Claude Code Agent Development
anthropics/claude-plugins-official
Explains how to write agents for Claude Code plugins: the markdown file with YAML frontmatter, trigger descriptions, model and color settings, and system prompt design.
Implement an approved plan as an orchestrator — sub-agents write each task, parallel sub-agents review it, you verify and commit.
$ npx skills add jackfranklin/dotfiles --skill implement-orchestrate -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install jackfranklin/dotfiles implement-orchestrate --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jackfranklin/dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude/skills/implement-orchestrate .claude/skills/implement-orchestrate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "implement-orchestrate" agent skill from https://github.com/jackfranklin/dotfiles/tree/master/claude/skills/implement-orchestrate into .claude/skills/implement-orchestrate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "implement-orchestrate", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/jackfranklin/dotfiles/tree/master/claude/skills/implement-orchestrateType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add jackfranklin/dotfiles --skill implement-orchestrate -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install jackfranklin/dotfiles implement-orchestrate --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jackfranklin/dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude/skills/implement-orchestrate .agents/skills/implement-orchestrate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "implement-orchestrate" agent skill from https://github.com/jackfranklin/dotfiles/tree/master/claude/skills/implement-orchestrate into .agents/skills/implement-orchestrate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "implement-orchestrate", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jackfranklin/dotfiles --skill implement-orchestrate -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install jackfranklin/dotfiles implement-orchestrate --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jackfranklin/dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude/skills/implement-orchestrate .cursor/skills/implement-orchestrate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "implement-orchestrate" agent skill from https://github.com/jackfranklin/dotfiles/tree/master/claude/skills/implement-orchestrate into .cursor/skills/implement-orchestrate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "implement-orchestrate", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/jackfranklin/dotfiles.git --path claude/skills/implement-orchestrate--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add jackfranklin/dotfiles --skill implement-orchestrate -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install jackfranklin/dotfiles implement-orchestrate --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jackfranklin/dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude/skills/implement-orchestrate .gemini/skills/implement-orchestrate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "implement-orchestrate" agent skill from https://github.com/jackfranklin/dotfiles/tree/master/claude/skills/implement-orchestrate into .gemini/skills/implement-orchestrate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "implement-orchestrate", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install jackfranklin/dotfiles implement-orchestrateInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add jackfranklin/dotfiles --skill implement-orchestrate -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jackfranklin/dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude/skills/implement-orchestrate .github/skills/implement-orchestrate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "implement-orchestrate" agent skill from https://github.com/jackfranklin/dotfiles/tree/master/claude/skills/implement-orchestrate into .github/skills/implement-orchestrate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "implement-orchestrate", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jackfranklin/dotfiles --skill implement-orchestrate -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install jackfranklin/dotfiles implement-orchestrate --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jackfranklin/dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude/skills/implement-orchestrate .opencode/skills/implement-orchestrate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "implement-orchestrate" agent skill from https://github.com/jackfranklin/dotfiles/tree/master/claude/skills/implement-orchestrate into .opencode/skills/implement-orchestrate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "implement-orchestrate", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
implement-orchestrateImplement an approved plan as an orchestrator — sub-agents write each task, parallel sub-agents review it, you verify and commit.
Implement Orchestrate is an agent skill from jackfranklin/dotfiles. Implement an approved plan as an orchestrator — sub-agents write each task, parallel sub-agents review it, you verify and commit.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 Agent Workflows, covering Subagents. The repository describes itself as: My dotfiles for my dev environment, compromising of tmux, vim, zsh and git. The licence is MIT.
5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bfc6291. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
gitFrom the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Implement Orchestrate loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 38 tokens; SKILL.md has 749 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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.
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.
The full file from jackfranklin/dotfiles at commit bfc6291, republished under its MIT licence (© jackfranklin). 749 words, ~1,265 tokens.
.claude/skills/implement-orchestrate/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).Read ~/.claude/skills/implement-plan/SKILL.md first. Every rule and workflow step in it applies unchanged; it is the single source of truth for scope, branching, testing, simplicity, commits, PRs, and the final report. This skill changes only who does the work: you are the orchestrator, sub-agents are the hands and the fresh eyes.
Invoking this skill is the user's explicit authorization to spawn sub-agents.
isolation: "worktree" and merge their results yourself, one task at a time.diff-reviewer agent applies this rule when it labels findings; you apply it again in triage.BLOCKED: <question>, answer it only if the plan or repository evidence settles it; otherwise apply implement-plan rule 2 and ask the user.Do implement-plan steps 1–2 yourself. Then split the plan into its tasks and, for each, record: files it touches, verification commands, and whether it is independent of the others.
Done when every plan task has a file set and verification command, and you are on a clean implementation branch.
Spawn an implementer sub-agent (general-purpose). Its brief contains:
BLOCKED: <question> rather than asking the user, and not to touch Git;AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md);Keep its agent ID; you will resume it for fixes.
Done when the implementer has returned and you have run the task's verification commands yourself and they pass, and the diff contains only files within the task's scope. If not, resume the implementer with the concrete failure.
