CAO Session Management

CAO Session Management is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by awslabs in cli-agent-orchestrator.

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Install CAO Session Management

Copy CAO Session Management into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/awslabs/cli-agent-orchestrator/tree/main/skills/cao-session-management ~/.claude/skills/cao-session-management

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/awslabs/cli-agent-orchestrator.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/cao-session-management/SKILL.md in awslabs/cli-agent-orchestrator
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/cao-session-management
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What CAO Session Management does

CAO Session Management launches and manages named multi-agent sessions in CLI Agent Orchestrator. Use it to start a conductor-led workflow, send messages, check status, and shut sessions down.

CAO Session Management is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. CAO Session Management comes from a repository tagged agent-orchestration, ai-agents, ai-coding-assistant, antigravity and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

CAO Session Management

Overview

CAO runs multi-agent workflows in named sessions. A conductor agent inside each session orchestrates the work.

Core Concepts

Session: A group of agent terminals working together
Conductor: The supervisor terminal — receives instructions, delegates to workers
Provider: LLM backend. Default kiro_cli, override with --provider

Prerequisites

Before launching a session, verify:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands CAO Session Management provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

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Frequently asked about CAO Session Management

What else does awslabs publish alongside CAO Session Management?
CAO Session Management is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from awslabs/cli-agent-orchestrator, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AG-UI Author, AI-DLC Portfolio and Add UI To MCP Server. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way CAO Session Management does, and is maintained by awslabs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the awslabs/cli-agent-orchestrator page.
How does CAO Session Management compare to other AI Engineering skills?
CAO Session Management ranks #1269 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of CAO Session Management against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.