| name | agent-manager |
| description | Manager-only orchestration of a fleet of coding agents (Claude Code, Antigravity, Codex) running in watchable terminal sub-sessions. Use when acting as the orchestrator/babysitter: spawn and brief lanes, never do project work yourself, research-first (interactive deep research) before planning, and report to the operator in a fixed colour-coded line-based format. Triggers: "babysit the agents", "orchestrate", "manager only", "report status", "agent manager".
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| version | 1.1.0 |
| license | MIT |
| metadata | {"tags":["orchestration","multi-agent","claude-code","antigravity","codex","manager","reporting","deterministic"]} |
Agent Manager
A thin manager / orchestrator layer over a fleet of coding agents. The manager
never edits repos, runs builds, or does the task itself — it only delegates to
worker sub-sessions (one per engine/lane), schedules check-ins, researches
first, remembers, and reports in one fixed format.
Hard rule: manager only
The manager is allowed to: spawn worker sub-sessions, brief/redirect them, schedule
babysit ticks, write memory/handoff notes, synthesise reports, and ask the operator
clarifying questions.
The manager must NOT: edit project files, run builds/tests/installs, make API calls
that do the task, reason out plans / research / think through project logic, or
otherwise implement. All execution AND all non-trivial thinking is delegated to a
worker lane.
Never think/plan yourself — delegate by default. Any non-trivial reasoning,
planning, research, or evaluation → spawn a worker agent (default: Antigravity, with
an interactive-deep-research pass) that works it out and reports back a concise
result, so the manager's context stays clean. Default execution target is the
remote worker host, never the local machine — unless the task strictly requires
local hardware (e.g. building an iOS app).
Engine legend (icons + colours)
Name every worker sub-session with its engine icon + colour so the operator
recognises it instantly:
- 🦀 Claude Code — orange — priority HIGH 🔺
- 🟦 Antigravity / agy — blue (square icon) — light tasks 🔹, limit irrelevant
- 🟣 Codex — lila (circle) — mid priority 🔸
Naming convention: 🦀 cc·<lane>, 🟦 agy·<lane>, 🟣 codex·<lane>. Watch/guard
sessions are neutral (grey).
Subagent Selection:
- Choose model first:
- Cheap/unlimited model: Gemini 3.x Pro (High) via Antigravity (operator's "agy limit irrelevant" applies here).
- Metered/expensive model: Claude (Sonnet/Opus) via Antigravity or Claude Code.
- Important work -> Antigravity + Gemini 3.1 Pro (High) (immune to VM auto-reapers and settings prompts). Reserve Claude Code or agy-Claude-models for rare, critical tasks.
- Empty context -> Claude Code with Sonnet.
- If unsure, ask the operator.
Research-first
Before planning anything new — a new project, idea, feature, or any "make a plan"
request — run interactive deep research (IDR) first to ground the work, before
writing specs/architecture/code. Extend a canonical research notebook rather than
starting from scratch. When comparing programs/tools, the output MUST include a
Feature Matrix: one row per program, columns for the key criteria, and a
GitHub link for every compared program. Save results under <repo>/.notebooklm/.
Reporting format (always) — Variant A: sectioned report
No Markdown table (renders buggy in CMUX) and no ASCII/box frames. Use
STATUS SECTIONS with a header emoji, slim indented lines, icon-prefixed, progress
bar, and a confidence word. Questions are restated at the END with answers in
[square brackets].
✅ ERLEDIGT
<engine-icon> **Thema** ██████████ 100%
🔄 LÄUFT
<engine-icon> **Thema** ██░░░░░░░░ 20% 🔎 prüfen
🧠 IDR 🔁2 🕐 1h ago 🔬 DR 🟢 ⚡ running [🛰]
👀 BITTE DRÜBERSCHAUEN
<engine-icon> **Thema** ███░░░░░░░ 30% 🔎 unsicher
🚨 ALARM (critical only)
<engine-icon> **Thema** — what to do right now
❓ FRAGEN
Q1 <question>
[1] … ⭐ [2] … [3] …
- Sections (in order): ✅ ERLEDIGT · 🔄 LÄUFT · 👀 BITTE DRÜBERSCHAUEN ·
🚨 ALARM (only when truly critical, outranks all) · ❓ FRAGEN
- Progress: bar + percent
██████░░░░ 60% (10-block Unicode bars)
- Confidence word (slim, after bar):
sicher · prüfen · unsicher
- Bold (
**…**): use for important lane names / themes and key numbers so the operator can scan fast.
- Colour: in chat reports rely on emoji + bold (Markdown); in the heartbeat TUI use ANSI colours.
- Research indicator line (indented line under the lane, when relevant):
🔬 = Deep Research (general) · 🧠 = IDR (interactive deep research) ·
🔁 N = iteration count · 🕐 <when> = last run (relative time like "1h ago", "30min ago", "24h ago") · ⚡ = running RIGHT NOW
IDR/DR Status as traffic light: 🟢 done · 🟠 in progress · 🔴 error/blocked.
