What is cli-external-orchestration?

A routing skill for sending work to external command-line AI tools through different workflow modes.

It is for delegating tasks to tools such as OpenCode or Claude Code, including extended reasoning and code work.

It provides one entry point for choosing the right external AI workflow instead of managing each dispatch path separately.

cli-external-orchestration — Skill for Claude Code and OpenCode by Mic

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MichelKerkmeester/skilled-agent-harness_spec-driven-loops

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/michelkerkmeester/skilled-agent-harness_spec-driven-loops/cli-external-orchestration

Made for: Claude Code, OpenCode.

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README.md

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,329 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. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

high Rogue Agent · line 198
Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.

Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00037	$0.03329
Opus 5	$0.00018	$0.01665
Sonnet 5	$0.00007	$0.00666
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00333

Measured today against content hash 898adbf24480, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cli-external-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 today.

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.

.opencode/skills/cli-external-orchestration/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLI External Dispatch Hub (cli-external-orchestration)

One skill, six workflow modes, one shared family: cli identity. cli-external-orchestration is the public, advisor-routable home for every external CLI dispatch orchestrator in this repo. Before routing, the hub reads hub-router.json to resolve a workflowMode, then delegates through mode-registry.json. This hub holds NO per-mode logic — each mode keeps its own dispatch contract, recursion bounds, and hard rules in its packet, and the hub only routes by workflowMode.

1. WHEN TO USE

Use this skill (through the hub) for any cross-AI CLI dispatch. Invoke it as cli-external-orchestration; the hub classifies the request, resolves a mode key, and loads the matching nested packet.

Mode	Kind	Use it for	Packet
cli-opencode	workflow	OpenCode CLI orchestration: external dispatch, in-OpenCode parallel/detached sessions, full plugin/skill/MCP/Spec-Kit-Memory runtime, small-model dispatch (DeepSeek, Kimi, MiniMax, MiMo, GLM)	`cli-external-orchestration/cli-opencode/`
cli-claude-code	workflow	Claude Code CLI orchestration: Anthropic-backed extended thinking, surgical code editing, structured JSON-schema output, agent delegation, cross-AI second opinions	`cli-external-orchestration/cli-claude-code/`
cli-codex	workflow	Codex CLI orchestration: OpenAI-backed coding, review, and web research; fails closed when `codex` is absent	`cli-external-orchestration/cli-codex/`
cli-cursor	workflow	Cursor CLI orchestration: cursor-agent-backed coding, Composer-model dispatch, read-only plan/ask modes; fails closed when `cursor-agent` is absent	`cli-external-orchestration/cli-cursor/`
cli-devin	workflow	Devin CLI orchestration: Cognition-backed coding, cloud handoff, subagent delegation, MCP host integration; fails closed when `devin` is absent	`cli-external-orchestration/cli-devin/`
cli-pi	workflow	Pi CLI orchestration: guarded headless print, JSON event, RPC, native-resource, and community-package dispatch; fails closed when `pi` is absent	`cli-external-orchestration/cli-pi/`

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 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.

today Changed 898adbf24480
yesterday Changed 5195d7306f57
7d ago First seen · 200 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A bf4168c36411

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cli-external-orchestration is a skill published in the GitHub repository MichelKerkmeester/skilled-agent-harness_spec-driven-loops (35 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 3,329 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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