minion-orchestrator

minion-orchestrator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from timurgaleev/memex. It costs 69 tokens per session (2,154 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for managing background work through either a durable job queue or the agent's own helper agents. The durable queue stores jobs in PostgreSQL, a database system, so work can survive restarts and be inspected later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to submit, monitor, cancel, and retry server jobs, or to split reasoning work among helper agents.
Why use it?
It helps when work is long-running, must continue after a restart, needs progress tracking, or may need cancellation and retry.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to submit, monitor, cancel, and retry server jobs, or to split reasoning work among helper agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/timurgaleev/memex/minion-orchestrator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add timurgaleev/memex --skill minion-orchestrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timurgaleev/memex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,154 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 238
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 239
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00069 $0.02154
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01077
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00431
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00215

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2361fd82500e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

minion-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.

deploy/skills/minion-orchestrator/SKILL.md · 253 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 253 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Minion Orchestrator

Contract

"Minions" here means durable background work. memex ships a Postgres-native durable job queue for observable server-side work; agent-side reasoning fan-out uses the agent harness's own subagents (e.g. the Claude Code Task tool). This single skill handles both lanes:

  • Deterministic server jobs (jobs_submit / memex jobs from the shell)
  • LLM subagent work (the agent's own subagent runtime)

When to route to the durable queue: work that must survive restarts, be observable across sessions, or run without the agent staying attached. The default policy is pain-triggered: use the agent's native subagents first, reach for durable jobs when a specific pain signal fires (restart loss, long runtime, needs later inspection).

Guarantees (durable lane):

  • Jobs survive server restart (Postgres-backed)
  • Every job has structured progress and per-job logs
  • Jobs can be cancelled at any time, and retried after failure
  • Progress is queryable without loading the full job record

Not guaranteed: mid-flight steering, pause/resume. The queue is cancel-and-resubmit — if a job's direction is wrong, jobs_cancel it and submit a corrected one.

Route the Request: Server Job vs Subagent

Condition Action
User asks for deterministic command/script run Server job (shell lane, operator CLI)
User asks for reindex / embed backfill / maintenance sweep Server job (jobs_submit, or the corresponding memex CLI command)
User asks for research/reasoning/iterative agent work Agent-side subagent (harness Task tool)
User asks to cancel/retry running work jobs_cancel / retry_job
Single simple operation under ~30s Consider inline execution first
Needs restart durability/observability Submit as a durable job
Parallel work (2+ streams) Agent-side subagent fan-out; each child reads/writes the brain over MCP

If intent is ambiguous, ask one clarification: "Do you want a deterministic server job, or agent-side LLM work?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 253 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. 9d ago First seen · 253 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 2361fd82500e

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minion-orchestrator is a skill published in the GitHub repository timurgaleev/memex (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 2,154 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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