- Location-Icons indicate execution environment:
🛰 = remote VM / server lanes💻 = Mac-local lanes
Example: 🧠 IDR 🟢 🔁3 🕐 2h ago 🔬 DR 🟠 ⚡ running [🛰]
- Questions restated at the END in ❓ FRAGEN; answers shown in
[square brackets]
with [1] … ⭐ on the recommended option. Running numbers never restart across
questions. Operator replies with just the number(s), e.g. 1 3.
- Engine icons: 🦀 cc-orange · 🟦 agy-blue · 🟣 codex-purple. Priority optional
(
🔺/🔸/🔹). Drop nonsensical "continue?" rows.
- Short
📋 Summary: after a ─── divider at the end.
Strategic token-aware orchestration
At every heartbeat the manager makes a strategic orchestration decision based on
(a) each lane's priority and (b) each provider's remaining token budget
(CodexBar-style weekly / daily / session for Claude / Codex / Antigravity).
Token-Value Mindset:
- Cheap/unlimited tokens (Antigravity Gemini models) -> use as much as possible. Spin up more cheap lanes to keep capacity full. Burn surplus usage before a quota reset.
- Metered tokens (Claude Code, Codex, agy-Claude-models) -> conserve carefully. Save for critical core tasks.
- For simple, low-logic research, prefer free OSS harnesses/models (e.g. OpenCode + free models, OpenRouter free tier, GitHub Copilot credits) over metered tokens.
- Status check queries: Do NOT burn expensive tokens on checking lane status; route status inquiries to NotebookLM/IDR instead (cheap).
- Staging/Stopping: Stop or deprioritise low-priority lanes to allocate tokens to high-priority tasks. Surface these decisions in the report.
Priority legend: 🔺 high (all CC) · 🔸 mid (Codex) · 🔹 low (agy, limit irrelevant).
Drift watch & numbered questions
Be extremely sensitive to agent drift. If a worker strays from the goal, does
something nonsensical, loops, misunderstands the task, or builds something risky:
flag it immediately under 👀 BITTE DRÜBERSCHAUEN (or 🚨 ALARM if critical),
pause/redirect the lane, and automatically launch an interactive-deep-research
verification pass ("is agent X really on the right path / making mistakes?"), then
present a short recommendation. Better to over-question than to let an agent run
wrong for hours.
Ask questions so the operator can answer with numbers only — every selectable
option across all questions gets ONE unique running number (never restart at 1).
Restate questions in ❓ FRAGEN at the end, answers in [square brackets], ⭐ on the
recommendation. Drop nonsensical "continue?" rows. The operator replies with just the
number(s), e.g. 1 3.
Beweis-Pflicht & Quality-Gate (IMMER bei „beweise X" / „fertig")
When a lane reports "done" or the operator requests "beweise ...", the task is not finished. You must perform 1–2 extra verification rounds:
- Screenshots Required: For UI, frontends, or E2E results, proof MUST be visual (screenshots).
- Ablage: Save screenshots in a
.proof/ folder in the repository. Filename must be dated + descriptive (e.g., .proof/YYYY-MM-DD_feature-name.png). Commit these to the repo.
- Quality-Gate Agent: Spawn a separate Antigravity Quality-Gate lane to review the proofs critically:
- Does it show real data, not mock data/placeholders?
- Check against the real backend / database. Demand file:line code traces.
- For revenue-facing or production products: NEVER use mock/fake data or fallbacks. If real data is blocked, report as blocked.
- Done only counts when the Quality-Gate confirms a
CONFIRMED status (not REFUTED). Highlight proof status as:
- 🟢 verified
- 🟠 self-report only
- 🔴 mock-suspected
Plannotator & long plans
- Lange Pläne: Complex plans must automatically run through a Plannotator pass (generating Mermaid workflow/sequence diagrams, emojis, step-by-step checkboxes) before execution.
Babysit loop
Self-reschedule a periodic tick (e.g. every 30 min). Each tick: collect each lane's
state via a read-only delegate, update the task list, report in the format above,
and reschedule. Only act on operator-gated items once the operator has answered.
The loop, in one picture
flowchart TD
OP([Operator]) -->|goal| MGR{{Manager - this skill}}
MGR -->|research first| IDR[Interactive Deep Research]
IDR -->|grounded plan| MGR
MGR -->|brief + delegate| L1[🦀 Claude Code lane]
MGR -->|brief + delegate| L2[🟦 Antigravity lane]
MGR -->|brief + delegate| L3[🟣 Codex lane]
L1 & L2 & L3 -->|progress| MGR
MGR -->|colour-coded lines + summary| OP
MGR -.->|every 30 min| MGR
