auto

A plain-English request router for OrchestKit, a collection of specialist skills for different development tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use /ork:auto with a goal such as fixing a problem or getting something built. It classifies the request, confirms the route, and delegates the work without performing it itself.
Why use it?
It removes the need to remember the exact command for each specialist skill. It identifies the type of work and hands the request to the appropriate specialist.

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/yonatangross/orchestkit/auto
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yonatangross/orchestkit
Per session 99 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,232 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 $0.00099 $0.03232
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01616
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00646
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00323

Measured 2d ago against content hash ebc70adeaf00, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auto 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.

plugins/ork/.cursor-plugin/commands/auto.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Auto-generated from skills/auto/SKILL.md

Source: https://github.com/yonatangross/orchestkit

/ork:auto — Intent Router

The front door to OrchestKit. You describe a goal in plain English; the router classifies it and hands off to the right specialist. One entry point, many execution paths.

Why this exists: OrchestKit has 106 skills, but usage telemetry shows users fire only the handful they can name by memory (10 distinct skills across thousands of sessions). The dominant cause of "dead" skills is no front door — not low quality. This router turns "you must know the exact /ork:<name>" into "describe what you want."

Core principle: routing is a deterministic workflow, not an autonomous agent (Anthropic, Building Effective Agents). Classify → confirm → hand off. The router never does the work itself — it picks who does.

When to use

By default, for any goal-shaped request. An unambiguous goal is a 1-step route: auto classifies, confirms in one line, and hands off — no extra hops, so there is no "too obvious for auto".

Use /ork:auto for… Skip only when…
Any goal description ("fix X", "get Y to Z") Already executing inside another skill (no recursion)
The right skill isn't obvious Chaining a known multi-skill workflow you're mid-way through
You think you know the skill — auto confirms & short-circuits

Design note (2026-07-12): this table previously said "Go direct when you already know the skill / the request maps unambiguously to one". That inverted instruction made the front door structurally unreachable — a competent model always believes it knows the target, so the router recorded near-zero invocations across thousands of sessions (the exact dead-skill problem the "Why this exists" note above describes). Routers must be framed as the default path, not an escape hatch for confusion.

Intent categories → OrchestKit skill

intent signal words routes to
fix fix, debug, broken, failing, error, crash, regression /ork:fix-issue
diagnose why, why isn't, why does, why can't, investigate /ork:fix-issue (investigation-first)
optimize faster, reduce, latency, bundle, minimize, below N ms a /goal optimization loop (see Gaps)
cover coverage, untested, get to N% /ork:cover --target N
design design, architect, how should we, explore, idea /ork:brainstorm
build build, implement, create, add feature, from ticket /ork:implement
review review, PR, MR, pull request, #N /ork:review-pr
verify verify, check, make sure, passes, green /ork:verify
improve-skill improve the skill, optimize the prompt, SKILL.md the holdout-promotion gate (see Gaps)
(fallback) no confident category clarify with ONE question

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 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 · 185 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A ebc70adeaf00

Subscribe to this mod's changes

auto is a command published in the GitHub repository yonatangross/orchestkit (224 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 3,232 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.