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add-locale-batch

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Use when coordinating multiple Humanizer locale parity efforts across isolated worktrees, branches, PRs, review/CI babysitting, merges, and cleanup. This is the parent orchestration skill for locale batches; delegate each individual locale to add-locale rather than implementing locale details directly.

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Humanizer Locale Batch Orchestration

Use this for multi-locale Humanizer parity work. It is a parent orchestration skill: each locale subagent still uses $add-locale for implementation and proof.

Non-negotiables

  • Parent coordinates only: plan, dispatch, track, verify, merge, cleanup.
  • One isolated sibling worktree and branch per locale; no child may edit main or a sibling worktree.
  • Each locale orchestrator must read $add-locale and set its own goal from .agents/skills/add-locale/references/goal-template.md.
  • Do not use draft PRs unless the user changes policy.
  • Merge only when every gate in references/pr-gates.md passes.
  • If multiple locales need the same generator/runtime/schema change, hold them and land one shared PR first; see references/batch-state.md.
  • After merge, clean the worktree/branches as described in references/pr-gates.md.
  • Never commit artifacts containing full local filesystem paths.

Workflow

  1. Load or create batch state (references/batch-state.md).
  2. Create one worktree/branch per active locale.
  3. Dispatch locale orchestrators with references/locale-orchestrator-contract.md.
  4. Poll with scripts/locale_batch_status.py; update phases; wake children only for deltas.
  5. Hold new locales when asked; keep closing already-active PRs unless told otherwise.
  6. Final rollup: locale, PR, merge commit, validation, babysit result, cleanup, deferred locales.

Compact dispatch

Read .agents/skills/add-locale-batch/references/locale-orchestrator-contract.md.
Locale: <code> / <name>.
Worktree: <relative-path>. Branch: <branch>. PR: <number-or-new>.
Phase: <batch-state phase>. Known blockers: <none|summary>.
Report compact JSON status only unless blocked.

References

  • references/batch-state.md — plan/status schema, phases, shared-change hold flow.
  • references/locale-orchestrator-contract.md — child-agent contract.
  • references/pr-gates.md — PR polling, merge gate, cleanup.