Polyphony

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve Multi-agent orchestration
• Tasks that involve Git worktrees
• Tasks that involve Git workflow

Example prompts

• “/polyphony”

Requirements

• Docker

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Work Source — Tasks from GitHub Issues (gh api) or local SQLite queue
2. 2Orchestrator — Supervisor loop: discover -> claim -> route -> provision -> run -> verify -> land
3. 3Router — Pure function: Task x Policy -> RunSpec (5-dimension complexity scoring)
4. 4Identity Broker — Resolves named credentials to volume mounts + env overlays
5. 5Workspace Manager — Per-task git clone --reference, branch checkout, cleanup
6. 6Worker Runtime — Docker container create/start/stop/logs lifecycle

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 72a456e. 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
  • git

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

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use gh and git, 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

Polyphony loads about 980 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 39 tokens; SKILL.md has 293 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~39

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~980

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

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 alinaqi/maggy at commit 72a456e, republished under its MIT licence (© alinaqi). 293 words, ~980 tokens.

name

polyphony

description

Multi-agent orchestration with container-isolated workspaces — each agent session runs in its own Docker container with independent git branches

when-to-use

Always loaded when container isolation is available (Docker/OrbStack installed). Default for /spawn-team.

user-invocable

false

effort

high

DISCOVERED -> CLAIMED -> ROUTED -> PROVISIONED -> RUNNING -> VERIFYING -> LANDED
                                                     |           |
                                                     v           v
                                                   FAILED --> BLOCKED
                                                     |
                                                     v
                                                   CLAIMED (retry)

command -v docker &>/dev/null || command -v orbctl &>/dev/null

rules:
  - match: { task_type: docs, risk: low }
    agent: kimi
  - match: { task_type: bugfix }
    agent: codex
  - match: { risk: high }
    agent: claude
default:
  agent: claude
  fallback: [codex, kimi]

polyphony init                    # Create ~/.polyphony/ with config templates
polyphony spawn "Fix auth bug"    # Create and route a task
polyphony status                  # Show task states
polyphony cleanup                 # Remove completed workspaces

© alinaqi, 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/polyphony of alinaqi/maggy.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 72a456e