conductor-methodology

conductor-methodology is a skill for Claude Code from rbarcante/claude-conductor. It costs 52 tokens per session (2,351 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for using Conductor, a development method that keeps project context, specifications, plans, and implementation organized through a defined lifecycle.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working with Conductor concepts, workflow stages, track lifecycles, plan structures, or files in a project's conductor directory.
Why use it?
It helps coding agents and teams work from shared project information and review plans before changing code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the conductor plugin — 7 skills, 9 commands, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when working with Conductor concepts, workflow stages, track lifecycles, plan structures, or files in a project's conductor directory.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rbarcante/claude-conductor/conductor-methodology
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.

Any agent
npx skills add rbarcante/claude-conductor --skill conductor-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rbarcante/claude-conductor

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install conductor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 9 commands, 6 agents.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,351 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 $0.00052 $0.02351
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01175
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00470
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00235

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5fec299109a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conductor-methodology 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 9d 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/conductor-methodology/SKILL.md · 285 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 285 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conductor Methodology Skill

Conductor is a context-driven development framework that structures software development through a rigorous lifecycle: Context → Spec & Plan → Implement. This skill provides guidance on Conductor's principles, file structures, and workflows.

Core Philosophy

Measure twice, code once. Conductor treats context as a managed artifact alongside code, transforming repositories into a single source of truth that drives every agent interaction with deep, persistent project awareness.

Key Principles

  1. Plan before you build: Create specs and plans that guide implementation
  2. Maintain context: Ensure AI follows style guides, tech stack choices, and product goals
  3. Iterate safely: Review plans before code is written
  4. Work as a team: Set project-level context shared across the team

Project Structure

Core Context Files (conductor/)

Located in the conductor/ directory at project root:

  • product.md: Product vision, users, goals, and features
  • product-guidelines.md: Prose style, brand messaging, visual identity
  • tech-stack.md: Technology choices, languages, frameworks, databases
  • workflow.md: Development workflow (TDD, commit strategy, coverage requirements)
  • code_styleguides/: Language-specific coding standards
  • tracks.md: Master list of all tracks with status and links

Track Structure (conductor/tracks/)

Each track lives in conductor/tracks/<track_id>/:

  • spec.md: Detailed requirements for the track
  • plan.md: Hierarchical plan with phases, tasks, and sub-tasks
  • decisions.md: Architecture Decision Records for track decisions
  • review.md: Auto-generated code review report on track completion
  • metadata.json: Track metadata (ID, type, status, timestamps)

Track Lifecycle

Tracks represent high-level units of work (features, bugs, chores):

  1. Creation (/conductor:newTrack): Generate spec and plan
  2. In Progress: Mark as [~] when work begins
  3. Completed: Mark as [x] when all tasks finish
  4. Cleanup: Archive or delete completed tracks

Read the full file on GitHub · 285 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. 9d ago First seen · 285 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 5fec299109a6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

conductor-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository rbarcante/claude-conductor (56 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,351 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 2026-08-30.

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