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Orch Pipeline

by affaan-m in affaan-m/ECC

Shared orchestration engine behind the orch- skill family — the gated Research-Plan-TDD-Review-Commit pipeline, size classifier, agent and command map, and two human gates (plan approval, commit…

MITAuto-check passedTesting & QA

Install Orch Pipeline

skills CLI
$ npx skills add affaan-m/ECC --skill orch-pipeline -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install affaan-m/ECC orch-pipeline --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/orch-pipeline .claude/skills/orch-pipeline && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
orch-pipeline
GitHub stars
276k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
739 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
683
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Shared orchestration engine behind the orch- skill family — the gated Research-Plan-TDD-Review-Commit pipeline, size classifier, agent and command map, and two human gates (plan approval, commit…

  • Works in 2 steps: GATE 1 — after Plan. Present the… → GATE 2 — before Commit. Present the diff…
  • Tasks that involve Test-driven development
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use, The operation family, Step 0 — Classify size… and The phases, plus 5 more sections
  • Calls gh

What it does

Orch Pipeline is an agent skill from affaan-m/ECC. Shared orchestration engine behind the orch- skill family — the gated Research-Plan-TDD-Review-Commit pipeline, size classifier, agent and command map, and two human gates (plan approval, commit confirmation) that orch- operation skills delegate to. Use indirectly via orch-add-feature, orch-fix-defect, orch-change-feature, orch-refine-code, or orch-build-mvp; read directly only when adding an orch operation or tuning shared phases.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Testing & QA, covering Test-driven development. The repository describes itself as: The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Test-driven development

Example prompts

  • “/orch-pipeline”

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. GATE 1 — after Plan. Present the task_list; do not write implementation
  2. GATE 2 — before Commit. Present the diff summary and proposed messages;

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 4eb71d9. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • gh

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use gh, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Orch Pipeline loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 113 tokens; SKILL.md has 739 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~113
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from affaan-m/ECC at commit 4eb71d9, republished under its MIT licence (© affaan-m). 739 words, ~1,580 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/orch-pipeline/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
orch-pipeline
description
Shared orchestration engine behind the orch-* skill family — the gated Research-Plan-TDD-Review-Commit pipeline, size classifier, agent and command map, and two human gates (plan approval, commit confirmation) that orch-* operation skills delegate to. Use indirectly via orch-add-feature, orch-fix-defect, orch-change-feature, orch-refine-code, or orch-build-mvp; read directly only when adding an orch operation or tuning shared phases.
metadata.origin
ECC

Orchestrator Pipeline (shared engine)

The orch-* skills are thin wrappers. They do not re-implement any work — they classify the request, choose which phases of this pipeline run, and delegate each phase to an existing ECC agent or command. This file is that pipeline.

Invoke an operation skill (orch-add-feature, orch-fix-defect, …) rather than this engine directly. This file is the reference they point at.

When to Use

  • Loaded indirectly whenever an orch-* operation skill runs.
  • Read directly only when adding a new operation to the family or tuning the shared phases, gates, or agent map.

The operation family

SkillOperationTriggerFirst move
orch-add-featurefeaturecapability does not exist yetresearch + plan a new slice
orch-change-featuretweakworks, but desired behavior differsamend existing behavior and its tests
orch-fix-defectfixbroken; behavior is wrongreproduce as a failing test, then fix
orch-refine-coderefactorbehavior stays, structure improvesrestructure while keeping tests green
orch-build-mvpmvpbootstrap from a design/spec docingest doc → vertical slices

These wrappers compose existing ECC commands rather than replace them: /feature-dev, /plan, /code-review, /build-fix, /refactor-clean, and /gan-build, plus the tdd-workflow skill. The orch-* family adds the shared size classifier and the two gates on top of them, so one umbrella covers all five operations consistently.

Step 0 — Classify size (right-sizing)

Ceremony scales to blast radius. Score the request on three signals, take the highest tier any signal reaches, and state the result in one line so the user can override:

TierFiles touchedNew dependency / contractDesign ambiguityPhases that run
trivial1, a few linesnonenone — the change is obvious4 → 5 → 6
small1 file / 1 functionnoneclear once you read the code(1 light) → 4 → 5 → 6
standard2–5 filesmaybe a new internal moduleone real choice to make1 → 2 → 4 → 5 → 6
largemany / cross-cuttingnew external dep, public API, or a spec docmultiple open questions1 → 2 → (3) → 4 → 5 → 6

Phase 0 (Intake) always runs and is omitted from the mask column above. The tie-breaker: anything touching a security trigger (below) or a public API / contract is at least standard, regardless of file count.

The phases

Each phase delegates — it does not do the work inline.

