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title: "dev-workflows"
description: "Standard developer workflow for coding agents: clarify requirements before building, debug to the root cause, capture and recall project lessons, and run supervised multi-agent workflows (research swarms, parallel review"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/dev-workflows
last-updated: 2026-10-21
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# dev-workflows
Standard developer workflow for coding agents: clarify requirements before building, debug to the root cause, capture and recall project lessons, and run supervised multi-agent workflows (research swarms, parallel review, DAG builds) through the Orca CLI.
- Slug: dev-workflows
- Publisher: AgentRelay Maintainers
- Repository: https://github.com/trisjr/agent-relay
- Manifest: plugins/dev-workflows/plugin.json
- Version: 0.4.2
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 9 (clarify-requirements, dag-build, debug-root-cause, orca-router, parallel-review, parallel-scopes, research-swarm, retro-capture, retro-recall)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 1
- Repository created: 2026-09-25
- Repository last pushed: 2026-10-20
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/dev-workflows
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What dev-workflows does, in the publisher's words

Plugin gom toàn bộ workflow chuẩn cho dev làm việc cùng coding agent vào một chỗ: làm rõ yêu cầu → điều phối nhiều agent → debug theo bằng chứng → ghi và tái dùng bài học. Một lần cài, đủ tám skill, mọi platform dùng chung một bộ quy trình.

Mỗi skill kèm evals/evals.json (bộ prompt mẫu kèm kỳ vọng hành vi) cho vòng đánh giá của skill-creator.

- dag-build làm rõ yêu cầu bằng clarify-requirements ngay trong conversation của coordinator, rồi viết spec từ brief; worker nhận việc sửa lỗi cụ thể được dặn theo debug-root-cause.
- debug-root-cause chuyển câu hỏi nghiên cứu rộng sang research-swarm, review diff sang parallel-review, yêu cầu mơ hồ sang clarify-requirements.
- retro-capture và retro-recall khép vòng: bài học từ debug hoặc quyết định khó được ghi lại, rồi được tra lại trước việc tương tự.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trisjr/agent-relay/HEAD/plugins/dev-workflows/README.md

## Skills

- clarify-requirements: Pin down what the user actually wants before building, explore the repo first, ask only the few questions whose answers change the work (each with a recommended option), log low-risk assumptions, and hand off a short requirements brief. Use this skill whenever a request is vague, underspecified, or…
- dag-build: Build a multi-part feature or migration as a supervised Orca task DAG with decision gates, plan, gate the spec for user approval, run independent components in parallel waves, then integrate and verify. Use this skill whenever the user asks to implement, build, or develop something spanning several…
- debug-root-cause: Debug a concrete, existing failure with method instead of guesses, reproduce and isolate it, gather evidence from logs, traces, diffs and environment, run a hypothesis ledger with the smallest possible experiments, fix the root cause only after a failing test proves it ("red"), verify the fix turns…
- orca-router: Entry point and router for any Orca multi-agent request. Use this skill whenever a request involves coordinating several agents, supervising or monitoring agent work, waiting for results, task DAGs or decision gates, handing work off to another agent or worktree, checking worker status or mail, or…
- parallel-review: Review one diff, branch, or PR with several supervised Orca reviewers in parallel, each with a distinct lens, then merge and dedupe findings. Use this skill whenever the user asks for a code review, PR review, security review, pre-merge check, or a second opinion on changes, "review giúp anh", "che…
- parallel-scopes
- research-swarm: Fan out a broad research, analysis, or investigation question across parallel supervised Orca workers, then synthesize their findings. Use this skill whenever the user wants something researched, compared, investigated, or explored along several independent angles at once, "research X", "phân tích…
- retro-capture: Capture one durable lesson from finished work as a short structured note in the repo's solutions store (default docs/solutions/, honoring existing conventions), the problem hit, the cause or key decision, the fix or pattern applied, and what to avoid next time, including lessons the user taught by…
- retro-recall: Make past lessons compound before starting non-trivial work, locate the repo's solutions store (default docs/solutions/), shortlist notes by frontmatter (tags, area, title) and file paths the task will touch, read only the few relevant notes in full, cite and apply them, and update recurrence field…

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.