codex-orchestrator-orchestrate

codex-orchestrator-orchestrate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alexzh3/codex-orchestrator. It costs 25 tokens per session (659 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for one focused coding-agent task, review, or verification phase inside a larger coordinated run. It keeps prompts, events, and handoffs as run records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assign a specific implementation or checking task, capture the agent's activity, and pass the result back to the main workflow.
Why use it?
It makes each agent phase limited in scope and preserves the information needed to inspect what happened.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the codex-orchestrator plugin — 3 skills shipped together

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 skills/alexzh3/codex-orchestrator/orchestrate
Any agent
npx skills add alexzh3/codex-orchestrator --skill orchestrate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexzh3/codex-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install codex-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 659 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 $0.00025 $0.00659
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00329
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00066

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5e2c8216629a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-orchestrator-orchestrate 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 5d 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.

skills/orchestrate/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude-Codex Orchestration

Claude coordinates and verifies focused agent work. Codex handles scoped implementation and review through its native CLI. Prefer Codex as the first mover for bounded coding tasks.

Use this skill for one focused agent cycle inside an orchestration run. The workflow skill owns planning, run initialization, task decomposition, closure, and reporting. Return to it when the focused phase is complete.

Durable Run

Keep run material under:

.codex-orchestrator/runs/<run-id>/
  journal.jsonl
  <provider>-<role>-<NN>/execution-<NN>/
    prompt.md
    events.jsonl
    handoff.md
  evidence/                 # optional
  report.md                 # after run_closed

journal.jsonl is Claude's append-only orchestration journal. Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/docs/orchestration-contract.md before creating or interpreting journal entries; it owns record fields, authority, validation, and closure semantics.

Capture each execution's exact prompt, raw events when available, and exact handoff. Never synthesize a log or rewrite a handoff. Keep small observations inline and create evidence/ only when material output must be retained.

Focused Agent Cycle

  1. Read the complete journal, current task, and relevant references before acting.
  2. Confirm the task's acceptance criteria and allowed/owned files.
  3. Compare active task files and shared resources before parallel work; serialize overlap or use a worktree.
  4. Reuse a relevant agent or create a named one. For an independent review, start a fresh agent and native session.
  5. Resolve the execution's absolute worktree, full HEAD, and attached branch when present and include them in its record. Save the exact prompt and append execution before launch.
  6. Monitor with the bundled tools without editing files owned by the active agent.
  7. Save the exact handoff, inspect it and the repository, then append terminal execution_result.
  8. Evaluate acceptance criteria and record material checks as verification.
  9. Record only consequential resolutions or user dependencies as decision.
  10. After evaluating the criteria, append complete when they are satisfied, failed when they are conclusively unmet and no in-scope recovery remains, or blocked when a user or external dependency prevents completion or judgment. Otherwise keep the task active and return the unresolved work to the workflow.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 5d ago First seen · 69 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 5e2c8216629a

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codex-orchestrator-orchestrate is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexzh3/codex-orchestrator (84 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 659 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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