Orchestration Planner

Orchestration Planner is a skill for Codex from daffy0208/ai-dev-standards. It costs 26 tokens per session (3,312 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planner that breaks a large goal into smaller tasks and arranges them into a workable sequence. It checks which available capabilities fit each task, whether their requirements are met, and what alternatives exist if a path is blocked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan multi-step projects, match tasks to available capabilities, check prerequisites, compare possible workflows, and record planning decisions.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague, complicated requests into concrete work plans. It also makes the reasons, trade-offs, and fallback options behind a plan easier to review.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: runs codex exec. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to plan multi-step projects, match tasks to available capabilities, check prerequisites, compare possible workflows, and record planning decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards/orchestration-planner
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 daffy0208/ai-dev-standards --skill orchestration-planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,312 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 $0.00026 $0.03312
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01656
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00662
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00331

Measured 9d ago against content hash bc4ca44f0d42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Orchestration Planner 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (plan-workflow.sh), 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/orchestration-planner/SKILL.md · 462 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 462 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orchestration Planner

Plan multi-step workflows using capability graph and Codex-powered goal decomposition

Purpose

Takes high-level goals and decomposes them into executable workflows using the capability graph. Uses Codex to understand goal semantics, find matching capabilities, validate preconditions, and generate Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) plans with alternatives and scoring.

When to Use

  • Converting user goals into executable plans (e.g., "build RAG system")
  • Finding optimal capability sequences for complex tasks
  • Validating that project state supports a capability
  • Generating alternatives when primary path is blocked
  • Explaining why certain capabilities are recommended

Key Capabilities

  • Goal Decomposition: Uses Codex to break goals into required effects
  • Capability Matching: Finds capabilities that produce desired effects
  • Precondition Validation: Checks if current project state satisfies requirements
  • HTN Planning: Builds hierarchical task networks with subtasks
  • Scoring & Ranking: Evaluates paths by cost, latency, risk, diversity
  • Alternative Generation: Provides fallback options when primary path fails
  • Decision Logging: Captures rationale for capability selection

Inputs

inputs:
  goal: string # User goal (e.g., "implement RAG")
  project_state: object # Current project state (files, dependencies, env vars)
  capability_graph: string # Path to capability-graph.json
  preferences: object # User preferences (cost_weight, risk_tolerance, etc.)
  context: array # Recently used capabilities (for cooldown)

Process

Step 1: Goal Analysis with Codex

# Use Codex to understand goal and extract required effects
codex exec "
Analyze this goal and determine what effects are needed:

GOAL: ${USER_GOAL}

Examples of effects:
- creates_vector_index
- adds_auth_middleware
- configures_database
- implements_api_endpoint
- adds_tests

Task: Extract the effects needed to achieve this goal.

Output JSON:
{
  \"goal\": \"original goal\",
  \"required_effects\": [\"effect1\", \"effect2\"],
  \"optional_effects\": [\"effect3\"],
  \"domains\": [\"rag\", \"api\"],
  \"reasoning\": \"explanation\"
}
" > /tmp/goal-analysis.json

Read the full file on GitHub · 462 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. 9d ago First seen · 462 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A bc4ca44f0d42

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Orchestration Planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository daffy0208/ai-dev-standards (36 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 3,312 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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