spawn

spawn is a command for Claude Code from Untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator. It costs 0 tokens per session (845 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that starts a worker AI-agent session in a registered project using a fresh Git worktree, which is a separate working copy of the code. You can choose the agent type, branch, project, name, and starting prompt.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start agents for coding tasks, associate them with an issue or pull request, and give them an initial assignment.
Why use it?
It lets work be delegated to another agent without mixing its file changes directly into the current working copy. The project must first be registered with ao.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md). Also seen: mentions Codex; built for aider; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to start agents for coding tasks, associate them with an issue or pull request, and give them an initial assignment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator/spawn
About the project

Agent Orchestrator is a local desktop workspace for running and supervising multiple coding agents, giving each task its own session, workspace, branch, and feedback loop. It is for developers coordinating agent fleets across repositories, pull requests, CI runs, reviews, and merges. The catalogue entries are commands, skills, and instructions for working with this orchestrator.

Untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator · 13,307 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 845 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 $0.00000 $0.00845
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00338
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00085

Measured 16d ago against content hash dd298d049aad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spawn 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 16d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • spawn — 95% identical, 41 lines differ
backend/internal/skillassets/using-ao/commands/spawn.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ao spawn

Spawn a worker or orchestrator agent session in a registered project, or a standalone worker session that is not tied to a project. Standalone sessions run in an AO-managed directory. Register a project first with ao project add for project-scoped sessions.

Syntax

ao spawn [flags]

Flags

Flag Meaning Default / Required
--branch string Branch for the session worktree ao/<session-id>/root
--claim-pr string Immediately claim an existing PR for the spawned session -
--kind string Session role: worker or orchestrator worker
--harness string Agent harness to use (see list below) Project worker.agent; required if the project has none
--issue string Issue id to associate with the session -
--model string Agent model override for this session only; overrides project/role config -
--name string Display name shown in the sidebar (max 100 characters) Required
--mode chat|tui Initial session interface; Chat requires harness support Daemon default, otherwise Terminal UI
--no-takeover Refuse if another active session owns the claimed PR (requires --claim-pr) -
--project string Project id to spawn the session in Optional when --standalone is used; defaults to AO_PROJECT_ID or the current repo's registered project
--standalone Spawn a projectless worker session in an AO-managed directory Disabled when --project is set
--prompt string Initial prompt for the agent -
--skip-agent-check Skip CLI readiness warnings; the daemon still validates launch readiness -
--tracker-provider string Issue tracker provider: github or gitlab github

--agent is an alias for --harness.

Available harnesses: claude-code, codex, aider, opencode, opencode-v2, grok, droid, amp, agy, crush, cursor, qwen, gemini, copilot, goose, auggie, continue, devin, cline, kimi, muse, kiro, kilocode, vibe, pi, kimchi, prime-agent, autohand, omp, fx, unreal-agent, mimo-code, deepseek-harness. Check ao agent ls --refresh for readiness on the installed build. unreal-agent is Chat-only; Gemini and MiMo Code are Terminal UI-only.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 16d ago Changed · +17 lines dd298d049aad
  2. 20d ago Changed 3556dd44bba4
  3. 21d ago Changed 971a5b23354d
  4. 22d ago Changed · +2 lines ebc446b01a06
  5. 29d ago Changed 68de46d936ba
  6. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines e9aa9e05877b
  7. 1mo ago First seen · 39 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e0fc1f4e3e60

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spawn is a command published in the GitHub repository Untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator (13,307 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 845 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.