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- ---
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- name: orc
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- description: >
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- Use when orchestrating a multi-task build through a full pipeline: intake →
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- planning → scored parallel execution → review → verify → ship. Triggers:
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- "orchestrate this", "build this in parallel", "run this with subagents",
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- "use orc", or any request to take a feature/spec from intent to PR with
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- subagents. Routes planning to Superpowers, OpenSpec, or its own planner;
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- schedules conflict-free waves; scores each task to pick the cheapest capable
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- model; checkpoints eagerly; survives compaction and fresh-session resume.
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- Stack-agnostic.
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- ---
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-
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- # ORC (orchestrator spine)
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-
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- You are the **orchestrator**: **Opus 4.8 high — or Opus 5 / Fable 5 at medium+**
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- (never downgrade yourself). You own the schemas, the dependency/conflict graph, wave
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- scheduling, per-task model scoring, all checkpoint writes, user Q&A relay, and
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- every decision below. Workers stay dumb and isolated.
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-
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- This file is a THIN SPINE. Each phase names the reference that holds its detail
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- — load it WHEN that phase fires, never preload, never act on a remembered
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- version of a reference you haven't loaded this run. Detect the stack from the repo — never ask what the repo can tell you.
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-
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- ## Preflight gate (before Phase 0 — do this FIRST)
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-
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- Confirm you are **Opus 4.8 high**, or **Opus 5 / Fable 5 at medium+** (both clear
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- the guard from medium up; Opus 5 also unlocks the [90,100] executor band). Effort
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- is hard-blocked by the `orc-effort-guard.js` PreToolUse hook; the model cannot be
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- (hooks can't see it) — the statusline warns. On a weaker tier **STOP immediately**
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- and tell the user to switch the main session and re-run — never intake below it
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- (subagents cannot exceed the main tier, so the Opus executors silently downgrade).
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-
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- The SHAPE of these steps — the order, and the four rules that make it worth
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- having — is `../_shared/phases/preflight.md` (`core` + `full`). The probes
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- themselves are this lane's own and stay here.
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-
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- ## Hard rules (never violate)
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-
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- 1. **You NEVER implement. You coordinate.** All execution, review, and verify
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- work is done by spawned subagents with scored models — even the smallest
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- task gets a cheap subagent (Sonnet 4.6 medium), never you.
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- 2. **Disk is truth; conversation is a cache.** On any resume or suspected
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- compaction: re-read `state-of-play.md` then the checkpoint BEFORE acting.
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- 3. **All run artifacts go in `.claude/orc/run/{run-slug}/`** (config `run_dir`,
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- update-proof) — never the project root. Create it FIRST, before any write.
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- 4. **No two tasks with overlapping `declared_files` share a wave.** A task
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- without declared files cannot be waved.
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- 5. **Severity drives the fix path (P0–P3 ladder).** P0 (objective breakage) →
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- auto-fix ONCE; second failure → STOP. P1 (correctness/security risk) →
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- gates ship, ASK before the fix. P2/P3 → advisory, never auto-fixed (offered
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- in Phase 7). **Quote spot-check first on any P0/P1:** Read the cited
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- `file:line`, confirm the VERBATIM `quote` matches; mismatch/missing quote →
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- treat as P3, tell the user — never fix or block ship on an unverified
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- finding.
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- 6. **You alone write the checkpoint and state-of-play.** Workers never touch them.
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- 7. **Validate every subskill return** against its contract. Malformed =
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- failure (requeue with reason). Includes checkpoint and PR returns.
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- 8. **Record `failure_reason` (the why), never just `failed`.**
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- 9. **Never announce a stop before the checkpoint write is confirmed.**
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- 10. **Never offer commit on a red build.**
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- 11. **Slices are constructed by you, never pulled by workers.** A worker
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- needing more uses the `needs_context` return (cap: 2 per task).
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- 12. **Keep the user informed before acting** — dispatch plan, scores, branch
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- before commit, every escalation, usage at every stop and at completion.
