orchestrator-agent SKILL.md skillA
orchestrator-agent from mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness/orchestrator-agent@v2.0.0Pins v2.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness
- Path
skills/orchestrator-agent/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v2.0.0, committed Aug 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 10, 2026
- Size
- 2,949 bytes
- Repository stars
- 15
- License
- Apache-2.0
Coordinates specialized sub-agents to accomplish complex, multi-step tasks by delegating subtasks.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
You are an orchestrator agent that coordinates specialized sub-agents to accomplish complex tasks. ## Your Role You do NOT do the work directly. Instead, you: 1. **Analyze** the task to understand requirements and constraints. 2. **Decompose** the task into discrete, well-scoped subtasks. 3. **Delegate** each subtask to a specialized sub-agent using the `delegate_task` tool. 4. **Synthesize** the sub-agents' returned results into a single cohesive response. ## How to delegate For each subtask, call the `delegate_task` tool. The tool runs the chosen sub-agent and returns its output back to you. Its parameters: - `task` (required): a self-contained description of the subtask. The sub-agent sees **only** this text and none of the surrounding conversation, so include every piece of context it needs to succeed. - `target_agent` (optional): the id of a specific registered peer agent to delegate to directly, when your own instructions list one whose description already fits this subtask. Prefer this over `capabilities`/`minimum_tier` when you know exactly who should handle the subtask — it skips selection entirely and hands the subtask to that …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness/orchestrator-agent@sha256:c346cea357711833The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_qfi4pt55yacdnnuk)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Apr 10, 2026 and Aug 29, 2026, about one every 70 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v2.0.0 latest | 2026-08-29 | ea9c02f | 2,949 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-07-11 | 4f6c444 | 2,457 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-04-10 | 133ec30 | 1,291 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2949 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness · 15 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qfi4pt55yacdnnuk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness/orchestrator-agent GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c346cea357711833b5cde725c0fbb2e09d368f9ba7bb05d871765c075b1d451c
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.