build-agent

build-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NicolaiLassen/orxhestra. It costs 38 tokens per session (646 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide and set of examples for creating agents with orxhestra. It covers language-model agents, agents that reason and act with tools, streaming responses, and common configuration options.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a new agent, give it tools and instructions, stream its responses, or configure structured output and iteration limits.
Why use it?
It provides the setup needed to turn a language model and a set of tools into an agent that can perform tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create a new agent, give it tools and instructions, stream its responses, or configure structured output and iteration limits.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add NicolaiLassen/orxhestra --skill build-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NicolaiLassen/orxhestra

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 646 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 $0.00038 $0.00646
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00323
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00065

Measured 11d ago against content hash ce794c3cf481, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-agent 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 11d 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.

docs/skills/build-agent/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Building Agents with orxhestra

All agents extend BaseAgent and implement astream(input, *, ctx) returning AsyncIterator[Event].

LlmAgent — Standard tool-calling agent

from orxhestra import LlmAgent
from langchain_core.tools import tool
from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI

@tool
async def search(query: str) -> str:
    """Search the web."""
    return f"Results for: {query}"

agent = LlmAgent(
    name="assistant",
    model=ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-5.4"),
    tools=[search],
    instructions="You are a helpful assistant.",
    max_iterations=10,
)

# Async streaming
async for event in agent.astream("Hello"):
    if event.is_final_response():
        print(event.text)

# Sync convenience
result = agent.invoke("Hello")
print(result.text)

Key parameters

Parameter Type Description
name str Unique agent name
model BaseChatModel Any LangChain chat model
tools list[BaseTool] Tools available to the agent
instructions str | Callable System prompt (static or dynamic)
planner BasePlanner Optional planning strategy
output_schema type Optional Pydantic model for structured output
max_iterations int Max tool-call loop iterations (default: 10)

Dynamic instructions

async def dynamic_instructions(ctx):
    return f"You are helping user in session {ctx.session_id}."

agent = LlmAgent(
    name="dynamic",
    model=model,
    instructions=dynamic_instructions,
)

ReActAgent — Structured reasoning

Uses with_structured_output() to enforce a typed ReActStep at every iteration. Extends LlmAgent so it inherits instructions, planners, skills, and callbacks.

from orxhestra import ReActAgent

agent = ReActAgent(
    name="reasoner",
    model=ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-5.4"),
    tools=[search],
    instructions="Think step by step.",  # appended to ReAct prompt
    max_iterations=10,
)

Running with sessions (Runner)

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 11d ago First seen · 101 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A ce794c3cf481

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build-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository NicolaiLassen/orxhestra (21 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 646 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 2026-08-30.

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