orchestrate

A workflow command that plans, implements, verifies, and then reviews a coding change using independent review agents. An agent is a separate automated reviewer focused on a particular concern.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for feature, bug-fix, refactoring, or security work. It can run parallel code reviews and reconcile their findings before reporting the result.
Why use it?
It keeps the main implementation context together while adding checks for correctness, security, and architecture when those areas are affected.

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/cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit/orchestrate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 444 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 $0.00000 $0.00444
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00222
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00044

Measured 2d ago against content hash dda7abe0aa9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestrate 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.

commands/orchestrate.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Orchestrate Command

Plan, implement, and verify in the main thread; spawn independent review agents after implementation. Prefer parallel reviews over sequential agent relays.

Usage

/orchestrate [workflow-type] [task-description]

Default Execution Model

  1. Plan and implement in the main thread. Keep full context; do not split planning/implementation across agents unless the task genuinely needs isolated exploration.
  2. After implementation, spawn independent reviewers in parallel:
    • code-reviewer — always, before merge
    • security-reviewer — when the change touches auth, payments, PII, secrets, networking, or file/command boundaries
    • architect — when the change alters system boundaries or major design
  3. Reconcile findings yourself, fix what is real, and report.

Review Focus by Task Type

These are review-lens suggestions, not required agent chains:

  • feature — correctness against requirements, tests for new behavior, security surface
  • bugfix — root cause addressed (not symptom), regression test added
  • refactor — behavior preserved, test coverage before/after, no scope creep
  • security — input validation, authz/authn, secrets handling, injection surfaces

Output Requirements

Report at the end (no fixed template — cover these points):

  • Files changed
  • Test results (commands run and outcomes)
  • Review findings and how each was resolved
  • Verdict: SHIP / NEEDS WORK / BLOCKED

Custom Sequences

/orchestrate custom "<agents>" "<description>" runs an explicit agent sequence when you really need one. Sub-agents do not share context: when chaining, pass the next agent a one-paragraph summary of what was done, key decisions, and open questions — no fixed handoff template.

Tips

  1. Always include code-reviewer before merge
  2. Use security-reviewer for auth/payment/PII surfaces
  3. Prefer parallel reviews over sequential chains — faster and no information loss between agents
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 · 54 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A dda7abe0aa9f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

orchestrate is a command published in the GitHub repository cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit (147 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 444 tokens. 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.