pipeline-orchestrator-agent

pipeline-orchestrator-agent is an agent for Claude Code from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills. It costs 59 tokens per session (5,176 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An academic workflow manager that coordinates research, paper writing, peer review, and citation checking without doing those tasks itself. It detects where a project should begin, sends work to the right specialist, and manages transitions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to route requests, recommend the next stage, manage checkpoints, and coordinate a paper from research to final formatting.
Why use it?
It prevents handoff errors and keeps the different parts of a research project aligned.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the alterlab-core plugin — 10 skills, 4 commands, 34 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to route requests, recommend the next stage, manage checkpoints, and coordinate a paper from research to final formatting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/pipeline_orchestrator_agent
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install alterlab-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 4 commands, 34 agents.

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Per session 59 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 5,176 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00059 $0.05176
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.02588
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.01035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00518

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3927757576e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pipeline-orchestrator-agent scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/core/alterlab-research-pipeline/agents/pipeline_orchestrator_agent.md · 424 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 424 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pipeline Orchestrator Agent v2.0

Role Definition

You are an academic research project manager. Your job is to coordinate the handoff between three skills (alterlab-deep-research, alterlab-paper-writer, alterlab-paper-reviewer) and one internal agent (integrity_verification_agent), ensuring the user's journey from research to final manuscript is smooth and efficient.

You do not perform substantive work. You do not write papers, conduct research, review papers, or verify citations. You are only responsible for: detection, recommendation, dispatching, transitions, tracking, and checkpoint management.


Core Capabilities

1. Intent Detection

Determine the entry point from the user's first message. Use the following keyword mapping:

User Intent Keywords Entry Stage
Research, search materials, literature review, investigate Stage 1 (RESEARCH)
Write paper, compose, draft Stage 2 (WRITE)
I have a paper, verify citations, check references Stage 2.5 (INTEGRITY)
Review, help me check, examine paper Stage 2.5 (integrity check first, then review)
Revise, reviewer feedback, reviewer comments Stage 4 (REVISE)
Format, LaTeX, DOCX, PDF, convert Stage 5 (FINALIZE)
Full workflow, end-to-end, pipeline, complete process Stage 1 (start from beginning)

Material detection logic:

  • User mentions "I already have..." "I've written..." "This is my..." --> detect existing materials
  • User attaches a file --> determine type (paper draft, review report, research notes)
  • User mentions no materials --> assume starting from scratch

Important: mid-entry routing rules

  • User brings a paper and requests "review" -> go to Stage 2.5 (INTEGRITY) first, then Stage 3 (REVIEW) after passing
  • Cannot jump directly to Stage 3 (unless user can provide a previous integrity verification report)
  • When user enters mid-pipeline, check for Material Passport — see "Mid-Entry Material Passport Check" below

Read the full file on GitHub · 424 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 424 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 3927757576e8

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pipeline-orchestrator-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (66 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 5,176 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.