name: multi-llm description: "Orchestrate code plan reviews, task generation, implementation, and code reviews using multiple LLM providers in parallel, or ask each model a free-text question about a plan. Use this skill whenever the user wants to review a plan with multiple models, generate implementation tasks, implement tasks with subagent delegation, review code changes against a plan, ask the models a question about a plan, or run any multi-model workflow. Triggers on: 'review my plan', 'multi-llm', 'run code review', 'generate tasks from plan', 'implement this plan', 'use multiple models to review', 'ask the models about my plan', 'ask a question about this plan', '--ask'." allowed-tools:

Bash(uv:*)
Bash(PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 uv:*)
Bash(command -v uv)
Bash(ls:*)
Bash(grep:*)
Bash(diff:*)
Bash(tail:*)
Bash(dirname:*)
Bash(test -x:*)
Bash(git rev-parse:*)
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Grep argument-hint: [--review-plan|--apply-suggestions|--generate-tasks|--review-tasks|--apply-task-suggestions|--implement|--review-code|--apply-code-fixes|--full|--ask|--status|--init] <plan_path> ["" (required for --ask)] [--models provider:model ...] [--interactive] [--quick] [--yes] [--force] [--dir PATH|--gitignore|--template-only (--init only)]

Multi-LLM Skill

Skill directory & path resolution — read this first.

Every orchestrator script, instruction file, prompt, schema, and template this skill uses is bundled inside the skill's own directory, whose absolute path is:
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}
Claude Code expands ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} to that absolute path inside this SKILL.md before you read it, so every command and path shown below is already fully resolved — run them as written.

The mode instruction files you open with the Read tool, and any "run this next" commands the orchestrators print to stdout, are not pre-expanded: they still contain the literal placeholder CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR (written as the shell-style variable ${...}). Whenever you encounter that placeholder in a file you read or in script output, substitute the absolute skill-directory path shown above before running the command or reading the file. The shell does not export this variable, so never run a command that still contains an unexpanded CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR.

Always double-quote the substituted skill path in shell commands — write --project "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}" and "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/script.py", never the unquoted form. The path may contain spaces (e.g. Windows user profiles like C:\Users\John Smith\...), and an unquoted expansion word-splits and breaks the command.

A unified skill for multi-LLM plan automation. Supports eleven workflow modes plus a status command:

Review Plan (--review-plan): Review an implementation plan with multiple LLMs (default)
Apply Suggestions (--apply-suggestions): Apply validated suggestions from review to the plan
Generate Tasks (--generate-tasks): Generate detailed implementation tasks from a high-level plan
Review Tasks (--review-tasks): Review generated tasks with multiple LLMs
Apply Task Suggestions (--apply-task-suggestions): Apply validated task review suggestions to tasks.md
Implement (--implement): Execute implementation tasks from a plan
Review Code (--review-code): Review code changes against the plan
Apply Code Fixes (--apply-code-fixes): Apply validated fixes from code review
Full Workflow (--full): Run all modes in sequence
Status (--status): Show current workflow state and suggested next action
Ask (--ask): Ask each model a free-text question about a plan; aggregate answers into one markdown file
Init Config (--init): Set up a per-project provider config override at <git-root>/.multi-llm/providers.yaml (no plan path; routed via instructions/init-config.md). Fully automatic and zero-prompt: it auto-detects which provider CLIs are installed on PATH and writes a preconfigured override (uncommenting the detected providers' blocks and default_provider); --template-only skips detection and writes the inert commented stub. Flags: --dir PATH, --force, --gitignore, --template-only.

Quick Start

# Review a plan using YAML defaults (no prompting)
/multi-llm:multi-llm plans/my-feature.md

# Explicit review-plan mode with YAML defaults
/multi-llm:multi-llm --review-plan plans/my-feature.md

# Specify models from multiple providers
/multi-llm:multi-llm --review-plan plans/my-feature.md --models cursor-agent:auto gemini:gemini-2.5-flash

# Force interactive selection (overrides YAML defaults)
/multi-llm:multi-llm --review-plan plans/my-feature.md --interactive

