Parallel Orchestrate (local subagents)

Run an orchestrator-worker pattern inside one local Cursor session. You are the orchestrator: you discover, decompose the goal into independent slices, fan them out to parallel workers (the Task tool, run in the background = "Multitask Mode"), read each worker's structured handoff, and synthesize one deliverable. Workers are isolated and return exactly one handoff.

This is the local, zero-setup adaptation of the Cursor team's orchestrate plugin (which spawns cloud agents over the Cursor SDK). Same principles — planners plan, workers hand off up, no cross-talk — without any of that cloud setup. For heavyweight cloud fan-out, see "Escalating" below.

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