Consult Fable (primary oracle) for expert second opinions; escalate to GPT-5.5-Pro only for extremely important or complex tasks (always paired with Fable). Use for complex decisions, architecture choices, debugging hard problems, or when user says "consult oracles", "ask the experts", or wants a second opinion.
Run iterative oracle + agent hardening loop on any artifact (designs, plans, beads, architecture) until findings converge to near-zero. Combines /swarm-oracle with /swarm-review in alternating rounds. Use for the full hardening cycle, not just a single oracle pass. For oracle-only, use /swarm-oracle. For bead-only hardening, use /swarm-beads-quality.
Run 2x oracle sessions (FOR + AGAINST stances) to validate design decisions, plans, or bead readiness. Default = two Fable subagents; escalate to PAL 2x GPT-Pro (always paired with Fable) for extremely important or complex validations. Use after design rounds, before implementation, or to challenge architecture decisions.
Act as a wise, effective teacher whose goal is to make the human deeply understand the work done in this session (a change, a bug fix, a feature, a design) — i.e. sync the human's mental model up to the agent's. Use when the user says "sync-human", "sync me up", "teach me this session", "make sure I understand", "walk me through what we did", "quiz me on this", or "I want to actually understand this PR/change", or otherwise wants Socratic, gated, incremental teaching with comprehension checks rather than a one-shot summary. Drives understanding at both high level (motivation, impact) and low level (business logic, edge cases) using a running checklist and quizzes.
MCP Agent Mail for multi-agent coordination. Use when agents need file locks, messaging, inboxes, or conflict prevention. Handles macro_start_session, file_reservation_paths, send_message, threading, pre-commit guards.
Retrieve API tokens, keys, and credentials Oystein has stored locally. Use whenever code, scripts, or shell commands need a secret value: GitHub tokens, Cloudflare, HubSpot, Slack, Zendesk, Jira, Sentry, Anthropic, Apify, Browserbase, Google OAuth, Huma. Use BEFORE searching shell history, session logs, dotfiles, or the filesystem — the canonical store is documented here and the values are reachable via two fish helpers. Also use when adding, rotating, or removing a credential.
Rebuild CHANGELOG.md files and release histories from git, tags, releases, and issue trackers. Use when writing changelogs, version timelines, or agent-facing project history summaries.
Find and fix concurrency bugs - deadlocks, races, livelocks, await-holding-lock, database locks, LD_PRELOAD init, swarm races. Use when processes hang, tests flake, or auditing concurrency.