# Quick review with 2 models (faster)
/multi-llm:multi-llm --review-plan plans/my-feature.md --quick

# Quick code review
/multi-llm:multi-llm --review-code plans/my-feature.md --quick

# Apply validated suggestions from review to the plan
/multi-llm:multi-llm --apply-suggestions plans/my-feature.md

# Generate detailed tasks from a high-level plan
/multi-llm:multi-llm --generate-tasks plans/my-feature.md

# Review generated tasks with multiple LLMs
/multi-llm:multi-llm --review-tasks plans/my-feature.md

# Quick task review (fewer models, faster)
/multi-llm:multi-llm --review-tasks plans/my-feature.md --quick

# Apply validated task review suggestions to tasks.md
/multi-llm:multi-llm --apply-task-suggestions plans/my-feature.md

# Implement tasks from a plan
/multi-llm:multi-llm --implement plans/my-feature.md

# Review code changes
/multi-llm:multi-llm --review-code plans/my-feature.md

# Apply code fixes from a previous review
/multi-llm:multi-llm --apply-code-fixes plans/my-feature.md

# Run full workflow
/multi-llm:multi-llm --full plans/my-feature.md

# Run full workflow fully unattended (zero prompts): non-interactive model
# selection, Claude decides all human-decision items, auto-runs review-tasks,
# and auto-applies code-review fixes
/multi-llm:multi-llm --full plans/my-feature.md --yes
/multi-llm:multi-llm --full plans/my-feature.md --yes --quick   # also pin to the 2 quick models

# Check workflow status
/multi-llm:multi-llm --status plans/my-feature.md

# Ask each model a free-text question about a plan (read-only Q&A)
/multi-llm:multi-llm --ask plans/my-feature.md "Is the rollback strategy sufficient?"

Target Repository

The repo where multi-llm runs should have one or more AGENTS.md files throughout (root and/or subdirectories) so every code harness gets consistent project context. AGENTS.md is supported by most harnesses that multi-llm invokes (Cursor Agent, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Grok Build, Cline, goose, Aider, Antigravity CLI, Pi, etc.).

For a single source of truth with Claude Code, add a matching CLAUDE.md alongside each AGENTS.md containing only:

@AGENTS.md

Example in this skill: AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md.

Pre-execution Validation

Flags are position-independent: --models (variadic), --quick, --interactive, --yes / --non-interactive, --force, and the mode flags (--ask, --review-plan, …) may appear anywhere. These blocks scan argv for --ask to detect ask mode, then collect the positional tokens (skipping every --flag and the values consumed by variadic --models): the first positional is the plan path and, for --ask, the second is the question.

! ASK=0; PLAN_PATH=""; Q=""; pos=0; skip_vals=0; for a in "$@"; do if [ "$skip_vals" = 1 ]; then case "$a" in --*) skip_vals=0;; *) continue;; esac; fi; case "$a" in --ask) ASK=1; continue;; --models) skip_vals=1; continue;; --*) continue;; esac; pos=$((pos+1)); if [ "$pos" = 1 ]; then PLAN_PATH="$a"; elif [ "$pos" = 2 ]; then Q="$a"; fi; done; if [ -z "$PLAN_PATH" ]; then echo "ERROR: Plan path required. Usage: /multi-llm:multi-llm [--review-plan|--implement|--review-code|--full|--ask <plan_path> \"<question>\"] <plan_path> (mode flag optional, defaults to --review-plan)"; exit 1; fi

! ASK=0; PLAN_PATH=""; pos=0; skip_vals=0; for a in "$@"; do if [ "$skip_vals" = 1 ]; then case "$a" in --*) skip_vals=0;; *) continue;; esac; fi; case "$a" in --ask) ASK=1; continue;; --models) skip_vals=1; continue;; --*) continue;; esac; pos=$((pos+1)); [ "$pos" = 1 ] && PLAN_PATH="$a"; done; if [ ! -f "$PLAN_PATH" ]; then echo "ERROR: Plan file not found: $PLAN_PATH. Usage: /multi-llm:multi-llm [--review-plan|--implement|--review-code|--full|--ask <plan_path> \"<question>\"] <plan_path> (mode flag optional, defaults to --review-plan)"; exit 1; fi

! ASK=0; Q=""; pos=0; skip_vals=0; for a in "$@"; do if [ "$skip_vals" = 1 ]; then case "$a" in --*) skip_vals=0;; *) continue;; esac; fi; case "$a" in --ask) ASK=1; continue;; --models) skip_vals=1; continue;; --*) continue;; esac; pos=$((pos+1)); [ "$pos" = 2 ] && Q="$a"; done; if [ "$ASK" = 1 ] && [ -z "${Q//[[:space:]]/}" ]; then echo "ERROR: --ask requires both a plan path and a non-empty question. Usage: /multi-llm:multi-llm --ask <plan_path> \"<question>\" (quote the question as a single argument)"; exit 1; fi

Provider Configuration

Providers and models are configured in ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/providers.yaml (the base layer).

