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Global orchestrator / dispatcher role. Activated when the user issues an "auto-delegate development / continue the roadmap / auto-delegate" command (without naming a specific subtask); runs the full loop - select task, pick SOP, dispatch, quality gates, open PR, self-iterate the roadmap.

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Skill: Roadmap Orchestration & Auto-Delegation (Orchestrator)

Scope: all milestones / TR-F022 | Role: orchestrator (the other skills are execution SOPs; this skill coordinates them).

When to use

When the user issues an auto-delegate development style command without naming a specific subtask, this skill is the entry point:

  • "start auto development / auto-delegate development / push the roadmap forward / continue development / do M1 / auto-delegate / orchestrate".
  • A periodic "advance one development round".

This skill does not write implementation details itself; it selects work from the roadmap, picks the matching execution skill, enforces quality gates, and drives plan self-iteration after delivery.

Orchestration loop (each round)

  1. Sync context: first read AGENT.md, .agents/README.md (shared pre-conditions + guardrails), docs/roadmap.md, docs/feature-checklist.md; confirm toolchain versions and the non-goals (TR-N001-TR-N005).
  2. Clear in-flight PRs first (per ../review-pr/SKILL.md, before selecting anything new): drain open internal agent-roadmap PRs oldest-first - address every needs-rework review comment by re-running the matching execution SOP and re-review; merge any PR that is agent-approved and CI-green; skip needs-human. Skip fork / cross-repository PRs (gh pr view <n> --json isCrossRepository -> true): they are a different trust domain, are never auto-handled here, and are left needs-human for a maintainer's personal review (see ../review-pr/SKILL.md "External / fork PRs are out of scope"). Only when no internal agent-roadmap PR is left unreviewed or in needs-rework may you select a new task. This prevents re-picking a task whose PR is still open (which would create a conflicting duplicate).
  3. Select task:
    • Rule: grep -nE '^- \[ \] M[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' docs/roadmap.md | head -1 to take the first unchecked subtask top-down.
    • Priority: M1 -> M2 -> M3; only fall back to P2/P3 when P1 milestones have no actionable subtask (see the priority column in the milestone overview).
    • Anchor the subtask's TR-F ID; if it hits a non-goal TR-N*, stop immediately and report back - never expand scope on your own.
  4. Pick SOP: match the task type to .agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md:
    • vendor VSA -> add-radius-vendor; EAP method -> add-eap-method; Admin API -> add-adminapi-endpoint; frontend resource -> add-react-admin-resource; config item -> add-config-schema; upstream library -> sync-upstream-radius; protocol spec -> reference-rfc; tests -> add-acceptance-test / write-go-tests; requirement alignment -> align-feature-checklist.
    • If no SOP matches, first use align-feature-checklist to fix the scope and IDs before continuing.
  5. Dispatch & execute:
    • Multi-agent environment: dispatch a sub-agent for the subtask with full context (inject the selected SKILL.md + related RFCs + acceptance criteria); deliver exactly one minimal closed loop.
    • Single-agent environment: execute the selected SOP yourself, in order.
    • By default each round claims one unchecked subtask only (minimal closed loop, revertible).
  6. Quality gates: go build ./..., go test ./..., golangci-lint run (v2.12.2) must pass; for frontend changes run cd web && npm run build; protocol / end-to-end changes must ship a CI-executable acceptance test (test/integration/).
  7. Open PR: never push to main directly; the PR description references the milestone ID + TR-F + related RFC + acceptance test; tag it with the agent-roadmap label so the review gate can track it.
  8. Review gate: hand the PR to ../review-pr/SKILL.md for an independent, CI-anchored review. If it lands agent-approved with green CI, that skill auto-merges (squash); if it lands needs-rework, the PR stays open and is drained at the next round's step 2 - do not merge past a needs-rework/red-CI verdict, and do not check the subtask off until it is merged.
  9. Self-iterate the roadmap: per ../groom-roadmap/SKILL.md, after the PR is merged, check off the delivered subtask, update milestone status, backfill follow-up subtasks / split / re-prioritize, and fold newly discovered needs in via align-feature-checklist.
  10. Loop or stop:
  • By default stop after one closed loop; report the round's result and the next pending subtask.
  • When the user asks to "keep going", return to step 2 (clear in-flight first, then select) and loop; on a blocker (missing spec / external dependency / decision needed), stop at a safe checkpoint and mark the reason as blocked in the roadmap.

Boundaries

  • The orchestrator never bypasses any guardrail: the task-selection rule, TR-N non-goals, PR-only, and quality gates are all mandatory.
  • The autonomous domain is internal work only: roadmap subtasks delivered on this repo's own copilot/* branches. Fork / cross-repository PRs from external contributors are out of scope - never review-to-merge them autonomously; route them to a maintainer (needs-human), backed by the external-pr-gate required check.
  • One round advances only one minimal closed loop; do not pack multiple subtasks into one PR to "do more".
  • Do not expand scope: any direction beyond the TR-F checklist goes through align-feature-checklist first.
  • It only coordinates and orchestrates; it does not replace the specifics of each execution SOP (vendor unit conversion, EAP fragmentation, etc. still follow their own SKILL.md).

Acceptance

  • In-flight agent-roadmap PRs were drained (rework addressed / approved-and-green merged) before a new task was selected
  • The round's task is the first unchecked subtask top-down in the roadmap, anchored to a TR-F
  • A matching execution SOP was used; no TR-N was touched
  • Quality gates and (where required) CI acceptance tests pass
  • Output goes through a PR (labeled agent-roadmap) referencing the milestone / ID / RFC, gated by review-pr and merged only when agent-approved + CI-green
  • After the PR is merged, the roadmap and plan were iterated per groom-roadmap