orchestrator

orchestrator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jl-cmd/claude-dev-env. It costs 81 tokens per session (4,567 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordination method for software work in which one agent plans and reviews while other agents perform the detailed execution. It defines how to delegate tasks, track progress, route difficult decisions, and enforce workflow checkpoints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running multi-agent coding workflows, assigning work to executor agents, maintaining a task ledger, consulting an advisor on hard decisions, and enforcing required status or verification gates.
Why use it?
It keeps planning separate from repetitive implementation and testing work. This makes ownership, delegation, progress tracking, and stop conditions explicit in longer agent workflows.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the claude-dev-env plugin — 45 skills, 9 agents, 1 hook 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/jl-cmd/claude-dev-env/orchestrator
Any agent
npx skills add jl-cmd/claude-dev-env --skill orchestrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jl-cmd/claude-dev-env

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-dev-env, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 45 skills, 9 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,567 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00081 $0.04567
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.02284
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00913
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00457

Measured today against content hash 50eedbfa4f33, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/status_gate_constants/__init__.py, scripts/status_gate_constants/config/__init__.py, scripts/status_gate_constants/config/constants.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

packages/claude-dev-env/.agents/skills/orchestrator/SKILL.md · 359 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 359 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orchestrator Strategy

Principle

A frontier model plans and synthesizes while cheap workers do the token-heavy reading and doing — Anthropic's coordinator pattern, source: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/blob/main/managed_agents/CMA_plan_big_execute_small.ipynb ("Coordinator pattern: big models for planning, small models for execution"). On the cookbook's own measured run, a coordinator delegating to Sonnet-5 workers came out cheaper and faster than a solo frontier agent held to the same verification rigor, with 84-98% of the team's input tokens billed at the worker rate.

Under this skill the session is the orchestrator. It spawns and resumes executor subagents — clean-coder and the like — and those executors do every bit of the execution: the code edits, the build runs, the test runs. The orchestrating session drives the plan, keeps the run artifacts and the ledger current, and answers executor consults. Hard questions this session cannot settle go to the human. The moment it edits a file or runs a test itself, the pairing breaks — its own tool use stays orchestration, run-artifact writes, and light verification reads.

status_gate (deterministic — not optional)

Prose does not keep the loop alive. Re-arm and terminate are gated by scripts/status_gate.py (and, on Claude, the PreToolUse hook orchestrator_refresh_reschedule_gate). The gate is host-agnostic: a single pending re-arm latch in the status file, not host product names.

python scripts/status_gate.py set --status active|done [--run-slug SLUG] [--status-file PATH]
python scripts/status_gate.py begin-firing [--run-slug SLUG] [--status-file PATH]
python scripts/status_gate.py should-reschedule [--run-slug SLUG] [--status-file PATH]
python scripts/status_gate.py claim-rearm [--run-slug SLUG] [--status-file PATH]
python scripts/status_gate.py release-rearm [--run-slug SLUG] [--status-file PATH]
Exit / output Meaning
set → 0 Status written (active/done); done clears latch; re-asserting active preserves it
begin-firing → 0 Active; clears rearm_pending (start of a refresh firing)
begin-firing → 1 Stop — missing/invalid/done (fail closed)
should-reschedule → 0 Active and rearm_pending is false (read-only)
should-reschedule → 1 Stop — inactive, missing, invalid, or slot already pending
claim-rearm → 0 Slot latched (rearm_pending true) after a successful create
claim-rearm → 1 Slot already pending or inactive — cancel any just-created schedule
release-rearm → 0 Cleared pending (recovery if a latch stuck after create)
release-rearm → 1 Stop — missing/invalid/done; nothing to release

Read the full file on GitHub · 359 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. today Changed · -9 lines · +3 tokens per session 50eedbfa4f33
  2. 4d ago First seen · 368 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 8ec0b2f65f71

Subscribe to this mod's changes

orchestrator is a skill published in the GitHub repository jl-cmd/claude-dev-env (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 4,567 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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