orchestrate

orchestrate is a skill for Claude Code from Everyone-Needs-A-Copilot/claude-copilot. It costs 42 tokens per session (465 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for planning and coordinating parallel coding-agent work. It breaks work into streams, checks dependencies and file ownership, and starts subagents only after the user approves delegation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a task breakdown, validate stream dependencies, assign disjoint files, launch approved workers, and manage merges.
Why use it?
It reduces conflicting edits and unclear handoffs when several agents work on one project.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Codex.

Part of the claude-copilot plugin — 73 skills, 18 commands, 16 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a task breakdown, validate stream dependencies, assign disjoint files, launch approved workers, and manage merges.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/everyone-needs-a-copilot/claude-copilot/orchestrate
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Everyone-Needs-A-Copilot/claude-copilot --skill orchestrate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Everyone-Needs-A-Copilot/claude-copilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-copilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 73 skills, 18 commands, 16 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 465 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00042 $0.00465
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00186
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00047

Measured 6d ago against content hash 03eada0de306, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestrate 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 6d 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.

plugins/codex-copilot/skills/orchestrate/SKILL.md · 64 lines

What it actually says

Orchestrate

Coordinate parallel work in a Codex-native way.

Boundary

Codex Copilot does not auto-spawn workers unless the user explicitly asks for delegation or parallel execution.

Workflow

  1. Use ta to create a PRD, task breakdown, streams, dependencies, and file ownership.
  2. Validate stream dependencies and file overlap with scripts/orchestrate-validate.py before any parallel work begins.
  3. Use git worktrees only after confirming the branch/worktree plan with the user.
  4. Spawn Codex subagents only when explicitly requested.
  5. Keep write scopes disjoint and route each implementation stream through qa.
  6. Treat merge, cleanup, and removal operations as separate actions requiring explicit current approval when destructive.
  7. For a user-requested cost-capped non-interactive worker, pass --max-budget-usd through tc worker; do not imply that stored metadata enforces a cap unless the installed tc contract says so.

Stream Metadata

Each stream should declare:

{
  "streamId": "Stream-A",
  "streamName": "Foundation",
  "files": ["src/example.ts"],
  "streamDependencies": [],
  "streamPaths": ["src/example/**"],
  "streamTokenBudget": 2500
}

Launch Template

When the user explicitly approves delegation, spawn each stream with:

  • specialist role and skill
  • task id and stream id
  • owned files or path globs
  • forbidden paths
  • expected work product and QA route

Output

  • stream plan
  • dependency graph
  • file ownership map
  • launch instructions or local execution plan

Work Lifecycle

Apply the shared work lifecycle once per task, including direct invocation of this skill: start/resume, maintain, pause/handoff, finish and later reuse. Keep the checkpoint proportional in the existing record; a small answer does not need a new task or document.

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. 6d ago Changed 03eada0de306
  2. 7d ago Changed · +7 lines 505025f51e16
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 57 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 8c26c9ae6408

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orchestrate is a skill published in the GitHub repository Everyone-Needs-A-Copilot/claude-copilot (14 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 465 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-04.