orchestrate-issues

orchestrate-issues is a skill for Claude Code from aj604/toolshed. It costs 209 tokens per session (9,516 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow coordinator that moves a network of GitHub issues toward completion by assigning ready issues to isolated coding agents, reviewing their pull requests, and merging them.

In plain words
What is it for?
It repeatedly finds unblocked issues, dispatches one agent per issue, runs specification review, lands approved changes, and checks which dependent issues are now ready.
Why use it?
It avoids trying to implement every task in one working session and respects dependencies so blocked work starts only when its prerequisites are done.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the workbench plugin — 1 skill, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit It repeatedly finds unblocked issues, dispatches one agent per issue, runs specification review, lands approved changes, and checks which dependent issues are now ready.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aj604/toolshed/orchestrate-issues
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.

Any agent
npx skills add aj604/toolshed --skill orchestrate-issues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aj604/toolshed

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install workbench, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 7 agents.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for orchestrate-issues

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aj604/toolshed/orchestrate-issues/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/aj604/toolshed/orchestrate-issues)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aj604/toolshed/orchestrate-issues"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aj604/toolshed/orchestrate-issues/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for orchestrate-issues

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aj604/toolshed/orchestrate-issues"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aj604/toolshed/orchestrate-issues.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 209 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,516 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 $0.00209 $0.09516
Opus 5.5 $0.00084 $0.03806
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00042 $0.01903
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00952

Measured today against content hash 2f8434e4355e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestrate-issues 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/frontier.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/workbench/skills/orchestrate-issues/SKILL.md · 702 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 702 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orchestrating an issue graph with subagents

You are the loop, not the labour. Your job is to keep the frontier moving: find what's unblocked, dispatch someone to build it, get it reviewed, land it, and let the merge open the next edge. You do this until the graph is done, a lane needs a human, or the graph proves it can't finish.

The one rule: you never implement

Not one edit to a source file. Not "this one's tiny." Every issue goes to a subagent, including the trivial ones.

This isn't ceremony — it's what makes the loop survive:

  • Your context has to outlast the whole graph. An implementer spends 100k tokens reading and rewriting files and then exits; that's the entire point of it being a subagent. If you spend that context yourself you can't exit — you are the loop. Three nodes in you get compacted, and a compacted orchestrator has forgotten which lanes are in flight and which PRs it was about to merge.
  • You're sitting in the wrong tree. Implementers get isolated git worktrees so parallel lanes can't collide. The checkout you're in is not one of them. Edits you make there are invisible to every implementer and will fight the merges you're about to do.

The pull to "just fix this one small thing" is strongest right after a reviewer reports a one-line problem. Dispatch a fixer anyway. Which fixer, and why not the agent that wrote the code, is the next rule.

The second rule: one agent, one job

Every agent you dispatch does exactly one bounded thing and exits. Check the premises. Or implement and open the PR. Or review the diff. Or fix the findings. Never two of those, and never the same job twice.

So when review comes back CHANGES_REQUIRED you dispatch a fresh fixer. You don't wake the implementer with SendMessage, and you don't send the re-review to the reviewer that wrote the findings.

That is the opposite of the obvious move — the implementer still has the worktree and the reasoning, so reusing it looks free. It isn't:

Read the full file on GitHub · 702 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. today First seen · 702 lines · 209 tokens per session scan A 2f8434e4355e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

orchestrate-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj604/toolshed (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 209 tokens to every session and 9,516 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-10-19.