orch AGENTS.md

Repository instructions for Orch, a tool that coordinates development sessions across Claude Code, Codex CLI, and OpenCode. They cover session continuity, builds, tests, host adapters, and work modes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing Orch, its session database or rendering, Go commands, host adapters, marketplace files, or Assist and Delivery workflows.
Why use it?
They explain where session data lives and which workflow rules apply, including when changes are allowed and how each host integration is organized.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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 instructions/kninetimmy/orch/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kninetimmy/orch

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 402 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 402 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00402 $0.00402
Opus 5 $0.00201 $0.00201
Sonnet 5 $0.00080 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00040 $0.00040

Measured 3d ago against content hash b07de49764e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orch 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 3d 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:

AGENTS.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Orch

A cross-host development orchestrator for Claude Code, Codex CLI, and OpenCode V2.

Session Continuity

memhub is the source of truth at .memhub/project.sqlite. The rendered files under .memhub/rendered/ are the local human-readable view — generated from the DB and gitignored by default. Re-render after /wrap-up with memhub render. Read PROJECT.md at session start before acting.

Build / test / run

Shared core is Go (module github.com/kninetimmy/orch, Go 1.26+).

  • Build: go build ./...
  • Test: go test ./...
  • Vet: go vet ./...
  • Format: gofmt -w . (CI fails on unformatted files)
  • Run: go run ./cmd/orch status (or doctor, help)

Host adapters under adapters/ are non-Go artifacts. Claude Code and Codex CLI share the root marketplace manifest; OpenCode V2 uses the local npm package at adapters/opencode/ and the beta opencode2 runtime.

This file is partially managed by Orch (see .orchestrator/config.toml).

  • In Assist mode, tracked-file changes are mechanically denied; a mutating request triggers read-only planning instead.
  • In Delivery mode, work happens in an isolated per-issue worktree, never in this checkout directly.
  • Model/effort routing, concurrency, and host plugin setup live in .orchestrator/config.toml — edit that file, not this block.
  • Orch upgrades this block through Delivery. Do not hand-edit it; a hand edit blocks the next install/upgrade until reverted or removed.
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. 3d ago First seen · 37 lines · 402 tokens per session scan A b07de49764e9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

orch AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kninetimmy/orch (21 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 402 tokens to every session, about $0.0020 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.

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