orchestrate

# Multi-Agent Orchestration Before starting work, create a marker: `mkdir -p ~/.claude/tmp && echo "orchestrate" > ~/.claude/tmp/heavy-skill-active && date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ" >> ~/.claude/tmp/heavy-skill-active` ## Phase 1: Research & Feasibility (GO/NO-GO Gate) Before delegating to agents: 1. **Parse requirements** - Break down what needs to happen 2. **Identify workstreams** - Which are independent? Which have dependencies? 3. **Assess scope** - Is this actually multi-agent work, or simpler than it looks? 4. **Sort into two piles** (the Orchestration Tax — your review attention is the serial bottleneck and it doesn't parallelize): - **Delegate-async** — isolated, well-specified work where your judgment lands at the *gate* (you review the finished result): scaffolding, mechanical refactors, test writing, doc generation, independent file areas. Fan these out. - **Hold-the-lock** — work where the judgment *is* the work: a subtle bug, an architecture decision, anything that needs your evolving mental model of the system. Parallelizing these doesn't scale output — it thrashes the one serial resource and everything comes back worse. Do them yourself, serially, one at a time. **GO/NO-GO Verdict**: - **GO** - 3+ *delegate-async* workstreams, clear boundaries, agents work independently. Proceed — fan out the first pile only. - **SIMPLIFY** - <3 workstreams, OR the work is mostly *hold-the-lock* regardless of size. Delegate the isolated bits with direct Agent() calls...