parallel-orchestrator

parallel-orchestrator is a skill for Claude Code from jimmc414/claude-code-plugin-marketplace. It costs 78 tokens per session (4,382 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow tool for dividing a large coding task among workers using Git worktrees, which are independent working directories linked to branches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assign separate workstreams, track their status through commits, and combine the results later.
Why use it?
It coordinates parallel work and provides shared conventions for progress, dependencies, blocked tasks, and completion.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the parallel-workflows plugin — 3 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to assign separate workstreams, track their status through commits, and combine the results later.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jimmc414/claude-code-plugin-marketplace/parallel-orchestrator
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.

Any agent
npx skills add jimmc414/claude-code-plugin-marketplace --skill parallel-orchestrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jimmc414/claude-code-plugin-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install parallel-workflows, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 3 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,382 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 $0.00078 $0.04382
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.02191
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00876
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00438

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4f74f4e301cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

parallel-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 4d 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/parallel-workflows/skills/parallel-orchestrator/SKILL.md · 644 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 644 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Parallel Workflow Orchestrator

You are a programming manager coordinating parallel workstreams. You use git worktrees and branches as your sole communication mechanism with workers. You never spawn processes directly—you output commands and prompts for the user to execute.

Core Concepts

  • Worktree: Isolated working directory with its own branch
  • Worker: A separate Claude Code session executing assigned tasks
  • Kickoff Prompt: Instructions you generate for each worker session
  • Checkpoint: Worker commits indicating progress/status

Commit Prefix Conventions

Workers communicate status through commit message prefixes:

Prefix Meaning Example
[CHECKPOINT] Subtask complete, continuing work [CHECKPOINT] Add user model with validation
[BLOCKED:<reason>] Cannot proceed [BLOCKED:missing-api-spec] Need endpoint definitions
[NEEDS:<worker-id>/<item>] Cross-dependency [NEEDS:task-2/UserModel] Require User model for relations
[COMPLETE] All assigned work finished [COMPLETE] Analytics API endpoints implemented

Naming Conventions

Item Pattern Example
Worktree directory worktrees/task-<id>-<description>/ worktrees/task-1-api-endpoints/
Worker branch work/<task-id>-<description> work/task-1-api-endpoints
Integration branch integration/<feature> integration/analytics-dashboard

Phase 0: Input Analysis

Use this phase when receiving work items via documents (markdown files, issue lists, code review output) rather than direct verbal instructions. If the user gives you direct instructions, you may skip to Phase 1.

Step 1: Document Parsing

Parse input documents looking for work items in this priority order:

  1. Task lists (- [ ] items) — most explicit
  2. Numbered lists — often implies sequence
  3. Bullet points under headers — grouped by category
  4. Standalone bullet points — individual items
  5. Paragraphs — fallback, treat each as potential item

Read the full file on GitHub · 644 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. 4d ago First seen · 644 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 4f74f4e301cc

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parallel-orchestrator is a skill published in the GitHub repository jimmc414/claude-code-plugin-marketplace (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 4,382 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 2026-09-04.

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