Lanewise

A multi-model orchestrator plugin for Claude Code. The lead session breaks a task down and decides who does each subtask, and at what effort:

• Claude subagents — Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, Fable at the right effort level;
• Codex CLI — on your ChatGPT subscription or an API key, in the background;
• DeepSeek — on an API key, as a full agent (headless Claude Code on DeepSeek's Anthropic-compatible API);
• a pool of manual tasks for Antigravity, Cursor and similar agents: you pick a task and paste one line.

Routing follows a model registry (difficulty, cost, strengths, cross-review between model families), subscription limits and balance, your availability and per-project executor profiles (which key or account, which models, which rules — or off). Spend limits cap what API-billed executors (DeepSeek, Codex/Claude on a key) may spend — a manual counter for prepaid keys, a monthly budget otherwise — orch spend. Every session gets a usage log: which model did what and how many tokens it spent. A budget mode watches the Claude subscription's 5-hour window: when it would expire largely unused, Claude takes the work that would otherwise cost money on API keys. DeepSeek can lead instead of Claude (orch launch deepseek), with Claude models switched off entirely if you want.

Works with Claude Code in WSL/Linux and natively on Windows. Needs Claude Code itself (installed and logged in), Python ≥ 3.8 (standard library only) and git; npm only for the optional Codex line below.

Lanewise was called Partitura before 0.36.0 and Orchestra before 0.34.0: upgrading takes one command.

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/orwrkr/lanewise && cd lanewise
bash install.sh                 # Git Bash on Windows; inside WSL for a WSL installation

If orch isn't found in a new terminal, ~/.local/bin is not on your PATH (Claude Code's own installer puts claude in that folder too, so you may already have it there). In Git Bash or bash:

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

In PowerShell on Windows (for orch.cmd; then open a new terminal):

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('Path', "$env:USERPROFILE\.local\bin;" + [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('Path','User'), 'User')

Or without a clone, from a terminal (the plugin's orch is then not in your terminal, only in the session's Bash tool):

claude plugin install lanewise --marketplace orwrkr/lanewise

Then cd into your project, start claude and run /lanewise:status; claude plugin list shows whether the plugin is enabled. Give Claude Code a multi-step task and the orchestrate skill takes over. Optional executors:

npm i -g @openai/codex && codex login     # Codex
# DeepSeek: add the line DEEPSEEK_API_KEY=sk-… to ~/.lanewise/secrets.env (never to a repository)
orch doctor                               # what is available

In orch doctor, ✔ is fine, · is optional and not set up, ✘ is a problem to fix.

In a session
/lanewise:run <task>	plan → assign models and effort → execute
/lanewise:status	limits, profiles, manual tasks
/lanewise:manual	the manual task pool: "AG-0004 to Antigravity"
/lanewise:profile …	"no DeepSeek in this project", "Codex on the second account"
/lanewise:usage	who did what and how many tokens it took

All eight commands, including /lanewise:quota, /lanewise:done and /lanewise:away: plugin documentation.

Documentation

• Plugin documentation — executors and their isolation, profiles, the manual lane, DeepSeek as the lead, the usage log, the registry, adding executors, storage, uninstalling
• Routing rules the lead follows, and their reference sections
• Model registry
• Contributing · Development rules · Security · Changelog
• Privacy policy · Terms of use

Antigravity and other manual agents are never automated — no agy, computer use, text pasting or OAuth (that violates Google's ToS). Lanewise only writes task files for them and reads their results.

Uninstall: bash uninstall.sh (standard claude plugin uninstall; --purge also deletes ~/.lanewise/). orch footprint lists everything the plugin created outside Claude Code.

License

MIT