Plan Orchestrate

Plan Orchestrate

Bridge a plan document to /orchestrate custom by emitting one ready-to-paste invocation per step. The skill is generative only — it never executes /orchestrate. The user pastes each line when ready.

When to Activate

• User has a multi-step plan document (PRD, RFC, implementation plan) and wants to drive it through /orchestrate.
• User says "orchestrate this plan", "give me orchestrate prompts for each step", "compose chains for this plan".
• A step-by-step plan exists but the user does not want to manually pick agents per step.

Skip when:

• The work is one ad-hoc step → call /orchestrate custom directly.
• The plan is unreadable or empty. Lack of explicit numbering alone is not a skip condition — see the "No clear steps" edge case below.

Inputs

<plan-doc-path> [--lang=python|typescript|go|rust|cpp|java|kotlin|flutter|auto] [--scope=all|step:<n>|range:<a>-<b>] [--dry-run]

• <plan-doc-path> — required; relative or absolute path (@docs/... accepted).
• --lang — reviewer language variant; defaults to auto (detected from project).
• --scope — limits emitted steps; defaults to all.
• --dry-run — print decomposition + chain rationale only; do not emit final prompts.

Authoritative /orchestrate shape (do not deviate)

{ORCH_CMD} custom "<agent1>,<agent2>,...,<agentN>" "<task description>"

Where {ORCH_CMD} is determined in Phase 0 (see below). The command string in the emitted output always uses one concrete form — never both, never a placeholder.

• custom is a sequential chain; each agent's HANDOFF feeds the next.
• Comma-separated agent list. No spaces preferred; one space tolerated.
• No --mode / --gate / --agents=... flags exist — never invent them.
• Agent names come from the catalogue in this skill. Embedded double quotes in the task description are escaped as \".

ECC install form and namespacing

Two install forms determine the prefix on both the slash command and every agent name. The two MUST stay in sync — one form per output, never mixed:

Let <claude-home> denote the Claude Code home directory: ~/.claude on macOS/Linux, %USERPROFILE%\.claude on Windows. Resolve it the way the host platform resolves the user home directory (do not hardcode ~).

Why this matters: under the plugin install, agents register as ecc:tdd-guide. Bare names force fuzzy matching, which fails intermittently under parallel calls. Under legacy, the prefixed forms are not registered and fail outright.

Available agent catalogue (must pick from these)

General:

• planner — requirement restatement, risk decomposition, step planning
• architect — architecture, system design, refactor proposals
• tdd-guide — write tests → implement → 80%+ coverage
• code-reviewer — generic code review
• security-reviewer — security audit, OWASP, secret leakage
• refactor-cleaner — dead code, duplicates, knip-class cleanup
• doc-updater — documentation, codemap, README
• docs-lookup — third-party library API lookups (Context7)
• e2e-runner — end-to-end test orchestration
• database-reviewer — PostgreSQL schema, migration, performance
• harness-optimizer — local agent harness configuration
• loop-operator — long-running autonomous loops
• chief-of-staff — multi-channel triage (rarely a fit for plan steps)

Build error resolvers:

• build-error-resolver (generic) / cpp-build-resolver / go-build-resolver / java-build-resolver / kotlin-build-resolver / rust-build-resolver / pytorch-build-resolver

Code reviewers:

• python-reviewer / typescript-reviewer / go-reviewer / rust-reviewer / cpp-reviewer / java-reviewer / kotlin-reviewer / flutter-reviewer

A misspelled agent name fails /orchestrate. Cross-check against this list before emitting.

How It Works

Phase 0 — Detect ECC mode + language

1. Read <plan-doc-path>. If missing or empty, report and stop.

2. Detect ECC install form once and freeze it into ECC_MODE. Algorithm (run in order, stop at the first match):

   1. If <claude-home>/plugins/marketplaces/ecc/ exists → ECC_MODE=plugin.
   2. Else if <claude-home>/agents/ exists and contains at least one ECC agent file (e.g. tdd-guide.md, code-reviewer.md) → ECC_MODE=legacy.
   3. Else → default to ECC_MODE=legacy and emit a one-line warning at the top of the output: > Warning: could not detect ECC install; defaulting to legacy form. If you use the plugin install, edit the prefixes manually.
   4. If both markers exist (mixed install), plugin wins — the plugin namespace is the only one that resolves agent names without fuzzy matching.

