Conductor Skills

Teach your AI coding agent to create, run, monitor, and manage Conductor workflow orchestrations.

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What You Get

Once installed, your AI agent can:

• Create workflow definitions with any task type (HTTP, SWITCH, FORK, WAIT, AI/LLM, MCP, etc.)
• Run workflows synchronously or asynchronously
• Monitor executions and search by status, time, or correlation ID
• Manage workflows — pause, resume, terminate, retry, restart, rerun, skip-task, jump
• Signal WAIT and HUMAN tasks for human-in-the-loop patterns
• Schedule workflows on cron — schedules are part of OSS
• Write workers in Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, C#, Ruby, or Rust
• Visualize workflows as Mermaid diagrams
• Review & optimize existing workflows against a checklist of 19 reliability / performance / security / structure rules
• Manage secrets and webhooks (Orkes)

On Claude Code, four slash commands give you direct entry points:

Command	Purpose
/conductor	Menu — lists subcommands and natural-language examples
/conductor-setup	First-time setup (CLI, server, auth)
/conductor-optimize	Review a workflow against the optimization checklist
/conductor-scaffold-worker	Generate a worker stub in your language

Everything else (run, status, schedule, retry, signal, visualize, create) works through plain English — no command needed.

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Quick Install

Claude Code Plugin (recommended for Claude users)

Install as a Claude Code plugin from the marketplace:

/plugin marketplace add conductor-oss/conductor-skills
/plugin install conductor@conductor-skills

Or test against a local checkout during development:

/plugin marketplace add /path/to/conductor-skills
/plugin install conductor@conductor-skills

Install via npm

If you have Node.js, you can install through npm — useful in CI and dev containers:

# One-off, no global install
npx @conductor-oss/conductor-skills --agent claude
npx @conductor-oss/conductor-skills --all

# Or globally
npm install -g @conductor-oss/conductor-skills
conductor-skills --agent cursor
conductor-skills --all --upgrade
conductor-skills --agent cline --uninstall

The npm package bundles all skill content, so it works offline once installed. For Claude Code, just restart your session after install to pick up the plugin.

Install for all detected agents

One command to auto-detect every supported agent on your system and install globally where possible. Re-run anytime — it only installs for newly detected agents.

macOS / Linux

curl -sSL https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.sh | bash -s -- --all

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.ps1 -OutFile install.ps1; .\install.ps1 -All

Windows (cmd)

powershell -c "irm https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.ps1 -OutFile install.ps1; .\install.ps1 -All"

Install for a specific agent

These agents don't support global install — run the command from your project directory.

macOS / Linux

Agent	Command
Cline	curl -sSL https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.sh | bash -s -- --agent cline
GitHub Copilot	curl -sSL https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.sh | bash -s -- --agent copilot
Amazon Q	curl -sSL https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.sh | bash -s -- --agent amazonq

Windows (PowerShell)

Agent	Command
Cline	irm https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.ps1 -OutFile install.ps1; .\install.ps1 -Agent cline
GitHub Copilot	irm https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.ps1 -OutFile install.ps1; .\install.ps1 -Agent copilot
Amazon Q	irm https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.ps1 -OutFile install.ps1; .\install.ps1 -Agent amazonq

Windows (cmd)

Agent	Command
Cline	powershell -c "irm https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.ps1 -OutFile install.ps1; .\install.ps1 -Agent cline"
GitHub Copilot	powershell -c "irm https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.ps1 -OutFile install.ps1; .\install.ps1 -Agent copilot"
Amazon Q	powershell -c "irm https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.ps1 -OutFile install.ps1; .\install.ps1 -Agent amazonq"

All other agents are installed globally via the install all command above. You can also use --agent <name> for any agent to do a project-level install.

That's it — ask your agent to connect to your server (see Try It below).

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Try It

After installing, try these prompts with your agent. Or run the slash command shown in brackets where one exists.

