orchestrations

orchestrations is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cyanheads/toolkit-mcp-server. It costs 159 tokens per session (5,125 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of orchestrations, Apache-2.0.

A workflow router for chaining multiple development tasks, such as setup, maintenance, testing, and release. It selects a predefined multi-step workflow based on the work requested.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps build and release MCP servers, maintain and publish them, field-test and fix them, or apply known fixes before release.
Why use it?
It avoids manually coordinating several separate tasks when a project needs a sequence of related actions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the toolkit-mcp-server plugin — 32 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It helps build and release MCP servers, maintain and publish them, field-test and fix them, or apply known fixes before release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cyanheads/toolkit-mcp-server/orchestrations
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 cyanheads/toolkit-mcp-server --skill orchestrations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyanheads/toolkit-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install toolkit-mcp-server, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cyanheads/toolkit-mcp-server/orchestrations"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cyanheads/toolkit-mcp-server/orchestrations.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 159 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,125 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00159 $0.05125
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.02563
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.01025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00513

Measured 8d ago against content hash b6a53442b543, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestrations 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 8d 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

This is a copy

100% identical to orchestrations — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/orchestrations/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to Use

Multi-phase work that chains several foundational skills against one or more MCP server projects. Typical triggers:

  • "Build N new servers" / "scaffold and ship X, Y, Z" → workflows/greenfield-build.md
  • "Update and release these servers" / "run maintenance and ship" → workflows/maintenance-release.md
  • "QA / field-test / find-and-fix bugs in these servers" → workflows/field-test-fix.md
  • "Fix these issues and ship" / handoff document with findings to act on → workflows/fix-wrapup-release.md

Single-skill work — running just maintenance, just git-wrapup, just release-and-publish — invokes the foundational skill directly. Use this orchestrations skill when at least two phases need to chain.

Mental Model — Three Tiers

Tier Layer Examples Who reads it
1 Foundational task skills git-wrapup, release-and-publish, maintenance, field-test, setup, design-mcp-server, polish-docs-meta, code-simplifier, add-tool, add-resource, add-service, add-test, etc. Orchestrator AND sub-agents (by direct path reference)
2 Orchestration workflows The four files under workflows/ Orchestrator only
3 Router This SKILL.md Orchestrator only

Workflows in Tier 2 sequence Tier 1 skills with gates and verification. They never duplicate Tier 1 content — they direct to it. A workflow file says "Phase N: agent reads and runs skills/git-wrapup/SKILL.md," not "here's how to wrap up a release."

The orchestrator is the agent driving the workflow — the one reading this SKILL.md. Sub-agents the orchestrator spawns receive prompts pointing at Tier 1 skills directly; they do not receive this skill or the workflow file. That boundary prevents recursive sub-agent spawning.

Pick a Workflow

Identify the workflow from user intent first, then sanity-check against project state if intent is ambiguous.

User intent / state signal Workflow
New scaffold(s) from bunx @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core init, no implementation yet (echo definitions still present, no released changelog) workflows/greenfield-build.md
Existing server(s), bun outdated shows updates, want to land them and ship workflows/maintenance-release.md
Existing server(s), want to find bugs via live testing and fix them, optionally ship workflows/field-test-fix.md
Existing server(s) with known issues (GH issues, handoff document, observed gap), want to fix and ship workflows/fix-wrapup-release.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 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. 8d ago First seen · 228 lines · 159 tokens per session scan A b6a53442b543

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orchestrations is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/toolkit-mcp-server (18 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 159 tokens to every session and 5,125 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to orchestrations, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.