orchestration

orchestration is a skill for Claude Code from bam-bam-2/solo-skills. It costs 178 tokens per session (958 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of orchestration, MIT.

Instructions for Orca, a system for coordinating multiple coding agents through messages, tasks, dependencies, approvals, and waits. The file is only a short discovery note; the full instructions come from the Orca command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Splitting work across agents, creating task graphs, sending threaded messages, waiting for results, handling escalations, and using decision gates.
Why use it?
Multi-agent work needs clear ownership, sequencing, and responses when one task depends on another. These instructions help the agent use the required coordination process.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the solo-skills plugin — 26 skills shipped together

Good fit Splitting work across agents, creating task graphs, sending threaded messages, waiting for results, handling escalations, and using decision gates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bam-bam-2/solo-skills/orchestration
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 bam-bam-2/solo-skills --skill orchestration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bam-bam-2/solo-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solo-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills.

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Per session 178 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 958 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00178 $0.00958
Opus 5 $0.00089 $0.00479
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00096

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9ca228137b9a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestration 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 11d 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

This is a copy

100% identical to orchestration — 61 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/orchestration/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orca Orchestration

This file is a discovery stub, not the usage guide. The full, version-matched Orca orchestration reference is served by the orca binary itself — kept out of this file on purpose so it can never drift from the binary that will actually run your commands.

Engage Orca orchestration whenever you need structured multi-agent coordination: threaded messages, blocking ask/reply flows, task dispatch, worker_done/escalation waits, task DAGs, decision gates, coordinator loops, or decomposing work across agents. Use the orca-cli skill instead for full ownership handoffs ("hand off", "handoff", "handover", "give this to another agent", "another worktree") when the user did not ask to supervise, monitor, wait for results, or coordinate a DAG — and for ordinary terminal control, shell commands, worktree management, and the built-in browser. Coordination requires real Orca runtime state; never substitute a non-Orca subagent tool.

Resolve the CLI for this session

Choose the executable once and reuse it for every later command:

  • If the ORCA_CLI_COMMAND environment variable is set, use its value. Orca exports this for managed WSL sessions.
  • Otherwise, in a dev checkout whose session exposes ORCA_DEV_REPO_ROOT, use orca-dev.
  • Otherwise, on Linux outside an Orca-managed terminal, use orca-ide. Never run bare orca there — outside Orca's terminals it normally resolves to the GNOME Orca screen reader (/usr/bin/orca) and starts speech on the user's machine.
  • Otherwise, use orca.

Below, ORCA is a placeholder for the executable you resolved. Substitute it before running anything; do not create a shell variable or run ORCA literally. This works the same way in POSIX shells, PowerShell, and cmd.exe.

If the selected executable cannot run, report its exact error and stop. Do not fall through to another executable, which could silently target a different Orca build.

Load the full guide before running Orca commands

ORCA skills get orchestration

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 83 lines · 178 tokens per session scan A 9ca228137b9a

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orchestration is a skill published in the GitHub repository bam-bam-2/solo-skills (362 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 178 tokens to every session and 958 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to orchestration, differing in 61 lines, and is treated as a copy.