By name: coordination description: Use when orchestrating complex or multi-lane work, decomposing tasks across peers, choosing status/board surfaces, running mesh roundups, or keeping high-level progress visible.
Coordination
Coordinate the work shape. Prefer delegation for substantive repo work; small reversible chores may be handled directly when that is the lightest path.
Core loop
- Clarify objective, success criteria, owner, and deadline when missing.
- Split complex work into independent lanes by repo, worktree, risk, or review concern.
- Pick the lightest status surface that will survive the work: existing board, GitHub issue/project, Linear/Jira, Beads, a repo checklist, or a simple markdown board.
- Assign each lane to a peer, worktree, or durable job. Use the worktree-isolation skill when concurrent implementation could overlap files or branches.
- Track only high-level state: owner, status, blocker, next action. Keep transcript details in session history, not the board.
- Round up by impact and blocker, not activity count.
Board guidance
Prefer the user's existing board. Do not invent a new tracker unless the user asks or the work is large enough that status would otherwise be lost.
Useful board columns are simple: Todo, In Progress, Blocked, Review, Done. Entries should describe the outcome, owner, blocker, and next action. Do not mirror every message or tool call.
Mesh roundup
When the user asks where things stand, use list_peers() and ask relevant peers in parallel. Ask specific questions: blocker, next merge, needed decision. Compile the reply with the highest-impact item first. Keep Telegram/mobile updates short.
Anti-patterns
- Serializing independent lanes behind the orchestrator.
- Letting the orchestrator drift into implementation when a peer should own the lane.
- Writing board or memory updates just because a turn ended.
- Count-leading summaries that reward volume over impact.