Model Orchestration

Route by task capability and risk, not by hardcoded provider, model tier, or effort label.

Workflow

Read references/routing.md and the repository’s delegation rule.
State the shared goal, acceptance criteria, authoritative sources, and non-goals.
Separate deterministic work from judgment. Run deterministic transforms with code or tools.
Delegate only bounded work with a clear deliverable. Parallelize only tasks that do not depend on each other’s result.
Assign exclusive file or subsystem ownership for every writer. Use isolated workspaces when write sets may overlap.
Pass each worker the objective, output format, sources, boundaries, permissions, and evidence required.
Keep the parent responsible for synthesis and verification. A worker’s report is evidence to inspect, not a completion claim to forward.
Reconcile conflicts explicitly. Prefer the result supported by stronger, more current evidence and record the rejected alternative.
Stop completed workers when the runtime requires cleanup. Report unsupported delegation features honestly.