Setup & configure (or /conductor-setup)

• "Set up Conductor — I want to start a local server"
• "Connect to my Conductor server at https://developer.orkescloud.com/api"
• "Save my Conductor server config as a profile called production"
• "Switch to my staging Conductor profile"
• "How many workflows in dev vs prod?"

Create & run

• "Create a workflow that calls the GitHub API to get open issues and sends a Slack notification"
• "Create a FORK_JOIN workflow that fetches inventory and pricing in parallel"
• "Run the my-workflow workflow with input {"userId": 123}"
• "Run order-processing synchronously and wait until the approval step"
• "Run cleanup-workflow with correlation id daily-2026-05-11"

Monitor & diagnose

• "Show me all failed workflow executions from the last hour"
• "What's the status of execution abc-123?"
• "Why did wf-789 fail?"
• "Show me the running executions of order-processing"

Manage

• "Retry all failed executions of my-workflow from today"
• "Pause the running execution xyz-456"
• "Terminate wf-123, customer cancelled"
• "Restart wf-456 on the latest workflow version"
• "Skip the email step in wf-789"
• "Jump wf-789 to fulfill_order"

Human-in-the-loop

• "Signal the wait task in execution abc-123 with approval: true"
• "Reject the wait task in wf-456 — don't retry"
• "What's blocking wf-789?"

Schedule (part of OSS)

• "Schedule cleanup-workflow to run daily at 2am"
• "Schedule order-report every Monday at 9:30 weekdays only"
• "Pause the cleanup schedule"
• "Show the last 50 scheduled cleanup runs"

Modify

• "Add an error-handling branch to the order-processing workflow"
• "Add a WAIT task before the payment step in my checkout workflow"
• "Convert the inline JS in compute_pricing to a worker"
• "Extract the fulfillment chunk into a sub-workflow"

Review & optimize (or /conductor-optimize)

• "Review the order-processing workflow"
• "Optimize this workflow JSON — what should I fix?" (attach a file)
• "Audit weather-notification for missing timeouts and retries"
• "Make this workflow simpler"
• "Are there any secrets being passed through workflow input that shouldn't be?"

Workers (or /conductor-scaffold-worker)

• "Write a Python worker that processes image thumbnails"
• "Write a TypeScript worker that validates email addresses"
• "Generate a Go worker that fetches data from a REST API and transforms the response"
• "Scaffold a Java worker for the charge_card task"

AI / LLM workflows

• "Create a workflow that summarizes text with Claude"
• "Build me an AI agent that lists MCP tools, picks one, and calls it" — the canonical first-agent flow (example)
• "Create a RAG workflow that searches my Pinecone index and answers questions with sources" (example)
• "Build an autonomous agent loop that runs up to 10 think/act/observe iterations" (example)
• "Add a HUMAN approval step before the agent calls any tool"
• "Create a workflow that classifies support tickets with GPT-4o-mini and routes to the right queue"
• "Index this document into the knowledge base" — using LLM_INDEX_TEXT
• "Generate an image from a prompt with DALL-E" — using GENERATE_IMAGE

Visualize

• "Show me a diagram of the order-processing workflow"
• "Render the FORK_JOIN flow as a Mermaid chart"

Orkes only — secrets, webhooks (Orkes Conductor required)

• "Save STRIPE_KEY as a secret"
• "Create a GitHub webhook that triggers github_pr_handler"
• "List my webhooks"

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Examples

Operational:

Example	Description
Create and Run a Workflow	Define a workflow, register it, and execute it end-to-end
Monitor and Retry	Search executions, diagnose failures, and batch-retry
Signal a Wait Task	Human-in-the-loop with WAIT tasks and external signals
Review and Optimize	Apply the optimization checklist to an existing workflow

Design patterns:

Example	Description
FORK_JOIN Parallel Branches	Run independent tasks in parallel and converge with JOIN
DO_WHILE Loop	Iteration counter via the self-reference pattern
SUB_WORKFLOW Composition	Compose reusable child workflows under a parent

AI / LLM patterns:

Example	Description
Minimum LLM Workflow	Single LLM_CHAT_COMPLETE — building block
AI Agent with MCP Tools	List tools → plan → call → summarize (the canonical first-AI-agent tutorial)
Autonomous Agent Loop	ReAct-pattern DO_WHILE loop until the LLM decides it's done
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation	Vector search + grounded LLM answer with sources

Raw JSON workflow definitions live in skills/conductor/examples/workflows/ — pass any directly to conductor workflow create.

