orchestrator-tick

orchestrator-tick is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cintia09/CodeNook. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,322 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-step controller that moves one task through its configured phases, such as waiting, dispatching work, finishing, or stopping for human input.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps run task workflows, preview the next transition without saving it, dispatch the next agent, and return a compact status result.
Why use it?
It provides one consistent way to advance task state and clearly reports whether the task progressed, is blocked, or needs attention.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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/cintia09/codenook/orchestrator-tick
Any agent
npx skills add cintia09/CodeNook --skill orchestrator-tick
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cintia09/CodeNook

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,322 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 $0.00000 $0.01322
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00661
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00264
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00132

Measured 5d ago against content hash d2e184bcf2a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestrator-tick 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (_tick.py, tick.py), 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/codenook-core/skills/builtin/orchestrator-tick/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

orchestrator-tick — Advance one task one phase

Role: Core builtin skill that drives the per-task state machine defined in implementation.md §3.3.

CLI

tick.sh --task <T-NNN> [--workspace <dir>] [--dry-run] [--json]
flag meaning
--task task id (required)
--workspace explicit workspace root; otherwise upward search
--dry-run compute but do not persist or invoke dispatch
--json emit ≤500-byte summary JSON to stdout

Exit codes

code meaning
0 advanced / waiting / done (no operator action required)
1 blocked (entry-questions, HITL, max_iterations, error)
2 usage error (missing args, task/state not found)
3 (legacy mode only) idle/terminal phase

Output (--json, ≤500 bytes UTF-8)

{
  "status": "advanced|waiting|blocked|done|error",
  "next_action": "<human-readable>",
  "dispatched_agent_id": "ag_T-007_clarify_1",
  "message_for_user": "<optional, ≤200 chars>"
}

Algorithm (M4 + v0.2.0 profiles)

Implements the §3.3 pseudocode in full. Reads .codenook/plugins/<plugin>/{phases,transitions,entry-questions}.yaml, mutates tasks/<id>/state.json atomically (_lib/atomic.py), and appends to history/dispatch.jsonl via dispatch-audit/emit.sh.

Profile resolution (v0.2.0+)

When phases.yaml declares both a phases: map (the catalogue) and a profiles: map (chains over that catalogue), the orchestrator selects the active chain on every tick via _resolve_profile(...):

  1. state.profile — the cached resolution from a previous tick wins.
  2. The clarifier's output frontmatter task_type (if present) — read from the most recent outputs/phase-1-clarifier.md.
  3. state.task_type — caller hint from entry-questions / seed.
  4. Fallback default (feature if defined, else the first profile).

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 5d ago First seen · 116 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d2e184bcf2a8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

orchestrator-tick is a skill published in the GitHub repository cintia09/CodeNook (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,322 tokens. 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.

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