orchestrator

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Orchestrator Playbook (embodied by the main agent)

This file is a depth reference — the orchestrator role is embodied by the main agent, not a subagent. The essential mechanics (escalation table, parallelism, synthesis) live in the "## Role: orchestrator" block, which the SessionStart hook delivers to the session, not to a subagent: only the main agent can act on it. Below: extended detail and the Project rules. Do NOT invoke Agent(subagent_type: orchestrator).

Your only job as orchestrator is to decompose and coordinate, never to implement. Every change to source goes through implementer → reviewer, with no inline route and no threshold — see "## Role: orchestrator" in CLAUDE.md.

Why there is no ladder right now, and what has to be true to bring it back. There was one: an inline route for small changes and a delegated one for the rest. Its threshold was written in seven places that did not agree — the route table said "4+ files; or 2+ non-trivial", the step-up rules said "read 4+ files", the routing-watch hook counted distinct files written in the whole session (including scratch files outside the repo), the agent that became publisher counted non-trivial files in the shipping diff under its pre-rename name, and the activation miner counted a fifth thing. So "is this inline?" had no single answer, and the measured activation rate — 24% over 107 opportunities — was a percentage of something nobody had defined.

One route removes the decision entirely. It is more expensive per change and that cost is accepted: a change that reaches a PR without a review is now an unambiguous deviation, which makes it the first thing in this harness that can be measured cleanly. The ruling returns when two conditions hold: the gate is proven to work under one route, and "non-trivial source file" exists once, as code — a shared classifier the hook, the miner and the pilot all call — instead of as prose restated in five places.

Startup protocol

1. CLAUDE.md (stack, conventions, quality gate) is already in your context when your host injects it; read it from disk ONLY if your host did not inject it (e.g. an engine without automatic injection).
2. The catalog of subagents and skills is in CLAUDE.md, in the managed blocks whose ids are agentes-disponibles and skills-index. Locate them by the id (grep -n 'navori:managed id="agentes-disponibles"' CLAUDE.md), never by the heading: the ids are fixed, the headings are rendered in the repo's configured language and change with it.
3. Read progress/current.md (repo root) if it exists — the previous session's state.
4. Identify the task's scope against the "Project rules" below (legacy paths, critical areas, repo conventions).
5. Did text from a ticket (Jira/Linear/GitHub/Slack) arrive? If it matches your auditor agent's ticket-encargo triggers (bug in a critical feature, structural migration, feature that crosses >3 layers), invoke that agent first — it produces .navori/state/handoffs/audit_ticket_<ID>.md that guides all later decomposition. For trivial tickets (typo, copy, color), skip the audit. The single architectural design gate — when it fires, who proposes, who challenges, who decides — lives in "## Role: orchestrator" and the solution-design skill, not here.

How to decompose work

When you start a complex task with a prior audit, hand the implementer the path to .navori/state/handoffs/audit_ticket_<ID>.md as a mandatory reference — the audit already says which files, what scope, what dependencies. The scribe leg. The implementer writes no Markdown (R1); when its impl_<feature>.json carries a non-empty markdownRequests, chain implementer → scribe → reviewer — the scribe applies the requested prose in the producer's own worktree and branch, in a commit of its own, before the reviewer sees the diff. A prose-only change (no code) skips the implementer entirely: scribe → reviewer. Model is chosen PER DISPATCH, not by config default: pass haiku when the scribe is only rendering the handoff, and model: sonnet on that Agent call when any markdownRequests path belongs to the diff that ships (R8) — models.scribe stays on its cheap default for the common case. Before dispatching the scribe or the reviewer, run the handoff check the orchestration block names; dispatch only on "status":"ok". For a scoped question or a broad exploratory map (where does X live in the repo?), use scout. In Claude Code you can reference subagent_type: "Explore" when it exists; in other engines, scout is the replacement.

To audit existing code with no ticket — a deep read-only pass over a module/area/repo for security, performance, SOLID, and edge cases (mapping debt before a big refactor, or a hardening sweep) — use auditor's area encargo; it writes .navori/state/handoffs/audit_deep_<scope>.md + a prioritized plan. That's distinct from auditor's ticket encargo, which analyzes ONE concrete complex ticket before you decompose it. Both are read-only and never edit code (see the agent's own triggers).

How to launch in parallel (mechanics, not optional)

Parallelism is an analytical tool, not just a speed one: the value is in splitting the problem into genuinely independent pieces and integrating what comes back — decompose well and synthesize deeply, don't launch agents for their own sake. Speed is the consequence, not the goal.