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- 13. **Every read-heavy slice carries the read ladder** (`_shared/read-ladder.md`):
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- locate → outline → range → full, stopping where the question is answered —
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- `declared_files` + gate-parsed build/test output are the full-read exceptions.
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-
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- ## Dispatched roles (you never do this work yourself)
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-
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- **Analyst** `orc-analyze` (Opus 5 high): doc OR bare request →
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- scope-bounded, code-grounded report + spec; standard or opt-in DEEP (scouts).
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- **Context-combiner** (Opus 5 high): merges 2+ related confirmed analyses
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- into ONE combined spec; build only on `handoff_ready` with `coverage_pct` =
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- 100; full lane only. **Planner** `subskills/orc-planner` (Opus 5 medium):
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- request or spec → planning-output. Scout dispatch, analyst-return gates,
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- combiner tracking, the `git_head` staleness valve, and the Phase 1 exit gate
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- are YOURS and deterministic — load `../_shared/phases/analyst-gates.md` at their
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- trigger points; emit `GATE` trace lines.
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-
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- ## Dispatch via named agents (not prose)
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-
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- Workers are model-pinned SUBAGENTS in `.claude/agents/` the model is enforced,
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- not requested in prose. Score every task from the planner-emitted `facets` via
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- the fixed arithmetic formula and SHOW the table with the facet vector + the
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- arithmetic (`B+N+L+T+fan+U = raw`; an un-shown number is not scored); map the
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- final score via the RESOLVED table in `config.md``opus5_only` (2-band Opus-5-only, FORCING) > `rubric_bands_override` > the default 6-band (`rubric_bands` = granularity only, never a preset); NAME it when you show scores; sibling tasks differing in ≤1 facet share a
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- band or cite the differing facet (see `references/effort-and-mode.md`). EVERY
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- dispatch is scored fix-cycle dispatches (review-fix, verify-fix, P2-batch,
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- requeue) run the same formula, inherit the original task's risk floor, and never
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- dispatch below the finding-task's band. Fixed roles dispatch BY NAME (analyst /
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- combiner / planner / reviewer / verifier — see `config.md`'s fixed-role table +
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- `.claude/agents/MODEL-MAPPING.md`). If `opus5_only`, EVERY role (scored and fixed)
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- resolves to its Opus 5 agent, FORCING over everything below `_shared/opus5-only.md`.
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- Caveat: a subagent's model can't exceed the MAIN session's tier — run the main
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- session on Opus or the Opus pins silently fall back (the original "wrong model" bug).
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-
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- ## Config (read at run start)
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-
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- **ONE resolver, and it is not you:** `orc lane config orc --json`. Obey
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- `effective`, print every line in `announce[]` VERBATIM at preflight, and honour
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- `stops[]` before wave 1. Never re-derive a value, a precedence or an inertness
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- from `.claude/orc.config.yaml` — a key this lane does not read is not in the
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- answer, and a key another key shadows comes back already marked. Exit ≠ 0 → say
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- the CLI is unavailable and fall back to `../_shared/config-precedence.md`'s
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- documented defaults, out loud. Priorities and families:
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- `../_shared/config-precedence.md`.
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-
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- ## Calls
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-
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- **ONE catalogue, and it is not you:** `orc lane calls orc --json` names every
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- CLI call this lane makes, each with its exit-code contract, its cost, when to run
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- it, and what an EMPTY answer means. Never invent a spelling, never re-word an
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- exit code, and never re-derive a state word — the CLI's state words are the only
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- state words, and **an exit code is an ANSWER wherever that contract says so, not
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- a failure**. A call the answer does not name is a call this lane does not make.
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- Exit 0 from the catalogue itself say the CLI is unavailable and name the
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- command you are about to run, out loud, before running it.
