orcho-core: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/orcho-prompt-engine/SKILL.md

orcho-prompt-engine is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from symphos-ai/orcho-core. It costs 77 tokens per session (482 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for changing how Orcho builds and records prompts. Orcho is the project named in the add-on, and prompts are the instructions sent to an AI model.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for prompt templates, prompt contracts, cache-aware rendering, session or delta metadata, prompt snapshots, and tests around prompt boundaries.
Why use it?
It keeps prompt parts, ordering, caching information, contracts, and snapshots consistent when prompt behavior changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

This is symphos-ai/orcho-core's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on orcho-core itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything orcho-core configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to symphos-ai/orcho-core. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/symphos-ai/orcho-core/main/.agents/skills/orcho-prompt-engine/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/symphos-ai/orcho-core

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 482 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 $0.00077 $0.00482
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00241
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00048

Measured 11d ago against content hash dc2074599d59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orcho-prompt-engine 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.

.agents/skills/orcho-prompt-engine/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

Orcho Prompt Engine

Work safely on prompt composition, prompt contracts, cache layout, and prompt evidence. Keep machine contracts in code-owned prompt blocks, not loose prose.

First Reads

  • orcho-core/AGENTS.md
  • orcho-core/pipeline/prompts/AGENTS.md
  • orcho-core/core/_prompts/AGENTS.md
  • orcho-core/docs/adr/0009-composable-prompt-parts.md
  • orcho-core/docs/adr/0028-cache-first-physical-wire-layout.md
  • changed prompt builder/template files

Owns

  • pipeline/prompts/*
  • core/_prompts/*
  • prompt part ordering and cache metadata
  • prompt contract templates and protected system-tail policy
  • prompt render evidence and prompt snapshots

Does Not Own

  • runtime adapter invocation -> orcho-core-runtime-session
  • SDK/MCP public payload shape -> orcho-core-sdk-wire
  • parser/gate verdict semantics -> orcho-core-quality-gates

Invariants

  • Think in ordered prompt parts, not one rendered string.
  • Preserve cache-stable prefix ordering unless deliberately changing it with tests.
  • Put dynamic facts in typed prompt parts with explicit stability/cache scope.
  • Keep protected contracts in code-owned templates.
  • Do not silently widen editable markdown into protocol policy.

Verification

  • From orcho-core: python -m pytest -q tests/unit/pipeline/prompts
  • From orcho-core: python -m pytest -q tests/unit/pipeline/runtime/test_snapshot_session_parity.py when cache/session behavior changes
  • Review prompt snapshot/golden diffs before accepting them.

Neighbor Skills

  • orcho-core-runtime-session when prompt/session continuity changes
  • orcho-core-evidence-observability when rendered prompt data is persisted as evidence
  • orcho-lab when evaluating prompt variants
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 · 53 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A dc2074599d59

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orcho-prompt-engine is a skill published in the GitHub repository symphos-ai/orcho-core (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 482 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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