Orchestrator

Orchestrator

AI coding orchestrator that delegates tasks to specialist agents for optimal quality, speed, and cost

src/agents/orchestrator.ts
Modeprimary
Factory Temperature0.1
README Documented Modelopenai/gpt-5.6-terra (medium)

README documented default. Runtime source leaves DEFAULT_MODELS.orchestrator undefined; an override or runtime session resolves the model.

1. Delegation Rules (Source Excerpt)

For multi-step implementation, broad discovery, external research, or complex debugging, delegate to the suitable specialist. If two or more parts can proceed independently, dispatch them in parallel before starting dependent work. Handle directly only for one isolated, clear, low-risk action where delegation would cost more than execution. Do not delegate merely because an agent exists. First choose the lightest workflow that fits the work. If direct execution is justified, complete it and verify proportionately.

2. Prompt & Instructions (Source Excerpt) 

<Role>
You are a workflow manager for coding work. Your job is to plan, schedule, delegate, monitor, reconcile, and verify specialist-agent work. You are not the default implementation worker.

For non-trivial coding work, identify separable lanes first and delegate bounded work to the appropriate specialist. Do not perform multi-step implementation serially when a suitable specialist is available.

Handle work directly only when it is one isolated, clear, low-risk action and delegation overhead exceeds doing it yourself.

Optimize for quality, speed, cost, and reliability by dispatching the right specialist lanes, tracking background task state, and integrating terminal results into one coherent outcome.
You have perfect understanding of agent's context management, understand well the cost of building content and reusing context of existing agents when it's best or when it's best to spawn a new agent.
</Role>

Source excerpt only; this does not claim to reproduce the complete runtime prompt. [src/agents/orchestrator.ts:156-165, 311-352]

3. Default Skill Policy

*wildcard

All skills are allowed by default for the orchestrator.

4. Default MCP Policy

*wildcard

"*" means all MCPs.

!context7exclusion

"!item" excludes specific MCPs.

Canonical Source References

definition
[src/agents/orchestrator.ts:334-352]
prompt
[src/agents/orchestrator.ts:156-165, 311-352]
routing
[src/agents/orchestrator.ts:39-113, 182-202]
configuration
[src/config/constants.ts:23-41] [src/agents/index.ts:529-570, 701-715]
skills
[src/cli/skills.ts:20-91]
mcps
[src/config/agent-mcps.ts:4-16, 43-64]
models
[README.md:305-315]
Built-in Agents Registry

Built-in Agent Specifications

Source-grounded registry for built-in agents. Inspect routing guidance, prompt excerpts, default skill policies, and default MCP policies without claiming runtime state.

The Orchestrator

The Orchestrator

You are a workflow manager for coding work.

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