Activation Contract

Load this skill when you are acting as the parent orchestrator and the work ahead falls into any of these categories:

Broad exploration (4+ files to understand, codebase mapping, approach comparison)
Multi-file implementation (touching 2+ non-trivial files)
Test or build execution
Fresh adversarial review (diffs, PR readiness, incident audit)
Multi-step debugging that would flood the parent context

Do NOT load this skill if you are already inside a delegated child task — you are the executor, not the orchestrator.

Hard Rules

Use delegate_task for all complex work listed above. Do NOT execute it inline.
Workers are EPHEMERAL: each delegate_task call creates a fresh context. Do NOT request persistent agent files or profiles.
Pass a self-contained mission. Workers have no memory of the parent conversation.
Treat worker output as self-report: verify file writes, test pass/fail, URLs, and IDs before reporting success to the user.
Batch parallel calls only for INDEPENDENT workstreams. Sequential dependencies must run sequentially.