orch

orch is a skill for Claude Code from daman8271/the-perfect-orchestrator. It costs 133 tokens per session (1,710 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A coordination tool for running several Claude Code workers in separate terminal panes and giving them tasks from one lead session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for parallel implementation or investigation, sending task briefs, checking worker output, sharing messages, and coordinating a larger coding job.
Why use it?
It helps split work across multiple workers while keeping their instructions, progress, and shared notes organised.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the orchestrator plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it for parallel implementation or investigation, sending task briefs, checking worker output, sharing messages, and coordinating a larger coding job.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daman8271/the-perfect-orchestrator/orch
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add daman8271/the-perfect-orchestrator --skill orch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daman8271/the-perfect-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,710 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00133 $0.01710
Opus 5.5 $0.00053 $0.00684
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00342
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00171

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 6a3a61fa08f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

orch scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 2mo 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

- **PERMISSIONS (the #1 blocker):** the permission classifier may *deny* autonomous spawns/sends. If `orch`/`tmux` calls get blocked, the user must add allow-rules to `~/.claude/settings.local.json`: `Bash(orch:*)` and `
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • orch — 95% identical, 2 lines differ
plugins/orchestrator/skills/orch/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Perfect Orchestrator — lead playbook

You are the LEAD. This harness lets you spawn N autonomous Claude Code workers (each its own tmux pane), brief each one, watch them, correct them, verify their results, and drive them to completion — all from this one session. The CLI is orch (run orch --help for usage; state lives under $ORCH_HOME, default ~/.orch).

The harness commands

command what it does
orch spawn <session> <N> [workdir] Create tmux session orch-<session> with N worker panes + a shared workspace at $ORCH_HOME/runs/<session>/shared/ (contains bus.md; panes.txt lives one level up). Workers are numbered 1..N. Workdir defaults to the current directory.
orch send <session> <#> --file <path> Dispatch a task: tells worker # "Read and follow <path> then begin, work autonomously."
orch send <session> <#> <one-line msg> Send a short single-line nudge (NO newlines — newline submits).
orch read <session> <#> [lines] Capture a worker's pane (to see what it's doing).
orch status [session] Overview of all live fleets, or one fleet's panes + done-flags + bus tail.
orch kill <session> Tear down a fleet when done.

Workers launch with an isolated config (no hooks → no notification spam on every turn, a generous allowlist → no permission prompts, shared live credentials, ORCH_WORKER=1). When a worker's claude exits, its pane ends.

The workflow (do it in this order)

  1. PLAN — split the job into N independent sub-tasks (one per worker). Pick N deliberately (see Limits).
  2. SPAWN — orch spawn <name> <N> [workdir]. Give workers a few seconds to boot (a pane showing a ready prompt = booted).
  3. BRIEF — write each worker's brief to $ORCH_HOME/runs/<name>/shared/agent-<i>.task.md. A good brief is self-contained: the goal, hard constraints (what NOT to touch), exactly what to produce, where to write its result + a done-flag to touch, and how to use the bus.
  4. DISPATCH — orch send <name> <i> --file .../agent-<i>.task.md for each booted worker.
  5. COORDINATE via the bus — tell workers to post findings to shared/bus.md (lines prefixed [Wn]) and to read it. When one discovers something (a bug class, a shared fix needed), the others act on it. The bus is the fleet's shared memory.
  6. MONITOR (your core job) — periodically orch read each pane + read bus.md. Catch wrong-roads early and correct them with a nudge. Watch for: off-task drift, dead-ends, forbidden actions, or stalls. Re-check on a cadence (~80–600s) so you stay free between passes; a tighter cadence = closer watch.
  7. COLLECT — each worker touches a done-flag (e.g. shared/agent-<i>.done) + writes agent-<i>.result.md. Poll the flags (background loop or orch status) so you know when all are done.
  8. VERIFY + TEAR DOWN — read the results, verify them adversarially (don't trust blindly — have a DIFFERENT worker try to refute each finding), then orch kill <name>. Report a consolidated sign-off BEFORE killing sessions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 2mo ago First seen · 62 lines · 0 tokens per session scan B 6a3a61fa08f7

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orch is a skill published in the GitHub repository daman8271/the-perfect-orchestrator (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 1,710 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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