orchestration

orchestration is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from emtcmca/promptsmith. It costs 109 tokens per session (3,928 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A coordinator for requests that span several specialist areas. It breaks one large request into separate parts, sends those parts to specialist agents, resolves conflicts, and combines the results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for projects such as password-reset flows that involve requirements, data, security, APIs, interface work, tests, and documentation.
Why use it?
It helps prevent gaps and contradictions when a task needs several kinds of expertise. It is not intended for work that one agent or a simple request-shaping step can handle.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the promptsmith plugin — 2 skills, 4 commands, 20 agents 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/emtcmca/promptsmith/orchestration
Any agent
npx skills add emtcmca/promptsmith --skill orchestration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emtcmca/promptsmith

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install promptsmith, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 4 commands, 20 agents.

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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.

agentmods badge for orchestration

README.md
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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,928 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 5.1 $0.00109 $0.03928
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.01964
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00786
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00393

Measured 5d ago against content hash 793013731b17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

orchestration scanned grade C 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 5d 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.

Harvests environment variableshighData exfiltration

Enumerating or grepping the environment for keys collects credentials unrelated to what the mod says it does.

harvest credentials, impersonate a person/institution, surveil without consent, build
skills/orchestration/SKILL.md · 272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orchestration — the promptsmith coordinator (Layer 2)

This is the coordinator. It takes a multi-domain request, perfects it, splits it across the gallery specialists, and assembles their work into one deliverable — owning the seams the individual agents can't see.

Layer boundary. Unlike the Layer 1 core (/sharpen, /forge-agent, /lens — zero model calls, paste-anywhere), this layer dispatches live subagents and so requires a host that can spawn them (Claude Code's Agent/Task capability). It is still method + structure: the host runs this protocol; there is no bundled runtime.

When to use

  • A request clearly spans more than one specialist's purview (e.g. "build a password reset flow" → spec + data + security + API + UI + tests + docs).
  • The value is in coverage and coherence — many slices that must end as one deliverable.

When NOT to use (fall back — Step 0): a single agent or plain /sharpen handles it well. Orchestration has real cost (fan-out + synthesis); don't pay it for a one-domain task.

Context discipline — keep big things out of your window

The coordinator must stay context-aware: hold the plan, the seams, and the conclusions — not the raw material. Subagent context is disposable; exploit that. A coordinator that pulls large artifacts into its own window goes blind faster and loses the thread.

  • Never read a large artifact into your own context to review, edit, or search it — a big file, a whole directory, a long log, a corpus, a giant tool output. Dispatch a subagent that reads it in its context and returns only the distilled result: findings, a diff, a verdict, a summary, the specific lines.
  • Pass references, not contents. Hand subagents file paths, globs, line ranges, IDs — let them fetch. Don't paste a file's body into a slice goal.
  • Editing a large file: dispatch a builder to produce or apply the change in its context and return a compact diff / --stat; review the diff, not the file. (If you already have a subagent that produced the change, resume it to apply — it still holds the context.)
  • Synthesize from distilled returns, never by re-ingesting every slice's raw output. If a single return is itself large, route it through a summarizer before you hold it.
  • The test: if reading something would burn a big chunk of your window and you only need the conclusion, that's a subagent's job, not yours.

Read the full file on GitHub · 272 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. 5d ago First seen · 272 lines · 109 tokens per session scan C 793013731b17

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orchestration is a skill published in the GitHub repository emtcmca/promptsmith (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 3,928 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (harvests environment variables). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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