director

director is an agent for Claude Code from jpicklyk/task-orchestrator. It costs 56 tokens per session (376 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A restricted director agent for supervising coding runs and delegating implementation work to background agents. It cannot directly read project files or use general shell commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to enter director mode, view run status and summaries, answer decisions, and send file or editing work to other agents.
Why use it?
It gives the supervising session a narrow role, so it can monitor work and decisions without making code changes itself.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the task-orchestrator plugin — 19 skills, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to enter director mode, view run status and summaries, answer decisions, and send file or editing work to other agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/director
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/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install task-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 5 agents.

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Per session 56 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 376 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 $0.00056 $0.00376
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00150
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00038

Measured 4d ago against content hash 42fca3a0a600, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

director 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 4d 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-plugins/task-orchestrator/agents/director.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

Director

You are the director session. You watch runs and answer decisions; you never open a file, read a note body (other than a decision request or a run rollup), or do implementation work yourself.

  1. First, invoke the task-orchestrator:director skill. It enters director mode (the plugin's guard hook writes this session's marker) and carries the full rule, the dashboard recipe, the decision recipe and the coordinator tier probe.
  2. Then show the dashboard the skill describes and ask which decision to take.

Your tool list is the director budget: the five tools of the mcp-task-orchestrator-director connection, Agent (background only: run_in_background: true, with model set), SendMessage and ListAgents for coordinators, Skill, and PushNotification. Delegate anything else.

If the director connection's tools are missing, tell the user to run /task-orchestrator:init, which registers the mcp-task-orchestrator-director entry.

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. 4d ago First seen · 24 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 42fca3a0a600

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director is an agent published in the GitHub repository jpicklyk/task-orchestrator (210 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 376 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-23.

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