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AI coding agents build confidently on assumptions. LLM Orchestrator is an open-source Claude Code plugin that makes research, memory, planning, review, parallel execution, and verification part of the system — trading tokens for correctness.
The most frustrating thing about AI coding agents isn't that they make mistakes. It's how confidently they build on assumptions.
Even when I tell them to verify things, they still forget context, skip due diligence, or move forward on stale information.
So I built LLM Orchestrator, an open-source Claude Code plugin that makes research, memory, planning, review, parallel execution, and verification part of the system, instead of something I have to keep reminding the agent to do.
I built it after using and loving Superpowers, which got me thinking about Claude Code skills as reusable operating patterns.
But for my workflow, I wanted two things it didn't fully give me: due diligence before code gets written, and an easier way to capture and reuse a project's decisions and conventions. (The memory model is inspired by ECC.)
So I added them:
The result is a more disciplined flow inside Claude Code:
That structure has a tradeoff: it trades tokens for correctness.
It's built for substantial engineering work where getting it right matters more than minimizing spend: multi-step features, refactors, and debugging that needs real investigation.
That's what I care about: not just making agents faster, but making their output more reliable.
I open-sourced it because it's been working extremely well in my own workflow, and I wanted to give back to the community I've learned so much from.
I'll keep refining it, and if you find it useful and want to contribute, you're more than welcome.
Agents create speed. Structure makes it shippable.
That's what I tried to capture with LLM Orchestrator.
Would love feedback from anyone building with higher-level AI-assisted engineering workflows — the repo is on GitHub.