About OrchestKit
OrchestKit is a free, open-source plugin for Claude Code — a curated toolkit of skills, agents, and quality-gate hooks that adds AI-assisted development best practices out of the box.
What OrchestKit is
OrchestKit is a plugin for Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic command-line coding tool. It packages 111 reusable skills, 37 specialized agents, and 211 lifecycle hooks into a single install. The skills encode patterns for authentication, database migrations, API design, testing, and review; the agents are task-specific personas such as security auditors and backend architects; the hooks enforce security and quality gates automatically as you work.
It is not a hosted service and not a general-purpose editor assistant. It is infrastructure that runs inside Claude Code to make the agent more capable, consistent, and safe.
Who builds it
OrchestKit is built and maintained by Yonatan Gross as an open-source project under the MIT license. Yonatan Gross is a software engineer who develops OrchestKit in the open — designing the skill, agent, and hook primitives, and curating the security and quality-gate patterns the plugin ships with.
Development happens publicly on GitHub, where every skill, agent, and hook is version-controlled and reviewed. Issues, discussions, and pull requests are welcome — the fastest way to reach the maintainer is to open an issue or follow Yonatan Gross on GitHub.
Why it exists
Teams adopting AI coding agents repeatedly rebuild the same scaffolding: prompt patterns, guardrails, review workflows, and memory. OrchestKit ships those as composable primitives so you can stop explaining your stack to the agent and start shipping. Everything is loaded on demand, so there is zero runtime cost when a capability is not in use.
Get started
Install with claude install orchestkit/ork inside Claude Code 2.1.168+, then read the installation guide. See pricing (it's free), how it compares, or how to get in touch.