orchestrate

Orchestrate is a rigorous, multi-phase development skill designed to manage the complexity of building significant new features within a codebase. It enforces a structured pipeline that ensures quality through validation gates, preventing common pitfalls such as lack of planning, scope creep, or inadequate code reviews. By mandating a transition from research and confidence-scoring to planning and step-by-step implementation, the skill guides Claude to maintain architectural integrity across cross-cutting changes. It is particularly effective for features involving multiple file modifications, unclear requirements, or the introduction of new design patterns that require systematic oversight.

• Phase-based development lifecycle including Research, Plan, Implement, and Review stages.

• Built-in confidence-scoring gates to prevent premature implementation on poorly understood requirements.

• Mandatory planning phase requiring the listing of file changes, risk analysis, and explicit user approval before execution.

• Quality gate enforcement at five-edit intervals during implementation to ensure code integrity.

• Specialized agent selection (scout, orchestrator, reviewer, debugger) based on the specific needs of each phase.

• Automatic integration with persistent memory patterns, ensuring that lessons learned in one session inform future development efforts.

• Best suited for features touching five or more files, architecture-heavy updates, or complex logic requiring cross-cutting concerns like authentication or error handling.

• Not recommended for single-file changes, quick bug fixes, or well-documented, routine tasks.

• Expects input in the form of a high-level feature request, which initiates the Research phase via the scout agent.

• Outputs consist of structured project plans, validated code diffs, and documented technical decisions captured at the conclusion of the Review phase.

• Leverages the wider Pro-Workflow ecosystem to provide self-correcting memory, context management, and cost tracking during execution.