collaboration-room

name	collaboration-room
description	Coordinate multi-persona work with a shared blackboard, role boundaries, hand-off contract, conflict resolution, and final synthesis. Use when a task benefits from more than one persona.

Collaboration Room

Multi-persona work is more than dispatch in a sequence. It needs a shared surface to read from, clear boundaries between contributors, and a synthesis step at the end.

When to use

• A task needs more than one persona's cognitive role to land well.
• Generator and Verifier are both required (Epistemic Separation).
• Two specialists disagree and the disagreement itself is information.

Procedure

1. Open a shared blackboard. A single artifact every persona reads from and contributes to. Latest state is canonical; out-of-band claims do not count.
2. Set role boundaries. Each persona owns a specific contribution shape — research notes, plan, draft, review, synthesis. Boundaries reduce overlap and conflicting edits.
3. Define the hand-off contract. What does the next persona receive? Input artifact, expected output, residual risk to flag. No implicit context.
4. Resolve conflicts explicitly. When two personas disagree, name the disagreement on the blackboard rather than averaging it silently. Pick a resolver — usually the Verifier or the Coordinator.
5. End with a synthesis. A single persona produces the final synthesized artifact. Multi-author prose without synthesis reads like committee writing — coherent only by accident.

Output

A coordination note: participants · roles · blackboard location · hand-off contracts · resolver · final synthesis owner.

Anti-patterns to avoid

• Personas editing each other's contributions without going through hand-off.
• Silent averaging of disagreements — name the disagreement instead.
• Letting a Generator persona produce the final synthesis when a Verifier verdict is also required; the synthesis follows the verdict, not the other way around.