What problem does it solve?
Manually breaking down high-level project goals into discrete, trackable tasks and coordinating assignments across specialized workers is time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale for complex multi-step projects. This skill eliminates that overhead by automating the entire kanban workflow creation and worker dispatch process.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Automated Workflow Decomposition: Breaks any high-level goal (e.g., "build a paper ingestion pipeline") into structured, prioritized tasks organized into standard kanban lanes (backlog, ready, doing, done).
- Intelligent Worker Dispatch: Routes decomposed tasks to the appropriate specialized worker lanes (codex, orcaid, subagents) and manages the full verification loop for completed work, including rework requests for failed verifications.
- Use Case Example: For a research team needing to process 50 new academic papers, this skill will automatically generate all required tasks (PDF parsing, figure extraction, metadata indexing) and assign them to the correct workers, tracking progress until all tasks are completed and verified.
Quick Start
Use the kanban-orchestrator skill to decompose the goal "build a customer onboarding automation pipeline" into a full kanban board with assigned worker lanes and track progress until all tasks are completed.