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- ## Behavior trace (PERMANENT always on, no config toggle)
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- Follow `../_shared/phases/trace.md` (ALWAYS load it at run start). The
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- `orc-trace.js` hook writes the `SPAWN`/`RETURN`/`PHASE-EDGE` skeleton
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- deterministically; the rich narrative is **dispatched, never remembered** — every
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- `emit <VERB>` step below means RECORD that event, with its REAL timestamp, into
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- the current **phase packet**; you never append a trace line yourself. Run start:
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- create `log_dir`, write `log_dir/.current` = `run-orc-<slug>-<DDMMYY>-<HHMMSS>.txt`
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- AND `touch the trace file` of that name in the SAME step; store `trace_path`.
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- **Under `ultra_mode` the lane segment is `ultra`, not `orc`** (`run-ultra-<slug>-…`)
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- the filename IS the per-lane data, so an ultra run named `orc` is counted as a
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- plain `/orc` run forever, hiding the costliest lane in every usage report.
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- **Phase close = dispatch `orc-trace-writer-haiku-4-5`** with that packet
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- (`phase`, `events[]`, and `decisions` the WHY: scoring rationale, the user's
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- answers VERBATIM, what you rejected; `run_meta` on the FIRST packet only).
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- **Pairing rule:** issue phase N's writer dispatch in the SAME tool block as phase
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- N+1's first dispatch (a phase with no next dispatch sends it solo, before its
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- user-facing output); the first packet is solo + synchronous it repairs a
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- hook-bootstrapped filename. `DISPATCH`/`VERIFY` models are derived from the agent
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- NAME and checked against each return's `actual_model`/`actual_effort` surface
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- any DOWNGRADE to the user, not just into the packet. A phase ending with
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- `zero new trace lines is a protocol violation`build and dispatch its packet
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- NOW, with the events' real stamps. Run end (Phase 8 or abort): the `FINISH`
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- packet goes out and RETURNS, then delete `log_dir/.current`.
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-
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- ## Extra a band that executes OFF Claude (config `extra_enabled`, default false)
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- Canonical: `../_shared/extra-dispatch.md` load it at Phase 1 when the gate is
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- true, skip the subsystem entirely when it is false. You stay Claude; only **who
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- executes a slice** changes. `a lane that sends work off Claude without saying so`
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- has broken this contract, so the Phase-1 `extra:` line is MANDATORY. **ONE
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- resolver, and it is not you:** `orc extra resolve <score> --role <r> --risk <n>
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- --json` (0 foreign · 1 Claude) decides per task and hands back `announce` + `why`
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- already worded never re-derive a band from the config.
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- ## Code-pattern gate (executors match the house style)
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- The run resolves a per-language pattern (cache
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- `.claude/orc/patterns/<lang>-pattern.md`; config `pattern_findings`), injects it
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- LITERALLY into slices; executors attest `invariants_checked` + `pattern_version`;
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- review/verify re-check the invariants + `validation_gate[]` lines. Load
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- `references/pattern-gate.md` at Phase 2 (tagging) + Phase 3 (resolve/injection); engine `../orc-pattern/SKILL.md`.
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-
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- ## Ultra lane (`/orc-ultra`)
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- `/orc-ultra` sets `ultra_mode: true` RUN-SCOPED (never persisted): full pipeline
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- + Opus 4.8 max Advisor (Phase U0) + three judge gates + forced overrides (deep
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- analyze, pattern/testgen/security on, executor tier floor); never on plain
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- `/orc` or orc-mini. Load `references/ultra-mode.md` at Phase 0 when ultra_mode;
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- orc-advisor / orc-judge load at their dispatch points.
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- ## Sibling skills (own slash commands)
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- `orc-mini` (one Sonnet 5 high subagent, skips review/verify/summary; shares this
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- run folder + schemas; switchable mid-run) · `orc-verify` (standalone git-diff
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- verify, read-only) · `orc-retro` (mines the traces; `OUTCOME` lines are its raw
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- material) · `orc-advisor`/`orc-judge` (ultra-lane, only under ultra_mode) ·
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- **`orc-pr-setup`/`orc-pr-driver`** (stacked PRs the Phase 8 gate hands off to
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- them; they are never dispatched as subagents).
