orchestrator

orchestrator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Dowwie/tasker. It costs 49 tokens per session (13,989 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A coordinator for breaking a software project into tasks and running those tasks through separate agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Turning specifications into a task dependency graph, then assigning and implementing ready tasks.
Why use it?
It keeps planning and execution organized while leaving task state and readiness checks to the Tasker command-line tool.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the tasker plugin — 6 skills, 8 commands, 8 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

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/dowwie/tasker/orchestrator
Any agent
npx skills add Dowwie/tasker --skill orchestrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dowwie/tasker

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install tasker, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 8 commands, 8 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 13,989 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 $0.00049 $0.13989
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.06994
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.02798
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.01399

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3982486dd482, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestrator 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 4d 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.

internal/skills/_archived/orchestrator/SKILL.md · 1,703 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,703 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orchestrator v2

A thin coordination layer with two distinct modes:

  • Plan Mode (/plan) - Decompose spec into task DAG
  • Execute Mode (/execute) - Run tasks via isolated subagents

Workflow Integration

The full workflow from requirements to implementation:

/specify → /plan → /execute
Skill Purpose Input Output
/specify Design vision & capabilities User requirements {TARGET}/docs/specs/<slug>.md + .capabilities.json + ADRs
/plan DAG construction (files → tasks) Spec + capability map Task DAG in .tasker/tasks/
/execute Implementation Task DAG Working code

Entry points:

  • From scratch → Run /specify first to develop spec and extract capabilities
  • Existing spec → Run /plan {TARGET}/docs/specs/<slug>.md directly (may need capability extraction)
  • From /specify → Run /plan {TARGET}/docs/specs/<slug>.md (skips to physical mapping)

Philosophy

The orchestrator does NOT:

  • Track state itself (tasker CLI does this)
  • Validate artifacts (tasker CLI does this)
  • Compute ready tasks (tasker CLI does this)

The orchestrator ONLY:

  • Queries state via tasker state
  • Dispatches agents based on mode/phase
  • Handles user interaction
  • Ensures commits happen via .claude/hooks/post-task-commit.sh (defense in depth)

Directory Initialization (After target_dir is known)

CRITICAL: After obtaining target_dir from the user, the orchestrator MUST initialize the .tasker/ directory structure. This is the ONLY place where directories are created - sub-agents assume directories already exist.

Setup (Run after target_dir is confirmed)

Initialize the .tasker/ directory structure:

TASKER_DIR="$TARGET_DIR/.tasker"
mkdir -p "$TASKER_DIR"/{artifacts,inputs,tasks,reports,bundles,logs}

This creates:

  • $TARGET_DIR/.tasker/artifacts/ - For capability-map.json, physical-map.json
  • $TARGET_DIR/.tasker/inputs/ - For spec.md
  • $TARGET_DIR/.tasker/tasks/ - For T001.json, T002.json, etc.
  • $TARGET_DIR/.tasker/reports/ - For task-validation-report.md
  • $TARGET_DIR/.tasker/bundles/ - For execution bundles
  • $TARGET_DIR/.tasker/logs/ - For activity logging

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,703 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. 4d ago First seen · 1,703 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 3982486dd482

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orchestrator is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dowwie/tasker (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 13,989 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 2026-08-30.