conductor-oss/conductor

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
• Build agents — scaffold, test, deploy, and invoke Conductor Agents with the SDK (Python, TypeScript, Java, C#) or bring a LangChain / LangGraph / OpenAI Agents / Google ADK / Vercel AI / Claude Agent SDK agent; call them from workflows with the AGENT task, with human-in-the-loop, multi-agent, scheduling, and evals; call remote A2A agents
• Visualize workflows as Mermaid diagrams
• Review & optimize existing workflows and agents against a checklist of 32 reliability / performance / security / structure / agent rules
• Manage secrets and webhooks (Orkes)

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

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

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

Windows (PowerShell)

Windows (cmd)

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. GitHub Copilot and Amp share the same .agents/skills/ directory as Codex/Gemini/Cursor/OpenCode — installing any one of them writes it.

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

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

Conductor Agents (or /conductor-scaffold-agent)

• "Build a Python agent that looks up orders and issues refunds only after a human approves"
• "Scaffold a TypeScript support agent with a lookup_order tool and tests"
• "Port my LangGraph graph to run durably on Conductor" — bridges: OpenAI Agents, Google ADK, LangChain, LangGraph, Vercel AI, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain4j, LangGraph4j, Semantic Kernel
• "Write mock_run tests for support_agent that prove it never calls issue_refund without lookup_order"
• "Show me what support_agent compiles to before I deploy it"
• "Deploy support_agent and start serving its tools"
• "Add an AGENT task to order-processing that calls support_agent and pauses for a human if it asks a question"
• "Run planner and researcher in parallel from one workflow"

Agent operations (plain English)

• "Run support_agent with 'where is order 123' and stream it"
• "Show failed agent runs from the last hour"
• "What is agent execution abc-123 waiting on?" → "Approve it" / "Deny it — amount too high"
• "Cancel agent run abc-123, customer withdrew"
• "Schedule nightly_digest to run at 2am UTC with prompt 'Summarize yesterday'"
• "Review support_agent for production readiness" (or /conductor-optimize support_agent)
• "Call the currency agent at https://agents.example.com from my workflow" — remote A2A

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"

Examples

Operational:

Design patterns:

AI / LLM patterns:

Conductor Agents:

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

References

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

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

Supported Agents

Codex, Gemini, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, and Amp share one .agents/skills/ install — installing any one of them writes the shared directory; installing another just points at the same copy. Uninstalling only removes the shared directory once every agent using it has been uninstalled.

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"

License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.txt.

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