Orchestrate

Explicitly requested Codex subagent coordination for tasks that benefit from deliberate delegation, model routing, bounded parallelism, and verified synthesis.

What it does

• Keeps the main agent responsible for decisions and the final result.
• Routes bounded supporting work to named custom agents or suitable models.
• Uses structured task packets and evidence-backed handoffs.
• Parallelizes independent work without allowing overlapping write ownership.
• Records requested routing and labels effective routing as runtime-verified, configuration-derived, or unverified.
• Treats delegation as coordination, never as sandbox or permission isolation.

This is a skills-only plugin. It uses only native Codex subagent tools; if they are unavailable, it stays single-agent. Native Codex owns the child threads, permissions, and orchestration tools. No Agents SDK app, Responses API multi-agent runtime, MCP server, daemon, hook, or API key is required.

Use

Invoke $orchestrate or name Orchestrate when you want Codex to evaluate a task for delegation. The skill is explicit-only and will not activate merely because a task is large or parallelizable. Small or sequential tasks still stay with the main agent.

Sources

• https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/agent-configuration/subagents
• https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/latest-model
• https://developers.openai.com/codex/use-cases
• https://agentskills.io/specification

See ATTRIBUTION.md for upstream inspiration.