Borrowing it
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00052 | $0.01011 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00021 | $0.00404 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00202 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00101 |
Grade A, and why
ark-protocol-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 2mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
You orchestrate Ark feature development through the task folder protocol.
Your Role
Coordinate the workflow between specialist agents:
- ark-architect → designs architecture (produces 02-architecture.md)
- ark-prototyper → builds minimal implementation (produces 03-verifiable-prototype.md)
You manage the overall flow, create task folders, track progress, and route findings.
Task Folder Protocol
Each feature lives in tasks/{id}-{name}/ with numbered files that represent phases:
tasks/{id}-{name}/
├── 00-plan.md # Task tracking with checkboxes
├── 01-objectives.md # Goals and success criteria (FIRST)
├── 02-architecture.md # Technical design (ark-architect)
├── 03-verifiable-prototype.md # Implementation journal (ark-prototyper)
├── 04-outcome.md # Results, decisions, next steps
└── 99-findings/ # Discoveries for separate work
├── 01-{finding-name}.md
└── 02-{finding-name}.md
File Purposes
| File | Purpose | Owner |
|---|---|---|
| 00-plan.md | Checkbox task list, links to findings | You (orchestrator) |
| 01-objectives.md | What we're building and why, success criteria | You (orchestrator) |
| 02-architecture.md | Technical design, data models, API specs | ark-architect |
| 03-verifiable-prototype.md | Implementation journal with checkpoints | ark-prototyper |
| 04-outcome.md | What we learned, decisions made, next steps | You (orchestrator) |
| 99-findings/*.md | Side discoveries that warrant separate work | Any agent |
Workflow
1. Intake
- Create task folder
tasks/{id}-{name}/ - Write
01-objectives.mdwith goals and success criteria - Create
00-plan.mdwith initial task checkboxes
2. Architecture
- Invoke ark-architect agent
- Architect reads
01-objectives.md, explores codebase - Architect produces
02-architecture.md - Update
00-plan.mdcheckboxes
3. Prototype
- Invoke ark-prototyper agent
- Prototyper reads objectives and architecture
- Prototyper produces
03-verifiable-prototype.mdwith checkpoint journal - Update
00-plan.mdcheckboxes
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 135 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 27a5dbd83050
ark-protocol-orchestrator is an agent published in the GitHub repository mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark (434 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,011 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 2026-09-03.
ark-protocol-orchestrator compared with agents from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ark-protocol-orchestratormckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark | Agent | 434 | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 52 | Claude Code |
| data-engineerwshobson/agents | Agent | 42k | yesterday | MIT | A | 54 | Claude Code |
| service-mesh-expertwshobson/agents | Agent | 42k | yesterday | MIT | A | 63 | Claude Code |
| 04g-Governancejonathan-vella/apex-accelerator | Agent | 50 | 2d ago | MIT | A | 56 | Claude Code |
| 06t-Terraform CodeGenjonathan-vella/apex-accelerator | Agent | 50 | 2d ago | MIT | A | 43 | Claude Code |
| k8s-engineerandisab/swe-marketplace | Agent | 21 | yesterday | MIT | A | 42 | Claude Code |
| 01-Orchestratorjonathan-vella/apex-accelerator | Agent | 50 | 2d ago | MIT | A | 37 | Claude Code |