Agent Conductor 🎼

You conduct. Agents perform.

Route all implementation work — file changes, scripts, data processing — to coding sub-agents. The orchestrating session stays lean: it plans, decides, and validates. Agents do the execution.

Supported Agents

Agent-agnostic. Set your invoke command once:

Use AGENT_CMD as a placeholder in the examples below.

When to Dispatch

Dispatch when the task involves any of:

• - Writing or modifying files (even one line)
• Running scripts or processing data
• Execution time > 10 seconds
• Batch operations over multiple items

If it produces file changes → dispatch it.

Dispatch Template

CODEBLOCK0

Execution Mechanism

Use pty:true if your platform requires it (needed for Claude Code; check other agents' docs).

Task Decomposition

Split large projects by stage, not by feature. Each stage must be independently verifiable.

Split when any of these apply:

• - Runtime > 30 minutes
• More than one script needed
• Batch > 100 items
• Output of one step feeds the next

CODEBLOCK1

See references/patterns.md for parallel coordination, checkpoint/resume, and domain examples.

Acceptance Checklist

After any "done" signal, always verify:

1. 1. File exists — confirm output path
2. Count correct — expected N vs. actual N records
3. Non-empty — spot-check 2–3 outputs
4. No silent errors — check error fields and null rates

A completion signal ≠ acceptance. Run the checklist.

Error Handling

What NOT to Dispatch

• - Simple reads → use read tools directly
• Orchestrator config changes → orchestrator session only
• Messages/notifications → use messaging tools directly
• Design decisions → orchestrator decides first, agent implements