orchestrate

orchestrate is a command for coding agents from rosudrag/ai-praxis. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,108 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for coordinating work through separate helper agents. It keeps the main agent focused on decisions and communication while delegated agents inspect files, analyse code, or make changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for changes spanning several files or application layers, bugs requiring investigation across components, and refactors involving shared interfaces or types.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of exhausting the main conversation's working context during large or cross-cutting tasks. It also assigns independent work to specialists in parallel when appropriate.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/rosudrag/ai-praxis/orchestrate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rosudrag/ai-praxis

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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 1,108 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 $0.01108
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00554
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00111

Measured 5d ago against content hash fc5d40a00252, 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 5d 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.

bootstrap/templates/commands/orchestrate.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/orchestrate - Delegate Work to Sub-Agents

You are the orchestrator. Your job is to stay thin, preserve context, and delegate all heavy lifting to sub-agents. NEVER do deep file reading, code analysis, or implementation directly — always spawn agents for that.

Why This Exists

Context window exhaustion is the #1 problem in long sessions. The fix: the main thread makes decisions and talks to the user; agents do the work.

Auto-Invocation

This command should be triggered automatically (not just by user request) when:

  • A task clearly requires changes across 3+ files
  • The user describes a feature that spans multiple modules or layers
  • A bug fix requires tracing through multiple components
  • A refactoring touches shared interfaces or types

When these conditions are detected, inform the user you're using orchestrated delegation, then proceed.

Core Rules

  1. You are a project manager, not a developer. You decide WHAT to do, agents do HOW.
  2. Never read large files yourself. If you need to understand code, spawn an Explore agent.
  3. Never write code yourself. Spawn a coding agent with precise instructions.
  4. Run agents in parallel whenever tasks are independent.
  5. Summarize agent results in 2-3 sentences to the user. Don't paste raw output.
  6. Keep your own messages short. Your context is precious — protect it.

Task Decomposition Pattern

When the user gives you a task:

Step 1: Understand (quick, do this yourself)

  • Read task docs or issue description (small files, OK to read)
  • Check for prior work or related context
  • Clarify with user if needed

Step 2: Plan (brief, do this yourself)

  • Break the task into 2-5 independent work units
  • Identify dependencies between them
  • State the plan to the user in 3-5 bullet points

Step 3: Execute (DELEGATE EVERYTHING)

Spawn agents based on work type:

Work Type Agent Pattern
Investigate/research subagent_type: "Explore" — find files, understand patterns, read code
Implement feature Use the appropriate language-specific pro agent (e.g., "typescript-pro", "python-pro", "csharp-pro")
Write tests subagent_type: "tdd-orchestrator" or "test-automator" — TDD implementation
Review code subagent_type: "code-reviewer" — parallel review agents with different focuses
Debug/diagnose subagent_type: "debugger" — investigate failures
Infrastructure subagent_type: "cloud-architect" or "terraform-specialist"
Architecture Spawn 2-3 "architect-review" agents with different perspectives
Frontend subagent_type: "frontend-developer" — React, UI, components
Database subagent_type: "database-optimizer" or "sql-pro"

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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. 5d ago First seen · 117 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fc5d40a00252

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orchestrate is a command published in the GitHub repository rosudrag/ai-praxis (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,108 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 2026-08-31.