  • 0. Intake — restate the request. For orch-build-mvp, read the spec/design doc and extract scope, locked decisions, and a feature list.
  • 1. Research & Reuse — per rules/common/development-workflow.md: gh search repos / gh search code, then Context7 / vendor docs, then package registries, then Exa. Prefer adopting a proven implementation over net-new code.
  • 2. Plan — delegate to the planner agent (or architect / code-architect for structural decisions). Output a task_list ordered as thin vertical slices. → GATE 1.
  • 3. Scaffold — orch-build-mvp only: stand up the first end-to-end slice.
  • 4. Implement (TDD) — drive each task through the tdd-guide agent (or the tdd-workflow skill): red → green → refactor. Honor the operation's first-move rule.
  • 5. Review — code-reviewer agent / /code-review. Add security-reviewer whenever the diff touches a security trigger (below).
  • 6. Commit — conventional commits (feat: / fix: / refactor: / …), one per logical chunk. → GATE 2.
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The two gates

This family is gated, not autonomous:

  1. GATE 1 — after Plan. Present the task_list; do not write implementation code until the user approves.
  2. GATE 2 — before Commit. Present the diff summary and proposed messages; do not commit until the user confirms.

Everything between the gates flows without stopping.

Agent / command map

PhasePrimaryFallback / escalation
Intake / understandcode-explorertrace existing paths before a tweak, fix, or refactor
Planplannerarchitect, code-architect for structural calls
Implementtdd-guide (or tdd-workflow skill)build-error-resolver / /build-fix on build breaks
Reviewcode-reviewer / /code-reviewlanguage reviewer (python-reviewer, typescript-reviewer, …)
Securitysecurity-reviewer—
MVP inner loop/gan-build "<brief>" --skip-plannerdrives gan-generator → gan-evaluator; tune --max-iterations / --pass-threshold

Match the language reviewer to the repo (see the repo's own CLAUDE.md).

Security-review trigger

Pull in security-reviewer when the diff touches any of: authentication or authorization, user-input handling, database queries, file-system paths, external API calls, cryptography, or secrets / credentials. (Per rules/common/security.md.)

Handoff artifacts

The pipeline carries no hidden state — the planning docs are the handoff:

  • task_list (from Plan) drives the Implement loop.
  • Larger work may also emit PRD / architecture / system_design under the repo's docs/ per rules/common/development-workflow.md.
  • Review findings (CRITICAL / HIGH) must be resolved before Gate 2.

Verification

  • size tier was stated and matched the work
  • Gate 1 (plan) and Gate 2 (commit) were both honored
  • security-reviewer ran iff a security trigger was touched
  • commits are conventional and scoped to one logical change
  • new / changed behavior has tests; coverage ≥ 80% per rules/common/testing.md

© affaan-m, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/orch-pipeline of affaan-m/ECC.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 4eb71d9

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in affaan-m/ECC, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Orch Pipeline

What does Orch Pipeline do?

Shared orchestration engine behind the orch- skill family — the gated Research-Plan-TDD-Review-Commit pipeline, size classifier, agent and command map, and two human gates (plan approval, commit…. Orch Pipeline is an agent skill from affaan-m/ECC. Shared orchestration engine behind the orch- skill family — the gated Research-Plan-TDD-Review-Commit pipeline, size classifier, agent and command map, and two human gates (plan approval, commit confirmation) that orch- operation skills delegate to.

When should I use Orch Pipeline?

Orch Pipeline fits situations like: tasks that involve Test-driven development.

How do I install Orch Pipeline in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add affaan-m/ECC --skill orch-pipeline -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/orch-pipeline in affaan-m/ECC) into .claude/skills/orch-pipeline in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Orch Pipeline in Codex?

Run `npx skills add affaan-m/ECC --skill orch-pipeline -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/orch-pipeline in affaan-m/ECC) into .agents/skills/orch-pipeline in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Orch Pipeline in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add affaan-m/ECC --skill orch-pipeline -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/orch-pipeline, .gemini/skills/orch-pipeline, .github/skills/orch-pipeline and .opencode/skills/orch-pipeline in your project.

What does Orch Pipeline need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Orch Pipeline needs the command-line tools its instructions call (gh).

Does Orch Pipeline access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use gh, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Orch Pipeline safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Orch Pipeline use?

Orch Pipeline is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Orch Pipeline use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Orch Pipeline?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Orch Pipeline: TDD (pietheinstrengholt/rssmonster, 564 stars), TDD Workflow (hellangleZ/burn-in-cceverywhere-ralph, 112 stars), TDD (sanity-io/sanity, 6.4k stars) and Test Driven Development (farm-fe/farm, 5.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Orch Pipeline?

affaan-m (a GitHub user) maintains it in affaan-m/ECC, which has 276,111 GitHub stars. The repository holds 683 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: affaan-m/ECC on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.