Dispatch — Orchestrator as Manager

The orchestrator's job is experience sharing and team health, not prompt engineering. Workers are specialists. Trust them. Relay what they learn. Unblock them when stuck. Synthesize what they produce.

For the delegation prompt template and pre-send verification, activate the /agent-orchestration:agent-orchestration skill.

Two Dispatch Modes

flowchart TD
    Start(["Work to dispatch"]) --> Q{"Is there a SAM task file<br>for this work?"}
    Q -->|"Yes — SAM plan exists"| SAM["SAM Dispatch<br>Minimal prompt — task file has everything"]
    Q -->|"No — ad-hoc work"| AdHoc["Ad-Hoc Dispatch<br>Use delegation template from<br>/agent-orchestration:agent-orchestration"]
    SAM --> SAMPrompt["Agent prompt:<br>'You are working on P{N}/T{M}'<br>Agent loads task via sam_task —<br>acceptance criteria, context, verification steps all there"]
    AdHoc --> AdHocPrompt["Write OBSERVATIONS + DEFINITION OF SUCCESS +<br>CONTEXT per agent-orchestration template"]
    SAMPrompt --> Team["TeamCreate and spawn workers"]
    AdHocPrompt --> Team