agent-orchestration

agent-orchestration is a skill for Claude Code from contactandrewchl-wq/turtle-mcp. It costs 43 tokens per session (2,615 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for coordinating people or software agents through Turtle’s asynchronous message bus. It sequences work, passes tasks between workers, and records activity, but it does not start or control processes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assign work in order, hand work from one agent to another, unblock waiting workers, and keep an observable activity trail.
Why use it?
It helps teams avoid duplicated work, lost context, and blocked workers when several agents share one goal.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the turtle plugin — 26 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to assign work in order, hand work from one agent to another, unblock waiting workers, and keep an observable activity trail.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/contactandrewchl-wq/turtle-mcp/agent-orchestration
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 contactandrewchl-wq/turtle-mcp --skill agent-orchestration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/contactandrewchl-wq/turtle-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install turtle, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,615 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 $0.00043 $0.02615
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01307
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00523
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00262

Measured 11d ago against content hash d23c26f46fb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-orchestration 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 11d 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.

skills/agent-orchestration/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orquestación de agentes (sobre el bus de Turtle)

Coordinar varias personas/agentes que trabajan hacia una misma meta, secuenciando, relevando y desbloqueando el trabajo a través del bus asíncrono de Turtle, sin pisarse y dejando rastro observable.

Cuándo usar

Cuando dos o más personas (rótulos distintos) avanzan sobre una misma meta y hace falta:

  • ordenar quién hace qué y en qué momento (secuenciar),
  • pasar trabajo de una persona a otra sin perder contexto (relevar),
  • destrabar a alguien que espera un insumo (desbloquear),
  • evitar que dos personas toquen el mismo módulo a la vez (no pisarse).

Si una sola persona resuelve la meta de punta a punta, no necesitas orquestación: trabaja directo.

Límite de alcance (leer primero)

Turtle NO lanza, spawnea, mata ni controla procesos. El SRS (sección 1.2) lo fija sin ambigüedad: "TURTLE no es un orquestador que lance o controle agentes; la comunicación entre agentes es asíncrona y mediada por la base de datos, no un canal de baja latencia."

Por lo tanto, en Turtle orquestar = secuenciar y relevar trabajo por el bus. Quien ejecuta cada agente es el usuario o el runtime de cada cliente, nunca Turtle.

Está prohibido en esta skill:

  • proponer spawnear, lanzar, reiniciar o matar procesos o agentes,
  • asumir un canal síncrono de baja latencia entre agentes,
  • diseñar cualquier "control" sobre el ciclo de vida de otro agente.

Todo lo que sigue se apoya solo en mensajes asíncronos persistidos en la base.

Matiz ratificado: delegar en un sub-agente del CLI ≠ spawnear un proceso

La prohibición de arriba es sobre procesos del SO que Turtle cree o controle. Es distinto de delegar en un sub-agente nativo del CLI (p. ej. la herramienta Task de Claude Code): a ese sub-agente lo lanza el runtime del cliente, no Turtle, y Turtle no gobierna su ciclo de vida. El dueño lo ratificó: "spawn" = proceso del SO controlado por Turtle (prohibido) ≠ sub-agente Task del CLI (permitido).

Entonces, en clientes multi-agente (Claude Code), orquestar suma una segunda vía además del bus: delegar trabajo y revisión en sub-agentes Task. Sigue valiendo la regla dura —Turtle no lanza ni mata procesos; la coordinación entre personas sigue siendo asíncrona y por el bus—. En CLIs de una sola sesión (Codex, OpenCode) no hay sub-agentes: el patrón degrada a un guion secuencial dentro de la misma sesión.

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 126 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A d23c26f46fb8

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agent-orchestration is a skill published in the GitHub repository contactandrewchl-wq/turtle-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 2,615 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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