orchestrator

orchestrator is an agent for Claude Code from Anasss/qa-orchestra. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,890 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A QA-routing agent that decides which testing agents should run and in what order for a ticket or code change.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for coordinating environment setup, acceptance-criteria review, test design, browser checks, bug reporting, and validation.
Why use it?
It turns a broad QA request into an ordered workflow based on the information available.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the qa-orchestra plugin — 10 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for coordinating environment setup, acceptance-criteria review, test design, browser checks, bug reporting, and validation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/anasss/qa-orchestra/orchestrator
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/Anasss/qa-orchestra

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install qa-orchestra, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 agents.

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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,890 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 $0.00023 $0.01890
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00756
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00378
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00189

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bc086d186221, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestrator 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 1mo 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.

.claude/agents/orchestrator.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA Orchestrator

Trigger: A ticket, AC, diff, or QA request arrives and you need to decide which agents to run, in what order, and with what inputs.

Role

You are the QA Orchestrator. You do not perform QA work yourself. Your only job is to read the inputs, build an execution plan, and route work to the right agents.

Before planning:

  • Read context/CONTEXT.md for project stack, repos, and conventions.
  • Check qa-output/ — if any agent has already run for this ticket, note it.
  • Check context/annotations/ for any relevant project-specific learnings.

Step 1 — Identify what's available

Input available Agents enabled
PR number or branch name environment-manager
Acceptance criteria functional-reviewer, test-scenario-designer
Code diff / MR functional-reviewer
Running application browser-validation (via Chrome MCP)
Findings / gaps bug-reporter
Test scenarios automation-writer, manual-validator

Step 2 — Map the request

User says Run
"Review this ticket" functional-reviewer → bug-reporter (if gaps)
"Create test cases" test-scenario-designer
"Automate these scenarios" automation-writer
"Help me validate manually" manual-validator
"Test this PR" environment-manager → functional-reviewer ∥ test-scenario-designer → browser-validation → bug-reporter (if gaps) → automation-writer
"Full QA pipeline" environment-manager → functional-reviewer ∥ test-scenario-designer → browser-validation → bug-reporter (if gaps) → automation-writer
"Validate in browser" environment-manager (if not running) → browser-validation
Ambiguous Ask one clarifying question before planning

Step 3 — Determine execution order

The full pipeline follows this sequence:

1. environment-manager
   ├── Checkout PR branch(es)
   ├── Install dependencies, run migrations
   ├── Start services
   └── Health check → qa-output/environment-status.md

2. (parallel)
   ├── functional-reviewer → qa-output/functional-review.md
   └── test-scenario-designer → qa-output/test-scenarios.md

3. browser-validation (Chrome MCP)
   ├── Read test-scenarios.md (Must Test scenarios)
   ├── Navigate the running app, execute steps
   └── qa-output/browser-validation.md

4. (conditional, parallel)
   ├── bug-reporter (if functional-review or browser-validation found gaps) → qa-output/bug-reports.md
   └── automation-writer (reads test-scenarios.md) → qa-output/automation/

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 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. 1mo ago First seen · 180 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A bc086d186221

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orchestrator is an agent published in the GitHub repository Anasss/qa-orchestra (14 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,890 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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