orchestrating

orchestrating is a skill for Claude Code from zircote-plugins/claude-team-orchestration. It costs 77 tokens per session (2,522 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to coordinating multiple coding agents through teams, shared tasks, messages, and dependencies. An agent is a tool-using AI worker; a team is a named group of agents led by one agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan multi-agent code reviews, dependency-based work queues, pipeline workflows, and recursive analysis of files that are too large for one context window.
Why use it?
It explains the building blocks needed to divide large jobs into parallel pieces and coordinate their results. It also notes that agent teams are experimental and disabled by default.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the swarm plugin — 10 skills, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan multi-agent code reviews, dependency-based work queues, pipeline workflows, and recursive analysis of files that are too large for one context window.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zircote-plugins/claude-team-orchestration/orchestrating
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 zircote-plugins/claude-team-orchestration --skill orchestrating
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zircote-plugins/claude-team-orchestration

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install swarm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 5 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for orchestrating

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,522 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 $0.00077 $0.02522
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01261
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00504
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00252

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3679ff8f4ddf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestrating 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 8d 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/orchestrating/SKILL.md · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Swarm Orchestration

Master multi-agent orchestration using Claude Code's agent teams and task system.

Experimental: Agent teams are disabled by default. Enable with CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS in your settings.json or environment.


Primitives

Primitive What It Is File Location
Agent A Claude instance that can use tools. You are an agent. Subagents are agents you spawn. N/A (process)
Team A named group of agents working together. One leader, multiple teammates. ~/.claude/teams/{name}/config.json
Teammate An agent that joined a team. Has a name, color, inbox. Spawned via Task with team_name + name. Listed in team config
Leader The agent that created the team. Receives teammate messages, approves plans/shutdowns. First member in config
Task A work item with subject, description, status, owner, and dependencies. ~/.claude/tasks/{team}/N.json
Inbox JSON file where an agent receives messages from teammates. ~/.claude/teams/{name}/inboxes/{agent}.json
Message A JSON object sent between agents. Can be text or structured (shutdown_request, idle_notification, etc). Stored in inbox files
Backend How teammates run. Auto-detected: in-process (same Node.js, invisible), tmux (separate panes, visible), iterm2 (split panes in iTerm2). See Spawn Backends. Auto-detected based on environment
Mode Permission mode for spawned agents. Set mode: "plan" to require plan approval before the agent acts. See Plan Approval pattern. Task parameter
Isolation Set isolation: "worktree" to give an agent an isolated git worktree copy. Cleaned up if no changes; returns worktree path/branch if changes are made. Recommended for agents making code changes. Task parameter

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

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. 8d ago First seen · 224 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 3679ff8f4ddf

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orchestrating is a skill published in the GitHub repository zircote-plugins/claude-team-orchestration (14 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 2,522 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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