Getting it into your agent
This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.
/plugin marketplace add gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi/plugin install compound-engineeringWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi/orchestrating-swarms)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi/orchestrating-swarms"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi/orchestrating-swarms/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi/orchestrating-swarms"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi/orchestrating-swarms.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00067 | $0.12416 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00034 | $0.06208 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.02483 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.01242 |
Grade B, and why
orchestrating-swarms 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 10d 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.
// cat ~/.claude/teams/code-review/inboxes/team-lead.json Copies of this mod
3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- orchestrating-swarms — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- orchestrating-swarms — 97% identical, 1 lines differ
- orchestrating-swarms — 95% identical, 3 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,719 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Claude Code Swarm Orchestration
Master multi-agent orchestration using Claude Code's TeammateTool and Task system.
Primitives
| Primitive | What It Is | File Location |
|---|---|---|
| Agent | A Claude instance that can use tools. You are an agent. Subagents are agents you spawn. | N/A (process) |
| Team | A named group of agents working together. One leader, multiple teammates. | ~/.claude/teams/{name}/config.json |
| Teammate | An agent that joined a team. Has a name, color, inbox. Spawned via Task with team_name + name. |
Listed in team config |
| Leader | The agent that created the team. Receives teammate messages, approves plans/shutdowns. | First member in config |
| Task | A work item with subject, description, status, owner, and dependencies. | ~/.claude/tasks/{team}/N.json |
| Inbox | JSON file where an agent receives messages from teammates. | ~/.claude/teams/{name}/inboxes/{agent}.json |
| Message | A JSON object sent between agents. Can be text or structured (shutdown_request, idle_notification, etc). | Stored in inbox files |
| Backend | How teammates run. Auto-detected: in-process (same Node.js, invisible), tmux (separate panes, visible), iterm2 (split panes in iTerm2). See Spawn Backends. |
Auto-detected based on environment |
How They Connect
flowchart TB
subgraph TEAM[TEAM]
Leader[Leader - you]
T1[Teammate 1]
T2[Teammate 2]
Leader <-->|messages via inbox| T1
Leader <-->|messages via inbox| T2
T1 <-.->|can message| T2
end
subgraph TASKS[TASK LIST]
Task1["#1 completed: Research<br/>owner: teammate1"]
Task2["#2 in_progress: Implement<br/>owner: teammate2"]
Task3["#3 pending: Test<br/>blocked by #2"]
end
T1 --> Task1
T2 --> Task2
Task2 -.->|unblocks| Task3
Lifecycle
flowchart LR
A[1. Create Team] --> B[2. Create Tasks]
B --> C[3. Spawn Teammates]
C --> D[4. Work]
D --> E[5. Coordinate]
E --> F[6. Shutdown]
F --> G[7. Cleanup]
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 1,719 lines · 67 tokens per session scan B 80a48a7187da
orchestrating-swarms is a skill published in the GitHub repository gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi (51 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 12,416 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.
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