Orchestrate

Type `/orchestrate <goal>` and this skill spawns a tree of parallel Cursor cloud agents to tackle large tasks without you babysitting each step. The planner decomposes work into a plan.json, workers execute in isolated repo clones, and everyone communicates through structured handoffs stored in Git. No cross-talk between siblings, no shared state, just propagation up the tree. It's built for tasks too big to hold in one context window or too parallelizable to run serially. The setup demands CURSOR_API_KEY and lives in scripts/cli.ts. Optional Slack integration mirrors progress and lets you pull the Andon cord. Read the cursor-sdk skill first because auth and error handling live there.

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$ npx -y skills add cursor/plugins --skill orchestrate --agent claude-code

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Orchestrate

An explicit /orchestrate <goal> fans out a large task across parallel Cursor cloud agents. Workers don't talk to each other; they talk up through structured handoffs. The spawn, wait, and handoff loop lives in scripts/cli.ts. The planner writes plan.json, the script executes it, and the planner reads handoffs to decide what comes next. Long-running agent loops drift; a script with a JSON state file keeps its footing.

Required reading: the cursor-sdk skill (cursor/plugins/cursor-sdk). Spawning, auth, and the error taxonomy live there. Don't reimplement what that skill already documents.