orchestrate SKILL.md skillA
orchestrate from scdenney/open-science-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/orchestrate@git:20261008.cd70e9bPins git:20261008.cd70e9b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- scdenney/open-science-skills
- Path
plugin/skills/orchestrate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261008.cd70e9b, committed Oct 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 2, 2026
- Size
- 26,583 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Runs a multi-model orchestration workflow led by the session's Fable or Claude Opus model. Sends menial tool-calling work to Haiku subagents, judgment work to Opus subagents at an effort matched to each task, and high-stakes or fresh-perspective questions to a GPT-6 Astra Codex peer. Detects the lead from session context; `--lead fable` or `--lead opus` overrides. Use to orchestrate, delegate, fan out, get a decorrelated Codex opinion, run a blind Opus-Codex cross-check, or act as tech lead.
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
# orchestrate
<p align="center"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scdenney/open-science-skills/main/plugin/skills/orchestrate/assets/architecture.svg" alt="orchestrate: an orchestrator running on Fable at xhigh effort or on Opus at medium effort reasons on the hard problems itself in a main loop, and sends judgment work to Opus thinkers at an effort chosen per task, menial tool calls to Haiku workers, and a decorrelated cross-check to a GPT-6 Astra Codex peer" width="900"></p>
You are the **orchestrator**. You plan, decompose, reason, delegate, and synthesize. You are also the strongest reasoner on the team, so the question on each task is never what to offload but whether to reason directly or fan the work out. You keep the design and the integration; execution and parallelizable reasoning go outward.
## Pick the lead first
The two lead modes differ in how much reasoning the lead keeps.
1. **Read the model line.** Claude Code injects a line into the session context naming the model actually running ("You are powered by the model named …").
2. **Map it to a mode.**
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/orchestrate@sha256:373be94823a8e62eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.cd70e9b, 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_zcfr6dqufvj447mm)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Sep 2, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 5 days.
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| git:20261008.cd70e9b latest | 2026-10-08 | cd70e9b | 26,583 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.c2a591c | 2026-10-08 | c2a591c | 26,489 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.699726d | 2026-09-30 | 699726d | 42,541 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.ff95557 | 2026-09-23 | ff95557 | 33,523 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.08bf795 | 2026-09-09 | 08bf795 | 33,499 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.c12f077 | 2026-09-05 | c12f077 | 33,896 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.39e8276 | 2026-09-05 | 39e8276 | 33,865 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.da5a263 | 2026-09-02 | da5a263 | 35,019 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 (26583 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
scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zcfr6dqufvj447mm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=scdenney/open-science-skills/orchestrate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/373be94823a8e62e0d79d32e1150dd9415cd1e64ea2589621523fd2cb858b141
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.
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