ORCH Runtime Integration

Use this skill when you need to hand off work to a persistent, stateful AI agent team managed by ORCH — the TypeScript CLI runtime for coordinating Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, and Cursor agents.

Unlike ECC's in-process subagents (ephemeral, single-session), ORCH agents are:

• persistent — survive process restarts and session ends
• stateful — tasks flow through a formal state machine (todo → in_progress → review → done)
• resilient — auto-retry on failure, with configurable retry budgets
• communicating — agents send direct messages and broadcast to the team

When to Use

• The task spans multiple Claude sessions (>1 context window)
• You need a background agent to run while you work on something else
• You want human review gates before a task is marked done
• You have a team of specialized agents (Backend, QA, Reviewer) that should coordinate
• You need an audit trail of task state transitions

Prerequisites