run-orchestrator

run-orchestrator is a skill for Claude Code from nguyenthienthanh/aura-frog. It costs 62 tokens per session (6,008 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided five-phase process for building complex features across multiple files. It uses test-driven development (TDD), where tests are written before the implementation, and separates building from reviewing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan and implement complex features or multi-file changes with tests and review stages.
Why use it?
It gives large feature work explicit checkpoints and agreements, reducing missed steps and unchecked changes.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the aura-frog plugin — 43 skills, 24 commands, 15 agents, 10 hooks, 6 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan and implement complex features or multi-file changes with tests and review stages.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add nguyenthienthanh/aura-frog
Claude Code
/plugin install aura-frog

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aura-frog, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 24 commands, 15 agents, 10 hooks, 6 MCP servers.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,008 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 $0.00062 $0.06008
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.03004
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.01202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00601

Measured 6d ago against content hash a8be3a6ce4f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

run-orchestrator 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.

aura-frog/skills/run-orchestrator/SKILL.md · 421 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 421 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI-consumed reference. Optimized for Claude to read during execution. Human-readable explanation: see docs/architecture/HIERARCHICAL_PLANNING.md or docs/getting-started/ depending on topic.

Run Orchestrator

For complex features / multi-file changes requiring TDD. NOT for: bug fixes (use the bugfix-quick skill via the Skill tool — it is NOT an agent), quick edits (direct).

Step 0 — Escalation Check (precondition, v3.7.2+)

Before creating run-state.json, screen the task description for project-level scope via the bridge heuristic in rules/workflow/run-plan-bridge.md. The 8-trigger rubric (multi_feature, multi_week, shipping_scope, scale_words, cross_session, user_explicit, word_count, scope_verbs) sums to a weight; if weight ≥ 3 AND no plan tree exists (.claude/plans/active.json missing), emit this 3-option prompt:

Your task scores ≥3 on the escalation heuristic — multi-feature / multi-session scope.
Options:
  plan    — bootstrap /aura-frog:plan first (writes pending-plan-bootstrap.json)
  deep    — proceed with normal Deep flow (escalation_declined: true recorded)
  details — show breakdown of which signals fired, re-ask

Honour the answer:

  • plan → write .claude/cache/pending-plan-bootstrap.json (schema below) and invoke /aura-frog:plan. Do NOT proceed to Step 0b until the plan returns.
  • deep (or legacy alias proceed) → set escalation_declined: true in the run-state when it's created. Continue.
  • details → render which signals fired with weights, then re-ask.

Skip the prompt when:

  • .claude/plans/active.json exists → fall through to Step 1 (plan_anchored / plan_idle states from run-plan-bridge.md apply).
  • AF_ESCALATION_DISABLED=true env var is set.
  • Task description has an override prefix: task: (force task mode, skip ask) or project: (force project mode, skip ask + write scratch file).
  • Force prefixes must do: / just do: / exactly: are present (these bypass the entire bridge per the bridge rule).

Read the full file on GitHub · 421 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 421 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A a8be3a6ce4f0

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run-orchestrator is a skill published in the GitHub repository nguyenthienthanh/aura-frog (24 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 6,008 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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