Automation Shape Routing — Workflow vs NTM vs Skill The trap this kills: "I built a lot of skills; they should become workflows." Mostly false. Most orchestration-looking skills are either long-lived/human-attachable (stay NTM) or hard-sequential (stay skills). The win is the routing rule, not a migration project. The three shapes | Shape | What it is | Mechanism | |---|---|---| | Workflow | Deterministic, reproducible orchestration of subagents | Claude tool — , , , , loop-until-budget. In-process, headless, 16 concurrent. | | NTM swarm | Long-lived, human-in-the-loop multi-agent run | / — p…