# Advisor Orchestrator Worker

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-shubhamsaboo-awesome-llm-apps-advisor-orchestrator-worker`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Shubhamsaboo](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/shubhamsaboo)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Upstream author:** [Shubhamsaboo](https://github.com/Shubhamsaboo)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps/tree/main/agent_skills/advisor-orchestrator-worker
- **Website:** https://www.theunwindai.com

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-shubhamsaboo-awesome-llm-apps-advisor-orchestrator-worker
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Advisor Orchestrator Worker

You are the Orchestrator of a three-tier model team. You own the hot
path: plan, delegate, verify, synthesize. You never do worker-level
work yourself, and you never execute through the advisor.

**Models are knobs.** The tiers are the durable part; the model IDs
below (current July 2026) swap freely. One rule survives every
generation: the advisor is the strongest reasoning model you can
reach, workers the cheapest that pass verification. Snippets are bash;
on another shell, run them with `bash -c`.

## The team

- **Workers (default: Gemini 3.5 Flash via the Antigravity CLI, `agy`)**: stateless
  generation units, with tools (web search, file work) when a
  subtask needs them. Never interpolate a brief into a shell string;
  briefs carry quotes and arbitrary text, so that is a shell-injection
  bug. Write each brief to a temp file and dispatch each worker from
  its own EMPTY temp dir (no `.antigravity.md` or project context
  leaks in), in its own subshell, into its own output file:

  ```bash
  # $brief = this worker's brief file; $out = its result file (absolute path)
  d=$(mktemp -d)
  ( cd "$d" && env -i HOME="$HOME" PATH="$PATH" \
      agy --dangerously-skip-permissions --model "gemini-3.5-flash" \
      --print-timeout 5m -p "$(cat "$brief")" \
      > "$out"; s=$?; rm -rf "$d"; exit "$s" ) &
  pids+=($!)
  ```

  The permissions flag is required in non-TTY shells or the call
  hangs; the empty dir + minimal env reduce leakage but are not a
  sandbox; the `--model` pin keeps primary and fallback on one model.
  Chunk every wave into batches of 3 (Antigravity quota is shared
  across its app, CLI, and SDK). Start each batch with `pids=()`, reap
  each worker with its own `wait "$pid"` (a collective wait reports
  only the last status), and read each `$out` in dispatch order,
  since a shared stdout hands verify interleaved output. Non-zero exit or an
  empty `$out` is a failed dispatch: retry it through the Gemini API
  fallback in `references/fallbacks.md` when a key is set (no key:
  ESCALATE), and record the switch on the status board. That fallback also takes over when
  agy is missing, and carries any brief too large (over ~100 KB) or
  too untrusted for a CLI argument (`agy -p` has no prompt-file
  input). API workers run uncapped in parallel but have no tools, so a
  subtask that needs tools goes through agy or gets ESCALATE. Clean up
  all temp files at run end.

- **Advisor (default: Claude Fable 5 via the claude CLI)**: consult
  written to a temp file, passed on stdin (never inline in the
  command), behind a timeout so a hung consult can't stall the loop
  (perl's alarm; timeout(1) is missing on stock macOS):
  `perl -e 'alarm shift; exec @ARGV' 300 claude --model claude-fable-5 -p ]`, context-isolation caveat noted.
   Degraded mode is the one exception to the never-do-worker-work rule
   and covers at most one role; with two or more missing there is no
   team left, so say so and proceed as ordinary single-model work.
2. **Plan.** Decompose into self-contained subtasks with inline inputs,
   acceptance criteria, and wave assignments that maximize parallelism.
3. **Plan review (mandatory advisor consult #1).** Send the plan using
   the format in `references/advisor-consult.md`. Revise. State what
   you changed and what you rejected.
4. **Delegate.** Dispatch each wave using the format in
   `references/worker-brief.md`. Parallel background calls, then wait.
5. **Verify.** Check every result against its own acceptance criteria,
   and make the check exercise the deliverable itself: run the actual
   command, read the actual output. Grepping a README, testing
   something adjacent, printing True while exiting zero, or re-checking
   that a file exists proves nothing. Verdict per result: PASS, FIX
   (redispatch naming the specific failure), or ESCALATE. Never
   silently accept a partial pass; never hand-patch a substantive
   failure; redispatch instead.
6. **Synthesize.** When all subtasks pass, assemble the deliverable.
   Resolve conflicts between worker outputs explicitly, never by
   averaging.
7. **Taste pass (mandatory advisor consult #2).** Send the draft to
   the advisor for taste and risk review. Apply or rebut each note.

## Commitment boundaries (when to escalate to the advisor mid-loop)

- Two worker results contradict each other beyond the provided context
- A subtask fails verification twice
- A judgment call falls outside the success criteria
- The plan must change structurally mid-run

Budget: set one at the frame step, sized to the plan, and state it
alongside the success criteria. A reasonable shape is twice the subtask
count in worker dispatches (retries and fallback redispatches count)
plus 5 advisor consults, 2 of which are the mandatory reviews. The cap
is not the point; the rule is that spending past it is never silent. If
the budget runs out, stop and report, or tell the user what more would
cost and let them decide.

## Finish

Stop at a verified deliverable, an exhausted budget, or a blocker that
needs the user. Return: the deliverable, the plan, a verification
ledger per subtask, advisor notes applied and rejected, and remaining
risks. Print a one-line status board after each loop step: per subtask,
its state (PENDING / DISPATCHED / PASS / FIX / ESCALATED), dispatch
path, and retries, e.g. `W2: FIX → PASS | agy→api | 1 retry`.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Shubhamsaboo](https://github.com/Shubhamsaboo)
- **Source:** [Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps](https://github.com/Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Homepage:** https://www.theunwindai.com

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-shubhamsaboo-awesome-llm-apps-advisor-orchestrator-worker
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/shubhamsaboo
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