Orchestration — Context Budget Management
Lead Orchestrator
- Compact after every wave; always after 2+ waves
- Write handoff to
.claude/state/lead-handoff.md BEFORE compacting
- Compact instruction:
Preserve: orchestration plan, team roster, current wave, file ownership map, all ledger entries, blocker status
- After compaction, immediately read your handoff note
Teammates
- Compact every 3 tasks, or after 10+ file reads (the read-counter hook will warn you)
- Write handoff to
.claude/state/<your-name>-handoff.md BEFORE compacting
- Compact instruction:
Preserve: my tasks, file ownership, decisions from my handoff note
- After compaction, immediately read your handoff note
Subagents
- Disposable — no compaction needed
- Return structured results only (use the scan/integration templates in
orchestration-state)
