# orchestration

> Claude/Codex skill by [@stablyai](https://github.com/stablyai) · 96k stars · 330k installs · Updated 2026-10-18

Coordinate supervised Orca workers: threaded messages, blocking ask/reply, task dispatch, worker\_done/escalation waits, task DAGs, decision gates, coordinator loops, and decomposing work across agents. Use \`orca-cli\` for full ownership handoffs — "hand off", "handoff", "handover", "give this to another agent", "another worktree" — unless asked to supervise, monitor, or coordinate a DAG, and for terminal control, lightweight terminal prompts, shell commands, Orca worktree management, and reading or waiting on terminals.

Tags: ade, agent-ide, ai-agents, claude-code, cli, codex, cursor-agent, devtools, ghostty, ide, mobile-app, opencode, orchestration, parallel-agents, pi, terminal, worktrees, yc-backed

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/stablyai/orca /tmp/orca && ln -s /tmp/orca/skills/orchestration ~/.claude/skills/orchestration
```

## From README

Orca Orchestration This file is a discovery stub, not the guide. The full, version-matched Orca orchestration reference is served by the orca binary itself — kept out of this file on purpose so it can never drift from the binary that will actually run your commands. Engage Orca orchestration whenever you need structured multi-agent coordination: threaded messages, blocking ask/reply flows, task dispatch, workerdone/escalation waits, task DAGs, decision gates, coordinator loops, or decomposing work across agents. Use the orca-cli skill instead for full ownership handoffs ("hand off", "handoff", "handover", "give this to another agent", "another worktree") when the user did not ask to supervise, monitor, wait for results, or coordinate a DAG — and for ordinary terminal control, shell commands, worktree management, and the built-in browser. Coordination requires real Orca runtime state; never substitute a non-Orca subagent tool.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/skills/stablyai/orca/orchestration/
- GitHub: https://github.com/stablyai/orca
- Author: [@stablyai](https://github.com/stablyai)

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