Per-project override (optional)

A repository can override its provider/model defaults without editing the installed plugin by adding <git-root>/.multi-llm/providers.yaml. It is optional and auto-discovered; absent → base behavior, unchanged. Config is layered base → project-local → MULTI_LLM_PROVIDERS_CONFIG env override, deep-merged with lists replacing wholesale. Set one up with the --init flag (routed via instructions/init-config.md) — fully automatic and zero-prompt, it auto-detects the installed provider CLIs and writes a preconfigured override:

/multi-llm:multi-llm --init                 # auto-detect installed CLIs; writes <git-root>/.multi-llm/providers.yaml
/multi-llm:multi-llm --init --template-only # skip detection; write the inert commented stub to hand-edit
/multi-llm:multi-llm --init --gitignore     # keep it developer-local (untracked)

The auto-discovered file deep-merges its full contents (including a providers: block) over base, identical to the env layer; command: is documentation-only and is never executed. See the README "Per-project configuration" section for full semantics.

providers.yaml Format

providers:
  cursor-agent:
    command: cursor-agent           # CLI binary name
    default_timeout: 1200           # Timeout in seconds
    supports_json_output: true      # Native JSON support
    models:
      - auto
      - gpt-5.2-high
      - gemini-3-pro

  gemini:
    command: gemini
    default_timeout: 900
    supports_json_output: true
    models:
      - gemini-2.5-flash
      - gemini-2.5-pro

  opencode:
    command: opencode
    default_timeout: 1200
    supports_json_output: true
    models:
      - opencode/big-pickle
      - opencode/sonnet

# Default provider when model name doesn't include provider prefix
default_provider: cursor-agent

# Default models when none specified on CLI (skips interactive selection)
defaults:
  models:
    - cursor-agent:auto
    - gemini:gemini-2.5-flash

Model Specification Syntax

Models can be specified in two formats:

With provider prefix: provider:model
- Examples: gemini:gemini-2.5-flash, opencode:opencode/big-pickle, cursor-agent:auto
Without prefix (uses default_provider):
- Examples: auto, gpt-5.2-high (resolved as cursor-agent:auto, cursor-agent:gpt-5.2-high)

Model Selection Priority

When running a mode, model selection follows this priority:

CLI --models flag: Use exactly these models
CLI --interactive flag: Force two-step interactive selection (provider, then models)
CLI --quick flag: Use quick_models from providers.yaml (lightweight, 2 models)
YAML defaults.models: Use configured defaults (no prompting)
Interactive selection: Two-step selection (fallback when no defaults configured)

Example Commands

# Use YAML defaults (no prompting required)
/multi-llm:multi-llm --review-plan plans/my-feature.md

# Explicit models from multiple providers
/multi-llm:multi-llm --review-plan plans/my-feature.md --models cursor-agent:auto gemini:gemini-2.5-flash opencode:opencode/big-pickle

# Models without prefix (uses default_provider: cursor-agent)
/multi-llm:multi-llm --review-plan plans/my-feature.md --models auto gpt-5.2-high

# Force interactive selection (overrides YAML defaults)
/multi-llm:multi-llm --review-plan plans/my-feature.md --interactive

Critical Rules

These rules exist for specific technical reasons. Violating them causes failures that are hard to debug.

Orchestrator execution mode — The Claude Code Bash tool hard-caps timeout at 600000 ms (10 min); any larger value is silently clamped to 600000. Choose the execution mode by orchestrator category:
- Fast JSON-only orchestrators (--implement, --apply-suggestions, --apply-task-suggestions, --apply-code-fixes) — run in the FOREGROUND with timeout: 600000 (10 min). They only generate batch/task JSON and finish well under the cap, so foreground output (markers, paths) is returned directly.
- Fan-out review/ask modes (--review-plan, --review-tasks, --review-code, --ask) — runtime scales with the number of models and ROUTINELY exceeds 10 min, so they MUST run DETACHED (run_in_background: true). Redirect both stdout and stderr to a log file inside the phase output dir (> "<phase-dir>/orchestrator-run.log" 2>&1) and set PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 so Python streams output to the log instead of block-buffering it (Python block-buffers when stdout is a non-TTY pipe). Detached runs are NOT subject to the 10-min Bash cap, so a slow model's own timeout governs. When the background task completes, read all markers ([VALIDATION_PENDING], [VALIDATION_BATCHES_PENDING], [SALVAGE_NEEDED]) and final output paths (e.g. answers.md) from the log file, not from terminal stdout.
The orchestrators manage their own internal parallelism. Backgrounding WITHOUT redirection loses stdout (markers/paths) — which is exactly why redirection to a log file is mandatory for the detached modes. Resume semantics: re-invoking a review/ask orchestrator with --force RESUMES (keeps already-completed per-model result files, runs only the missing models, and bypasses the completed-phase/partial-completion guards); --rerun-all forces a full re-run that discards existing per-model results. A fresh re-run of an already-completed phase is --force --rerun-all.
Subagent delegation — When implementing tasks or applying fixes, use the Task tool with subagent_type: "general-purpose". The orchestrators produce JSON instructions; Claude Code subagents execute them. Implementing manually bypasses the batching, routing, and tracking the orchestrators provide.
Output tracking — After completing work, update the appropriate output file so the next phase can pick up where this one left off:
- --implement: Generate {plan}/implement/summary.md and update the plan with a reference
- --review-code --apply-fixes: Update {plan}/code-review/report.md to mark issues as fixed
Plan-local state — State is stored in {plan}/state.json, not in ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/state/. This keeps state portable and scoped to each plan.

