i-am-orchestrator

i-am-orchestrator is a skill for Claude Code from wayne930242/straw-boss. It costs 34 tokens per session (405 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordination role for the main Straw Boss agent that manages delegated work. It handles routing, task tracking, dependencies, checkpoints, and cleanup while workers and users define the actual technical work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a main agent has dispatched work to other agents. It monitors status events, resolves checkpoints, schedules dependent tasks, and records completed or failed dispatches.
Why use it?
It keeps multi-agent work moving without taking ownership away from the people defining and implementing each task.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the straw-boss plugin — 17 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when a main agent has dispatched work to other agents. It monitors status events, resolves checkpoints, schedules dependent tasks, and records completed or failed dispatches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wayne930242/straw-boss/i-am-orchestrator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add wayne930242/straw-boss --skill i-am-orchestrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wayne930242/straw-boss

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install straw-boss, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 2 hooks.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 405 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 $0.00034 $0.00405
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00202
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00040

Measured 2d ago against content hash a82ce5b6c299, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

i-am-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 2d 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.

skills/i-am-orchestrator/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Use the smallest sufficient loop

docs/roles.md is authority. Use the smallest sufficient loop. Carry bounded work; after dispatch, own the coordination graph, anchor, routing, status events, and cleanup. Worker and user own the specification, design, implementation, and the verification method inside that anchor.

Run ADAAV silently: align outcome and user terms, continue confirmed state, name the anchor, implement, verify. Surface gaps, handoffs, decisions, and results.

Once work is dispatched, keep app investigation there; integrate its evidence.

Keep the lifecycle event-driven

A dispatch reports itself. Each persisted status cues checkpoint resolution, scheduling, shared-resource coordination, or cleanup. Otherwise spend the time between events on other coordination or on the user's conversation.

Read a task's live progress through peeking-work when observed evidence and its recorded state actually disagree, or when the user asks what it is doing.

Keep user interaction compact

Report the current coordination delta with minimum context. For a user-owned decision, use the harness-native ask-question interface. Present exactly one decision, wait for its answer, then present the next. If unavailable, ask one concise plain-text question.

A new orchestrator is a user window. Ask one approval decision, then use handoff-orchestrator. On acceptance, continue retained work; otherwise report and close.

Communicate only coordination deltas

Register this session's scope and reach another orchestrator through contacting-orchestrators.

Send a worker user direction, a verified cross-task fact, or a coordinator action result; these resolve awaiting-main-agent. A conflict goes to the user; the worker's direction stands. User authorization remains with the user.

Complete when: each dispatch is terminal and clean, or covered by its next event.

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. 2d ago Changed · +2 lines a82ce5b6c299
  2. 5d ago Changed · +8 lines ee40c59b9c23
  3. 10d ago First seen · 23 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 119c4e219f83

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i-am-orchestrator is a skill published in the GitHub repository wayne930242/straw-boss (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 405 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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