Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to c9r-io/orchestrator. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/c9r-io/orchestrator/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/c9r-io/orchestratorWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/c9r-io/orchestrator/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/c9r-io/orchestrator/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/c9r-io/orchestrator/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/c9r-io/orchestrator/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/c9r-io/orchestrator/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.01468 | $0.01468 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00587 | $0.00587 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00294 | $0.00294 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00147 | $0.00147 |
Grade A, and why
orchestrator AGENTS.md 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 2mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent Orchestrator — AI Dev Platform Index
Project Overview
This project is an Agent Orchestrator — a Harness Engineering control plane for agent-first software delivery. It turns shell-native coding agents (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini CLI, etc.) into governed execution units that participate in long-running, multi-step engineering workflows through Kubernetes-style YAML manifests.
Core Capabilities
- Workflow Orchestration: Declarative multi-step workflows with loop control, guard steps, DAG execution, and CEL-based prehooks
- Agent Orchestration: Capability matching, health scoring, rotation, and load balancing across heterogeneous shell agents
- Long-running Automation: Task persistence, event streams, trigger-based task creation (cron/event/webhook), and guarded workflow loops
Architecture
orchestrator (CLI) ──gRPC/UDS──> orchestratord (daemon)
├── gRPC server (tonic)
├── Embedded workers
├── SQLite persistence
└── Sandbox enforcement
Key design principles:
- Capability-driven orchestration: Steps declare required capabilities, agents declare supported capabilities
- Dynamic agent selection: Strategies include CapabilityAware, CostBased, SuccessRateWeighted, PerformanceFirst, Adaptive, LoadBalanced
- Declarative workflow definitions: Steps can be builtin (
init_once,ticket_scan,self_test,self_restart,item_select,loop_guard) or capability-based - CEL prehooks: Conditional step execution via CEL boolean expressions
- Guard steps: Steps that can terminate the workflow loop based on their output
- Dynamic step pools: Runtime step selection based on context and priority
- DAG execution engine: Topological sort, cycle detection, conditional edges
- Built-in observability (structured logs, event streams, task lifecycle tracking)
Manifest Format
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 129 lines · 1,468 tokens per session scan A a15d47f69a43
orchestrator AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository c9r-io/orchestrator (21 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,468 tokens to every session, about $0.0059 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
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