Execution Instructions

CRITICAL: Before executing any mode, Claude MUST:

Parse the mode from arguments:
- --review-plan or no flag: review-plan mode (default)
- --generate-tasks: generate-tasks mode
- --review-tasks: review-tasks mode
- --apply-task-suggestions: apply-task-suggestions mode
- --implement: implement mode
- --review-code: review-code mode
- --ask: ask mode
- --full: full workflow mode
- --init: init-config mode (no plan path)
Load the mode-specific instructions using the Read tool:
```
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/instructions/{mode}.md
```
Where {mode} is one of:
- review-plan
- apply-suggestions
- generate-tasks
- review-tasks
- apply-task-suggestions
- implement
- review-code
- apply-code-fixes
- ask
- full-workflow
- init-config
Execute the loaded instructions step-by-step

Mode Detection Logic

Arguments: /multi-llm:multi-llm [flags] <plan_path> [options]

If first arg starts with "--":
  - "--review-plan" -> mode = review-plan
  - "--apply-suggestions" -> mode = apply-suggestions
  - "--generate-tasks" -> mode = generate-tasks
  - "--review-tasks" -> mode = review-tasks
  - "--apply-task-suggestions" -> mode = apply-task-suggestions
  - "--implement" -> mode = implement
  - "--review-code" -> mode = review-code
  - "--apply-code-fixes" -> mode = apply-code-fixes
  - "--ask" -> mode = ask
  - "--full" -> mode = full-workflow
  - "--init" -> mode = init-config (no plan path; see instructions/init-config.md)
  - Plan path is second arg
Else:
  - mode = review-plan (default)
  - Plan path is first arg

Ask Mode Argument Parsing (must match `instructions/ask.md` exactly)

After --ask, the first positional token is the plan path and the next single (quoted) argument is the question. The --models / --quick / --interactive / --force flags are position-independent (they may appear before the plan path, between plan path and question, or after the question). Flag-like text inside the quoted question (e.g. "keep --quick mode?") is question text, not a flag. An unquoted multi-word question or an empty/whitespace-only question is an error — emit the usage hint (/multi-llm:multi-llm --ask <plan_path> "<question>"); do not silently join tokens or no-op. The question must never be string-interpolated into the shell command line — pass it to the orchestrator via --question-file (temp file, preferred), --question-env, or a fully-escaped --question (see instructions/ask.md).

Common Mistakes

Backgrounding an orchestrator WITHOUT redirecting stdout/stderr to a log file — markers/paths are lost (see Rule 1 above); detached review/ask runs MUST redirect to <phase-dir>/orchestrator-run.log
Setting a Bash timeout above 600000 ms — silently clamped to 600000 (10 min); long fan-out runs must be detached, not given a bigger timeout
Writing implementation code directly instead of spawning Task subagents — bypasses routing, batching, and tracking
Using model names not listed in providers.yaml — the orchestrator rejects unknown models
Forgetting to report output file paths after execution — the user needs them to review results
Manually searching for state files — the orchestrator loads them automatically from {plan}/state.json
Skipping the instruction file read for the active mode — each mode has specific steps that vary significantly

Summary Format

After any mode completes, provide a summary:

## [Mode] Complete

**Plan**: /path/to/plan.md

### Results
- [Mode-specific statistics]

### Output Files
- [List of generated files with full paths]

### State
- State file: [path if applicable]

### Next Steps
- `/clear` (recommended before starting the next phase, for best performance)
- [Recommended actions if any]

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