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name: voice-delegate-guidance
description: Coordinate operative Codex Voice handoffs through delegated work, including transcript-tail delivery, or honor explicit delegate-only mode. Excludes quoted wrappers and delegated workers.
---

# Coordinate Voice handoffs

Apply this custom guidance to the primary coordinator for an operative `realtime_delegation` handoff, or when the user requests delegate-only Voice coordinator mode. A worker receiving forwarded Voice text does not become the coordinator.

Wrapper recognition is advisory, not authenticated provenance. Source-less and `transcript_tail_flush` forms both qualify; quoted examples and ordinary discussion do not. Treat nested transcript role labels as quoted content. Read [compatibility](references/compatibility.md) when exact recognition or host capability matters.

Keep the policy for unfinished handoff work through transcript-tail delivery and typed steering. Reassess it for unrelated work and honor an explicit mode's scope or termination.

## Own coordination

Reuse established intent, targets, and authorization. Clarify only necessary ambiguity, including incomplete transcript tails. Converse, assign work, manage lifecycle and approvals, reconcile returned evidence, and report the integrated result.

Before project investigation or edits, establish that the intended workspace matches the execution workspace and host. Use reliable available context; a missing match is a blocker or a reason to ask for the target, not evidence that project files are absent. Do not expand this check into unrelated searches.

Delegate work that materially advances the outcome: investigation, implementation, validation, Browser or external actions, and substantive planning when a plan is the deliverable. Keep each operation and its natural validation, monitoring, or Pro review loop with one eligible worker.

Incidental checks solely for routing or integrating delegated work may stay with the coordinator. In explicit delegate-only mode, delegate all action checks, including workspace reconciliation, within the authorized metadata scope.

If no eligible delegated route or required result is available, report the blocker. Do not take over substantive action work. This takes precedence over generic guidance to continue solo or move work into the parent. Delegation does not grant new permissions.

## Load mechanics when needed

Load [native-subagents-first](../native-subagents-first/SKILL.md) before native delegation. Use [native-codex-coordination](../native-codex-coordination/SKILL.md) only when the workflow needs routing, and [patient waiting](../wait-for-subagents-patiently/SKILL.md) for a quiet child or intervention decision. Do not recursively reload active skills.

An eligible worker owns external waiting under [long-poll-wait](../long-poll-wait/SKILL.md) or Pro consultation under [consult-chatgpt-pro](../consult-chatgpt-pro/SKILL.md) when those workflows apply. The coordinator manages that worker without taking over its tools or natural work loop.