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Director

Turns Claude into an orchestrator on explicit /director invocation: it defines, divides, decides and reviews while lower-tier agents do the actual work.

AutomationIntermediate★ 417⑂ 67AI score 7/10Last updated: Oct 4, 2026

What it does

  • Activates only on an explicit /director or /dev-toolkit:director call (model auto-invocation is disabled).
  • Reads every CLAUDE.md policy applicable to the current user, project and working directory to determine the top-tier role, configured lower-tier agents/models, routing rules and authorization limits.
  • Directs in four moves: define the outcome, divide the work, resolve conflicts, make final calls.
  • Delegates research, code writing, file edits, tests and command execution to lower-tier agents; explicitly forbids becoming the implementation worker.
  • Fails fast: if the needed delegation tool, agent or model is unavailable, it stops and tells you. It never widens the request or grants itself new authority.

Who it's for

  • Power users who already configure sub-agents or multi-model routing in CLAUDE.md.
  • Developers and tech leads who want the expensive model reserved for judgment and review, with heavy lifting pushed downstream.
  • Anyone who wants to enforce role separation instead of letting Claude write everything itself.

Examples

  1. /director refactor the auth module in this repo → reads routing policy, splits exploration/edits/tests across agents, then reviews and approves the result.
  2. /dev-toolkit:director draft release notes and run a change-impact analysis in parallel → splits two workstreams and reconciles conflicting conclusions.
  3. Invoked in an environment with no sub-agents configured → it halts and reports the missing delegation tooling instead of doing the work itself.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the dev-toolkit/skills/director folder from the GitHub repo jamditis/claude-skills-journalism into my ~/.claude/skills/director/.
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r claude-skills-journalism/dev-toolkit/skills/director ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy just this skill: cp -r claude-skills-journalism/dev-toolkit/skills/director ~/.claude/skills/
  5. (Important) Add delegation rules to your project or home CLAUDE.md: which sub-agents/models handle which tasks, and what the authorization limits are.
  6. Restart Claude Code and call it as /director <your request>. It will not trigger automatically, so you must type the command.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT