switchboard-orchestration

switchboard-orchestration is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TentacleOpera/switchboard. It costs 0 tokens per session (8,655 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of switchboard-mission-control-http, MIT.

A reference for controlling Switchboard, a local kanban board for coordinating coding and review work, through HTTP requests. It explains how agents and external tools can read and update the board without editing its database directly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Discovering available board endpoints, creating or updating work items, coordinating agent tasks, and integrating Mission Control or other external tools with Switchboard.
Why use it?
It gives different coding agents and team tools a shared way to manage work. Treating the board as the source of truth helps prevent updates from getting out of sync with the interface.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tentacleopera/switchboard/switchboard-orchestration
Any agent
npx skills add TentacleOpera/switchboard --skill switchboard-orchestration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TentacleOpera/switchboard

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,655 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 95% 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 $0.00000 $0.08655
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.04327
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.01731
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00865

Measured today against content hash 3d745f3152b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

switchboard-orchestration 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 today.

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

95% identical to switchboard-mission-control-http — 2 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.

.agents/skills/switchboard-orchestration/SKILL.md · 462 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 462 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Switchboard Orchestration HTTP Surface

This is the complete HTTP contract for driving Switchboard from outside the VS Code webview — whether you are a fleet coding/review agent working inside a Mission Control worktree, an external Mission Control (Cursor / Zed / Claude Code / Antigravity) driving the whole board, or a team member (a discoverable-skill agent) reading the local board.

Switchboard's LocalApiServer runs inside the VS Code extension and is the sole writer of kanban.db. You never touch the DB directly — you call these endpoints. The board is the source of truth; the UI is just one view of it.

Endpoint inventory. The hand-written list below is a subset for the calls agents most often make. The authoritative, generated inventory is GET /catalog — it lists every verb, endpoint, and prefix the server actually serves (drift-checked in CI via catalog:check), so it can never lag behind the server the way a hand-maintained list can. When you need a call this document does not cover, hit GET /catalog first; the payload contract for any call below still lives here, since the catalog carries only {path, method, prefix} and not request shapes.

Behavior vs. invocation. This skill is the invocation authority (endpoints, verbs, payload fields). For behavior contracts — how the system behaves (cards move on coding start, completion = plan-file mtime advance, plan files are write-once-at-the-end, subtask column exclusion) — consult the switchboard-contracts protocol (switchboard api GET /protocol/switchboard-contracts). Never consult that skill for invocation; never consult this skill for behavior conventions.


1. Bootstrap

Verify Switchboard is up before anything else:

switchboard api GET /health     # -> { status: 'ok', port, roots: [...] }

If switchboard api fails with server not running, Switchboard is not running — tell the user to open the workspace in VS Code with the Switchboard extension active (or run the standalone host). Do not fall back to editing kanban.db directly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 462 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. today Changed · +92 lines scan B → A 3d745f3152b0
  2. 5d ago First seen · 370 lines · 0 tokens per session scan B 0107d9c5d9f9

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switchboard-orchestration is a skill published in the GitHub repository TentacleOpera/switchboard (214 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 8,655 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to switchboard-mission-control-http, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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