Kanban Orchestrator — Decomposition Playbook

The core worker lifecycle (including the kanban_create fan-out pattern and the "decompose, don't execute" rule) is auto-injected into every kanban process via the KANBAN_GUIDANCE system-prompt block. This skill is the deeper playbook when you're an orchestrator profile whose whole job is routing.

When to use the board (vs. just doing the work)

Create Kanban tasks when any of these are true:

1. Multiple specialists are needed. Research + analysis + writing is three profiles.
2. The work should survive a crash or restart. Long-running, recurring, or important.
3. The user might want to interject. Human-in-the-loop at any step.
4. Multiple subtasks can run in parallel. Fan-out for speed.
5. Review / iteration is expected. A reviewer profile loops on drafter output.
6. The audit trail matters. Board rows persist in SQLite forever.

If none of those apply — it's a small one-shot reasoning task — use delegate_task instead or answer the user directly.

The anti-temptation rules