Advisor

The main session borrows independent judgment at the few moments that determine whether the next hour of work is wasted. The advisor may be stronger, simply different, or context-clean. It never types the implementation; it advises.

You ARE the main executor and decision owner. The advisor is consulted, never delegated implementation. If another model should write bounded code, that is the coordinator worker pattern. Use orchestrator when the current main combines specialist agents, external workers, and an advisor.

When one advisor's verdict isn't enough — you want N independent perspectives or an adversarial panel voting on a finding — Claude Code's native Workflow tool runs judge panels as a deterministic script (opt-in gated, Claude-only); see ../coordinator/references/native-workflows.md. A single well-packaged consult remains the default; panels are for the highest-stakes calls.