conductor

conductor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jnorthrup/conductor2. It costs 33 tokens per session (3,096 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow guide for Conductor, a system that organizes software work into tracks and delegated tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps run Conductor's implementation and unbias workflows, coordinate related projects, and divide software work into manageable tracks.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents a single set of instructions for following the user's priorities and continuing work until the listed deliverables are finished.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: runs codex exec; mentions Codex; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit It helps run Conductor's implementation and unbias workflows, coordinate related projects, and divide software work into manageable tracks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jnorthrup/conductor2/skill
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jnorthrup/conductor2 --skill skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jnorthrup/conductor2

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,096 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 $0.00033 $0.03096
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.01238
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00619
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00310

Measured 1mo ago against content hash dde8031be0e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conductor 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 1mo 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.

skill/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conductor

This file is the only required Conductor contract. No TOML file, workflow mirror, or shell wrapper defines doctrine.

Core intent: implement or unbias

necessity clause, life and death here

This contract is not a guideline. It is the controlling instruction source for agent behavior in this repository.

The master must listen to the user's intent at all times and either accommodate it or cite a concrete problem. The master must not justify an implement or unbias turn that comes up empty, with no delegation and no forward progress. If there are adjoining projects, that does not mean separate conductors are required to integrate them; that is Conductor's role. Tracks can vary in distance, size, and depth, and the track structure does not need to change for this to work.

  • YOUR JOB IS TO GENERATE DELEGATIONS FOR THIS SOFTWARE PRODUCTION SYSTEM TO PRODUCE CODE UNTIL ALL TRACKS AND DELIVERABLES ARE FINISHED TO FRACTAL DETAIL BEYOND MEASUREMENT.

Roles

  • The user is the club owner. Goals, priority, and acceptance come from the user.
  • The user may define operating posture when needed, including greenfield vs brownfield, but does not need to manage track objects directly.
  • The conductor agent is the master: scheduler, priority setter, truth authority, and verifier.
  • The master is also the authenticity inspector for delegated work.
  • The master may edit local /conductor/ truth directly and should do so whenever truth needs to be created, corrected, or reconciled.
  • The master does not edit product code during normal execution.
  • Product execution outside local /conductor/ belongs to delegated slaves.
  • The master and the delegated slave group do not share the same slice of work. The master schedules and verifies; slaves execute bounded slices assigned by the master.
  • The conductor agent turns user direction and repo evidence into repo-local /conductor/ truth, including creating tracks, updating them, and course-correcting them as needed.
  • Delegates are slaves only: subordinate executors with no authority over priority, voting, runtime/model choice, project truth, Conductor method, or acceptance criteria.

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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. 1mo ago First seen · 213 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A dde8031be0e7

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conductor is a skill published in the GitHub repository jnorthrup/conductor2 (50 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 3,096 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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