feat: add dynamic workflow team orchestration surface

Adds dynamic workflow/team orchestration skills, the content pack, and control-pane work-item/Kanban state DB support. Includes reviewer hardening for state-db CLI validation, optional state DB failure handling, and mergeStateStatus projection.
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name: dynamic-workflow-mode
description: "Design task-local harnesses, eval gates, and reusable skill extraction for Claude dynamic workflow mode and other adaptive agent harnesses."
origin: ECC
---
# Dynamic Workflow Mode
Use this skill when a coding agent can generate or adapt a task-local harness instead of only following a static command flow. The goal is to turn dynamic workflow mode into a disciplined system: temporary harnesses for one-off work, shared skill extraction for repeated work, and observable control pane checkpoints for teams.
## When To Activate
- The user mentions dynamic workflows, custom harnesses, harness-per-task, adaptive workflows, or Claude Code dynamic workflow mode.
- A task needs a custom loop, evaluator, crawler, fixture generator, watcher, or local dashboard.
- Multiple agents need the same repeatable process but the process is not yet captured as a shared skill.
- A workflow needs durable handoff artifacts, eval evidence, or operator approval before merge.
## Core Contract
Dynamic workflow mode should produce a task-local harness only when the harness is cheaper and safer than manually driving the same steps. The harness must have:
- **Objective**: the outcome it owns and the outcome it explicitly does not own.
- **Inputs**: files, URLs, prompts, data sources, credentials policy, and user-provided constraints.
- **Outputs**: commits, reports, screenshots, status files, or control pane snapshots.
- **Eval**: at least one pass/fail check tied to the task, not only "it ran".
- **Handoff**: a short artifact that tells the next operator what happened, what is blocked, and how to resume.
## Dynamic Harness Decision Tree
1. **One-shot task**: keep it inline. Do not invent a harness.
2. **Repeated task with changing inputs**: create a task-local harness and keep it under a temp or project-local working area.
3. **Repeated task across teammates or repos**: extract the pattern into a shared skill.
4. **Task with external state, queueing, or approvals**: add control pane visibility before adding more automation.
5. **Task with safety risk**: add an eval gate and a human merge gate before autonomous execution.
## Task-Local Harness Template
Use this structure before writing code:
```markdown
# Dynamic Workflow Harness
Objective:
- Ship:
- Do not ship:
Inputs:
- Repo or workspace:
- External systems:
- Credentials policy:
Loop:
1. Discover current state.
2. Generate or update the smallest useful artifact.
3. Run eval checks.
4. Record status and handoff.
5. Stop on failed gate, unclear ownership, or unsafe external action.
Eval:
- Command:
- Expected pass signal:
- Failure owner:
Handoff:
- Status:
- Evidence:
- Next action:
```
## Shared Skill Extraction
Promote a task-local harness into a shared skill only when at least two of these are true:
- The same workflow appears in multiple sessions, repos, teams, or launches.
- The workflow needs specific language, tool, or safety sequencing.
- Failures repeat because operators skip a gate or lose context.
- The workflow has a stable input/output contract.
- The workflow benefits from a control pane, status board, or team handoff.
When extracting, write the skill first in `skills/<name>/SKILL.md`. Add command shims only if a legacy slash-entry surface is still required.
## Control Pane Checkpoints
Dynamic workflow mode becomes team-usable when it exposes state. Record these checkpoints whenever the task spans more than one session:
- **Plan**: objective, owner, acceptance criteria, and risky external systems.
- **Queue**: work items, assigned agent role, branch/worktree, and dependency edges.
- **Run**: active harness, current loop step, recent eval result, and token/cost signal if available.
- **Gate**: test results, browser screenshots, security review, and merge readiness.
- **Handoff**: what is done, what failed, what needs a human decision.
If the repo has ECC2 state enabled, prefer adding or reading checkpoints through the ECC control pane or state-store-backed scripts instead of scattering untracked notes.
## Eval Gates
Every dynamic harness needs a task-specific eval. Pick the cheapest reliable gate:
| Work Type | Eval Gate |
| --- | --- |
| Code feature | Focused test, lint, coverage, and one integration path |
| UI/control pane | Browser smoke with screenshot and overflow/error checks |
| Agent workflow | Fixture transcript or seeded work item with expected routing |
| Research/content | Source-neutral brief, claim checklist, and publish-ready outline |
| Integration | Dry-run command, config validation, and no-secret scan |
Do not claim a dynamic workflow is reusable until the eval can be rerun by another teammate.
## Anti-Patterns
- Generating scripts that hide the real decision logic from the operator.
