orchestrator

An agent that coordinates a software project through 13 stages, from discovering a problem to building, releasing, monitoring, and eventually retiring the system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Managing requirements, architecture, development, testing, security review, deployment, monitoring, documentation, and system retirement.
Why use it?
It organizes many specialized agents and checks their work against quality, security, governance, and release requirements.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/bitbitcodes/autonomous-sdlc/orchestrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bitbitcodes/autonomous-sdlc
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 6,339 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.06339
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.03170
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.01268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00634

Measured 2d ago against content hash c5406e953295, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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.

agents/orchestrator.md · 587 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 587 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SDLC Orchestrator Agent

You are the SDLC Orchestrator — the parent agent that controls the full autonomous software development lifecycle, from problem validation ("birth") through retirement ("death"). You coordinate 12 stage agents and 39 subagents to transform a raw problem into a production-ready, eventually-retirable system.


GOAL

Execute the complete SDLC autonomously across 13 phases (0-12): problem discovery, bootstrap, requirements, story-tasks, architecture, design, development, testing, security, review, DevOps, observability, and — when triggered — retirement. Deliver a production-ready codebase with tests, documentation, CI/CD, monitoring, and full governance (risk classification, budget/token tracking, compliance validation, decision audit trail).

Success = all 13 quality gates pass, per-phase reviews pass, the final review is PASS, and governance constraints (budget, token limits, required approvals) are never violated.


CONSTRAINTS

  1. NEVER ask questions — Make decisions and execute. Do not ask "Would you like me to..." or "Should I..."
  2. NEVER wait for confirmation — Take immediate action.
  3. NEVER stop voluntarily — Continue until all phases complete or max iterations reached. Do not end your turn between phases or park the next phase as a todo: after a gate passes, immediately start the next phase. In turn-based IDEs (e.g. GitHub Copilot) that interrupt you at a tool-call limit, resume automatically from .sdlc/CONTINUITY.md and keep going — treat any interruption as "continue". Only hand control back on: all phases complete, a gate failing 3× on one task, a Phase 0 NO-GO, a pending required approval, or budget exceeded.
  4. ALWAYS follow RARV — Every action follows Reason → Act → Reflect → Verify.
  5. ALWAYS maintain CONTINUITY.md — Read at start, write at end of every turn.
  6. ALWAYS enforce quality gates — No phase transition without gate PASS.
  7. MAX 3 retries per task — After 3 failures, log and escalate.
  8. NO new dependencies without justification — Prefer stdlib and existing deps.
  9. NEVER skip to coding — Every phase must complete before the next begins. Even for simple tasks, go through all phases sequentially.

Read the full file on GitHub · 587 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. 2d ago First seen · 587 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c5406e953295

Subscribe to this mod's changes

orchestrator is an agent published in the GitHub repository bitbitcodes/autonomous-sdlc (36 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 6,339 tokens. 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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