Orchestrate

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve Subagents
• Tasks that involve Multi-agent orchestration

Example prompts

• “Use the orchestrate skill to coordinate multiple specialized agents in parallel. An agent skill from softspark/ai-toolkit”
• “/orchestrate”

Requirements

• Docker
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, Agent, TeamCreate, TeamDelete, SendMessage, TaskCreate, TaskList, TaskUpdate, TaskGet, TaskOutput, TaskStop

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Decompose
2. 2Spawn agents in parallel (REQUIRED)
3. 3Synthesize

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d64db2b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Bash
  • Read
  • Write
  • Edit
  • Glob
  • Grep
  • Agent
  • TeamCreate
  • TeamDelete
  • SendMessage

  …and 6 more on the same allowed-tools line.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

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

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  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

Orchestrate loads about 917 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 34 tokens; SKILL.md has 323 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~34

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

~917

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

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, Agent, TeamCreate, TeamDelete, SendMessage, TaskCreate, TaskLis

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 softspark/ai-toolkit at commit d64db2b, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© softspark). 323 words, ~917 tokens.

name

orchestrate

description

Coordinates multiple specialized agents in parallel. Triggers: orchestrate, multi-agent, parallel agents, coordinate agents.

allowed-tools

Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, Agent, TeamCreate, TeamDelete, SendMessage, TaskCreate, TaskList, TaskUpdate, TaskGet, TaskOutput, TaskStop

user-invocable

true

effort

high

argument-hint

[task]

context

fork

agent

orchestrator

model

opus

<!-- CLAUDE_CODE_ONLY_START -->

<!-- CLAUDE_CODE_ONLY_END -->

Agent(subagent_type="backend-specialist", prompt="...", ...)
Agent(subagent_type="frontend-specialist", prompt="...", ...)
Agent(subagent_type="test-engineer", prompt="...", ...)
Agent(subagent_type="security-auditor", prompt="...", ...)

## Orchestration Report

### Task
[Original task]

### Agents Invoked
| # | Agent | Sub-task | Files | Status |
|---|-------|----------|-------|--------|
| 1 | backend-specialist | API layer | src/api/ | Done |
| 2 | frontend-specialist | UI components | src/components/ | Done |
| 3 | test-engineer | Test suite | tests/ | Done |

### Key Findings
1. **[Agent]**: Finding
2. **[Agent]**: Finding

### Summary
[Synthesis]

© softspark, Apache-2.0. 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 app/skills/orchestrate of softspark/ai-toolkit.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d64db2b