smithers

smithers is a Workflow routing & gates skill for AI agents, published by smithersai in the smithers repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates smithers D (59/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Drive Smithers, a durable control plane for long-running coding agents, from Claude Code. Use when the user wants multi-step, long-running, crash-safe, or human-in-the-loop agent work ('orchestrate agents', 'run a workflow', 'implement this and review it', 'keep iterating until tests pass', 'plan then build') or anything needing retries, approvals, replay, or evals across multiple AI steps. YOU (Claude) run Smithers on the user's behalf; it is not a GUI the human clicks. HARD RULE 1, run long-running / multi-step / background work through a durable Smithers workflow, NOT through Task/Agent subagents, /loop, or hand-written native Workflow scripts; the native Workflow tool has exactly ONE sanctioned use, launching the plugin's smithers-run.mjs mirror so the run shows live in /workflows. HARD RULE 2, every workflow you create or run MUST get a live custom UI at .smithers/ui/<key>.tsx (composed from the smithers-orchestrator/gateway-ui + smithers-orchestrator/ui component libraries over…

Grade

D

Quality

59 / 100

Safety

Passed

GitHub stars

327

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