Task size picks the mechanism (small → the senior's own Edit, bulk → an isolated inline Agent, a queue of research kickoffs → Queue mode), …
• .claude/skills/orchestrator/SKILL.md:139 — ## Cross-session dispatch — worktree by default
• .claude/skills/orchestrator/SKILL.md:187 — ## Quota monitoring (cross-cutting rule, active from Phase 3)
• setup.d/lib.sh:62 — GETFF_SKILLS_ENV="arch night-mode orchestrator pipeline reviewer"

All anchors at framework pin b069c59328aa8e08671d3a19fd25efa618dfc1c5 (2026-09-11).