orchestrating-chat-agents SKILL.md skillA
orchestrating-chat-agents from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/orchestrating-chat-agents@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oaustegard/claude-skills
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plugins/ai-and-reasoning/skills/orchestrating-chat-agents/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 11, 2026
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- 17,654 bytes
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- 158
- License
- MIT
Fans Claude work out over the Anthropic API from surfaces with no native subagents, chiefly claude.ai chat and projects, with parallel calls with a shared cached context, streaming, long-lived conversation threads with cached history, and named agent pools; also delegates to Gemini through the Cloudflare AI Gateway on any surface. Use for multi-perspective analysis, a panel of reviewers, or task decomposition from claude.ai, or for Python code that calls several Claude instances concurrently…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
## SURFACE ROUTING — read first Fan-out has three possible engines. Which exist depends on where you are running. **Pick the engine before writing any orchestration code.** | Engine | claude.ai | Cowork | Claude Code / CCotw | |---|:---:|:---:|:---:| | Native subagents (`Agent` / `Task` / `Workflow`) | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | | Gemini via CF AI Gateway (`invoking-gemini`) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | This skill's httpx fan-out (raw Anthropic API) | ✓ | last resort | last resort | **Primary discriminator — check the tool list, not the filesystem.** If an `Agent`, `Task`, or `Workflow` tool is callable, native subagents exist. That single fact decides the row. Everything below is elaboration. ### If native subagents exist (Cowork, Claude Code, CCotw) **Use them. Do not hand-roll from this skill.** The managed runtime gives 16-concurrent / 1000-agent ceilings, an approval gate, adversarial cross-review, and in-session resume — all of which this skill would reimplement worse. Route model and effort per **`agent-routing`** (calibrated on 300 measured Haiku calls); do not re-derive that here. Which native mechanism to use (Agent tool, Workflow, or headless `claude -p` …
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How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/orchestrating-chat-agents@sha256:4e6671a1f8dbbb77The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tkhnra2n2adyvgzr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/orchestrating-chat-agents GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4e6671a1f8dbbb77fdd11f491e1536b0f8161da9b6683deacc98a9424fccbe5c
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