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)