Agent skill

Vibe Workstream Orchestration

by ash1794 in ash1794/vibe-engineering

Runs a multi-phase project from an orchestrating main thread that plans, routes and verifies but does not build.

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Vibe Workstream Orchestration

skills CLI
$ npx skills add ash1794/vibe-engineering --skill vibe-workstream-orchestration -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install ash1794/vibe-engineering vibe-workstream-orchestration --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ash1794/vibe-engineering.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-workstream-orchestration .claude/skills/vibe-workstream-orchestration && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
vibe-workstream-orchestration
GitHub stars
163
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
597 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
33
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Runs a multi-phase project from an orchestrating main thread that plans, routes and verifies but does not build.

  • Works in 8 steps: Define workstreams by file ownership.… → Record the base. Note the base commit… → Brief once, for the whole phase. Each… → …
  • A project spans several phases
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use This Skill, When NOT to Use This Skill, Steps and Output Format
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Vibe Workstream Orchestration is an agent skill from ash1794/vibe-engineering. Runs a multi-phase project from an orchestrating main thread that plans, routes and verifies but does not build. Defines a few long-lived workstreams, each owning a file area end to end in its own worktree, and routes every follow-up to the owning agent instead of spawning a one-off. Covers base-SHA recording, rebase-before-commit, stale-checkout detection, and shared-machine hygiene (ports, processes, measurement noise). Use when a project spans several phases or sessions with three or more agents working at once.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development, covering Git worktrees. The repository describes itself as: 33 engineering discipline skills for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex & Gemini CLI + a CLI for CI/CD enforcement. Extracted from real-world multi-agent system development. Born from… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • A project spans several phases
  • Sessions with three
  • More agents working at once

Example prompts

  • “/vibe-workstream-orchestration”

Workflow steps

8 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Define workstreams by file ownership. Use three to eight streams, each owning a set of paths end to end. For each stream, write down…
  2. Record the base. Note the base commit SHA and branch for the phase. Each writing stream gets its own worktree (or clone) from that base…
  3. Brief once, for the whole phase. Each brief contains the ownership map, the gates, the commit rule ("rebase onto the remote branch…
  4. Owners do the whole loop. Each stream builds, verifies, commits and pushes its own work. Don't spawn separate committer, fixer, or…
  5. Route, don't spawn. Send each new request, review finding, or CI failure to the stream that owns the file, as a message to the running…
  6. Distrust every checkout. Before building or committing, compare the working tree to the remote branch. A clean local build can depend on…
  7. Keep the machine fair. Worktrees isolate files, not the machine. Give each agent a private port and a distinct server process. Record…
  8. Gate the combined head. After the streams land, run the full gates on the integrated commit, not per stream. Route failures back to their…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8f1d71b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Vibe Workstream Orchestration loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 138 tokens; SKILL.md has 597 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~138
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from ash1794/vibe-engineering at commit 8f1d71b, republished under its MIT licence (© ash1794). 597 words, ~1,121 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/vibe-workstream-orchestration/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
vibe-workstream-orchestration
description
Runs a multi-phase project from an orchestrating main thread that plans, routes and verifies but does not build. Defines a few long-lived workstreams, each owning a file area end to end in its own worktree, and routes every follow-up to the owning agent instead of spawning a one-off. Covers base-SHA recording, rebase-before-commit, stale-checkout detection, and shared-machine hygiene (ports, processes, measurement noise). Use when a project spans several phases or sessions with three or more agents working at once.
user-invocable
true

vibe-workstream-orchestration

vibe-parallel-task-decomposition answers "what can run at once?" This skill answers the next question: who owns what for the rest of the project, and what does the main thread do while they work? The main thread plans, routes and verifies. If it starts building, its context fills with detail and parallelism collapses. If it delegates reactively, every request becomes a new agent that needs a fresh brief, and nobody owns the result.

When to Use This Skill

  • A build runs over several phases (build, review, fix, QA) with three or more agents at once
  • The task list is filling with agents that did one thing (commit, fix one CI failure, write a PR description)
  • Agents are colliding: the same files, the same port, a branch moved under someone
  • The main thread's context is filling with build output instead of decisions

When NOT to Use This Skill

  • One agent can do the work in one sitting
  • A one-shot fan-out with no follow-ups (use vibe-parallel-task-decomposition)
  • The work is all in one file or in tightly coupled files
  • The harness can't message a running agent (define streams anyway, but expect to re-brief)

Steps

  1. Define workstreams by file ownership. Use three to eight streams, each owning a set of paths end to end. For each stream, write down: paths owned, acceptance criteria, gates it must pass, and paths it must not touch. Shared files (global styles, layout, config) get exactly one owner; other streams request changes to them through the orchestrator.

