Agent Skills: conf-pipeline-orchestration

The multi-agent communication and orchestration discipline for a staged pipeline whose stages each carry calibrated uncertainty. Agents talk through files with defined schemas and status fields (never free text); the orchestrator passes input paths plus an explicit output path plus a return contract, verifies each artifact's confidence before advancing a stage gate, holds and integrates worker outputs rather than passing them through, freezes its protected control logic against a checksum, maintains a diversity floor, hardens the fragile handoffs not the resilient hubs, and names the substitution effect every optimized score produces. Conference-agnostic; preloaded by a pipeline orchestrator. Use when coordinating a staged agent pipeline, designing the orchestrator-worker contract, or deciding when to advance, reconcile, or escalate. Trigger keywords - pipeline orchestration, stage gates, structured agent communication, invariant guard, confidence propagation, conflict surfacing.