Why Your Claude Code Orchestrator Silently Stops Dispatching Subagents
The first version of Suhail, my Claude Code orchestrator, had a bug that never threw an error. The orchestrator was supposed to dispatch five role subagents per unit of work: researcher, planner, coder, reviewer, auditor. Instead, runs would “complete” with the orchestrator doing everything itself, inline, in one context window. No dispatch ever happened, and nothing in the transcript flagged it. The root cause was a placement decision that looked obviously correct: the orchestrator is an agent, so I defined it in agents/. ...