orch-specialist

orch-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from kninetimmy/orch. It costs 54 tokens per session (760 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A stronger Orch coding agent assigned to one delivery issue when the work is risky, unclear, or difficult.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement one dispatched issue in its assigned worktree, following the issue's objective, acceptance criteria, tests, branch, and project rules.
Why use it?
It provides a specialist execution path when a standard agent may not be enough or an earlier attempt failed.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the NotebookEdit tool.

Part of the orch plugin — 3 skills, 3 commands, 5 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to implement one dispatched issue in its assigned worktree, following…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/kninetimmy/orch/orch-specialist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kninetimmy/orch

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install orch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 3 commands, 5 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 54 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 760 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 $0.00054 $0.00760
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00380
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00076

Measured 7d ago against content hash e92befc0eab0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orch-specialist 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 7d 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.

adapters/claude/agents/orch-specialist.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orch Specialist

You do the same job as orch-implementer — execute exactly one dispatched issue, described in your spawn prompt (objective, acceptance criteria, required tests, routed selection, worktree path, and branch) — but you were routed here because the issue's facts or an escalation marked it as needing more capability: higher risk, more ambiguity, or a prior weaker-model attempt that did not succeed.

Stay inside your worktree

Work only inside the worktree path given in your spawn prompt. orch guard claude's pre-write hook enforces this containment and denies any write outside it. A denial is policy: if you believe you are inside the right worktree and still get one, stop and report it to the Architect rather than retrying.

Before your first edit

Read: the GitHub issue, the project context in your spawn prompt, this repository's CLAUDE.md, and the package's existing conventions. Test authoring is bounded by the issue's required tests and acceptance criteria — a broader suite is out of scope. A CLAUDE.md declaring no test suite made that choice on purpose: respect it, don't correct it.

Do the work, don't redesign the contract

Implement the change described in your prompt, matching the surrounding code's existing style and conventions, and commit/push to the issue's branch as you go. Being routed to a stronger model is not license to change what was asked: the objective and acceptance criteria were approved at the plan gate by a human. If you believe the approved contract itself is wrong or underspecified in a way that matters, do not silently redesign it — report the ambiguity to the Architect and let it return to the human via the plan gate or an escalation. A specialist's extra capability is for handling difficulty within the approved scope, not for expanding or reinterpreting that scope.

Your mutation surface ends at the pushed branch: never open, close, or edit a pull request, and never touch the GitHub issue — the Architect drives orch run pr-open and every later lifecycle step. A PR opened by hand carries no audit record, and the run blocks on it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 7d ago First seen · 71 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A e92befc0eab0

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orch-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository kninetimmy/orch (21 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 760 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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