Interactive exploration and requirements discovery using the knowledge store. Searches existing decisions, findings, and code before exploring new ideas. Records discoveries as research, findings, and decisions. Use when exploring options, discussing architecture, or investigating before planning.
Orchestration discipline. Defines the team hierarchy, your role as Engineering Manager, signal routing, drift detection, and the failure modes that make you a bad manager. Loads at the brainstorm-to-execute boundary and persists through ticket execution.
Introspect on your thought graph — examine personality, influence, tensions, blind spots, and reasoning patterns. Use for metacognition sessions, debugging reasoning, or understanding how your thinking has evolved.
Record an architectural or design decision in the knowledge graph with full rationale. Use after making a significant choice that future developers should know about.
Join a hive as a worker (claim work, do it, report the result) or act as a coordinator (dispatch role-targeted work and read the outcomes). A hive is a cloud work-queue for coordinating multiple agents across machines. Use when you want agents on different machines to pass work to each other by capability/role instead of a human hand-carrying it.
Research a topic using the knowledge store. Searches code, knowledge nodes, and existing decisions to build understanding. Use when investigating how something works, exploring options, or gathering context before implementation.
Capture the session feedback loop after work is verified for real — record a reproduction/interaction guide, charge the session's reasoning with the real-world evidence, record findings, and close the ticket. Use AFTER a feature is smoke-tested and confirmed working, or an investigation is remediated — never before.
Execute an implementation plan from the knowledge graph step by step. Updates status, verifies criteria, records thoughts about what you encounter, and charges thoughts when evidence arrives. Use after a plan has been created and approved.