orchestrate-project

A project workflow coordinator that moves software work through six phases: discovery, elaboration, planning, building, verification and release. It uses checkpoints between phases so later work starts from documented earlier decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start or resume a project workflow, produce requirement and scope files, research records, release plans, task checklists and verification outputs.
Why use it?
It gives complex, multi-stage projects one process for managing requirements, technical research, implementation plans, tests and release readiness. It is intended for projects that need coordination across several kinds of work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/danielvm-git/bigpowers/orchestrate-project
Any agent
npx skills add danielvm-git/bigpowers --skill orchestrate-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,294 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 $0.00054 $0.02294
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01147
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00459
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00229

Measured 2d ago against content hash 96b4f693eef6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestrate-project 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 2d 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.

.cline/skills/orchestrate-project/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orchestrate

HARD GATEHARD GATE — Do NOT invoke orchestrate-project unless you have a clear multi-phase workflow. Single-skill tasks should use dedicated skills instead. Orchestrate is for complex, multi-stage work that requires coordination across phases.

The orchestrate skill coordinates projects through a prescriptive 6-phase core loop with hard gates, ensuring consistent quality and preventing scope creep.

Quick Start

# Start a new project (initializes specs/ YAML cockpit and begins discover phase)
claude /orchestrate --mode standard

# Or resume an existing project at the current phase
claude /orchestrate --mode standard --resume

# For low-risk scenarios (hotfixes, refactors on well-tested code)
claude /orchestrate --mode fast-track

The 6-Phase Core Loop

  1. DISCOVER (3-6 hours): Understand problem. Deliverables: requirements/VISION_LATEST.yaml, requirements/SCOPE_LATEST.yaml, plans/TECH_STACK_LATEST.md.
  2. ELABORATE (3-6 hours): Research solutions. Deliverables: Prior art in scope YAML, ADRs in specs/adr/.
  3. PLAN (2-4 hours): Write verifiable plan. Deliverables: release-plan.yaml, epics/eNN-*.yaml with verify: per task.
  4. BUILD (1-8 hours): Execute plan. Runs build-epic once per story in WSJF order. Deliverables: Code; update execution-status.yaml.
  5. VERIFY (1-3 hours): Validate success criteria. Deliverables: UAT evidence, specs/EVALS-*.md if used.
  6. RELEASE (30 min - 2 hours): Ship to production. Deliverables: Release tag (vX.Y.Z), state.yaml release.last_tag.

Checkpoint / resume

Track progress via specs/state.yaml project_cycle:

  • project_cycle.current_phase: current phase (1–6)
  • project_cycle.completed_phases: completed phase numbers
  • handoff.next_skill: skill for the current phase
  • On resume, read project_cycle.current_phase and continue from there

See REFERENCE.md for detailed phase specifications and gate types.

How Orchestrate Works

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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. 2d ago First seen · 175 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 96b4f693eef6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

orchestrate-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielvm-git/bigpowers (156 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,294 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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