agentorchestr 0.4.4

Agent orchestrator for terminal-based coding agents — discovers installed CLIs, runs them in parallel, ships giant projects in hours

agentorchestr

A production-grade orchestrator for terminal-based coding agents. agentorchestr supervises and coordinates installed CLI agents (Claude Code, Kiro, OpenClaude, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini CLI, Aider, Goose…) so they can work in parallel on a single goal — using small and large agents together to ship giant projects in hours, without locking you into a proprietary stack.

• Single-window tmux layout: lead at the top, workers tile below.
• MCP bridge: the lead agent calls spawn_worker, verify, web_research, etc. through a standard MCP/SSE endpoint.
• Three-tier memory (global / per-project / per-session) backed by markdown + SQLite-FTS5, with a 24 h cache for web research.
• Cross-terminal agent discovery via mDNS — the lead can dispatch to agents you opened in other terminals.
• Skill marketplace — git-clone-able, optionally signed bundles that auto-attach to matching tasks.
• Sub-second LLM router across hosted free tiers (Anthropic, Cerebras, Groq, Gemini, OpenRouter) with prompt caching enabled by default.
• First-run wizard: detects every agent on your system, asks you to pick a lead and workers, or runs in automatic mode that decides for you based on project complexity.

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Install

pipx install agentorchestr           # once published
# or, from source:
git clone https://github.com/IAZENT/ORCH && cd ORCH
python3 -m venv .env && source .env/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Configure at least one LLM key:

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=...   # paid; 90 % off cached prefix
export CEREBRAS_API_KEY=...    # 1 M tok/day free, ~2100 tok/s
export GROQ_API_KEY=...        # 30 RPM free, ~315 tok/s
export GEMINI_API_KEY=...      # 1500 req/day free, 1 M context
export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=...  # 28+ free models

Verify your setup:

orch --detect

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Quickstart

In any project you want ORCH to know about:

orch --init                              # scaffold .orch/ for this project
orch --interactive                       # paste a multi-line goal, pick agents
# or:
orch --goal "Add JWT auth to /api/users"
orch --goal-file design-doc.md           # for long goals

ORCH attaches you to the supervisor's tmux session automatically. Use Ctrl-B D to detach without killing it. To reconnect later:

tmux attach -t orch-<session_id>
orch --list-sessions
orch --resume <session_id>

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Filesystem layout

ORCH follows the XDG Base Directory spec.

Scope	Path	Holds
Global state	$XDG_DATA_HOME/orch/ (default ~/.local/share/orch/)	state.db, installed skills/, cross-project memory/
Global config	$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/orch/ (default ~/.config/orch/)	global hooks / overrides
Per-project	<project>/.orch/	PROJECT.md, CONVENTIONS.md, memory/, hooks.json
Per-session	/tmp/orch-<sid>/	ephemeral prompt + progress log

Existing installations with ~/.orch/ keep using it — ORCH never silently moves your data.

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Per-project context

orch --init creates <project>/.orch/PROJECT.md and CONVENTIONS.md. They are auto-loaded into the cacheable preamble of every supervisor turn, so each byte you write here pays back across every task in that project. Keep them short.

.orch/
├── PROJECT.md       # stack, architecture, verify commands
├── CONVENTIONS.md   # style, naming, test rules
├── memory/
│   ├── topics/      # learned topic notes (auto-indexed)
│   ├── episodes/    # per-session journals
│   └── research/    # cached web-research payloads
├── skills/          # project-pinned skills (override globals)
└── hooks.json       # lifecycle hook commands

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Skills

Skills are git-clone-able bundles (instructions + optional MCP servers

• optional ed25519 signature) that auto-inject when their triggers match a task.

orch --skill-add github.com/<author>/<skill-name>
orch --skill-list
orch --skill-verify <skill-name>
orch --skill-remove <skill-name>
orch --goal "..." --require-signed-skills   # production

A skill is just a directory:

~/.local/share/orch/skills/<skill-name>/
├── skill.toml         # name, version, triggers (keywords + file_globs)
├── skill.md           # markdown injected into matching workers' prompts
├── signature.sig      # optional ed25519 signature
└── signing-key.pub    # optional public key

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Web research

The lead can ground itself in current docs without leaving its tool surface:

web_research("FastAPI 0.115 dependency injection")

Results land in <project>/.orch/memory/research/*.md, are git-trackable, indexed by FTS5, and cached for 24 h — so a follow-up implementer worker inherits the same facts at zero token cost.

For deeper synthesis, delegate to a worker:

spawn_worker(perspective="researcher",
             task="find the latest PyJWT auth pattern")

Optional dep: pip install ddgs. Without it, web_research returns "no results" but never crashes.

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Cross-terminal worker pool

Wrap any CLI agent so ORCH can find and drive it from other terminals:

# Terminal 1
$ orch-shim claude

# Terminal 2
$ orch-shim kiro chat

# Terminal 3
$ orch --goal "build the auth module"

The supervisor's MCP surface gains discover_running_agents(), send_to_external_agent(), read_from_external_agent(). Three discovery layers run in order:

1. mDNS via _orch-agent._tcp.local. (when zeroconf is installed)
2. Filesystem cards under $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/orch-agents/
3. Bare tmux pane scan as a last resort

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Worker perspectives

spawn_worker(perspective=…) accepts:

Perspective	Role
implementer	minimal-diff code change
tester	tests for success + at least one failure mode
reviewer	numbered list of concerns with file:line
security	auth / injection / secrets / crypto only
performance	N+1, quadratic loops, sync I/O on async paths
verifier	runs the FULL suite + linters, no shortcuts
researcher	gathers external facts; produces no patches

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Dashboard

orch --dashboard            # http://localhost:3000

/api/sessions, /api/sessions/<id>, /api/sessions/<id>/workers, /healthz, /api/docs. The HTML view auto-refreshes every 5 s.

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CLI reference (selected)

Flag	Purpose
--goal "..."	one-shot goal
--goal-file PATH	read goal from a UTF-8 file
--interactive	paste a multi-line goal (/end to submit)
--manual --task "..."	single agent, single task, no supervisor
--init [--init-force]	scaffold this project's .orch/
--detect	show installed agents + LLM keys + dependencies
--list-sessions	recent sessions, resumable ones flagged
--resume <id>	pick up a paused or crashed session
--dashboard	run the FastAPI dashboard
--attach / --no-attach	force / suppress auto-attach to tmux
--skill-add/list/verify/remove	skill marketplace
--require-signed-skills	refuse unsigned skills

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Requirements

• Python 3.11+
• tmux 3.0+ (recommended; otherwise subprocess mode)
• git (for worktrees)
• Optional: zeroconf (cross-terminal discovery), sqlite-vec + fastembed (vector retrieval), ddgs (web research), cryptography or pynacl (signed-skill verification)

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License

MIT.