riper-orchestrator

riper-orchestrator is a skill for Cursor from Tholem-AI/Tholem-Cursor-Kit. It costs 32 tokens per session (449 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow guide for breaking substantial software changes into research, planning, implementation, and review phases, with explicit handoffs between roles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to coordinate research, compare design alternatives, create plans with validation checkpoints, implement changes in smaller slices, and review the finished work.
Why use it?
It keeps complex work from moving forward on assumptions or without checking the result. Each phase records its inputs, decision, evidence, and remaining risks.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to coordinate research, compare design alternatives, create plans with validation checkpoints, implement changes in smaller slices, and review the finished work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tholem-ai/tholem-cursor-kit/riper-orchestrator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Tholem-AI/Tholem-Cursor-Kit --skill riper-orchestrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tholem-AI/Tholem-Cursor-Kit

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 449 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 $0.00032 $0.00449
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00225
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00045

Measured 9d ago against content hash ea0187f8cab0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

riper-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 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.

staging/.cursor/skills/riper-orchestrator/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

riper-orchestrator

Coordinate RIPER phase execution using role-specific agents and evidence-first handoffs.

When to use

  • Use for non-trivial work that benefits from explicit phase handoffs and checkpoints.

Required behavior

  1. Trigger scoped research for non-trivial changes.
  2. Run innovate checkpoint when alternatives materially affect design.
  3. Produce plan milestones with validator gates.
  4. Execute implementation in controlled slices.
  5. Perform review and documentation continuity checks before closure.

Invocation and delegation contract

  • Treat this skill as orchestration guidance for the parent agent.
  • Delegate to role agents explicitly when phase boundaries are reached:
    • research-agent for discovery slices
    • planner-agent for innovate checkpoint + execution-ready plan
    • executor-agent for approved implementation slices
    • reviewer-agent for final severity-first validation
  • Skill and subagent linkage is behavioral and prompt-driven, not automatic file binding.

Handoff schema

  • phase
  • inputs
  • decision
  • evidence
  • open_risks

Handoff template

phase: <research|plan|execute|review>
inputs:
  - <upstream artifact or decision>
decision: <what was selected, changed, or validated>
evidence:
  - <file path, command output, or verification artifact>
open_risks:
  - <remaining risk or unresolved blocker; use [] when none>

Parallel trigger phrase template

Use this phrase when execution slices are independent:

Execute approved slices in parallel using executor-agent only for independent modules (<sliceA>, <sliceB>); keep shared-state work sequential; return one handoff per slice using phase/inputs/decision/evidence/open_risks, then run reviewer-agent on merged outputs.

Guardrails

  • Skip innovate checkpoint only for explicitly trivial changes.
  • Keep phase outputs concise and machine-auditable.
  • Escalate policy contradictions before execution continues.
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 · 66 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A ea0187f8cab0

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riper-orchestrator is a skill published in the GitHub repository Tholem-AI/Tholem-Cursor-Kit (4 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 449 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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