orchestrator-tick

orchestrator-tick is a command for coding agents from ai-sdlc-framework/ai-sdlc. It costs 196 tokens per session (16,992 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that runs one supervised step of an AI software-development workflow in the current Claude Code session. It acts as the coordinator for assigning and reviewing development work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start one coordinator cycle that dispatches development work, runs reviews, and continues the project workflow.
Why use it?
It provides a controlled way to advance the workflow while keeping task execution and review visible to the operator.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the ai-sdlc plugin — 1 skill, 16 commands, 9 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/ai-sdlc-framework/ai-sdlc/orchestrator-tick
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-sdlc-framework/ai-sdlc

Or install ai-sdlc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 16 commands, 9 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 196 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 16,992 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00196 $0.16992
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.08496
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.03398
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.01699

Measured today against content hash 069eb73ab78c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestrator-tick 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 today.

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.

ai-sdlc-plugin/commands/orchestrator-tick.md · 1,238 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Run one autonomous orchestrator tick in the current Claude Code session as Conductor (RFC-0041 §4.2).

This command shifted in RFC-0041 Phase 1 (AISDLC-377.1). The previous behavior invoked Agent directly to dispatch dev subagents in-session. The original RFC-0041 §2.1 rationale cited a "600s background-agent watchdog (~85% kill rate)" — that claim was a misdiagnosis (forensic re-measurement 2026-05-21 via python3 ~/.claude/skills/audit-subagent/audit.py found 0 watchdog kills and 80.8% clean completion across 73 dev subagents, median 16 min, max 2.5 h). The Conductor/Worker decoupling pattern provides real benefits (operator-controlled parallelism, billing visibility, cost-pool isolation post-2026-06-15) that stand independently of the now-corrected watchdog claim; this command continues to use the pattern for those reasons. The cost-pool comparison should be re-evaluated against the corrected baseline.

Why this lives in the slash command body (not a subagent). Plugin subagents cannot use the Agent tool — Claude Code filters it out one level deep. The reviewer fan-out per verdict must therefore happen here.

Hard rules (identical to /ai-sdlc execute)

  1. Never merge any PR. Do not run gh pr merge.
  2. Never force-push. Use --force-with-lease only after the mandatory rebase.
  3. Never close PRs or issues. No gh pr close, gh issue close.
  4. Never delete branches. No git branch -D / -d.
  5. Never edit .ai-sdlc/**. .github/workflows/** is only refused when the project's .ai-sdlc/agent-role.yaml lists it under blockedPaths — not blocked by default.
  6. Never run git reset --hard ad-hoc. The sanctioned path is scripts/check-orchestrator-state.sh, which resets the parent to origin/main ONLY when the working tree is clean. Outside that script, git reset --hard is forbidden unless the operator explicitly authorizes it in the current session. (AISDLC-450)
  7. Never write CI-skip tokens ([skip ci], [ci skip], etc.) in commits.

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,238 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. today Changed 069eb73ab78c
  2. 6d ago First seen · 1,238 lines · 196 tokens per session scan A 95339e61a2a1

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orchestrator-tick is a command published in the GitHub repository ai-sdlc-framework/ai-sdlc (103 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 196 tokens to every session and 16,992 once invoked, about $0.0010 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.