orchestrator

orchestrator is a skill for Claude Code from wyattowalsh/agents. It costs 36 tokens per session (4,221 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for coordinating multiple coding agents working at the same time. It explains how to split work into independent tasks, assign them in waves or teams, and review and combine their results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide whether parallel work fits, plan agent teams or waves, assign responsibilities, and coordinate staged execution.
Why use it?
It helps prevent duplicated effort and unclear ownership when several agents contribute to one task. It also defines checkpoints for dependencies, recovery, and verification.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the agents plugin — 71 skills, 20 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to decide whether parallel work fits, plan agent teams or waves, assign responsibilities, and coordinate staged execution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wyattowalsh/agents/orchestrator
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 71 skills, 20 agents, 5 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,221 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 $0.00036 $0.04221
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.01688
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00844
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00422

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cc35862bd513, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 8 executable files (scripts/asset_toolkit/__init__.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/_shared.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/common.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/orchestrator/SKILL.md · 316 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 316 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orchestration: Subagents, Agent Teams & Parallel Execution

These rules govern ALL parallelization decisions. Apply them on every task.

Not for single-action requests, simple file edits, or sequential-only workflows.

Dispatch

$ARGUMENTS Action
(empty) Show the empty/help gallery, then apply the Classification Gate and Decomposition Gate to the current request
pattern <A-F> Show the named pattern from references/patterns.md
tier Display Tier Selection table and model guidance
recovery Show the Accounting Rule and Recovery Ladder

Canonical Vocabulary

Canonical Term Meaning
subagent A Task-tool-spawned agent running in parallel within a session
wave A batch of parallel subagents dispatched in a single message
team A TeamCreate-spawned group of teammates coordinated by a lead
teammate A member of an agent team with assigned file ownership
lead The orchestrating agent in a team; never implements directly
dispatch Send one or more subagents/teammates to execute in parallel
gate A mandatory checkpoint that must pass before proceeding
accounting rule N dispatched = N resolved; no agent silently dropped

Gating Logic

Use this gate before loading the full orchestration doctrine:

  1. If the request has exactly one action, stay in a single session and do not invoke this skill.
  2. If the work has multiple steps but they all edit the same file or depend on strict sequencing, do not force parallelism; keep the sequential constraint explicit.
  3. If decomposition is unclear, run an explore-first pass and then re-enter the gate instead of guessing the topology.
  4. If another active skill has a stricter phase order or dispatch precondition, preserve that skill's control flow and parallelize only inside its allowed boundaries.
  5. If the user explicitly requests a specific execution approach, honor it unless it conflicts with a hard safety constraint.

Read the full file on GitHub · 316 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. 1mo ago First seen · 316 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A cc35862bd513

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orchestrator is a skill published in the GitHub repository wyattowalsh/agents (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 4,221 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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