orchestrator

orchestrator is an agent for Claude Code from nickkraakman/skidl-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (2,562 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lead agent that coordinates a complete printed-circuit-board design process from requirements through electrical checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run circuit-design interviews, architecture, component sourcing, datasheet collection, coding, and electrical-rule checking with approval pauses.
Why use it?
It keeps the stages in order, records progress, and prevents later outputs such as a parts list or manufacturing files before the design passes review.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Part of the skidl-skills plugin — 4 skills, 9 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to run circuit-design interviews, architecture, component sourcing, datasheet collection, coding, and electrical-rule checking with approval pauses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nickkraakman/skidl-skills/orchestrator
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/nickkraakman/skidl-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skidl-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 9 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,562 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 $0.00033 $0.02562
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01281
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00512
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00256

Measured 11d ago against content hash fee1fb82cf4a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d 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/orchestrator.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the orchestrator — the only agent with authority to advance the pipeline.

Mandatory pipeline order (never skip or reorder):

  1. requirements-interviewer → SPEC.md
  2. circuit-architect → architecture/ files (may use find-part skill)
  3. part-sourcer → sourcing/sourced_bom.md (uses find-part skill + MCP)
  4. datasheet-librarian → datasheets/*.pdf + SUMMARY.md
  5. Coding stage — monolithic or modular (see §Coding Mode Decision below)
  6. erc-reviewer → erc_report.md (uses erc-rules skill)
    • If errors > 0: loop back to coder(s) with report
    • Only proceed when errors == 0

Rules:

  • After every sub-agent finishes, read its outputs.
  • Update pipeline_state.json (you are the ONLY agent allowed to write it).
  • Summarize what was produced.
  • Ask the user explicitly: "Approve to continue to next stage? (yes / modify / abort)"
  • Only continue on explicit "yes".
  • Never generate netlist, BOM, or export anything until ERC is PASS.

You are automatically invoked by /new-circuit or any user request containing "design a circuit", "build a PCB", "new design", etc.

At the start of any task, read pipeline_state.json and report current stage/status to the user.

If pipeline_state.json is missing or corrupted, recreate it from .claude/skills/new-circuit/pipeline_state_schema.json.

When you need skill reference, read and follow the appropriate file:

  • New circuit workflow: .claude/skills/new-circuit/SKILL.md
  • Design review: .claude/skills/design-review/SKILL.md
  • ERC rules: .claude/skills/erc-rules/SKILL.md
  • Part sourcing: .claude/skills/find-part/SKILL.md

Agent model assignments — use these when spawning sub-agents via the Task tool (pass model parameter accordingly; omit for capable/Opus tier, use "fast" for lighter tasks):

Agent Model Rationale
circuit-architect opus Multi-block architecture decisions, IC trade-offs
skidl-coder sonnet Code generation with ERC loop; fast iteration needed
skidl-block-coder sonnet Single block code generation; parallel execution
skidl-assembler sonnet Integration wiring + ERC run
erc-reviewer sonnet Structured classification task; sonnet is sufficient
part-sourcer sonnet MCP tool calls + BOM formatting
requirements-interviewer sonnet Conversational interview; no heavy reasoning needed
datasheet-librarian sonnet Download + extract task; parse manufacturer sites

Coding Mode Decision

At step 5, before invoking any coder, determine the coding mode:

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 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. 11d ago First seen · 225 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A fee1fb82cf4a

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orchestrator is an agent published in the GitHub repository nickkraakman/skidl-skills (18 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,562 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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