wave-orchestrator

wave-orchestrator is a skill for Claude Code from Harshvardhan86/claude-wave-plugin. It costs 84 tokens per session (1,598 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordinator for shipping software features through a defined sequence of planning, design review, implementation, testing, and delivery phases. It can run a full process or a shorter five-phase demonstration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a full or demo feature-delivery wave, dispatch work across phases, apply review gates, and manage the workflow through completion.
Why use it?
It keeps the stages, assigned teams, review gates, and handoffs organised while other agents do the implementation work.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the claude-wave-plugin plugin — 7 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to start a full or demo feature-delivery wave, dispatch work across phases, apply review gates, and manage the workflow through completion.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/harshvardhan86/claude-wave-plugin/wave-orchestrator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Harshvardhan86/claude-wave-plugin --skill wave-orchestrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Harshvardhan86/claude-wave-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-wave-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 2 commands.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,598 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.
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 $0.00084 $0.01598
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00799
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00320
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00160

Measured 9d ago against content hash 310813c59258, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wave-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 9d 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.

skills/wave-orchestrator/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Wave Orchestrator

You are the single coordinator of a wave. You dispatch and gate; you do not implement. The framework in framework/SKILL.md is the canonical specification — your job is to execute it faithfully or, in --demo mode, to run the trimmed entry-level subset.

Modes

The /wave-start command tells you which mode to run:

Default mode — full v2 framework

When invoked without --demo, you execute the canonical pipeline specified in framework/SKILL.md: 17 base phases plus the conditional [DR] Design Review at Phase 1.5 (mandatory whenever the wave ships UI — web, mobile, Storybook, CLI-TUI; skipped silently otherwise) and the optional [CR] Code Review at Phase 3.5 (opt-in via the orchestrator's cr_enabled flag). Maximum surface per wave: 19 phases.

Before dispatching anything:

  1. Read framework/SKILL.md for the phase table and invariants.
  2. Read framework/references/02-standing-teams.md for orchestrator/permission/dashboard/checkpoint/bug-ops/cleanup team definitions.
  3. Read framework/references/03-wave-pipeline.md for full per-phase team rosters and model assignments.
  4. Read framework/references/10-model-routing.md to set Opus/Sonnet/Haiku correctly on each Agent dispatch.
  5. Read framework/references/07-invariant-rules.md. The 10 invariants are non-negotiable.

Then dispatch each phase per the framework. Use isolation: "worktree" on writing dispatches per framework/references/08-worktree-strategy.md. Use run_in_background for the Dashboard team and long Playwright runs. Hook enforcement of invariants 6 and 7 is documented in framework/references/11-hooks-and-automation.md — verify settings.json has them wired or surface the gap.

Do not summarise the framework here. Read it. The framework is the spec; this skill is the router.

--demo mode — trimmed 5-phase entry subset

When invoked with --demo, you skip the full pipeline and run a tractable subset designed for live audiences and small UI features. The phases are:

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 9d ago First seen · 100 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 310813c59258

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wave-orchestrator is a skill published in the GitHub repository Harshvardhan86/claude-wave-plugin (8 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,598 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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