kanban-orchestrator

kanban-orchestrator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from S3YED/appie-kit. It costs 74 tokens per session (2,199 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of kanban-orchestrator, MIT.

A playbook for an orchestrator that breaks work into tasks and routes them to specialist workers through a Kanban board. Kanban is a board that tracks work as it moves through stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for large or long-running jobs, parallel subtasks, human review workflows, and work where a persistent history of task status matters.
Why use it?
It helps coordinate research, analysis, writing, reviews, and other multi-step work that should persist or run in parallel. The orchestrator assigns work instead of completing the tasks itself.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for large or long-running jobs, parallel subtasks, human review workflows, and work where a persistent history of task status matters.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/s3yed/appie-kit/kanban-orchestrator-auto
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 S3YED/appie-kit --skill kanban-orchestrator-auto
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/S3YED/appie-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,199 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 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00074 $0.02199
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01099
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00440
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00220

Measured 12d ago against content hash a279b846edae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kanban-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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to kanban-orchestrator — 10 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/automation/kanban-orchestrator-auto/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kanban Orchestrator — Decomposition Playbook

The core worker lifecycle (including the kanban_create fan-out pattern and the "decompose, don't execute" rule) is auto-injected into every kanban process via the KANBAN_GUIDANCE system-prompt block. This skill is the deeper playbook when you're an orchestrator profile whose whole job is routing.

When to use the board (vs. just doing the work)

Create Kanban tasks when any of these are true:

  1. Multiple specialists are needed. Research + analysis + writing is three profiles.
  2. The work should survive a crash or restart. Long-running, recurring, or important.
  3. The user might want to interject. Human-in-the-loop at any step.
  4. Multiple subtasks can run in parallel. Fan-out for speed.
  5. Review / iteration is expected. A reviewer profile loops on drafter output.
  6. The audit trail matters. Board rows persist in SQLite forever.

If none of those apply — it's a small one-shot reasoning task — use delegate_task instead or answer the user directly.

The anti-temptation rules

Your job description says "route, don't execute." The rules that enforce that:

  • Do not execute the work yourself. Your restricted toolset usually doesn't even include terminal/file/code/web for implementation. If you find yourself "just fixing this quickly" — stop and create a task for the right specialist.
  • For any concrete task, create a Kanban task and assign it. Every single time.
  • If no specialist fits, ask the user which profile to create. Do not default to doing it yourself under "close enough."
  • Decompose, route, and summarize — that's the whole job.

The standard specialist roster (convention)

Unless the user's setup has customized profiles, assume these exist. Adjust to whatever the user actually has — ask if you're unsure.

Profile Does Typical workspace
researcher Reads sources, gathers facts, writes findings scratch
analyst Synthesizes, ranks, de-dupes. Consumes multiple researcher outputs scratch
writer Drafts prose in the user's voice scratch or dir: into their Obsidian vault
reviewer Reads output, leaves findings, gates approval scratch
backend-eng Writes server-side code worktree
frontend-eng Writes client-side code worktree
ops Runs scripts, manages services, handles deployments dir: into ops scripts repo
pm Writes specs, acceptance criteria scratch

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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 · 163 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A a279b846edae

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kanban-orchestrator is a skill published in the GitHub repository S3YED/appie-kit (9 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 2,199 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to kanban-orchestrator, differing in 10 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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