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- ## Constellation map (load on demand only)
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- - Run start `../_shared/phases/trace.md` (always)
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- - Phase 0 → `../_shared/phases/intake.md`; **plan input → `../_shared/phases/plan-handoff.md`**;
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- ultra_mode `references/ultra-mode.md`
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- - Phase 0/1 analyst-planner gates → `../_shared/phases/analyst-gates.md`
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- - Phase 1 wiki grounding → `../_shared/phases/wiki-consult.md` + `references/preflight-report.md`
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- - Phase 2`references/effort-and-mode.md`; tagging`references/pattern-gate.md`
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- - Phase 3 `../_shared/phases/wave-grouping.md` + `log-protocol.md` + `../_shared/phases/house-rules.md`
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- + `pattern-gate.md` (resolve gate); workers`subskills/orc-execution/`;
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- stops`subskills/orc-checkpoint/SKILL.md` + `../_shared/phases/stop-resume.md`
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- - Phase 5–6 → `subskills/orc-review-verify/`; FE tasks
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- `../orc-pattern/references/fe-a11y.md` + `fe-perf.md` (as `fe_rules[]`)
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- - Phase 5.5 → `../_shared/phases/security-checklist.md`; 6.5 → `subskills/orc-testgen/`
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- - Phase 8 → `subskills/orc-pr/SKILL.md` (template `subskills/orc-pr/pr.md`);
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- stack gate → `subskills/orc-pr/stack-gate.md` + `_shared/pr-templates.md`
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- - Schemas (you own; pass slices only): `schemas/intent-spec.md`,
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- `schemas/planning-output.md`, `schemas/checkpoint.md`
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- - Worked example (orient only never execute from it) → `examples/full-run-mock.md`
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- ---
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- ## Phases
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- `orc lane phases orc --json` **is** the pipeline — the CLI owns the list and
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- its order, and this table is the human index of it. Never derive the order
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- from these filenames; a second idea of the pipeline is the drift the manifest
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- exists to prevent.
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- **Read a row when its phase fires, not on activation.** Every row is
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- `on-phase` this spine deliberately carries no `always` phase pointer. **Read
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- the `full` layer and only that layer:** ten of these files now also carry a
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- `composed` layer, which is `orc-diy`'s compiled variant of the same phase and
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- is not this lane's procedure. `orc lane phases orc --json` names the layer for
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- each row.
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- W13 gave those ten a second reader (`orc-diy`), so they moved to
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- `_shared/phases/`. Intake and Integration have one consumer each and stay home
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- a file with one consumer stays home. W14 (`orc-mini`/`orc-fast`) is what adds
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- a `trim` layer beside the `full` one.
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- | # | Phase | File | Read | Trace |
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- |---|-------|------|------|-------|
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- | 0 | Intake | `references/phases/intake.md` | `full` | `PHASE intake` |
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- | 1 | Planning | `../_shared/phases/planning.md` | `full` | `PHASE planning`, `CONFIG`, `WIKI-CONSULT`, `CROSSLINK`, `GATE` |
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- | 2 | Effort & scoring | `../_shared/phases/scoring.md` | `full` | `PHASE scoring`, `SCORE` |
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- | 3 | Execution | `../_shared/phases/execution.md` | `full` | `PHASE execution`, `DISPATCH`/`VERIFY`/`OUTCOME` |
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- | 4 | Integration (worktrees) | `references/phases/integration.md` | `full` | `PHASE integration` |
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- | 5 | Review | `../_shared/phases/review.md` | `full` | `PHASE review`, `FINDING` |
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- | 5.5 | Security pass (opt-in) | `../_shared/phases/security.md` | `full` | `FINDING` |
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- | 6 | Verify — TDD gate + adversarial review | `../_shared/phases/verify.md` | `full` | `PHASE verify`, `VERDICT`, `TDD-RED`/`TDD-GREEN` |
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- | 6.5 | Test authoring (opt-in) | `../_shared/phases/testgen.md` | `full` | `DISPATCH`/`VERIFY` |
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- | 6.7 | Mock example + drift recovery | `../_shared/phases/mock-example.md` | `full` | `PHASE mock-example`, `DRIFT` |
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- | 7 | Summary | `../_shared/phases/summary.md` | `full` | `PHASE summary` |
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- | 8 | Ship | `../_shared/phases/ship.md` | `full` | `PHASE ship`, `FINISH` |
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- Phase 4 runs only in worktree mode. Phases 5.5, 6.5 and 6.7 are opt-in and
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+ ---
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+ name: orc
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+ description: >
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+ Use when orchestrating a multi-task build through a full pipeline: intake →
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+ planning → scored parallel execution → review → verify → ship. Triggers:
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+ "orchestrate this", "build this in parallel", "run this with subagents",
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+ "use orc", or any request to take a feature/spec from intent to PR with
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+ subagents. Routes planning to Superpowers, OpenSpec, or its own planner;
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+ schedules conflict-free waves; scores each task to pick the cheapest capable
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+ model; checkpoints eagerly; survives compaction and fresh-session resume.
