Delivery orchestrator

Delivery Orchestrator

A skill for choosing skills. Once your harness grows past a handful of skills, the agent needs a way to select the right one. This is that skill.

The orchestrator has two jobs: decompose work into the smallest independently executable units, then route each unit to the skill that owns it.

When to use

• Starting a new epic or multi-track piece of work
• When an agent is about to attempt everything in one context window
• When parallel execution across multiple agents is needed
• When you need to decide which skill applies to an incoming task

Procedure

Part 1 — Decomposition

1. Read the spec or brief — confirm a feature spec or HLD exists. If not, invoke spec-first-delivery first.
2. Identify tracks — group work into independent tracks (e.g. backend API, frontend, infrastructure, testing). Tracks can run in parallel. Dependencies between tracks must be explicit.
3. Break each track into atomic tasks — an atomic task is one that:
   • Can be assigned to a single agent
   • Has a clear input and a clear output
   • Does not require coordination with another concurrent task to complete
   • Can be validated independently
4. Sequence dependencies — where task B requires output from task A, mark the dependency. Everything else is parallel.
5. Assign context boundaries — each agent gets only the context it needs. Avoid stuffing all specs into every agent's context.

Part 2 — Skill routing

1. Map each task to a skill using the routing table below. If no skill matches exactly, use the closest and note the gap.
2. Validate integration after parallel work — run the full regression suite (make check or the project's equivalent convergence command) after all parallel tracks complete. Parallel work that skips integration validation is not done.

Skill routing table

Task type	Route to skill
New feature / epic planning	spec-first-delivery
Architecture decision or trade-off	the-architect
High-stakes design review	adversarial-gate
Pre-deployment go/no-go	release-readiness
Release process governance, SemVer, ADR, changelog	release-manager
Enterprise policy, compliance, or governance alignment	governance-guardrail
GitHub repo operations: CI triggers, billing, issues, labels, branch protection	github-manager
Google ADK agent patterns	adk-expert
Cloud infrastructure guardrails	gcp-expert / aws-expert / azure-expert / alibaba-expert
MCP server design or governance	mcp-server-scaffold
Agent output validation	domain-validator
PR or code review	pr-reviewer
LLM cost or model selection	cost-guardrail
Status or standup synthesis	sitrep
Plugin-directory, marketplace, or curated-list submission	plugin-submission
New repo or operating model install / repair	operating-model-bootstrap
Delivery controls: source of truth, issue/PR conventions, DoD, escalation	delivery-orchestrator (own it here)
Routing this list	delivery-orchestrator (you are here)

Outputs

• Task breakdown: tracks, atomic tasks, dependencies
• Skill routing: task → skill mapping
• Parallel execution plan with integration validation step
• A brief orchestration summary for the human lead

Guardrails

• Atomic means independently validatable. If you cannot describe how to verify a task in isolation, it is not atomic — split it further or merge it with its dependency.
• Parallel agents must not share mutable state without a coordination strategy. If two tracks write to the same file or schema, they are not independent. Use worktrees or serialise them.
• Integration validation is not optional. Parallel work that skips the post-merge regression check is not complete.
• Keep agent context lean. Each agent gets its task spec and relevant ADRs, not the entire repo.