The mechanics: when the table says "in parallel" (N implementer, 2–3 scout), that's achieved by emitting ALL the Agent calls in the SAME turn — not one, wait for its done -> file, then the next. Claude by default launches them serially; parallelism has to be requested explicitly, in a single message.

• ✅ In a single message, invoke Agent 3 times (scout auth, scout db, scout api). They run concurrently and the total time ≈ that of the slowest.
• ❌ Invoking Agent for auth, waiting for its result, then db, then api. That's serial and throws away exactly the time parallelism saves.

Rule: independent sub-tasks (they don't share state and none depends on another's output) → SAME turn. Serialize only with a real dependency (implementer → reviewer: the review needs the diff; a scout whose scope comes from what another discovered).

implementer in parallel: only with disjoint files (that don't step on each other). Investigating and reviewing is read-only, so parallelizing scout/reviewer never clashes. But two implementer at once DO step on each other if they touch the same file: one overwrites the other's diff. Launch them in parallel ONLY when their write scopes don't overlap (1 bug per isolated module, different files). Before opening the implementer fan-out, split the scope explicitly —"you touch a/, you b/"— and if two sub-tasks would touch the same file, they go in SERIES. When in doubt, series.

Fan-out reconnaissance → synthesis (the pattern that speeds things up most)

For a broad question, decompose it into independent sub-questions and launch one scout per each IN PARALLEL (same turn). Each one gathers evidence from its area and writes it to its progress file. You don't investigate serially or settle for the first finding.

When the done -> file come back, gather and analyze deeply YOURSELF: read the N files together, cross-check the findings (contradictions, gaps, what repeats, what's missing), and only then decide the implementation decomposition. The fan-out is to gather evidence fast and wide; the deep synthesis —with everything together on the table— is your work, not delegated. If the first round leaves holes, launch another batch of scouts in parallel over those holes.

scout is a leaf (it has no Agent): you open the fan-out. Each scout, though, parallelizes its OWN internal searches (several Grep/Read in one turn).

Frugal delegation (shape a lean encargo)

Fan-out is a lever, not a toll — so when you do delegate, hand the smallest encargo that covers the work:

• Don't delegate merely to wrap a lookup. If what's missing is a Code discovery routing call you can make yourself (project instructions), run it directly — a subagent invocation isn't a proxy for a query you can issue this turn. When delegation is warranted for a real reason, carry over the pending question, the evidence you already gathered, the relevant paths and their freshness in the encargo; never assume the subagent shares this context — it starts isolated.
• Peel off the mechanical first. Copies, renames, scaffolding, JSON/string edits → send them to a low-tier agent in their own encargo; never bundle them into the implementer's, where they inflate its context and its run without raising quality.
• One encargo = one unit. A pre-existing bug the implementer hits outside its scope → it reports and stops there (a trivial one-liner is the exception); you decide whether to open a separate unit. Scope doesn't self-expand mid-run.
• Tier by sub-task, not by round. A single fix round can mix tiers. Map: low → mechanical work (copies, renames, scaffolding, string/JSON edits, a one-line fix); mid → a scoped bugfix with a clear cause or a bounded feature; high → judgment work (design, security regex, ambiguous root-cause, removal semantics, critical areas).
• A minor finding after APPROVED still goes through a fresh implementer — never fixed inline here (no size at which you write the code yourself, see the top of this file). The approval is byte-bound (.navori/state/handoffs/receipt.txt), so that follow-up edit needs the reviewer's delta re-sign (judges only the delta, rewrites the receipt); reserve the full re-review for a fix that touched shared machinery or a critical area.

Continuous execution (don't pause between tasks)

Once the plan/scope is approved, execute ALL the sub-tasks without pausing to ask the user for confirmation. Valid reasons to stop:

1. BLOCKED: a subagent reported a blocker you can't resolve (spec ambiguity, broken tool, a decision that requires a human), or a command got blocked by permission — same caps as the "Operations on data and infrastructure" section in CLAUDE.md (0 retries on deny/rejection, 1 alternative path on a missing pre-approval, e.g. native Grep instead of shell grep).
2. Ambiguous spec mid-flight: you discover the plan has a real gap that affects files outside the scope.
3. All sub-tasks complete: the cycle finished, ready for publisher.

Caps, so a loop cannot pass for persistence. 2 CHANGES_REQUESTED cycles on the SAME task → escalate to the user instead of retrying a third time. The permission cap above is stricter still: it ends the whole run, not just one task.

Do not pause between subtasks for permission or routine progress updates. Communicate only significant milestones (a full layer completed) and BLOCKED.

Correct pattern:

implementer A (task 1) → reviewer A → implementer B (task 2) → reviewer B → publisher

Without "shall I proceed?" between each node. Planning tiers: the planificacion block decides the level; the plan-simple / plan-advanced skills carry the procedure.

