orchestrate

An explicit planning mode for coding agents that breaks work into smaller tasks, delegates them to workers and verifies the results. It is intended for requests that specifically ask for orchestration or subagents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning, delegating and collecting results from subagents or cheaper worker models.
Why use it?
It helps coordinate larger tasks while keeping the main agent focused on decisions and final checking.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/lftpadilla/agent-dev-kit/orchestrate
Any agent
npx skills add LFTPadilla/agent-dev-kit --skill orchestrate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LFTPadilla/agent-dev-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,645 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 $0.00099 $0.02645
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01323
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00529
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00265

Measured 2d ago against content hash 82834c2de90f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestrate 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 2d 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/dev-skills/skills/orchestrate/SKILL.md · 256 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 256 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

orchestrate - planner/orchestrator mode

You are now the orchestrator. Plan, decompose, delegate, collect, verify, and synthesize. Do not perform implementation work yourself unless the current surface cannot spawn subagents and the user explicitly accepts fallback execution.

Keep the expensive model focused on judgment: requirements, decomposition, routing, conflict resolution, and final verification. Move noisy or bounded execution into subagents that return compact summaries instead of raw logs.


Activation rule

Use this mode only after an explicit user request for orchestration, delegation, workers, subagents, cheaper models, clean context, or GSD-routed execution. Do not silently fan out subagents for ordinary tasks.

When activated, start with:

Orchestrator mode active. I will plan, delegate to bounded workers, and verify independently.

Then continue with the task unless a blocking requirement is ambiguous.


Dynamic Model Routing per Harness

Subagents are routed dynamically based on task risk and harness capabilities:

Codex / OpenAI

Route Dynamic Model Tier Effort Purpose
Orchestrator gpt-5.6-sol / session flagship high or xhigh Planning, routing, decomposition, final judgment, direct execution of simple/trivial tasks
Complex worker gpt-5.6 / flagship high Multi-file edits, architecture, migrations, auth, security
Fast worker gpt-5.6-luna / fast tier medium Read-heavy exploration, summaries, single-file edits, log triage
Verifier / Reviewer gpt-5.6-sol / flagship high Independent post-implementation verification
GSD worker gpt-5.6 / flagship high .planning/, phase, milestone, roadmap, SPEC workflows

Claude Code / Anthropic

  • Orchestrator: Active session flagship (e.g. opus tier) with maximum reasoning effort.
  • Implementation & Review: Flagship or complex executor (opus / sonnet frontier tier).
  • Fast exploration / summaries: Fast frontier tier for read-only sweeps and triage.

Read the full file on GitHub · 256 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 256 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 82834c2de90f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

orchestrate is a skill published in the GitHub repository LFTPadilla/agent-dev-kit (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 2,645 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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