  2. Record the base. Note the base commit SHA and branch for the phase. Each writing stream gets its own worktree (or clone) from that base. Read-only agents (reviewers, auditors) can share one.

  3. Brief once, for the whole phase. Each brief contains the ownership map, the gates, the commit rule ("rebase onto the remote branch, rebuild, run gates, then push; never force"), and a bounded report format. Ask for conclusions, not file dumps.

  4. Owners do the whole loop. Each stream builds, verifies, commits and pushes its own work. Don't spawn separate committer, fixer, or description-writer agents.

  5. Route, don't spawn. Send each new request, review finding, or CI failure to the stream that owns the file, as a message to the running agent. Spawn a new agent only for a new file area or a new phase.

  6. Distrust every checkout. Before building or committing, compare the working tree to the remote branch. A clean local build can depend on another agent's uncommitted edit in a shared tree, which CI won't have. If the main checkout is behind or dirty, find out which commit it matches before you reset it.

  7. Keep the machine fair. Worktrees isolate files, not the machine. Give each agent a private port and a distinct server process. Record machine load alongside any timing measurement, and don't trust results taken under heavy load (vibe-flake-root-cause). Each agent stops the servers it started.

  8. Gate the combined head. After the streams land, run the full gates on the integrated commit, not per stream. Route failures back to their owners. Then remove worktrees and stale branches. A subagent may not be able to remove its own worktree, so the orchestrator cleans up.

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Output Format

Workstream Plan: [phase]

Base: [branch] @ [sha] · Streams: N · Gates: [list]

StreamOwns (paths)Must not touchAcceptanceGates
WS1 routingapp/routes, lib/redirectsglobal stylesall old URLs redirectbuild, route check
Routing Log
ItemSourceRouted toStatus
CSS over budget on /xperf gateWS3fixed abc1234
Integration
  • Combined head: [sha] · gates: [pass/fail per gate]
  • Worktrees removed: [list] · open items: [list]

© ash1794, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-workstream-orchestration of ash1794/vibe-engineering.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8f1d71b

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Questions about Vibe Workstream Orchestration

What does Vibe Workstream Orchestration do?

Runs a multi-phase project from an orchestrating main thread that plans, routes and verifies but does not build. Vibe Workstream Orchestration is an agent skill from ash1794/vibe-engineering. Runs a multi-phase project from an orchestrating main thread that plans, routes and verifies but does not build.

When should I use Vibe Workstream Orchestration?

Vibe Workstream Orchestration fits situations like: A project spans several phases; sessions with three; more agents working at once.

How do I install Vibe Workstream Orchestration in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add ash1794/vibe-engineering --skill vibe-workstream-orchestration -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-workstream-orchestration in ash1794/vibe-engineering) into .claude/skills/vibe-workstream-orchestration in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Vibe Workstream Orchestration in Codex?

Run `npx skills add ash1794/vibe-engineering --skill vibe-workstream-orchestration -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/vibe-engineering/skills/vibe-workstream-orchestration in ash1794/vibe-engineering) into .agents/skills/vibe-workstream-orchestration in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Vibe Workstream Orchestration in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add ash1794/vibe-engineering --skill vibe-workstream-orchestration -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/vibe-workstream-orchestration, .gemini/skills/vibe-workstream-orchestration, .github/skills/vibe-workstream-orchestration and .opencode/skills/vibe-workstream-orchestration in your project.

What does Vibe Workstream Orchestration need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Vibe Workstream Orchestration is instructions for the agent only.

Does Vibe Workstream Orchestration access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Vibe Workstream Orchestration safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Vibe Workstream Orchestration use?

Vibe Workstream Orchestration is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Vibe Workstream Orchestration use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Vibe Workstream Orchestration?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Vibe Workstream Orchestration: Migrate Core Code to Submodules (tinyhumansai/openhuman, 42k stars), Build Px4 macOS (PX4/PX4-Autopilot, 13k stars), Git Worktree Isolation (jnMetaCode/superpowers-zh, 8.3k stars) and Worktree (AgentsMesh/AgentsMesh, 2.4k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Vibe Workstream Orchestration?

ash1794 (a GitHub user) maintains it in ash1794/vibe-engineering, which has 163 GitHub stars. The repository holds 33 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: ash1794/vibe-engineering on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.