Claude Code orchestration: Opus 4.8 drives, Opus 5 works. Hook-enforced or skill based workflow delegation and adversarial review.
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The DEFAULT destination for implementation in opus sessions: any coding, debugging, test-writing, or focused-review task that touches more than one trivial file goes here, per task, at the moment the work starts — not as an occasional escalation for large work. Runs Opus 5. Dispatch scoped: single objective, exact…
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Plan and design drafter on Opus 5. The orchestrator dispatches it to author implementation plans, designs, and idea explorations as ADVISORY DRAFTS: it explores the change area (read-only), weighs alternatives, and returns a structured plan the orchestrator adjudicates against its fuller context. Default lane for…
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Adversarial reviewer on Opus 5. The orchestrator dispatches it against any idea, plan, design, architectural decision, or diff BEFORE presenting or committing it: attacks premises, steel-mans the strongest alternative, and names the likeliest failure mode. Read-only — returns findings, never edits. Not a general code…
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Mechanical/bulk implementation, multi-file edits, and read-heavy search. Delegate here to keep bulk work on Sonnet and reserve Opus for judgment. Use for: repetitive edits across many files, boilerplate, mechanical refactors, running builds/tests, gathering file contents. Not for architectural decisions or judgment…