orchestrating-development

orchestrating-development is a skill for Claude Code from brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator. It costs 120 tokens per session (35,461 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure that takes an approved development specification through planning, repeated plan reviews, implementation batches, and code reviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps turn an approved specification into implemented and reviewed code, stopping before the final merge or pull request.
Why use it?
It coordinates the stages of a larger coding task and records progress between them, reducing the need for manual handoffs.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the superpowers-orchestrator plugin — 28 skills, 2 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps turn an approved specification into implemented and reviewed code, stopping before the final merge or pull request.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator/orchestrating-development
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 brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator --skill orchestrating-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superpowers-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 2 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 35,461 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 12 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 119
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 2167
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high YARA Match · line 132
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
  • high Prompt Injection · line 162
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 871
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 1028
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high System Prompt Leakage · line 1438
    Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.
    Fix: Remove any instructions that reveal, print, or output system prompts or internal rules. System instructions should never be exposed to end users.
  • high Prompt Injection · line 2232
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 206
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 211
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 343
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • low Privilege Escalation · line 197
    Skill requests more permissions than appear necessary for its stated functionality. Review if elevated access is justified.
    Fix: Request only the minimum permissions required. Document why each permission is needed. Remove broad permissions like '*' or 'all'.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00120 $0.35461
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.17730
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.07092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.03546

Measured today against content hash 32d14aba4454, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestrating-development 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 today.

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/orchestrating-development/SKILL.md · 2,258 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 2,258 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orchestrating Development

Drive an approved spec through plan → plan review → batched implementation → whole-branch code review with no user interaction between Phase 0 and completion. You are a thin sequencer: every phase and every batch runs in a fresh controller subagent; all state moves through files. Never read plan bodies, diffs, reviewer reports, or fix reports yourself. Two documented exceptions: Phase 0 step 4's prior-art intake check reads the spec body once, before any controller dispatch; and the classification read of ## In-run rulings ("What may be read"), which is bounded to the list stated there — nothing else.

Required Start

Announce: I'm using orchestrating-development to run this pipeline.

Platform check: this skill requires the Agent tool (with nested dispatch). On platforms without it, refuse with one line — orchestrating-development requires subagent dispatch (Agent tool), which this platform lacks — and stop.

Controller Dispatch Rules (apply to every phase)

  • Dispatch via the Agent tool, general-purpose type. Model: inherit the session model with a sonnet floor (a haiku-tier or unrecognized session model dispatches on sonnet). Nested workers inside a batch follow SDD's Model Selection table, chosen by the batch controller.
  • Blocking dispatch: pass the name stated by the phase's dispatch text (Phases 1–4) (name: "orch-…"). A named controller's own subagent calls block and return each child's final message inline; an unnamed controller's return at once, and the child's completion notice is delivered to the main session, not to the controller — which then ends its turn "waiting" and stalls the run (claude-code #75043; measured 2026-08-30). The property is what matters, not the parameter: on a platform whose dispatch tool has no name (Copilot CLI: task/agent), the controller obtains it from the "Waiting on a subagent" rule in its prompt — foreground dispatch, never a background mode. Controllers cannot name their own children (the roster is flat); nested workers stay unnamed.
  • Prompt files and the pointer. A controller's instructions are a file, not the prompt field. Once per session, read as once per orchestration invocation — a fresh run, or a Resume, including a Resume inside the session that stopped — before that invocation's first fill — Phase 0 step 9 in a fresh run; on a resume, the Resume step that first fills a prompt — run mktemp -d as its own Bash command, with no argument (never a template and never a path inside the repository), and copy the literal path it prints — written <PROMPT_DIR> in this file — into every later command, Write call and pointer. A printed path under the repository root is treated as a mktemp -d failure. On Git Bash (Windows) — when uname -s prints a name beginning with MINGW or MSYS — first convert that path once with cygpath -m "<printed path>" as its own command and use the converted path as <PROMPT_DIR>; on every other platform the printed path is used as is. A shell variable set in one tool call does not exist in the next: the path is always spelled out in full, never held in a variable of any name. The path never appears in state.md, the orchestration log, a ruling record, a Case or a commit message. When the literal path is no longer in your context — after a context compaction, typically — do not guess it, do not search the temporary location for it and do not reuse a path from any file: run mktemp -d again and continue in the new directory, where the counter <k> below restarts at 1. That is not a failure of the mechanism: every file is named by the counter, and a re-fill from the same values produces the same content, so an identical retry issued after the path was lost re-fills the prompt under <k> = 1 there — writing the value file again there first when the fill takes one — and is still the identical dispatch of the retry rule. Every prompt is written once into <PROMPT_DIR> by the fill script, <base>/../multi-code-review/scripts/fill-prompt.js (<base> is this skill's base directory), from the phase's template and the values the phase's fill command lists; you never read a template and never copy a prompt body into an Agent call. File names, all in <PROMPT_DIR>, where <k> counts the fills run into the current prompt directory from 1 and is never reused inside it once a pointer to a file of that fill has been dispatched, and <label> names the dispatch:

Read the full file on GitHub · 2,258 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. today Changed · +1,740 lines 32d14aba4454
  2. 7d ago First seen · 518 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A c79192db4820

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orchestrating-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 35,461 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.