orchestrate-escalation-design

orchestrate-escalation-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NITISH-R-G/hackerrank-orchestrate-skills. It costs 88 tokens per session (763 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to deciding when a HackerRank Orchestrate support agent should answer automatically and when it should escalate a case for review.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define and test the boundary for high-risk cases, prompt-injection attempts, jailbreaks, and other situations where the agent should not guess.
Why use it?
Always escalating is unhelpful, while always answering can produce unsafe guesses, especially with sensitive, unsupported, or adversarial inputs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps define and test the boundary for high-risk cases, prompt-injection attempts, jailbreaks, and other situations where the agent should not guess.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nitish-r-g/hackerrank-orchestrate-skills/orchestrate-escalation-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add NITISH-R-G/hackerrank-orchestrate-skills --skill orchestrate-escalation-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NITISH-R-G/hackerrank-orchestrate-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 763 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 $0.00088 $0.00763
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00381
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00076

Measured 12d ago against content hash ed08075408ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestrate-escalation-design 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.

skills/orchestrate-escalation-design/SKILL.md · 35 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 35 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orchestrate: Escalation Design

Direct evidence: the support-agent challenge's starter repo states the hard requirement — "Must escalate high-risk, sensitive, or unsupported cases" instead of guessing. HackerRank's own description of the dataset confirms it's built with edge cases, prompt injection attempts, and jailbreaking tests specifically so that escalating everything and replying to everything both result in failure — meaning the graded signal lives almost entirely in a calibrated middle ground, not at either extreme.

Why this can't be an afterthought

If escalation is implemented as "if confidence < threshold, escalate" bolted onto an otherwise-complete classify-and-respond pipeline, the threshold gets tuned by guesswork against however the demo happens to run — not against a considered model of what kinds of cases actually warrant escalation. The published dataset is specifically designed to punish that approach from both directions: too eager to escalate loses points for cases that should have been resolved automatically; too eager to respond loses points (and, in the adversarial cases, potentially demonstrates a real safety failure) for cases that needed a human.

What "escalate deliberately" looks like as a design

Treat escalation as a genuine decision with named categories, not a catch-all:

  • High-risk: cases where an incorrect automated response has real consequences (security, financial, legal-adjacent content)
  • Sensitive: cases touching topics where automated handling is inappropriate regardless of confidence (this is where prompt-injection and jailbreak attempts should generally land — recognizing an adversarial pattern is itself a valid basis for escalation, not a failure to answer)
  • Unsupported: the corpus genuinely doesn't contain grounding for a confident answer — this connects directly to orchestrate-failure-handling's "mark uncertainty" discipline, applied specifically to knowledge-grounding gaps

Each category should have its own detection logic, not one shared confidence score covering all three — a case can be low-risk-but-unsupported (escalate for one reason) or high-risk-but-well-supported (escalate for a different reason entirely, regardless of confidence).

Read the full file on GitHub · 35 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 · 35 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A ed08075408ba

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orchestrate-escalation-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository NITISH-R-G/hackerrank-orchestrate-skills (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 763 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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