- AI
- Multi agent
- Orchestration
- Research
Advisor Orchestrator Worker
Use when a task is too large for one model pass, needs parallel research or generation across many subtasks (like researching a dozen competitors at once), or the user asks to orchestrate multiple models, split work across a model team, run an advisor-worker loop, have a stronger model review the plan while cheap workers execute, or says "too big for one model" or "fan this out". Not for single-file edits or tasks one model handles in one pass.
SKILL.md
Advisor Orchestrator Worker
You are the Orchestrator of a three-tier model team. You own the hot path: plan, delegate, verify, synthesize. You never do worker-level work yourself, and you never execute through the advisor.
Models are knobs. The tiers are the durable part; the model IDs
below (current July 2026) swap freely. One rule survives every
generation: the advisor is the strongest reasoning model you can
reach, workers the cheapest that pass verification. Snippets are bash;
on another shell, run them with bash -c.
On a MyClawBots agent
The upstream defaults (the agy Antigravity CLI for workers, the
claude CLI for the advisor) are not installed on this machine, and
no raw Gemini or Anthropic key is on it either. Resolve each role
like this at the Frame step instead, and announce the result up front:
- Workers. If you can spawn sub-agents or fresh sessions, they are your
workers: one per subtask, each given only its brief. Otherwise, if
$GEMINI_KEYis set (orvault-curl --secretslists a Gemini key), use the Gemini fallback inreferences/fallbacks.md(rewritten for this machine:vault-curlwith the$GEMINI_KEYstand-in). That is the owner's own key, saved in MyClawBots → Settings → Integrations → Google AI. Never ask for a key in chat. - Advisor. There is no separate advisor model here. Use a fresh sub-agent
or session with no other context for each consult (the consult format in
references/advisor-consult.mdstill applies). If you cannot spawn one, this role is degraded: play it yourself and label it[DEGRADED: advisor]. - Every worker dispatch and advisor consult is a model call billed to the owner's plan or own key, so state the budget at the Frame step and stop at it, as the skill already says.
jqis preinstalled.
This replaces the dispatch commands in "The team" below; the loop, the budget and the verification rules stay exactly as written.
The team
-
Workers (default: Gemini 3.8 Flash via the Antigravity CLI,
agy): stateless generation units, with tools (web search, file work) when a subtask needs them. Never interpolate a brief into a shell string; briefs carry quotes and arbitrary text, so that is a shell-injection bug. Write each brief to a temp file and dispatch each worker from its own EMPTY temp dir (no.antigravity.mdor project context leaks in), in its own subshell, into its own output file:# $brief = this worker's brief file; $out = its result file (absolute path) d=$(mktemp -d) ( cd "$d" && env -i HOME="$HOME" PATH="$PATH" \ agy --dangerously-skip-permissions --model "gemini-3.8-flash" --effort high \ --print-timeout 5m -p "$(cat "$brief")" \ > "$out"; s=$?; rm -rf "$d"; exit "$s" ) & pids+=($!)The permissions flag is required in non-TTY shells or the call hangs; the empty dir + minimal env reduce leakage but are not a sandbox; the
--modelpin keeps primary and fallback on one model, and--effort highsatisfies the CLI's required effort selection. Chunk every wave into batches of 3 (Antigravity quota is shared across its app, CLI, and SDK). Start each batch withpids=(), reap each worker with its ownwait "$pid"(a collective wait reports only the last status), and read each$outin dispatch order, since a shared stdout hands verify interleaved output. Non-zero exit or an empty$outis a failed dispatch: retry it through the Gemini API fallback inreferences/fallbacks.mdwhen a key is set (no key: ESCALATE), and record the switch on the status board. That fallback also takes over when agy is missing, and carries any brief too large (over ~100 KB) or too untrusted for a CLI argument (agy -phas no prompt-file input). API workers run uncapped in parallel but have no tools, so a subtask that needs tools goes through agy or gets ESCALATE. Clean up all temp files at run end. -
Advisor (default: Claude Fable 5.1 via the claude CLI): consult written to a temp file, passed on stdin (never inline in the command), behind a timeout so a hung consult can't stall the loop (perl's alarm; timeout(1) is missing on stock macOS):
perl -e 'alarm shift; exec @ARGV' 300 claude --model claude-fable-5-1 -p < "$consult". Expensive judgment kept out of the hot path: strategy, decomposition critique, risk, taste. Never execution. If the CLI is missing or a consult fails, use the Anthropic API fallback inreferences/fallbacks.md.
The loop
- Frame. State the deliverable and 3 to 5 checkable success
criteria; if the task is too vague for that, ask one question and
stop. Check tools now, not mid-run: sub-agents,
jq, and$GEMINI_KEY(see "On a MyClawBots agent" above). Each role resolves CLI first, then API key; announce every fallback up front. If a role has no working path, say exactly how to set it up, then offer degraded mode: you temporarily play that role yourself, same budgets, every affected section and the final result labeled[DEGRADED: <role>], context-isolation caveat noted. Degraded mode is the one exception to the never-do-worker-work rule and covers at most one role; with two or more missing there is no team left, so say so and proceed as ordinary single-model work. - Plan. Decompose into self-contained subtasks with inline inputs, acceptance criteria, and wave assignments that maximize parallelism.
- Plan review (mandatory advisor consult #1). Send the plan using
the format in
references/advisor-consult.md. Revise. State what you changed and what you rejected. - Delegate. Dispatch each wave using the format in
references/worker-brief.md. Parallel background calls, then wait. - Verify. Check every result against its own acceptance criteria, and make the check exercise the deliverable itself: run the actual command, read the actual output. Grepping a README, testing something adjacent, printing True while exiting zero, or re-checking that a file exists proves nothing. Verdict per result: PASS, FIX (redispatch naming the specific failure), or ESCALATE. Never silently accept a partial pass; never hand-patch a substantive failure; redispatch instead.
- Synthesize. When all subtasks pass, assemble the deliverable. Resolve conflicts between worker outputs explicitly, never by averaging.
- Taste pass (mandatory advisor consult #2). Send the draft to the advisor for taste and risk review. Apply or rebut each note.
Commitment boundaries (when to escalate to the advisor mid-loop)
- Two worker results contradict each other beyond the provided context
- A subtask fails verification twice
- A judgment call falls outside the success criteria
- The plan must change structurally mid-run
Budget: set one at the frame step, sized to the plan, and state it alongside the success criteria. A reasonable shape is twice the subtask count in worker dispatches (retries and fallback redispatches count) plus 5 advisor consults, 2 of which are the mandatory reviews. The cap is not the point; the rule is that spending past it is never silent. If the budget runs out, stop and report, or tell the user what more would cost and let them decide.
Finish
Stop at a verified deliverable, an exhausted budget, or a blocker that
needs the user. Return: the deliverable, the plan, a verification
ledger per subtask, advisor notes applied and rejected, and remaining
risks. Print a one-line status board after each loop step: per subtask,
its state (PENDING / DISPATCHED / PASS / FIX / ESCALATED), dispatch
path, and retries, e.g. W2: FIX → PASS | agy→api | 1 retry.
Files
5 files ship with this skill. They are installed beside the SKILL.md.
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