agent-coordination

SkillAI & models

This skill lets your AI coordinate several helper agents: it assigns each one work and keeps track of how that work is going. Your AI can run a standing team of persistent helpers (Crew agents) alongside short-lived helpers for one-off jobs (Polecat agents). Work is handed out using Gas Town's hook-based distribution and follows the GUPP principle.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

After adding the skill, give your AI a job and ask it to assign the pieces to its helper agents and follow up on progress. More detail is available in the repository at github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter.

Then ask your AI: use the agent-coordination skill

What your AI can do with it

  • Assign tasks to multiple helper agents
  • Track the status of work handed to each helper
  • Split up a job and give the pieces to different helpers
  • Keep persistent Crew helpers available across tasks
  • Spin up transient Polecat helpers for one-off jobs

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by a5c-ai/babysitter in library/methodologies/gastown/skills/agent-coordination/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

  • Managing agent handoffs
  • Nudging stuck agents
  • Coordinating Crew and Polecat workers
  • Setting up hook hierarchies

Agent Types

  • Crew: Long-lived, named agents for persistent collaboration
  • Polecats: Transient workers with persistent identity but ephemeral sessions
  • Dogs: Deacon helpers for infrastructure tasks

Hook Hierarchy

Three-tier hook system (base -> role -> rig+role):

  1. Base hooks: Apply to all agents
  2. Role hooks: Apply to agents in a specific role
  3. Rig+Role hooks: Apply to agents on a specific rig in a specific role

Key Commands

  • gt agents - List available agents
  • gt feed - Feed work to an agent's hook
  • gt handoff - Hand off work between agents
  • gt nudge - Nudge a stuck agent
  • gt seance - Revive a dead agent session

Tool Use

Invoke via babysitter process: methodologies/gastown/gastown-orchestrator (assign-workers step)

Signals

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agent-coordination
Source
github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter