supervising-conductor-workspaces

supervising-conductor-workspaces is a skill for Claude Code from britt/agent-skills. It costs 173 tokens per session (3,512 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for dispatching one Conductor workspace per issue and watching each resulting GitHub pull request until it merges. It describes how to update branches, handle conflicts, retry temporary CI failures, and archive workspaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need to dispatch work for several issues, keep their pull requests current with the main branch, unblock checks or conflicts, and finish merged workspaces.
Why use it?
It gives agents a repeatable process for supervising many issue branches instead of handling each pull request manually. It also sets limits on actions that require the user's permission.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the supervising-conductor-workspaces plugin — 1 skill, 1 agent shipped together , and of agent-skills

Good fit Use it when you need to dispatch work for several issues, keep their pull requests current with the main branch, unblock checks or conflicts, and finish merged workspaces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/britt/agent-skills/supervising-conductor-workspaces
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 britt/agent-skills --skill supervising-conductor-workspaces
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/britt/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install supervising-conductor-workspaces, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 agent.

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Per session 173 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,512 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 $0.00173 $0.03512
Opus 5.5 $0.00069 $0.01405
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00702
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00351

Measured yesterday against content hash 019002677ba7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

supervising-conductor-workspaces 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/pr-watcher.sh, tests/pr-watcher.test.sh), 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.

skills/supervising-conductor-workspaces/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Supervising Conductor Workspaces

Announce at start: "I'm using the supervising-conductor-workspaces skill to dispatch and supervise these workspaces."

Overview

Run a small fleet of Conductor workspaces (one agent per issue) and keep their pull requests healthy until every one has merged. You are the supervisor: you do not implement the issues. You dispatch, watch, unblock, and clean up.

Core principle: Dispatch → Watch → Unblock → Finish. Every action that touches someone else's branch, merges, or archives needs the user's say-so for this fleet.

Needs: conductor CLI (authenticated), gh CLI (authenticated for the repo), jq, and the Monitor tool (or a loop you re-run) to stream watcher events.

When to Use

  • "Dispatch workspaces for issues 310–315 and monitor them"
  • "Keep these PRs up to date with main", "babysit the open PRs"
  • "Tell the green ones to merge", "archive the workspaces once their PRs merge"
  • A list of issues — related or not — each worked by its own Conductor workspace, supervised until merged

When NOT to Use

  • Implementing one issue yourself → working-on-an-issue (that is what each dispatched workspace runs)
  • Coordinating the child issues of one epic (dependency chains, stacked PRs, a report on the epic, never merging) → working-on-an-epic
  • conductor is missing or not authenticated → stop and say so; do not implement the issues serially yourself

Key Principles

Principle Meaning
Supervise, don't implement Each issue is implemented by its own workspace. You message owners; you edit a branch only to resolve a conflict you were allowed to resolve
Ask once per grant Each row in the authorization table is a separate permission. One grant never implies another
Look before you create Check for existing PRs and workspaces before dispatching; never start a duplicate implementation
React to events, don't poll The watcher prints one line per new event; you act on lines, not on a sleep loop of your own
BLOCKED is not failing It is usually CI still running. Act only on a check that says fail
GitHub is the source of truth An agent saying "done" is not a merge; gh pr view is
Report faithfully A rerun that passed is "rerun, passed", not "fixed"

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. yesterday First seen · 206 lines · 173 tokens per session scan A 019002677ba7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

supervising-conductor-workspaces is a skill published in the GitHub repository britt/agent-skills (9 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 173 tokens to every session and 3,512 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-10-29.

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