orchestration

orchestration is a skill for Claude Code from Marcel-Bich/marcel-bich-claude-marketplace. It costs 102 tokens per session (2,475 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for coordinating coding subagents, which are smaller agents assigned focused pieces of work. It covers dividing tasks, running independent work in parallel, and combining the results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a task can be split across multiple files or investigations. It is especially relevant for parallel implementation, reviews, and other non-trivial work.
Why use it?
It reduces collisions between agents and keeps the main agent's working context focused. It also defines how to monitor agents and handle questions they send back.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Part of the credo plugin — 26 skills, 15 commands, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when a task can be split across multiple files or investigations. It is especially relevant for parallel implementation, reviews, and other non-trivial work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marcel-bich/marcel-bich-claude-marketplace/orchestration
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 Marcel-Bich/marcel-bich-claude-marketplace --skill orchestration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Marcel-Bich/marcel-bich-claude-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install credo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 15 commands, 6 hooks.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,475 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 $0.00102 $0.02475
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01238
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00495
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00248

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5b0edd1349b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestration 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 12d 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/credo/skills/orchestration/SKILL.md · 194 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 194 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

orchestration

How to delegate work to subagents so results come back correct, parallel work does not collide, and the delegating agent's context stays lean. This is the reusable delegation core; the session skills reference it instead of restating it.

When this fires

  • You are about to spawn a subagent for any non-trivial task.
  • You have two or more independent tasks that could run in parallel.
  • You are coordinating or monitoring already-running subagents.
  • A subagent returns needing a decision, and you must route the answer back.

Delegation-first

Prefer delegating substantive work to a subagent over doing it inline in the main context. The main agent orchestrates: it splits work, dispatches, integrates results, and commits. Reserve the main context for coordination and user interaction, not for large reads or long builds that a subagent can carry.

How many subagents (situational, no colony rule)

  • The delegating agent decides the count based on the actual work. There is NO fixed colony pattern and no rule to always fan out wide. Large colonies are expensive; use them only ad hoc when a specific task genuinely benefits.
  • For code tracks that touch the repository, keep it to roughly two tracks running at a time. More than that raises collision and integration cost faster than it buys speed.
  • Read-only exploration can fan out more freely than code-editing tracks, since it does not write files.

Parallel safety

  • Disjoint files: parallel tracks must edit non-overlapping file sets. Assign each track its own files up front. If two tracks would touch the same file, they are not independent - sequence them instead.
  • Sequential commit: the MAIN agent commits, one track's result at a time. Subagents do not commit in parallel. This keeps history clean and avoids two agents racing on the index or on a shared file. (By the same index-race logic, the default agent roles put commits and push with the task / build agent, not the plan / clarify agent - a guiding default, not a constraint; see session-init.)
  • If a clean disjoint split is not possible, run the tracks sequentially rather than forcing false parallelism.

Read the full file on GitHub · 194 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. 12d ago First seen · 194 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 5b0edd1349b0

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orchestration is a skill published in the GitHub repository Marcel-Bich/marcel-bich-claude-marketplace (13 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 2,475 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 2026-08-30.