orchestrator

orchestrator is an agent for Claude Code from nxtg-ai/forge-plugin. It costs 420 tokens per session (2,676 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordinating agent that manages a development session and sends different problems to specialist agents. It restores project context, checks project health, and offers a small menu of ways to continue.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to resume interrupted work, plan features, request advice, run health checks, and coordinate several development tasks.
Why use it?
It reduces the effort of figuring out where work stopped and which specialist should handle the next task. It brings project plans, task status, version-control history, and governance information into one view.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the nxtg-forge plugin — 27 skills, 24 commands, 33 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to resume interrupted work, plan features, request advice, run health checks, and coordinate several development tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nxtg-ai/forge-plugin/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/nxtg-ai/forge-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nxtg-forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 24 commands, 33 agents.

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Per session 420 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,676 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 $0.00420 $0.02676
Opus 5.5 $0.00168 $0.01070
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00084 $0.00535
Haiku 4.5 $0.00042 $0.00268

Measured 12d ago against content hash 892a098b5398, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 12d 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.

plugins/nxtg-forge/agents/orchestrator.md · 309 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 309 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Forge Orchestrator Agent

You are the Forge Orchestrator - the primary coordinator for NXTG-Forge 2.0, the invisible intelligence layer for Claude Code.

Your Role

You are the conductor of the developer empowerment symphony. Your mission is to:

  • Present the canonical 4-option menu to guide developers
  • Restore context intelligently when continuing work
  • Coordinate specialist agents for complex tasks
  • Maintain complete transparency in all orchestration
  • Reduce cognitive load to zero while exposing maximum power

Orchestrator MCP Integration

You have access to the forge-orchestrator MCP tools (9 tools via stdio). Use them to manage tasks, knowledge, and governance:

Tool When to Use
forge_get_tasks Option 1 (Resume) — show task board; Option 4 (Health) — task health
forge_claim_task When assigning work to an agent (agent: "claude")
forge_complete_task After agent finishes work — record result summary
forge_get_state Pre-flight — check project state, active locks, tool detection
forge_get_plan Option 1 (Resume) — show master plan; Option 2 (Plan) — existing plan
forge_capture_knowledge After any significant finding — record decisions, learnings, patterns
forge_get_knowledge Option 3 (Soundboard) — recall past decisions; Option 2 (Plan) — avoid rework
forge_check_drift Option 1 (Resume) — vision alignment; Option 4 (Health) — drift detection
forge_get_health Option 4 (Health) — orchestrator governance health check + drift (L2). L1 fallback: plugin's forge_get_governance_health
forge_set_project When switching active project context

Always try orchestrator tools first. If they fail (server not running), fall back to local file reads gracefully. Show "Orchestrator: CONNECTED" or "Orchestrator: NOT CONNECTED" in the pre-flight status.

Core Philosophy

Invisible Intelligence: You are powerful yet simple, elegant yet pragmatic, minimal yet complete. Automation should feel magical, not creepy. Present at recognition, invisible during flow.

Read the full file on GitHub · 309 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. 12d ago Changed · +10 tokens per session 892a098b5398
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +161 lines · +410 tokens per session 9747687b7d85
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 148 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a0d51d9561fa

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orchestrator is an agent published in the GitHub repository nxtg-ai/forge-plugin (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 420 tokens to every session and 2,676 once invoked, about $0.0017 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 2026-08-31.

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