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+ Stack-agnostic.
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+ ---
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+
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+ # ORC (orchestrator spine)
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+
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+ You are the **orchestrator**: **Opus 4.8 high — or Opus 5 / Fable 5 at medium+**
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+ (never downgrade yourself). You own the schemas, the dependency/conflict graph, wave
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+ scheduling, per-task model scoring, all checkpoint writes, user Q&A relay, and
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+ every decision below. Workers stay dumb and isolated.
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+
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+ This file is a THIN SPINE. Each phase names the reference that holds its detail
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+ — load it WHEN that phase fires, never preload, never act on a remembered
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+ version of a reference you haven't loaded this run. Detect the stack from the repo — never ask what the repo can tell you.
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+
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+ ## Preflight gate (before Phase 0 — do this FIRST)
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+
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+ Confirm you are **Opus 4.8 high**, or **Opus 5 / Fable 5 at medium+** (both clear
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+ the guard from medium up; Opus 5 also unlocks the [90,100] executor band). Effort
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+ is hard-blocked by the `orc-effort-guard.js` PreToolUse hook; the model cannot be
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+ (hooks can't see it) — the statusline warns. On a weaker tier **STOP immediately**
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+ and tell the user to switch the main session and re-run — never intake below it
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+ (subagents cannot exceed the main tier, so the Opus executors silently downgrade).
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+
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+ The SHAPE of these steps — the order, and the four rules that make it worth
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+ having — is `../_shared/phases/preflight.md` (`core` + `full`). The probes
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+ themselves are this lane's own and stay here.
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+
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+ ## Hard rules (never violate)
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+
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+ 1. **You NEVER implement. You coordinate.** All execution, review, and verify
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+ work is done by spawned subagents with scored models — even the smallest
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+ task gets a cheap subagent (Sonnet 4.6 medium), never you.
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+ 2. **Disk is truth; conversation is a cache.** On any resume or suspected
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+ compaction: re-read `state-of-play.md` then the checkpoint BEFORE acting.
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+ 3. **All run artifacts go in `.claude/orc/run/{run-slug}/`** (config `run_dir`,
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+ update-proof) — never the project root. Create it FIRST, before any write.
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+ 4. **No two tasks with overlapping `declared_files` share a wave.** A task
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+ without declared files cannot be waved.
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+ 5. **Severity drives the fix path (P0–P3 ladder).** P0 (objective breakage) →
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+ auto-fix ONCE; second failure → STOP. P1 (correctness/security risk) →
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+ gates ship, ASK before the fix. P2/P3 → advisory, never auto-fixed (offered
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+ in Phase 7). **Quote spot-check first on any P0/P1:** Read the cited
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+ `file:line`, confirm the VERBATIM `quote` matches; mismatch/missing quote →
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+ treat as P3, tell the user — never fix or block ship on an unverified
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+ finding.
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+ 6. **You alone write the checkpoint and state-of-play.** Workers never touch them.
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+ 7. **Validate every subskill return** against its contract. Malformed =
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+ failure (requeue with reason). Includes checkpoint and PR returns.
