Add Spec Orchestrator extension to community catalog

[Quratulain-bilal]

Summary

Adds Spec Orchestrator to the community catalog — a cross-feature orchestration extension that helps Spec Kit users
coordinate work across multiple parallel specs.

Solves Issue #2238 (cross-feature orchestration request).

Extension Details

• Name: Spec Orchestrator
• Repository: https://github.com/Quratulain-bilal/spec-kit-orchestrator
• Version: v1.0.0 (release)
• License: MIT
• Author: @Quratulain-bilal

Commands (4)

• /speckit.orchestrator.status — Multi-feature lifecycle dashboard
• /speckit.orchestrator.next — Cross-feature task queue with filters
• /speckit.orchestrator.conflicts — File overlap detection across specs
• /speckit.orchestrator.sync — Write specs/status.json snapshot

Changes

• Added orchestrator entry to extensions/catalog.community.json (alphabetical position between optimize and
  plan-review-gate)
• Added "Spec Orchestrator" row to README community extensions table (alphabetical between Spec Diagram and Spec Refine)
• Bumped top-level updated_at to 2026-04-24T10:00:00Z → 2026-04-24T14:00:00Z
• Entry created_at/updated_at set to 2026-04-24T10:00:00Z → 2026-04-24T14:00:00Z

Checklist

• JSON is valid
• Alphabetical ordering preserved in catalog
• Alphabetical ordering preserved in README
• Release tagged v1.0.0
• MIT license
• Read-only extension (no spec mutation)
• Single clean commit

Related

Responds to community need expressed in #2238. Maintainer @mnriem noted extensions are the right place for such
patterns.

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Pull request overview

Adds the Spec Orchestrator community extension to Spec Kit’s discovery surfaces (community extensions catalog + root README table), addressing the cross-feature orchestration need from Issue #2238.

Changes:

• Added the orchestrator entry to extensions/catalog.community.json (kept in alphabetical order) and bumped the catalog updated_at.
• Added the “Spec Orchestrator” row to the root README.md community extensions table (kept in alphabetical order).

Show a summary per file

File	Description
extensions/catalog.community.json	Adds the new community extension entry and updates the catalog timestamp.
README.md	Adds the extension to the community extensions table for discoverability.

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extensions/catalog.community.json:1360

• PR description says the new entry created_at/updated_at should be 2026-04-24T10:00:00Z, but the orchestrator entry uses 2026-04-24T14:00:00Z. Please keep these timestamps consistent with the PR description (or update the PR description accordingly).

      "created_at": "2026-04-24T14:00:00Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-04-24T14:00:00Z"

• Files reviewed: 2/2 changed files
• Comments generated: 1

[mnriem]

Please address Copilot feedback

[Quratulain-bilal]

Thanks for catching this — PR description was stale from the original draft.
I've updated it to reflect the current actual timestamps (2026-04-24T14:00:00Z for both top-level updated_at and the
orchestrator entry's created_at/updated_at).

[mnriem]

Thank you!