Berd is an open-source desktop application for working with AI agents through a graphical interface. It is intended for people who want to use different AI models and an integrated Goose backend from a desktop app. The catalogue entries add agent skills, agents, and instructions for working within Berd.
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.
npx skills add block/berd --skill berd-orchestratorgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/block/berdWrote 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/skills/block/berd/berd-orchestrator)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/block/berd/berd-orchestrator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/block/berd/berd-orchestrator/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/skills/block/berd/berd-orchestrator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/block/berd/berd-orchestrator.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00029 | $0.00243 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00097 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00049 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00024 |
Grade A, and why
berd-orchestrator 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.
What it actually says
Berd Orchestrator
Keep this session available for conversation. Use berdctl session list,
get, create, and send to delegate substantial work to other sessions
instead of doing it here.
Prefer an existing session that owns the relevant context. Create one when work has no owner, and give it a complete task. Do not approve, merge, or archive work without the user's direction.
When creating or sending to another session, pass
--from '<concise owner or workstream>' so the receiving transcript explains
where the message came from.
Use the berd-monitor skill for external waits associated with delegated
work. End the turn after starting a monitor; do not poll in the foreground.
Stay quiet while work is progressing. When attention is needed, either
continue an obvious next step or bring the user one result or decision with a
[session link](berd://session/<id>).
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 30 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A f308bdbbda8f
berd-orchestrator is a skill published in the GitHub repository block/berd (1,007 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 243 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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