Claude Code Starter v6.3.0 — Orchestrator Model

Claude Code Starter v6.3.0

Minor release embedding the orchestrator model: the owner stays in the product seat above production; the agent becomes the orchestrator and lead developer that spawns and coordinates its own workers.

The shift

Before: the agent is a "project manager" with subagents, and the owner personally launches every parallel session, pastes handoffs between them, and acts as the integration bus.

Now — three levels by default:

• Owner — product/methodologist above production: goal, authority envelope, outcome review, stop-point decisions. Not a dispatcher, not a bus.
• Orchestrator (the agent) — decomposes work into streams, spawns its own workers (subagents / isolated git worktrees / deterministic workflows), integrates by dependency order, verifies independently, commits. Wakes the owner only at stop-points (prod deploys, external effects, irreversible actions, runtime-data deletion).
• Workers — ephemeral executors in their own fresh contexts; invisible to the owner.

Second axis: bounded continuity. Cross-session context is carried by the two-axis memory (contracts ⟂ state) plus a thin, verifiable handoff pointer — never by an ever-growing context megafile (unbounded continuity files are bugs: they drown the session they were meant to save).

What's new

• orchestration-model.md — portable rule set (principles O1–O12: single-writer via worktree isolation, worker charters, four evidence statuses with an independent verifier, authority envelope, fan-out vs solo judgment, incremental legacy adoption path) — now ships with the framework and installs into ~/.claude/rules/
• /handoff skill now in the install set — carrier of the continuity axis: role-typed session handoffs, grounding discipline, verification-report handshake (previously referenced by the addendum but not shipped — dangling for fresh installs)
• autonomy.md evolved — the three-level frame stated explicitly; "don't pull the owner in" extended to the whole production layer
• delegation.md evolved — charters, fan-out vs solo, single writer per shared contract, evidence without optimistic renaming, saved workflows
• Global addendum documents the model so merged CLAUDE.md files carry it

Install

curl -fsSL https://github.com/alexeykrol/claude-code-starter/releases/download/v6.3.0/init-project.sh -o init-project.sh
bash init-project.sh

Upgrade

All changes are additive: install-global.sh adds the new rule and skill only if absent; customized copies are never overwritten. Existing projects keep working under the flat model until adopted — the rule includes an explicit incremental path (wrap the manual handoff model, don't tear it down).

Release Assets

• init-project.sh
• framework.tar.gz
• checksums.txt
• RELEASE_NOTES.md

References

• Full release notes
• CHANGELOG