omh-ralplan-driver

OMH Ralplan Driver — driving the loop

Load this skill alongside omh-ralplan when you are the orchestrator dispatching the loop. omh-ralplan is loaded by the Planner / Architect / Critic workers — it covers what they do inside each delegate_task call. This skill covers what you do as the dispatcher: prep, dispatch, distill, review.

The two skills have different readers and different jobs. Don't merge them — worker context is precious; the dispatcher's playbook should not ride into every subagent.

Why this skill exists

Ralplan without disciplined orchestration converges on internal consistency, not truth. The Planner / Architect / Critic triangle is self-checking — it will produce a coherent stance about whatever you pointed it at, including the wrong frame, the stale source, the phantom constraint, and the question the user already settled.

The orchestrator is the only role with the vantage to:

• Carve principles before dispatching.
• Author a context package that licenses framing contests.
• Verify ground truth and adjacent mechanisms before subagents inherit them as fact.
• Iterate the package with the user — half of any non-trivial requirements come from the user's lived context, not from reading.
• Distill consensus into a canonical artifact stripped of reviewer scaffolding.
• Apply a final quality gate before handing anything to the user.

Most of the failure modes named below are pre-dispatch failures. Prep is where quality is born. Distillation and review preserve it. The loop itself is just the well-instrumented engine in between.

When to use ralplan vs just think

Use ralplan when the work has:

• Multiple legitimate decompositions of the problem.
• Load-bearing principles that need enforcing across subagents.
• Cross-cutting concerns the orchestrator might miss alone.
• A user who would otherwise be in a turn-by-turn proposal loop.

Don't use ralplan when the work is single-file, single-decision, or obvious-to-solve. Overkill is its own failure mode. Use omh-deep-interview first if the goal is ambiguous.