orchestrate

orchestrate is a skill for Claude Code from mgiovani/cc-arsenal. It costs 180 tokens per session (1,479 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for splitting a complex task among multiple AI agents, choosing their roles and models, running independent work in parallel, and combining the results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide whether orchestration is worthwhile, break work into research, implementation, planning, or synthesis tasks, and assign each task appropriately.
Why use it?
It helps manage tasks that contain several genuinely independent pieces of work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the cc-arsenal plugin — 53 skills 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/mgiovani/cc-arsenal/orchestrate
Any agent
npx skills add mgiovani/cc-arsenal --skill orchestrate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mgiovani/cc-arsenal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cc-arsenal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 180 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,479 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 5.1 $0.00180 $0.01479
Opus 5 $0.00090 $0.00740
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00296
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00148

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1ea534c7cefb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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.

skills/orchestrate/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orchestrate

Turn a task into a model-tiered multi-agent plan, run it, and synthesize the result yourself.

Task

$ARGUMENTS

Step 0: Is orchestration warranted?

Before decomposing anything, check: does this genuinely split into 2+ independent pieces of real work? A task that touches one file, needs one command, or has one obvious fix does NOT need a plan or a subagent: do it directly and say so in one line. Spawning, tracking, and merging subagents costs more than the work itself below that bar, and a fabricated multi-phase plan for a one-line change is worse than no plan.

If it passes this bar, continue to Step 1.

Step 1: Decompose

Break the task into subtasks. For each, state its concrete input, its expected output, and classify it as one of:

  • research: exploration, search, reading, gathering information; no code written
  • implementation: writing or editing code, config, or content
  • planning: architecture/design decisions, non-trivial trade-off calls
  • synthesis: merging multiple subagents' outputs into one final deliverable

Step 2: Model table (model is required, never inherited)

Classification subagent_type model Why
research Explore haiku cheap, good at search/read
planning Plan opus best reasoning for architecture/trade-offs
implementation general-purpose (or the repo's own agent) sonnet balance of cost and capability
synthesis n/a (orchestrator itself) n/a never delegate the final merge

Every spawn call MUST set model explicitly. An unset model silently inherits the caller (often the most expensive model available) and defeats the whole point of tiering. Treat a missing model field as an incomplete call, not a default to fill in later.

Step 3: Parallelize with strict file ownership

Group subtasks into independent tracks: a track is independent if it shares no file or directory with any other track. Before spawning, write down the ownership map (track → files/dirs it will touch) and confirm no two tracks overlap. Two agents editing the same file is a merge conflict you caused, not one you'll resolve later: split the map instead of hoping it works out.

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 6d ago First seen · 137 lines · 180 tokens per session scan A 1ea534c7cefb

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orchestrate is a skill published in the GitHub repository mgiovani/cc-arsenal (7 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 180 tokens to every session and 1,479 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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