References

Reference	Description
Setup	Install the CLI, choose a server, configure auth, named profiles
CLI Index	Verb → CLI command lookup, grouped by lifecycle / intervention / tasks
Workflow Definition Schema	Full JSON schema, every task type, expression syntax
GraalJS Gotchas	JS-evaluated task pitfalls — Java-Map proxies, $.varName rule, scope rules, IIFE convention for DO_WHILE
Template Resolution	${...} resolution pitfalls — missing-field-returns-parent, object → string toString, iteration paths
Writing Workers	SDK examples in Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, C#, Ruby, Rust
API Reference	REST endpoints for direct API access
Visualization	Mermaid mappings for every Conductor construct + UI link
Schedules	Cron schedules (OSS) — schema, format, idempotency patterns
Optimization Checklist	22 review rules across structure, reliability (incl. LLM-specific gotchas), performance, security
Troubleshooting	Common errors, diagnosis flow, stuck-workflow recovery
Orkes Enterprise	Secrets, webhooks (Orkes Conductor only)
Fallback CLI	Python REST script equivalents when the CLI isn't available

Evaluations

The evaluations/ directory contains automated test scenarios to validate the skill works correctly with your agent. See evaluations/README.md for details.

python3 scripts/run_evals.py --verbose

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Upgrade

Check for a newer version and upgrade all installed agents:

macOS / Linux

curl -sSL https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.sh | bash -s -- --all --upgrade

Windows

irm https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.ps1 -OutFile install.ps1; .\install.ps1 -All -Upgrade

Or upgrade a single agent: --agent <name> --upgrade

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Supported Agents

Agent	Flag	Global install	Project install
Claude Code	claude	Plugin (via /plugin marketplace add + /plugin install) — also adds /conductor* slash commands	—
Codex CLI	codex	~/.codex/AGENTS.md	AGENTS.md
Gemini CLI	gemini	~/.gemini/GEMINI.md	GEMINI.md
Cursor	cursor	~/.cursor/skills/conductor/SKILL.md	.cursor/rules/conductor.mdc
Windsurf	windsurf	~/.codeium/windsurf/memories/global_rules.md	.windsurfrules
Cline	cline	—	.clinerules
GitHub Copilot	copilot	—	.github/copilot-instructions.md
Aider	aider	~/.conductor-skills/ + ~/.aider.conf.yml	.conductor-skills/ + .aider.conf.yml
Amazon Q	amazonq	—	.amazonq/rules/conductor.md
Roo Code	roo	~/.roo/rules/conductor.md	.roo/rules/conductor.md
Amp	amp	~/.config/AGENTS.md	.amp/instructions.md
OpenCode	opencode	~/.config/opencode/skills/conductor/SKILL.md	AGENTS.md

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Uninstall

macOS / Linux

# Remove a global install
curl -sSL https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.sh | bash -s -- --agent <name> --global --uninstall

# Remove a project-level install
curl -sSL https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.sh | bash -s -- --agent <name> --uninstall

Windows (PowerShell)

# Remove a global install
irm https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.ps1 -OutFile install.ps1; .\install.ps1 -Agent <name> -Global -Uninstall

# Remove a project-level install
irm https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.ps1 -OutFile install.ps1; .\install.ps1 -Agent <name> -Uninstall

Windows (cmd)

powershell -c "irm https://conductor-oss.github.io/conductor-skills/install.ps1 -OutFile install.ps1; .\install.ps1 -Agent <name> -Global -Uninstall"

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License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.txt.

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