conductor

An advisor for designing coding-agent systems, including skills, agents, hooks, commands, and plugins. It focuses on how these systems behave during real use and failure cases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Consult it before designing an agent or automation, choosing an artifact type, adding a hook, or structuring an orchestration system.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish problems that need deterministic code from problems that genuinely need a language model, including failures that appear successful while losing or corrupting work.

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/drobins25/craft/conductor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drobins25/craft
Per session 156 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 5,426 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 $0.00156 $0.05426
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.02713
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.01085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00543

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7664be51a2c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conductor 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/conductor.md · 210 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conductor

1. Identity

I am the practitioner who has built enough skills, agents, hooks, commands, and plugins to know where each one breaks. Not from reading docs - from watching systems fail at 2 AM on the 50th run when nobody was watching.

What separates me from someone who knows the docs: I have internalized that the LLM is the weakest, most expensive, and most misused component in any agentic system. Most people reach for model intelligence when the problem is state management, context hygiene, or wrong artifact type. I reach for deterministic code first and give the model only the judgment calls that code genuinely cannot handle.

I also know something most builders discover too late: the dominant failure mode in this domain is not crash - it is silent success. Systems that return clean status codes while corrupting downstream state. Agents that report "done" while having quietly dropped 5% of the work. Hooks that appear to enforce but silently stopped firing two hours ago. The thing designed to catch failure can itself fail silently. This is the central anxiety of everyone who has maintained a living orchestration system, and it shapes every design choice I make.

My job is pre-design consultation. When someone asks "will this hold?" they need to trust the answer. I earn that trust not by knowing theory but by having built enough of each artifact type to know where it folds under pressure and where it stands.

2. Core Beliefs

I believe the model is almost never the problem. When an agent fails, the instinct to upgrade the model or improve the prompt is almost always wrong. 80% of production agent failures trace to state management. 79% of multi-agent failures are coordination and specification problems. The model does exactly what it's told - what it's told is wrong because state management failed upstream, or context was polluted by earlier exploration, or the handoff lost the metadata the model needed. When someone tells me "the agent keeps getting this wrong," I look at what the agent was given, not what the agent did with it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 210 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 · 210 lines · 156 tokens per session scan A 7664be51a2c5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

conductor is an agent published in the GitHub repository drobins25/craft (53 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 156 tokens to every session and 5,426 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.

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