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.
npx agentmods add skills/vanillagreencom/kendex/orchnpx skills add vanillagreencom/kendex --skill orchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanillagreencom/kendexWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00023 | $0.05065 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00012 | $0.02533 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.01013 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00507 |
Grade A, and why
orch 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Orchestration
Problem with this skill? Run
kendex report— it files to the owning repo automatically. Do not hand-file.
Load github and worktree before anything else; a Linear work item also needs linear. The dev and reviewer skills call orch scripts.
MODE SWITCH: you are the orchestrator. Delegate every implementation, review, and QA task to a specialist sub-agent. Never edit code unless the user explicitly asks.
The Cycle
Get the issue → dev implements → review → dev fixes blockers → re-review → push PR → review gate → shepherd to merge.
- Bounded loops. A fix round addresses blockers only; re-review narrows to the fix diff and the domains it touched; two consecutive rounds with no new blocker end the review.
- No edge-case churn. A finding that cannot affect real usage is declined with a one-line reason — not fixed, not filed.
- Review must converge, by references/finding-disposition.md:
- Every finding runs its § Decision flow, Step 0 first, and ends as one of the reply forms that section sets out.
- A defect class recurring across rounds → its § Recurrence, never patched per comment, for a rule restated in prose or a table as much as for code.
- A defect in code the issue's Done-when does not need, or a PR past its size tripwire → a cut, not a fix round. A round whose only findings are scope or wording asks ends the review: reply, resolve, push nothing, merge through the gate. Never
--admin.
- Ask the user only about product or experience. Scope expansion beyond the issue and revisiting a recorded decision always ask, whatever
ORCH_DECISION_MODEsays. Merge asks unlessORCH_MERGE_AUTONOMY=auto, which merges without asking only when every merge gate is green. - Acceptance is artifact-based. A round closes on a validated on-disk artifact plus git/tracker state, never on a return message.
What ships with it
60 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- DEVELOPMENT.md 12 KB
- kendex.settings.toml.example 4.3 KB
- README.md 6.1 KB
- references/artifact-checks.md 2.4 KB
- references/codex-runtime.md 5.4 KB
- references/finding-disposition.md 12 KB
- references/gates.md 3.8 KB
- references/pi-runtime.md 2.4 KB
- schemas/dev-return.md 5.9 KB
- schemas/dev-round.md 5.7 KB
- schemas/workflow-state.md 14 KB
- scripts/approval-wait 53 KB
- scripts/base-freshness 2.7 KB
- scripts/ci-wait 28 KB
- scripts/container-close 10 KB
- scripts/dev-artifact-check 34 KB
- scripts/dev-return-write 20 KB
- scripts/dev-round-write 19 KB
- scripts/git-context 2.5 KB
- scripts/lanes 27 KB
- scripts/lib/branch-growth.sh 2.2 KB runs code
- scripts/lib/gh-auth.sh 1.3 KB runs code
- scripts/lib/kendex-env.sh 8.8 KB runs code
- scripts/lib/lane-claims.sh 7.2 KB runs code
- scripts/lib/lane-context.sh 16 KB runs code
- scripts/lib/merge-queue-events.sh 575 B runs code
- scripts/lib/merge-queue-state.sh 5.9 KB runs code
- scripts/lib/merge-queue-supervisor.sh 8.1 KB runs code
- scripts/lib/pr-watch-pass.sh 8.2 KB runs code
- scripts/lib/review-artifact-gates.sh 20 KB runs code
- scripts/lib/review-artifact-measurement.sh 6.1 KB runs code
- scripts/lib/review-threads.sh 4.2 KB runs code
- scripts/merge-queue-watch 36 KB
- scripts/open-terminal 35 KB
- scripts/orch-env 1.8 KB
- scripts/oversee-watch 34 KB
- scripts/pr-view-json 845 B
- scripts/queue-wait 48 KB
- scripts/reconcile-work-items 7.9 KB
- scripts/resolve-base-branch 1.7 KB
- scripts/review-artifact-check 18 KB
- scripts/spawn-adapter 7.7 KB
- scripts/sync-base 3.2 KB
- scripts/workflow-state 29 KB
- scripts/worktree-claim 1.7 KB
- scripts/worktree-push 19 KB
- tests/acceptance-verdicts.test.sh 4.4 KB runs code
- tests/approval_wait_cli.sh 13 KB runs code
- tests/approval_wait.sh 76 KB runs code
- tests/backtick-command-lint.test.sh 1.2 KB runs code
- tests/base-freshness.sh 6.2 KB runs code
- tests/capped-items-escalated-lint.test.sh 4.8 KB runs code
- tests/ci_wait_args.sh 6.4 KB runs code
- tests/ci_wait.sh 43 KB runs code
- tests/codex_agent_type_guidance.sh 6.6 KB runs code
- tests/container_close.sh 19 KB runs code
- tests/decider-issue-lookup-lint.test.sh 1020 B runs code
- tests/dev_artifact_check.sh 53 KB runs code
- tests/dev_return_write.sh 25 KB runs code
- tests/dev_round_write.sh 40 KB runs code
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.
- today Changed · -21 lines scan C → A 7a24bb71babb
- 3d ago First seen · 255 lines · 23 tokens per session scan C 44ef41954028
orch is a skill published in the GitHub repository vanillagreencom/kendex (65 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 5,065 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.
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