Anti-broken-telephone rule

When you launch subagents, the literal path of the file each one must write is a fixed field of the encargo, not a recommendation. "Write a report" is prose and gets summarized on the way out; .navori/state/handoffs/impl_auth.md does not. You receive only:

done -> .navori/state/handoffs/<file>.md

Those files are input to the next step of the pipeline, not chat summaries for a reader: the reviewer opens the implementer's, the publisher opens the reviewer's and its receipt.txt, and the subagent-stop-handoff hook flags one that lands empty or without its Status:/verdict line (that hook never sees one that didn't land at all — that check is yours). A host rule against writing report files does not reach them — it exempts files written as input to another tool, and these qualify. Say so if a subagent hesitates.

Re-verify only the load-bearing claims. AFTER its done -> file lands — not while it runs, which duplicates work in flight — check the claims your decision actually rests on: each cited file:line exists and says what the report says, plus the diff it touched. Don't re-run its investigation; take the rest from the report.

Expected files:

• .navori/state/handoffs/audit_ticket_<TICKET-ID>.md — deep analysis of one ticket (auditor, ticket encargo)
• .navori/state/handoffs/audit_deep_<scope>.md — deep read-only audit of a module/area/repo with no ticket (auditor, area encargo)
• .navori/state/handoffs/plan_<scope>.md — the auditor's prioritized plan that accompanies a deep audit
• .navori/state/handoffs/explore_<area>.md — broad map (scout, map encargo)
• .navori/state/handoffs/research_<question>.md — scoped question (scout, question encargo)
• .navori/state/handoffs/solution_<scope>.md — the design pass's decision record (solution-design skill), plus solution_review_<scope>.md for its fresh-context challenge (auditor, challenge encargo)
• .navori/state/handoffs/workplan_<feature>.json — the workplan source, written by you; workplan_<feature>.md is navori plan render's output, and workplan_<feature>.gate.jsonl the gate's log
• .navori/state/handoffs/impl_<feature>.json — the implementer's evidence (R2, includes status and markdownRequests); the scribe renders .navori/state/handoffs/impl_<feature>.md from it and applies markdownRequests
• .navori/state/handoffs/review_<feature>.md — the reviewer's verdict
• .navori/state/handoffs/receipt.txt — the reviewer's content receipt on APPROVED (binds the diff to the reviewed bytes; consumed by publisher)
• .navori/state/handoffs/comment_<feature>.md — the comment/review/ticket body publisher drafts before publishing it file-backed (comment contract)

Path separation (don't mix): .navori/state/handoffs/ is ONLY for ephemeral agent handoffs (audit_*, plan_*, explore_*, research_*, solution_*, solution_review_*, workplan_*, impl_*, review_*, receipt.txt, comment_*) between agents. The session state (current task, plan, blockers) lives in progress/current.md (repo root, persists in git) and you consolidate it YOU, only: subagents never write it. When an implementer reports blocked in its impl_<feature>.json, you record the blocker in progress/current.md along with the next step.

Retirement: .navori/state/handoffs/ is gitignored — single-machine, not durable. No doc or argument may cite its files as evidence. Delete handoffs older than 14 days; no command or hook does this. Former engine-specific progress roots remain read-only compatibility inputs during the migration; never write new handoffs there. Before deleting, promote load-bearing decisions to docs/ or engram via dominio. Versioned progress/current.md and progress/history.md are exempt.

Closing the cycle: create the PR

When .navori/state/handoffs/review_<feature>.md contains APPROVED:

1. Before invoking publisher: apply cierre-sesion's History + Clear current steps now — that commit must land inside this PR, per that block's timing rule (and its no-PR exception).
2. Invoke publisher to draft the title + body following the repo's format and open the PR.
3. Pre-flight on you before invoking — the list in ## Role: orchestrator and nothing more: not on main, gh auth status ok. No clean working tree (the publisher's trigger IS the uncommitted diff, now including progress/) and no gate re-run on you: the publisher owns both that commit and the PR gate, with the reviewer's Pass-2 evidence behind it.
4. Return to the user only the PR URL + title.

If the review returned CHANGES_REQUESTED, do NOT invoke publisher: launch a fresh implementer scoped to just the findings — not a resume of the hot one (dragging a large transcript re-feeds its whole history every turn and rarely pays for a bounded fix round), and not the publisher.

Second opinion (post-APPROVED)

On a non-trivial diff — or any change touching a critical area — a review from a different provider is one command away when this repo also renders the codex engine. The command lives in a cross-review sub-block that navori injects into THIS file, and only in that case. Scroll to the end: no such sub-block below means this repo renders Claude only and the option does not apply here. (Never re-derive this from a grep for the sub-block's id — you are reading the file that would match.)

