Choose The Workflow For A Dependency Fire Drill
Select an orchestrator-worker workflow when dependency impact is uncertain and subtasks need to be discovered dynamically.
Dependency advisory, branch cut soon, unknown blast radius. Which Claude Code workflow should the lead choose? Run one broad prompt asking Claude to upgrade the dependency everywhere and report when the build passes. This compresses discovery, patching, and verification into one opaque loop. It violates the workflow principle: unknown blast radius needs visible decomposition before implementation. Use a lead session to map affected packages, dispatch bounded workers for imports, migration notes, and tests, then synthesize one release plan. Right. This matches orchestrator-workers: the lead dynamically discovers subtasks, delegates focused investigations, and owns synthesis when the shape of the work is…
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