Run git add -N . so new files appear in the diff, then write it with git diff > <scratchpad>/task-<n>.diff (reviewers have no shell). Size the review from the diff, not the plan's description of it:
| Reviewers | When | Lenses per reviewer |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Small and low-risk: one or two files, a direct change following an existing pattern | all three |
| 2 | Moderate: several files, new logic, or new tests of non-trivial behavior | conformance + correctness / maintainability |
| 3 | Large or risky: touches concurrency, persistence, security, public interfaces, or error handling across a boundary | one each |
When in doubt between two rows, take the larger. Spawn the reviewers as diff-reviewer sub-agents in a single message. Each brief contains the task text verbatim, the plan's non-goals, the diff file's absolute path, and its lenses. On a re-review, write a fresh diff file first.
Done when every reviewer has returned, and you have recorded the reviewer count with a one-line reason.
Verify every fix-now finding against the code yourself; reviewers are wrong sometimes. Sort each into fix, defer (report it), or reject (record one line of reasoning). Resume the implementer with the fix list only. Re-verify (step 2's criterion), then re-review only if the fixes were non-trivial, within rule 5's limit.
Commit the task per implement-plan step 5.
Done when the task is committed and every finding is accounted for as fixed, deferred, or rejected.
Do implement-plan steps 6–7. Add to the report:
© jackfranklin, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Just SKILL.md in claude/skills/implement-orchestrate of jackfranklin/dotfiles.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit bfc6291
Implement Orchestrate next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Implement Orchestrate this skilljackfranklin/dotfiles | 255 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Claude Code Agent Developmentanthropics/claude-plugins-official | 38k | 7 repos | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Subagent Driven DevelopmentAsvarox/allkaraoke | 261 | 38 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Dispatching Parallel Agentsultralisp/ultralisp | 258 | 41 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Reflect on Session Learningscursor/plugins | 11k | 5 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Paseo Advisor Second Opiniongetpaseo/paseo | 20k | 1 repos | ~756 | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence |
anthropics/claude-plugins-official
Explains how to write agents for Claude Code plugins: the markdown file with YAML frontmatter, trigger descriptions, model and color settings, and system prompt design.
Asvarox/allkaraoke
A skill your agent uses when executing implementation plans with independent tasks in the current session
ultralisp/ultralisp
A skill your agent uses when facing 2+ independent tasks that can be worked on without shared state or sequential dependencies
cursor/plugins
Starts three parallel reviewer subagents over the current conversation transcript, then turns their findings into concrete edits to existing skills.
getpaseo/paseo
Launches one separate agent through Paseo to give a second opinion on the current task, with a self-contained briefing and no permission to edit files.
rebelytics/one-skill-to-rule-them-all
Monitors task execution for skill improvement opportunities.
jackfranklin/dotfiles
Perform a thorough, read-only review of one GitHub pull request.
jackfranklin/dotfiles
Capture an Architecture Decision Record (ADR) for a significant decision made in the current project.
jackfranklin/dotfiles
Manage Jack's personal technical reference library at ~/git/references.
jackfranklin/dotfiles
Log items to come back to later — bugs found mid-task, feature ideas, project feedback — as GitHub Issues.
jackfranklin/dotfiles
Define, review, and audit a project's domain vocabulary across code and documentation.
jackfranklin/dotfiles
A skill your agent uses when you need to resolve an in-progress git merge/rebase conflict.
Categories
Implement an approved plan as an orchestrator — sub-agents write each task, parallel sub-agents review it, you verify and commit. Implement Orchestrate is an agent skill from jackfranklin/dotfiles. Implement an approved plan as an orchestrator — sub-agents write each task, parallel sub-agents review it, you verify and commit.
Implement Orchestrate fits situations like: tasks that involve Subagents.
Run `npx skills add jackfranklin/dotfiles --skill implement-orchestrate -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (claude/skills/implement-orchestrate in jackfranklin/dotfiles) into .claude/skills/implement-orchestrate in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add jackfranklin/dotfiles --skill implement-orchestrate -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (claude/skills/implement-orchestrate in jackfranklin/dotfiles) into .agents/skills/implement-orchestrate in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add jackfranklin/dotfiles --skill implement-orchestrate -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/implement-orchestrate, .gemini/skills/implement-orchestrate, .github/skills/implement-orchestrate and .opencode/skills/implement-orchestrate in your project.
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Implement Orchestrate needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git).
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
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.
Implement Orchestrate is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Implement Orchestrate: Claude Code Agent Development (anthropics/claude-plugins-official, 38k stars), Subagent Driven Development (Asvarox/allkaraoke, 261 stars), Dispatching Parallel Agents (ultralisp/ultralisp, 258 stars) and Reflect on Session Learnings (cursor/plugins, 11k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
jackfranklin (a GitHub user) maintains it in jackfranklin/dotfiles, which has 255 GitHub stars. The repository holds 20 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.
Source: jackfranklin/dotfiles on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.