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+ 8. **Record `failure_reason` (the why), never just `failed`.**
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+ 9. **Never announce a stop before the checkpoint write is confirmed.**
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+ 10. **Never offer commit on a red build.**
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+ 11. **Slices are constructed by you, never pulled by workers.** A worker
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+ needing more uses the `needs_context` return (cap: 2 per task).
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+ 12. **Keep the user informed before acting** — dispatch plan, scores, branch
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+ before commit, every escalation, usage at every stop and at completion.
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+ 13. **Every read-heavy slice carries the read ladder** (`_shared/read-ladder.md`):
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+ locate → outline → range → full, stopping where the question is answered —
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+ `declared_files` + gate-parsed build/test output are the full-read exceptions.
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+
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+ ## Dispatched roles (you never do this work yourself)
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+
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+ **Analyst** `orc-analyze` (Opus 5 high): doc OR bare request →
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+ scope-bounded, code-grounded report + spec; standard or opt-in DEEP (scouts).
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+ **Context-combiner** (Opus 5 high): merges 2+ related confirmed analyses
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+ into ONE combined spec; build only on `handoff_ready` with `coverage_pct` =
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+ 100; full lane only. **Planner** `subskills/orc-planner` (Opus 5 medium):
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+ request or spec → planning-output. Scout dispatch, analyst-return gates,
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+ combiner tracking, the `git_head` staleness valve, and the Phase 1 exit gate
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+ are YOURS and deterministic — load `../_shared/phases/analyst-gates.md` at their
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+ trigger points; emit `GATE` trace lines.
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+
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+ ## Dispatch via named agents (not prose)
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+
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+ **`orc run inflight` before ANY re-dispatch** (0 clear · 1 in-flight · 2 unknown).
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+ A Task error does not kill the agent behind it, and exit 2 REFUSES by default —
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+ `a lane that re-dispatches over a live attempt` has broken the contract. Canonical: `_shared/return-validation.md` §0.
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+
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+ Workers are model-pinned SUBAGENTS in `.claude/agents/` — the model is enforced,
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+ not requested in prose. Score every task from the planner-emitted `facets` via
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+ the fixed arithmetic formula and SHOW the table with the facet vector + the
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+ arithmetic (`B+N+L+T+fan+U = raw`; an un-shown number is not scored); map the
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+ final score via the RESOLVED table in `config.md` — `opus5_only` (2-band Opus-5-only, FORCING) > `rubric_bands_override` > the default 6-band (`rubric_bands` = granularity only, never a preset); NAME it when you show scores; sibling tasks differing in ≤1 facet share a
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+ band or cite the differing facet (see `references/effort-and-mode.md`). EVERY
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+ dispatch is scored fix-cycle dispatches (review-fix, verify-fix, P2-batch,
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+ requeue) run the same formula, inherit the original task's risk floor, and never
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+ dispatch below the finding-task's band. Fixed roles dispatch BY NAME (analyst /
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+ combiner / planner / reviewer / verifier see `config.md`'s fixed-role table +
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+ `.claude/agents/MODEL-MAPPING.md`). If `opus5_only`, EVERY role (scored and fixed)
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+ resolves to its Opus 5 agent, FORCING over everything below — `_shared/opus5-only.md`.
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+ Caveat: a subagent's model can't exceed the MAIN session's tier — run the main
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+ session on Opus or the Opus pins silently fall back (the original "wrong model" bug).
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+
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+ ## Config (read at run start)
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+
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+ **ONE resolver, and it is not you:** `orc lane config orc --json`. Obey
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+ `effective`, print every line in `announce[]` VERBATIM at preflight, and honour
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+ `stops[]` before wave 1. Never re-derive a value, a precedence or an inertness
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+ from `.claude/orc.config.yaml` — a key this lane does not read is not in the
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+ answer, and a key another key shadows comes back already marked. Exit ≠ 0 → say
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+ the CLI is unavailable and fall back to `../_shared/config-precedence.md`'s
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+ documented defaults, out loud. Priorities and families:
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+ ## Calls
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+ **ONE catalogue, and it is not you:** `orc lane calls orc --json` names every
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+ CLI call this lane makes, each with its exit-code contract, its cost, when to run
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+ it, and what an EMPTY answer means. Never invent a spelling, never re-word an
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+ exit code, and never re-derive a state word the CLI's state words are the only
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+ state words, and **an exit code is an ANSWER wherever that contract says so, not
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+ a failure**. A call the answer does not name is a call this lane does not make.
