Orchestration

h0x-ADE Orchestration

This file is a discovery stub, not the usage guide. The full, version-matched h0x-ADE orchestration reference is served by the h0x binary itself — kept out of this file on purpose so it can never drift from the binary that will actually run your commands.

Engage h0x-ADE orchestration whenever you need structured multi-agent coordination: threaded messages, blocking ask/reply flows, task dispatch, worker_done/escalation waits, task DAGs, decision gates, coordinator loops, or decomposing work across agents. Use the orca-cli skill instead for full ownership handoffs ("hand off", "handoff", "handover", "give this to another agent", "another worktree") when the user did not ask to supervise, monitor, wait for results, or coordinate a DAG — and for ordinary terminal control, shell commands, worktree management, and the built-in browser. Coordination requires real h0x-ADE runtime state; never substitute a non-h0x-ADE subagent tool.

Resolve the CLI for this session

Choose the executable once and reuse it for every later command:

• If the ORCA_CLI_COMMAND environment variable is set, use its value. h0x-ADE exports this for managed WSL sessions.
• Otherwise, in a dev checkout whose session exposes ORCA_DEV_REPO_ROOT, use h0x-dev.
• Otherwise, use h0x.

Below, H0X is a placeholder for the executable you resolved. Substitute it before running anything; do not create a shell variable or run H0X literally. This works the same way in POSIX shells, PowerShell, and cmd.exe.

If the selected executable cannot run, report its exact error and stop. Do not fall through to another executable, which could silently target a different h0x-ADE build.

Load the full guide before running h0x commands

H0X skills get orchestration

That prints the complete, version-matched guide for the exact binary that will handle your next commands — task creation and dispatch, injected lifecycle preambles, worker_done authority, decision gates, and coordinator loops. Read it first, then run the specific command you need.

Don't guess subcommands or flags from memory or from a cached copy of this stub. They change between h0x-ADE releases, and this file deliberately no longer lists them. Confirm the app is up with H0X status --json (start it with H0X open --json if needed), and prefer --json for agent-driven calls.

If an older installation does not recognize skills get

Use this fallback only when the selected binary explicitly reports that skills get is an unknown command. Another failure is not proof of an older binary; report it rather than guessing or changing executables. For a confirmed pre-guide binary, use only this bounded, read-only bootstrap to orient. Do not dead-end and do not invent commands:

H0X status --json
H0X orchestration task-list --json
H0X terminal list --json

Then tell the user that updating h0x-ADE restores the full, version-matched guide via H0X skills get orchestration. Beyond these commands, ask the user rather than guessing a command surface this older binary may not support.