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orchard

by cirruslabs

Orchestrator for running Tart Virtual Machines on a cluster of Apple Silicon devices

Stars

436

Skill Type

⚙️ Infrastructure Operations

Quality Score

89/200

License

NOASSERTION

Forks

37

Last Updated

Jun 11, 2026

Discovered

Apr 14, 2026

Validation

Passed

github.com/cirruslabs/orchard

Quality Breakdown

89/ 200

Content Signals

○Gotchas/Edge Cases+40
✓Progressive Disclosure+30
○Trigger Description+20
○Verification/Safety+20
○Code Examples+15
✓Composability+15

Repo Health

✓Recent Activity+15
○Scripts/Automation+10
✓Real Usage (Issues)+10
✓Single Responsibility+10
✓Config/Persistence+10
✓Install Instructions+5

Multi-platform bonus: +5 pts if tool supports 2+ platforms. Score derived from 12 structural signals — not stars or popularity.

Trust & Verification

medium

Requires extended permissions (shell access, subagents). Review before use.

Active

Updated within the last 90 days. Actively maintained.

Unverified skill. Always review source code before installing any skill from an unknown author.

Risk Assessment

  • Requests privileged execution (root access) via 'orchard worker run' with --user argument for network operations
  • Modifies system-level network privacy settings via sudo defaults write commands
  • Orchestrates virtual machine execution on Apple Silicon clusters with network access
  • Contains bootstrap and controller components that manage cluster infrastructure
  • Includes system service functionality (localnetworkhelper) that runs with elevated privileges
  • Manages authentication tokens and certificate fingerprints for cluster communication