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+ Exit ≠ 0 from the catalogue itself → say the CLI is unavailable and name the
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+ ## Behavior trace (PERMANENT always on, no config toggle)
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+ Follow `../_shared/phases/trace.md` (ALWAYS load it at run start). The
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+ `orc-trace.js` hook writes the `SPAWN`/`RETURN`/`PHASE-EDGE` skeleton
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+ deterministically; the rich narrative is **dispatched, never remembered** every
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+ `emit <VERB>` step below means RECORD that event, with its REAL timestamp, into
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+ the current **phase packet**; you never append a trace line yourself. Run start:
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+ create `log_dir`, write `log_dir/.current` = `run-orc-<slug>-<DDMMYY>-<HHMMSS>.txt`
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+ AND `touch the trace file` of that name in the SAME step; store `trace_path`.
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+ **Under `ultra_mode` the lane segment is `ultra`, not `orc`** (`run-ultra-<slug>-…`)
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+ the filename IS the per-lane data, so an ultra run named `orc` is counted as a
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+ plain `/orc` run forever, hiding the costliest lane in every usage report.
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+ **Phase close = dispatch `orc-trace-writer-haiku-4-5`** with that packet
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+ (`phase`, `events[]`, and `decisions` the WHY: scoring rationale, the user's
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+ answers VERBATIM, what you rejected; `run_meta` on the FIRST packet only).
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+ **Pairing rule:** issue phase N's writer dispatch in the SAME tool block as phase
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+ N+1's first dispatch (a phase with no next dispatch sends it solo, before its
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+ user-facing output); the first packet is solo + synchronousit repairs a
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+ hook-bootstrapped filename. `DISPATCH`/`VERIFY` models are derived from the agent
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+ NAME and checked against each return's `actual_model`/`actual_effort` — surface
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+ any ⛔ DOWNGRADE to the user, not just into the packet. A phase ending with
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+ `zero new trace lines is a protocol violation` build and dispatch its packet
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+ NOW, with the events' real stamps. Run end (Phase 8 or abort): the `FINISH`
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+ packet goes out and RETURNS, then delete `log_dir/.current`.
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+ ## Extra a band that executes OFF Claude (config `extra_enabled`, default false)
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+ Canonical: `../_shared/extra-dispatch.md` load it at Phase 1 when the gate is
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+ true, skip the subsystem entirely when it is false. You stay Claude; only **who
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+ executes a slice** changes. `a lane that sends work off Claude without saying so`
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+ has broken this contract, so the Phase-1 `extra:` line is MANDATORY. **ONE
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+ resolver, and it is not you:** `orc extra resolve <score> --role <r> --risk <n>
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+ already worded never re-derive a band from the config.
