kentcdodds/kody/orchestrate

Orchestrate

This is the kody orchestrate skill, scoped to @kodycodes/cli.

Fan out sub-agents inside one environment (shared checkout). This repo is one package; multi-environment fleets (conduct) are out of scope here.

Two modes: be the orchestrator, or spawn one (smarter model) if you are optimized for cheap/fast execution.

Defaults (override only if the user says so)

• Prefer implement. Fan out only when non-conflicting workstreams clearly

beat one implementer. Sequential slices → implement (or one implementer).

• No orchestration theater. Ban review → recheck → final → CI-watch chains

per slice. One hard-to-reverse review before merge.

• One CI wait path — parent gh pr checks _or_ a ci-watcher, not both.
• Targeted tests while iterating; npm run validate before

ready-for-review.

• Close loops yourself — don't leave humans as the relay.

Role

1. Plan, delegate, integrate, ship. Bulk-code only when fan-out costs more.
2. Frontier model orchestrates; cheap/fast models implement (prefer Grok 4.5 /

composer-2.5-fast for mechanical work).

1. Critical path first; parallelize non-conflicting files; serialize shared

ones.

1. You do final QA. Never declare done from sub-agent claims.

Fan-out (when it pays)

• One implementer per independent vertical slice
• Cheap sweeps (parity / errors)
• Audit → prioritized cleanup, then parallel cleanup agents
• One independent "hard-to-reverse / security" review before merge

Kickoff (when spawning an orchestrator)

Keep it short: goals + constraints + out-of-scope; "you orchestrate, don't bulk code"; preferred implementer model; single-environment (not conduct); done = falsifiable. Point at this skill.