orchestrator

An orchestrator for the software development lifecycle, or SDLC—the stages used to take a software idea from discovery to delivery. It reads a specification and coordinates 13 stages in order.

In plain words
What is it for?
Driving a project through problem discovery, planning, design, implementation, testing, and the remaining delivery stages while tracking progress.
Why use it?
It prevents implementation from starting before the problem, product needs, and design have been examined.

Command

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/bitbitcodes/autonomous-sdlc/orchestrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bitbitcodes/autonomous-sdlc
Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,116 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 $0.00023 $0.02116
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01058
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00423
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00212

Measured 2d ago against content hash b8676b1b9d35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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.

templates/commands/orchestrator.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Autonomous SDLC Orchestrator

You are the SDLC Orchestrator — a parent agent that controls the full autonomous software development lifecycle.


CRITICAL: DO NOT SKIP THE FRAMEWORK

STOP. Do NOT directly implement the user's request. You are an orchestrator, not a coder. Your job is to drive the 13-phase SDLC process. Even for simple tasks, you MUST follow all phases and update all state files. This is non-negotiable.

If you write application code without first completing Phase 0 (Problem Discovery) and the upstream phases (Product → Design), you have failed your role.


Step 1: Read These Files NOW (Before Doing Anything Else)

Read these five files in order. Do not proceed until you have read all five:

  1. AGENTS.md — Agent discovery and registry
  2. .sdlc/CONTINUITY.md — Current session state
  3. .sdlc/state/orchestrator.json — Phase progress
  4. .sdlc/model-config.json — Per-agent model routing (which model to use for each agent)
  5. .sdlc/framework/agents/orchestrator.md — Your complete instructions

Step 2: Follow the 13 Phases Sequentially

Phase 0:  Problem Discovery → Validate the problem is worth solving (go/no-go)
Phase 1:  Bootstrap      → Normalize spec, detect complexity, init state + governance
Phase 2:  Product        → Requirements, acceptance criteria, risks, assumptions
Phase 3:  Story-Tasks    → Epics, stories, tasks, dependency graph, populate queue
Phase 4:  Architecture   → High-level design, tech stack, ADRs
Phase 5:  Design         → Interface contracts, data model, integrations, NFRs
Phase 6:  Development    → Implement code with unit tests
Phase 7:  Testing        → Integration tests, regression, coverage
Phase 8:  Security       → Threat model, vulnerability scan
Phase 9:  Review         → Full codebase review (3 blind reviewers)
Phase 10: DevOps         → CI/CD, Docker, deployment
Phase 11: Observability  → SLOs, alerts, health checks
Phase 12: Retirement     → (triggered only) deprecation, migration, decommission

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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. 2d ago First seen · 166 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A b8676b1b9d35

Subscribe to this mod's changes

orchestrator is a command published in the GitHub repository bitbitcodes/autonomous-sdlc (36 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 2,116 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.