Orca Inter-Agent Orchestration

Orchestration is Orca's structured coordination layer for agent messages, task ownership, dispatch state, and worker completion tracking.

Use this skill when coordination state matters. For lightweight terminal prompts or basic worktree/terminal/built-in-browser control, use orca-cli.

When To Use

• Send/reply/ask between agent terminals with persistent messages.
• Dispatch structured tasks to workers and wait for worker_done or escalation.
• Track task DAGs with dependencies.
• Run coordinator loops or decision gates.

Do not use orchestration merely because the user says "hand off", "handoff", "handover", "give this to another agent", or asks for another worktree/agent/model/effort. Those are full ownership transfers unless the user explicitly asks to supervise, monitor, wait for worker completion/results, coordinate a DAG, use decision gates, or keep a blocking ask/reply loop.

Preconditions