orchestration-benchmark

orchestration-benchmark is a skill for Claude Code from bdfinst/agentic-dev-team. It costs 107 tokens per session (2,293 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A benchmark for comparing solo coding work with different agent-coordination approaches. It measures cost, token use, quality, rework, and elapsed time on the same tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run matched comparisons between a solo session, the current orchestration process, and a delegation-only process.
Why use it?
It helps determine whether coordinating multiple agents produces enough benefit to justify its extra overhead.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the dev-team plugin — 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to run matched comparisons between a solo session, the current orchestration process, and a delegation-only process.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add bdfinst/agentic-dev-team
Claude Code
/plugin install dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,293 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 $0.00107 $0.02293
Opus 5.5 $0.00043 $0.00917
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00459
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00229

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ff2b6449b30f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestration-benchmark 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 1mo 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.

plugins/dev-team/skills/orchestration-benchmark/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orchestration Benchmark (#1095)

Role: orchestrator. This command dispatches benchmark runs and aggregates their results — it never performs the benchmark tasks itself and never edits the code under test.

You have been invoked with the /orchestration-benchmark command.

Not /benchmark. /benchmark measures runtime performance of web pages (Core Web Vitals, resource sizes, load times). This skill measures orchestration value: whether the dev-team pipeline's delegation earns its overhead against a solo session on the same task at the same rigor. Different subject, different instruments, different report.

Orchestrator constraints

  1. Matched rigor is non-negotiable. Every arm runs the identical task with identical acceptance checks. An arm may not skip or weaken verification — a cheap worker that reads less and passes weaker checks is a different product, not a cheaper version of the same one. A run that weakened its checks is a rigor violation: discard it, do not average it in.
  2. The protocol is pre-registered. The decision rule below is fixed before the first run. Do not adjust thresholds, arms, or the task matrix after seeing results — report against the rule as written.
  3. Never report a single run. Report median + spread per arm per task class. A difference smaller than the spread is a null result.
  4. Write results to files. Per-run records and the final report go to files; present only the summary tables and verdict in chat.
  5. Be concise. Tables and short sentences; no narration of each run.

Parse Arguments

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

  • --task-class <trivial|standard|complex>: Run only one task-matrix class (bucket names from knowledge/task-size-classifier.md). Default: all three.
  • --runs <n>: Runs per arm per task class (default: 5). Fewer than 5 makes the result exploratory, not decidable — say so in the report and do not apply the decision rule to it.
  • --dry-run: Print the run plan — interleaved schedule, selected fixtures, each arm's agents' declared model:/effort: frontmatter, and a cost estimate — without dispatching anything.

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 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. 1mo ago First seen · 192 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A ff2b6449b30f

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orchestration-benchmark is a skill published in the GitHub repository bdfinst/agentic-dev-team (295 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 2,293 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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