   From this point on, every emitted line uses the matching prefix on both the slash command and every agent name. Never emit both forms in the same output.

3. Resolve --lang. When auto, run a polyglot-aware detection:

   • Probe markers: pyproject.toml / uv.lock / requirements.txt → python; package.json → typescript; go.mod → go; Cargo.toml → rust; CMakeLists.txt or top-level *.cpp → cpp; pom.xml / build.gradle (Java) → java; build.gradle.kts or top-level Kotlin → kotlin; pubspec.yaml → flutter.
   • Polyglot tie-break: if more than one marker matches, pick the language whose source files outnumber the others (count via git ls-files, excluding vendor/, node_modules/, dist/, build/, .venv/, generated files, and obvious test fixtures). On a tie or when no language exceeds 60% of source files, set lang=unknown.
   • No marker matched → set lang=unknown.
   • lang=unknown is a sentinel — it is not an agent name. Phase 2 rules 4 and 5 turn it into code-reviewer / build-error-resolver at chain composition time.

4. Detect a PyTorch sub-profile: when lang=python and any of pyproject.toml / requirements.txt / uv.lock declares a dependency on torch, set pytorch=true. This only affects build chain selection (Phase 2 rule below); the reviewer remains python-reviewer.

5. Normalize any agent names declared in the plan: if the plan text references agents by their plugin-prefixed form (e.g. ecc:tdd-guide), strip the prefix to get the bare catalogue name before validating or composing chains. Re-prefixing happens only at output time per ECC_MODE (Phase 4). Never let a pre-prefixed name flow into chain composition — it would double-prefix in plugin mode.

Phase 1 — Decompose steps

Identify "step units" in priority order:

1. Explicit numbering: ## Step N / ### Phase N / ## N. ... / top-level ordered list.
2. A "Step" column in a table.
3. ----separated blocks with verb-led headings.
4. Otherwise treat each H2 as one step.

Per step extract id (1-based), title (≤ 80 chars), intent (1–3 sentences), tags.

Phase 2 — Tag and pick chain

Tag by intent (multi-tag allowed; chain built from primary + stacked secondaries):

Trigger words below are matched case-insensitively. Multilingual plans are supported by matching the word stems in any language as long as the meaning aligns with the listed English trigger words.

Chain composition rules:

1. Primary tag selection: when a step matches multiple tags, the first one in table order (top of the table = highest priority) is the primary; the rest are secondaries. Composition rules 2 and 3 below handle specific multi-tag combinations explicitly; otherwise, append secondary chains in tag table order.
2. impl + security → tdd-guide,<lang>-reviewer,security-reviewer.
3. impl + db → tdd-guide,database-reviewer,<lang>-reviewer.
4. Deduplicate the resulting chain (preserve first occurrence). E.g. review + lang=unknown would yield code-reviewer,code-reviewer after rule 5; deduplication collapses it to code-reviewer.
5. <lang>-reviewer resolves to code-reviewer when lang=unknown.
6. <lang>-build-resolver resolves to build-error-resolver when lang=unknown. Special case: if Phase 0 set pytorch=true, use pytorch-build-resolver for build chains regardless of <lang>. There is no python-build-resolver; --lang=python without pytorch=true resolves to build-error-resolver.
7. Zero-tag steps: if no trigger word matches, set chain to code-reviewer and write no tag matched; default review-only chain under "Chain rationale".
8. Chain length ≤ 4 after deduplication. If exceeded, drop weakest tag (lookup and docs first).
9. Do not pair planner and architect in an impl chain (token waste). Pair them only on design steps.
10. Steps tagged impl, refactor, or migration end with a reviewer-class agent — any of <lang>-reviewer, code-reviewer, security-reviewer, or database-reviewer. The most domain-specific reviewer wins the tail position (e.g. rule 2's impl+security ends with security-reviewer; rule 3's impl+db ends with <lang>-reviewer because database-reviewer already gates the migration earlier in the chain). test and build steps are gated by their own validators (e2e-runner and the build resolver respectively) and do not require an additional reviewer.