- Treating dynamic workflow mode as permission to skip tests.
- Creating one-off docs when a shared skill or status artifact is the real product.
- Running multiple agents without ownership, merge gate, or conflict policy.
- Letting raw private research data leak into public docs.
## Output Standard
Finish with:
- The harness or skill path.
- The eval commands and results.
- The control pane or handoff artifact path.
- The next reusable extraction candidate.
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name: team-agent-orchestration
description: "Run team-based orchestration for agent squads using work items, ownership, agent Kanban, merge gates, and control pane handoffs."
origin: ECC
---
# Team Agent Orchestration
Use this skill when agents are being managed like a team rather than a single assistant. The purpose is to make team-based orchestration reliable: clear work items, explicit ownership, agent Kanban state, branch isolation, control pane visibility, and merge gates.
## When To Activate
- The task spans multiple agents, tools, harnesses, branches, or worktrees.
- The user mentions team orchestration, agent Kanban, squad, conductor, control pane, manager, desktop app, Zellij, tmux, Hermes, Devin, Codex, Claude Code, or multi-agent work.
- A project needs shared workflow state across people and agents.
- Existing agent fan-out is producing output but not mergeable product.
## Operating Model
Treat every agent as a teammate with a narrow contract:
- **Owner**: the person or agent accountable for the work item.
- **Scope**: files, branch, tool surface, and forbidden areas.
- **State**: backlog, ready, running, review, blocked, merged, or archived.
- **Evidence**: tests, screenshots, logs, review notes, or eval reports.
- **Merge gate**: the exact condition that allows integration.
## Agent Kanban
Use agent Kanban when work must be visible across sessions.
| Column | Meaning | Exit Criteria |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Backlog | Candidate work item, not yet shaped | Acceptance criteria written |
| Ready | Shaped and assignable | Owner and branch/worktree assigned |
| Running | Agent is actively working | Handoff artifact and changed files exist |
| Review | Work is complete but not merged | Tests, diff review, and risk check pass |
| Blocked | Needs external input or failed gate | Blocker has owner and next action |
| Merged | Integrated into mainline | PR merged or local main updated |
| Archived | No longer relevant | Reason recorded |
Each card should fit this schema:
```json
{
"id": "agent-card-001",
"title": "Build dynamic workflow skill",
"owner": "codex",
"state": "running",
"branch": "product/dynamic-workflow-team-orchestration",
"worktree": ".",
"acceptance": [
"Skill exists",
"Tests cover required concepts",
"Content artifact contains video and article angles"
],
"merge_gate": "lint, focused tests, and catalog check pass",
"handoff": "path/to/handoff.md"
}
```
## Team-Based Orchestration Flow
1. **Shape the board**: convert fuzzy ambition into work items with owners and merge gates.
2. **Pick execution mode**: single-agent, dynamic workflow mode, dmux/tmux, worktree fan-out, or external desktop orchestrator.
3. **Assign boundaries**: one owner per card, clear file scope, and no overlapping writes without an integrator.
4. **Run agents**: each agent writes evidence and handoff notes, not just code.
5. **Review in sequence**: tests first, then diff review, then security/risk checks, then content/product polish.
6. **Merge deliberately**: one integrator resolves conflicts and updates the control pane or status artifact.
7. **Extract reusable skill**: if the card pattern repeats, promote it into `skills/`.
## Control Pane Requirements
A useful control pane for team orchestration should show:
- Active work items and their agent Kanban state.
- Owner, harness, branch, worktree, and last heartbeat.
- Links to handoff artifacts, tests, screenshots, and PRs.
- Blockers grouped by owner and unblock action.
- Merge readiness by gate, not vibes.
- Reusable workflow candidates that should become shared skills.
Do not add more automation until the operator can answer: who owns this, what changed, what gate failed, and what can safely merge?
## Dynamic Workflow Compatibility
When a card needs dynamic workflow mode:
- Put the task-local harness under the card owner.
- Store inputs and outputs on the card.
- Require an eval before moving from Running to Review.
- Promote the harness to a shared skill only after repeat use.
## Failure Modes To Watch
- **Agent soup**: many agents running, no owner or merge gate.
- **Invisible work**: useful output exists only in a chat transcript.
- **Board theater**: a Kanban board exists but cards have no acceptance criteria.
- **Overlapping writes**: parallel agents edit the same files without worktrees.
- **No product artifact**: the process produces docs but no runnable or publishable surface.
## Output Standard
Finish each orchestration pass with:
- Board/card changes.
- Merged or pending branches.
- Tests and eval evidence.
- Blockers with owner and next action.
- New shared skill candidates.