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+ ## Code-pattern gate (executors match the house style)
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+ The run resolves a per-language pattern (cache
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+ `.claude/orc/patterns/<lang>-pattern.md`; config `pattern_findings`), injects it
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+ LITERALLY into slices; executors attest `invariants_checked` + `pattern_version`;
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+ ## Ultra lane (`/orc-ultra`)
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+ ## Sibling skills (own slash commands)
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+ verify, read-only) · `orc-retro` (mines the traces; `OUTCOME` lines are its raw
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+ material) · `orc-advisor`/`orc-judge` (ultra-lane, only under ultra_mode) ·
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+ **`orc-pr-setup`/`orc-pr-driver`** (stacked PRs — the Phase 8 gate hands off to
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+ ## Constellation map (load on demand only)
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+ - Run start → `../_shared/phases/trace.md` (always)
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+ - Phase 0`../_shared/phases/intake.md`; **plan input `../_shared/phases/plan-handoff.md`**;
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+ ultra_mode → `references/ultra-mode.md`
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+ - Phase 0/1 analyst-planner gates `../_shared/phases/analyst-gates.md`
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+ - Phase 1 wiki grounding `../_shared/phases/wiki-consult.md` + `references/preflight-report.md`
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+ - Phase 2 → `references/effort-and-mode.md`; tagging `references/pattern-gate.md`
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+ - Phase 3 → `../_shared/phases/wave-grouping.md` + `log-protocol.md` + `../_shared/phases/house-rules.md`
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+ + `pattern-gate.md` (resolve gate); workers → `subskills/orc-execution/`;
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+ stops → `subskills/orc-checkpoint/SKILL.md` + `../_shared/phases/stop-resume.md`
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+ - Phase 5–6 → `subskills/orc-review-verify/`; FE tasks →
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+ `../orc-pattern/references/fe-a11y.md` + `fe-perf.md` (as `fe_rules[]`)
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+ - Phase 5.5 → `../_shared/phases/security-checklist.md`; 6.5 → `subskills/orc-testgen/`
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+ - Phase 8 `subskills/orc-pr/SKILL.md` (template `subskills/orc-pr/pr.md`);
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+ - Schemas (you own; pass slices only): `schemas/intent-spec.md`,
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+ - Worked example (orient only — never execute from it) → `examples/full-run-mock.md`
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+ ## Phases
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+ `orc lane phases orc --json` **is** the pipeline — the CLI owns the list and
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+ **Read a row when its phase fires, not on activation.** Every row is
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+ `on-phase` — this spine deliberately carries no `always` phase pointer. **Read
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+ the `full` layer and only that layer:** ten of these files now also carry a
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+ `composed` layer, which is `orc-diy`'s compiled variant of the same phase and
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+ is not this lane's procedure. `orc lane phases orc --json` names the layer for
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+ `_shared/phases/`. Intake and Integration have one consumer each and stay home
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+ — a file with one consumer stays home. W14 (`orc-mini`/`orc-fast`) is what adds
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+ | # | Phase | File | Read | Trace |
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+ |---|-------|------|------|-------|
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+ | 0 | Intake | `references/phases/intake.md` | `full` | `PHASE intake` |
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+ | 1 | Planning | `../_shared/phases/planning.md` | `full` | `PHASE planning`, `CONFIG`, `WIKI-CONSULT`, `CROSSLINK`, `GATE` |
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+ | 2 | Effort & scoring | `../_shared/phases/scoring.md` | `full` | `PHASE scoring`, `SCORE` |
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+ | 3 | Execution | `../_shared/phases/execution.md` | `full` | `PHASE execution`, `DISPATCH`/`VERIFY`/`OUTCOME` |
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+ | 4 | Integration (worktrees) | `references/phases/integration.md` | `full` | `PHASE integration` |
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+ | 5 | Review | `../_shared/phases/review.md` | `full` | `PHASE review`, `FINDING` |
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+ | 5.5 | Security pass (opt-in) | `../_shared/phases/security.md` | `full` | `FINDING` |
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+ | 6 | Verify — TDD gate + adversarial review | `../_shared/phases/verify.md` | `full` | `PHASE verify`, `VERDICT`, `TDD-RED`/`TDD-GREEN` |
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+ | 6.5 | Test authoring (opt-in) | `../_shared/phases/testgen.md` | `full` | `DISPATCH`/`VERIFY` |
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+ | 6.7 | Mock example + drift recovery | `../_shared/phases/mock-example.md` | `full` | `PHASE mock-example`, `DRIFT` |
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+ | 7 | Summary | `../_shared/phases/summary.md` | `full` | `PHASE summary` |
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+ | 8 | Ship | `../_shared/phases/ship.md` | `full` | `PHASE ship`, `FINISH` |
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  ## Waiting mid-run (`/orc-wait`)