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title: "orbit"
description: "Task and activity orchestration for AI coding agents. Adds Orbit's MCP tool surface and shared workflow skills to compatible clients."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/orbit--constellation-works
last-updated: 2026-09-11
---

# orbit
Task and activity orchestration for AI coding agents. Adds Orbit's MCP tool surface and shared workflow skills to compatible clients.
- Slug: orbit--constellation-works
- Publisher: constellation-works
- Repository: https://github.com/constellation-works/orbit
- Manifest: plugin/plugin.json
- Version: 0.21.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 2 (orbit-orchestrate, orbit)
- MCP servers: 1 (orbit)
- Stars: 11
- Repository created: 2026-03-15
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-11
- Publisher type: Organization
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/orbit--constellation-works
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What orbit does, in the publisher's words

The Orbit dashboard ( orbit web serve ), task backlog, live audit log, per-agent scoreboard.

Orbit takes review off the critical path, so throughput and rigor stop trading against each other. A durable task for every change, structured audit of every tool call and provider exchange, conflict-aware parallel dispatch, and continuous review sweeps that file what they find straight back into the backlog, local-first.

You drive Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, or Gemini CLI against real code, often in parallel. Agents make it easy to skip the disciplines that keep code maintainable, and six months later nobody can reconstruct why an agent wrote a given line. Orbit makes those disciplines cheap: tasks before edits, every tool call in a structured audit log, parallel runs sandboxed into worktrees with file-level locks, and your own design docs retrievable by the agents doing the work.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/constellation-works/orbit/HEAD/README.md

## Skills

- orbit-orchestrate: Prepare and supervise an Orbit backlog: discover useful work, deduplicate tasks, run task-pilot, promote ready work, supervise authorized delivery, and route CI/QA findings into repairs. Use orbit instead for one assigned implementation task.
- orbit: Orbit: the task/audit/dispatch layer for AI coding agents. Use for anything touching a task ID, `.orbit/`, `orbit` CLI or `orbit.*` MCP tools, the docs corpus, friction records, jobs and `jrun-*` runs, routines, auto-tasks, the sweep clock, worktree GC, task publication and recovery, federated MCP,…

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.

## MCP servers

- orbit: transport: stdio; command: npx -y @orbit-tools/cli@0.21.0 mcp serve

Read from the plugin's own mcp.json. Environment variable names only, never values.