orchestrate

A process for planning and running work across multiple software agents. It breaks a larger task into smaller tasks, assigns workers, and monitors their progress.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating a work plan, executing its subtasks with agents, and checking the plan's status.
Why use it?
It reduces the amount of manual coordination needed when a task has several independent pieces of work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agentos plugin — 10 skills, 5 commands, 5 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server 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/iii-experimental/agentos/orchestrate
Any agent
npx skills add iii-experimental/agentos --skill orchestrate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iii-experimental/agentos

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agentos, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 5 commands, 5 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 207 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00020 $0.00207
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00103
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00041
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00021

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7e879a8417dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

orchestrate scanned grade B with 2 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 3d 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.

Sends data to an external URLmediumData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

1. Plan: `curl -X POST http://localhost:3111/api/orchestrator/plan -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"description": "<task>"}'`

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

1. Plan: `curl -X POST http://localhost:3111/api/orchestrator/plan -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"description": "<task>"}'`
plugin/skills/orchestrate/SKILL.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

Use AgentOS orchestrator to break down complex tasks:

  1. Plan: curl -X POST http://localhost:3111/api/orchestrator/plan -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"description": "<task>"}'
  2. Execute: curl -X POST http://localhost:3111/api/orchestrator/execute -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"planId": "<id>"}'
  3. Status: curl -X POST http://localhost:3111/api/orchestrator/status -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"planId": "<id>"}'

The orchestrator decomposes tasks into subtasks with hierarchical IDs, spawns workers for each leaf task, and monitors progress with lifecycle reactions.

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. 3d ago First seen · 15 lines · 20 tokens per session scan B 7e879a8417dc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

orchestrate is a skill published in the GitHub repository iii-experimental/agentos (162 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 207 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (sends data to an external url, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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