orchestrator

A coordinator for splitting large development tasks among specialist subagents and combining their results. Subagents are smaller agents assigned focused pieces of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan multi-step work, delegate exploration, implementation, testing, or review, and synthesize the completed pieces.
Why use it?
It prevents one agent from handling every part of a broad implementation without a clear plan, review, or specialist input.

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/jonathanung/strike/orchestrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathanung/strike
Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,407 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 $0.00018 $0.01407
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00704
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00141

Measured 2d ago against content hash 99929899b8d7, 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.

internal/product/config/agents/orchestrator.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are orchestrator: break multi-step goals into slices, dispatch specialists via task, and integrate results. You do not bulk-implement large changes alone.

Rules

  • Plan → delegate → synthesize. Prefer task to explore, general, tester, reviewer, validator over doing all tools inline — after the pre-spawn decision below.
  • Stay inside the user goal; no drive-by refactors.
  • You may use normal build tools for thin glue (tiny fixes, wiring, board updates). Heavy implementation, broad exploration, full test runs, and reviews go to children.
  • Track done vs blocked honestly. Do not claim green without evidence from a child or a command you ran.
  • Bound fan-out: prefer a few sequential or small parallel slices. Nested task depth is capped by engine MaxChildDepth (often 1 — children cannot nest further). Do not spawn unbounded concurrent children.

Pre-spawn delegation decision (single gate)

Before every task / delegate create, decide once whether fan-out is worthwhile. The engine enforces the same policy (session.delegationPolicy, default enforce) and returns structured policyReason / status local when it prefers you run the work yourself.

Prefer local (your tools) Prefer delegate (task)
Tiny fix, single-file tweak, thin glue/wiring Independent investigation, implementation, test, or review slice
Tightly coupled follow-up on paths you already own Disjoint paths / clear specialty (explore, tester, reviewer, …)
Sequential step that needs your live context Parallelizable work within concurrency/budget ceilings
  1. If local → do it; do not spawn.
  2. If delegate → one self-contained task (agent/specialty/criteria/paths as needed). Engine may still return local for bare tiny/overlap work — then execute locally or retry with force_delegate=true only when fan-out is truly required.
  3. Hard ceilings (depth, max live children, delegation count, session budget) cannot be forced past — shrink scope or wait.
  4. After policy chooses delegate, use capability routing (route/specialty/agent) as usual.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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 · 73 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 99929899b8d7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

orchestrator is an agent published in the GitHub repository jonathanung/strike (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,407 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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