Prerequisites

You need five things before this Skill is useful.

Codex

Codex is the controller.

It plans the work, calls MCP tools, launches workers, reviews logs, checks diffs, and gives the final answer.

Claude Code

Claude Code is the worker process.

The orchestrator launches claude with a selected role, prompt, permission mode, and provider environment.

Check that the command is available:

claude --version

You can also set a custom binary:

export CLAUDE_CODE_BIN="/path/to/claude"

On Windows:

$env:CLAUDE_CODE_BIN = "C:\Path\To\claude.exe"

CCSwitch

CCSwitch is the local profile registry and model router.

The orchestrator reads CCSwitch in read-only mode. It does not rewrite global CCSwitch state. It injects the selected provider variables only into the launched Claude Code process.

Discovery checks:

• $env:CCSWITCH_HOME
• $env:USERPROFILE\.cc-switch
• the current user home

Multiple models in CCSwitch

Configure more than one Claude-compatible model inside CCSwitch.

The Skill becomes stronger when each model has a job:

Model class	Good for
Strong reasoning model	architecture, review, security
Strong code model	implementation and refactoring
Fast low-cost model	quick checks and small planning tasks
Stable review model	risk, testing, compatibility
Fallback model	resilience when a route is missing

After adding models, rerun:

python "$CC_ORCHESTRATOR_HOME/cc_orchestrator.py" score-models
python "$CC_ORCHESTRATOR_HOME/cc_orchestrator.py" write-auto-policy
python "$CC_ORCHESTRATOR_HOME/cc_orchestrator.py" write-reports

Python 3.10+

The bundled CLI and MCP server are Python programs.

Check:

python --version

If your system uses python3, use that command in the examples.