orchestrate

orchestrate is a skill for Claude Code from ShivaeDev/pardes. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,344 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for planning and delivering a large pull request by splitting it into ordered chunks. It uses a user interview to shape the plan, then assigns each chunk to a focused coding agent and makes a separate commit for each one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for large, sequence-dependent changes that need multiple commits and focused implementation by separate coding agents.
Why use it?
It helps when a change spans many files or systems and later parts depend on earlier ones. Smaller, ordered tasks reduce the amount of work each agent must hold at once.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the orchestrate plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it for large, sequence-dependent changes that need multiple commits and focused implementation by separate coding agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shivaedev/pardes/orchestrate
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 ShivaeDev/pardes --skill orchestrate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShivaeDev/pardes

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install orchestrate, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,344 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 $0.00054 $0.02344
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00938
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00469
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00234

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 1113cd655fb7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestrate 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 2mo 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.

plugins/orchestrate/skills/orchestrate/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

orchestrate

A two-phase workflow for big PRs that would otherwise overflow context or get bogged down mid-stream.

Phase 1 — Plan. A multi-round interview narrows scope and shape before any code. Phase 2 — Dispatch. Sequential sub-agents, one chunk per agent, one commit per chunk.

The orchestrator (you) stays high-level. Sub-agents do the coding. That separation is what unlocks big PRs in one session.

When to use

  • The work spans more files than one agent can hold (typically: ≥30 files modified, multiple subsystems).
  • The work has internal sequencing — chunk N depends on chunk N-1 in a way that makes parallelism counterproductive.
  • The user has explicitly asked you to drive it autonomously to a PR, or it's obvious from the brief that's the shape.

Don't use for: single-file changes, exploration questions, work that fits in one agent context, or work where the sequencing isn't yet clear (plan first, dispatch later).

Phase 1 — Plan

Interview the user across multiple AskUserQuestion rounds

Bias toward more rounds, not fewer. Each round narrows one tier of decision. A representative arc:

  1. Scope tier. Bundled vs phased. Which adjacent work to absorb. What to defer.
  2. Shape tier. Interface shape, manifest shape, data-model shape. The structural decisions that fall out of scope.
  3. Detail tier. Specific field semantics, relationship directions, invariant rules. Anything the user hasn't seen articulated yet.

Use AskUserQuestion with 3–4 options per question, and mark the recommended one. If the user pushes back on a framing ("that concept should disappear entirely"), reframe and re-ask — don't proceed on a misread.

A pivot inside the interview is cheap. A pivot during execution is expensive. Spend the rounds.

Write the plan visibly before any code

After the interview settles, output two things in one message:

  1. Goals (ideal end state). Bulleted by area. What the world looks like after the PR merges.
  2. Sequence. Numbered chunks, one paragraph each. Each chunk specifies: what it changes, what it depends on, and whether it commits clean or as intentional WIP.

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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. 2mo ago First seen · 147 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 1113cd655fb7

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orchestrate is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShivaeDev/pardes (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,344 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.