Bundled upstream support

Supporting files are included at skill-relative paths. See UPSTREAM-NOTICE.md for their pinned sources, licenses, hashes, and import changes.

Qoder Delegate

When to Use

• You want to delegate a bounded coding task to a separate qoder implementer (Qoder) and then review its diff yourself.
• The user explicitly asked for delegation to this implementer.

You are the orchestrator. Delegate one bounded coding task to a separate implementer - Qoder CLI - then review what it produced and land it yourself. You write the brief and own the judgment; Qoder edits the working tree in its session; you verify and commit.

The loop needs only shell and file access, so any comparable orchestrator can drive it.

When NOT to use this

• The task is small enough to do inline; delegation overhead is not worth it.
• qodercli is not installed or authenticated.
• You want to write the code yourself or need only an interactive Qoder session.

Prerequisites (check once)

command -v qodercli
qodercli --version
qodercli --list-models

If the binary is missing, install it from Qoder's official Quick Start. Authenticate with qodercli login, or set QODER_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN for automation. A successful --list-models confirms the current account can return its live model catalog.

Choose model and context window

Qoder's available models can change. If the human requests a model, use its exact current value from qodercli --list-models; never invent or pin a catalog entry. Otherwise omit --model and let Qoder use its current default.

--context-window <n> is optional. Pass a positive integer only when the human requests a size or the task needs an explicit budget. Qoder applies it only to supported models; surface an unsupported model/size error instead of silently choosing another value.

The loop

Run these five steps per task. Steps 1, 4, and 5 require judgment; 2 and 3 are mechanical.

1. Write the brief

Qoder sees the brief plus what it can inspect in the workspace, not this chat. Include the goal, current state, what to change, what to leave untouched, the project's actual gates, and a closing report contract. Tell Qoder not to commit. Keep one task per brief. See references/writing-the-brief.md.

2. Dispatch

Use the bundled relay. It wraps Qoder's non-interactive stream-json mode and writes result.json. <skill-dir> is the installed folder containing this SKILL.md.

node "<skill-dir>/scripts/relay.mjs" --brief brief.txt --cd /path/to/repo
# choose a live model:                 add --model "<value from qodercli --list-models>"
# request a supported context window: add --context-window 32768
# resume the latest session:          add --resume-last  # delta brief only
# resume a specific session:          add --resume <id>  # delta brief only
# see every option:                   node .../relay.mjs --help

Implementation runs default to Qoder's auto permission mode. The relay never bypasses permissions unless the caller explicitly requests it, and it never commits. See references/dispatch-and-poll.md.

3. Wait for completion

The relay blocks until Qoder exits. Run it with the orchestrator's background-command facility, or background it in the shell and wait for result.json. Completion means the process exited and the file contains a status; do not trust a progress display.

A pre-run usage error exits 2 and writes no result. Missing qodercli exits 127 and writes status: "qoder_unavailable" with installation guidance.

Native Windows relay launch is not yet verified; do not claim it until a native Windows smoke passes.

4. Review - do not trust the self-report

Treat Qoder's final message and gate outcomes as claims:

• Re-run the project's gates yourself.
• Read the diff against the brief, starting with touchedFiles.
• Check any --add-dir workspaces separately; their changes are not in the primary tree report.
• Run relevant guard skills if installed.
• Round-trip migrations and grep for dangling references after removals or renames.

See references/review-and-land.md.

5. Land it

The implementer edits; the orchestrator commits. Commit only after the gates pass and the diff

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