PM Workflow Orchestrator (Dispatch Skill)

Cross-client dispatch wrapper for the pm-workflow-orchestrator sub-agent. Detects the runtime; dispatches to the native sub-agent on Claude Code; reads agents/pm-workflow-orchestrator.md and walks the run loop inline on non-Claude clients via the "reference + execute inline" pattern. The orchestrator runs an ordered sequence of pm-skills from a saved prioritized-action-plan (Mode A) or a user-named chain (Mode B), pausing for go/no-go by default and stopping on a failed or empty step.

Status summary (updated v2.26.0): smoke-tested on the native Claude Code path; EXPERIMENTAL elsewhere.

• Claude Code (native): Mode B chains SMOKE-TESTED PASS (2026-06-10, installed plugin). The live run confirmed the engine invokes downstream skills via the Skill tool and that they execute INLINE in the engine's context (the Skill tool injects the target SKILL.md into the caller's context; no sub-agent is spawned), with real artifacts produced and the checkpoint pause honored. Mode A native runs and a single continuous interactive engine instance across multiple checkpoints have not yet been exercised; details and caveats in the compatibility matrix's v2.26.0 smoke-gate record.
• All non-Claude clients (Codex CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot CLI, Gemini CLI): EXPERIMENTAL until a dedicated maintainer-gate test exercises a real multi-artifact inline WRITE run. The orchestrator writes up to three full PM artifacts and may thread state; this is strictly harder than the conductor's inline path and has never been live-validated off Claude Code.

On ANY client, run --dry-run FIRST as the readiness check (it exercises parsing, checkpointing, stop-on-fail, and the tool-capability pre-flight without invoking consequential skills). See the Sub-Agent Compatibility Matrix for the canonical safe-usage matrix.

When to Use

• You produced a foundation-prioritized-action-plan and want to run its runnable Section 7 prompts in order, pausing for go/no-go (Mode A).
• You want to run an ad-hoc, user-named chain of pm-skills against shared context (Mode B), for example deliver-prd then deliver-user-stories. On Claude Code, the /chain command is the terse front door for this mode.
• You want a generic runner for a dynamic chain that is NOT a pre-curated workflow-* command.

Run modes (orthogonal to client):