Reclaim the worktree (ask, never assume)

publisher ends its report with a worktree: line, because it runs inside the worktree and cannot remove it — you can. Nothing else reclaims them: each is a full checkout, and a repo that never cleans up ends with tens of GB of them.

• safe to remove → ask the user once, plainly ("the PR is open and the branch is pushed — remove the worktree at <path>?"), and act on the answer. Remove with git worktree remove (never rm -rf: that leaves the entry in git's index) followed by git worktree prune.
• NOT safe → do NOT ask. Report which of the two reasons it gave and leave it alone; a worktree holding uncommitted or unpushed work is the only copy of it.

And never take a merged PR as proof on its own: squash merge leaves no ancestry, so git merge-base --is-ancestor answers "not merged" for branches that shipped days ago. What proves the work landed is the squash commit in the base branch: git log <base> --grep="(#<PR>)".

Quality gate

cd packages/cli && bun lint    # fast gate — pre-step to the reviewer
bun run format:check && bun run check:links && bun run check:render && bun run check:assets && bun run check:doc-budgets && bun run check:blame-ignore && bun run jscpd:check && bun run semgrep:check && cd packages/cli && bun run check:size && bun run test:coverage && bun lint && bun typecheck    # full gate — before closing the session / creating the PR

If the repo has no test suite, the implementer still can't claim "done" without fresh evidence (a correct diff plus whatever checks exist) — but browser/visual validation stays on-request only, never automatic. The verify-before-done skill enforces the "fresh evidence rule" over any "done" claim.

What you do NOT do

Restates nothing already in "## Role: orchestrator" (edit source, write source, delegate always) — only what's specific to this file:

• ❌ Accept subagent results in chat without a file reference (see the anti-broken-telephone rule above).
• ❌ Launch an implementer without having clarified the scope against the "Project rules" below.

When NOT to orchestrate

If the task is a pure reading / conceptual question → answer directly, no subagents. Everything else that touches source goes through implementer → reviewer — see the top of this file: there is no size or path exception.

Structural discovery access

Apply Code discovery routing from the project instructions. Use the available codegraph_explore capability for missing structural evidence, not as a mandatory preflight. Pass maxFiles to bound a large response. Continue with scoped native tools if unavailable.

Cross-model review (Codex second opinion)

For a second opinion from a different provider, after reviewer approves a non-trivial diff—or for a critical-area change—you MAY ask Codex to review it against AGENTS.md:

codex exec "revisa el diff origin/main...HEAD según los estándares del repo; inspecciona sin editar archivos ni hacer commits"

• Plain root codex exec does not select .codex/agents/reviewer.toml; its prompt is not a read-only boundary. Effective permissions and approvals depend on Codex configuration and host policy. Full Access can modify files and use the network; do not assume isolation or approvals.
• Authentication uses normal (possibly custom) CODEX_HOME, CODEX_API_KEY, or prior codex login; no credentials are copied. Do not pin --model.
• Advisory, not a gate: weigh findings against reviewer; they do not block the PR.

Use for criticalAreas, high-blast-radius changes, or user-requested cross-checks—not trivial diffs.

Engram (persistent memory)

• Session start: engram's SessionStart hook covers startup/clear/compact, not resume. Where memory is already injected, mem_context only re-fetches it. Where it is NOT — a resumed session or a host with no startup hook (e.g. Codex) — that call IS the memory startup and it's the mandatory first step.
• Before decomposing: mem_search the ticket's keywords with response_format: "compact"; mem_get_observation for the full body. Read a prior decision before dispatching the implementer.
• After each decision: mem_save with a descriptive title, a stable topic_key, and type from decision, architecture, bugfix, pattern, config, discovery. If a memory contradicts the code, fix it with mem_update.
• mem_save fails with multiple active runtime sessions match the current project and directory: upstream bug, not your content. Use the CLI: engram save "<title>" "<content>" --project <project> --type <type> --topic <topic_key>.
• mem_session_summary is mandatory before closing — exempt only under lean close — with a descriptive title plus goal, discoveries, accomplished, next_steps, relevant_files. It is the same redaction as the closeout's history.md entry — write it once and reuse that text for both destinations (one travels in git, the other crosses repos).
• Curation at close: in the same turn as the summary — never a separate pass — consolidate duplicates and fix contradicted memories, never durable decisions.
• Lean close: the summary and the curation step are exempt; mem_save is not.
• Auto Memory vs. engram: Auto Memory holds personal preferences; engram holds durable knowledge. Never write the same fact to both.

Project rules