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.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Untrivial-ai/agent-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/Untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Untrivial-ai/agent-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/untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/untrivial-ai/agent-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/untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/untrivial-ai/agent-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 | $0.03017 | $0.03017 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01207 | $0.01207 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00603 | $0.00603 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00302 | $0.00302 |
Grade A, and why
agent-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 22d 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 — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Operational guidance for coding agents working in this repository. Keep changes small, match the current rewrite architecture, and prefer the documented daemon/API boundaries over behavior from the old TypeScript implementation.
Repo layout
backend/: Go rewrite of Agent Orchestrator with the CobraaoCLI, loopback HTTP daemon, services, SQLite storage, lifecycle/reaper, runtime/workspace/agent/tracker adapters, terminal mux, and tests.frontend/: Electron + React supervisor wired to the daemon through the generated typed client. Treat it as a thin supervisor/UI surface; do not move daemon logic into it.docs/: Current architecture and status notes. Start here before changing lifecycle, CLI, agents, storage, or daemon behavior.test/: External smoke/e2e assets, including the CLI fresh-install container check..github/workflows/: CI definitions. Mirror these commands locally when possible.
Commands
From the repo root unless noted:
npm run lint # backend go test ./... + golangci-lint v2.13.2
npm run frontend:typecheck # frontend TypeScript check
npm run sqlc # regenerate backend/internal/storage/sqlite/gen from queries/schema
npm run api # regenerate OpenAPI spec + frontend TS types (see API contract changes below)
npx @redwoodjs/agent-ci run --all # local workflow validation; requires Docker socket
Backend-specific checks:
cd backend
go build ./...
go test ./...
go test -race ./...
go vet ./...
go run ./cmd/ao start
Frontend-specific checks:
cd frontend
npm run typecheck
npm run build
When showing or demoing frontend changes, run ao preview [url] from inside the session so the change renders in the desktop browser panel (the inspector rail's Browser tab); do not just describe it.
Desktop lab (running the real Electron app for UI review)
For visual verification that needs the real app rather than ao preview or dev:web, run the checkout in an isolated worktree against scratch data. Never use the invoking working tree (it may hold unrelated uncommitted work) and never touch the user's real ~/.ao data.
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.
- 22d ago Changed · +44 tokens per session aab063ce8757
- 1mo ago Changed a3a67a51ae46
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +31 tokens per session 07e45db619cc
- 1mo ago Changed · +19 lines · +475 tokens per session d54a378d14b2
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +117 tokens per session 78c658c9db9a
- 1mo ago Changed · +68 tokens per session fd834ed4b0c3
- 1mo ago Changed · +94 tokens per session 7b13724893df
- 1mo ago First seen · 138 lines · 2,188 tokens per session scan A 7d3488618c5a
agent-orchestrator AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Untrivial-ai/agent-orchestrator (13,596 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3,017 tokens to every session, about $0.0121 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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