orchestration-patterns

orchestration-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bybren-llc/safe-agentic-workflow. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,571 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Patterns for coordinating long-running work by coding agents, including checkpoints, evidence gathering, validation, escalation, and handoffs between agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage complex implementations, coordinate subagents, run work that needs regular checkpoints, organize pull-request workflows, or prepare team handoffs.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to track multi-step work and respond when validation fails or progress becomes blocked.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bybren-llc/safe-agentic-workflow/orchestration-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add bybren-llc/safe-agentic-workflow --skill orchestration-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bybren-llc/safe-agentic-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,571 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00064 $0.01571
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00785
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00157

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2a20eacf1e28, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestration-patterns 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 6d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/orchestration-patterns/SKILL.md · 220 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 220 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orchestration Patterns Skill

TEMPLATE: This skill uses {{PLACEHOLDER}} tokens. Replace with your project values before use.

Purpose

Codify evidence-based delivery and iterative agent loop for orchestrating complex, long-running tasks. These patterns ensure verifiable progress and intelligent escalation.

When This Skill Applies

  • Orchestrating multi-step implementation tasks
  • Managing work across multiple subagents
  • Running long-running sessions that need checkpoints
  • Preparing PRs for merge (mandatory QAS gate)
  • Coordinating team handoffs

Simon Willison's Agent Loop

Core Philosophy: "Iterate until success or blocked, then escalate."

1. GOAL DEFINITION
   - Clear acceptance criteria (from BSA/ticket)

2. PATTERN DISCOVERY
   - Search codebase, docs, previous sessions
   - Use: pattern-discovery skill (auto-invoked)

3. ITERATIVE EXECUTION LOOP:
   +---------------------------------------------+
   |  Implement approach                         |
   |       |                                     |
   |  Run validation ({{CI_VALIDATE_COMMAND}})   |
   |       |                                     |
   |  If PASS -> proceed to evidence             |
   |  If FAIL -> analyze error, adjust, repeat   |
   |  If BLOCKED -> escalate to TDM with context |
   +---------------------------------------------+

4. EVIDENCE ATTACHMENT
   - Attach proof to ticket system (see templates below)

5. QAS GATE (MANDATORY before merge)
   - Invoke QAS subagent for independent review

Evidence-Based Delivery

Core Principle: "All work requires verifiable evidence - no 'trust me, it works'"

Evidence Types

Type What It Proves Example
Test Results Code works as expected {{CI_VALIDATE_COMMAND}} output
Screenshots UI changes are correct Before/after comparison
Command Output Operations completed Build logs, migration logs
QAS Report Independent verification QA validation markdown
Session ID Full audit trail available Agent session reference

Read the full file on GitHub · 220 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. 6d ago First seen · 220 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 2a20eacf1e28

Subscribe to this mod's changes

orchestration-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository bybren-llc/safe-agentic-workflow (406 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,571 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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