conductor

Event-driven worker orchestration - spawns workers, delegates monitoring to background agent, handles events as they come

Run quality checkpoints for a closed issue (codex-review, tests, docs, visual QA)

Show status of workers, issues, and system health

Clean up after a wave of workers completes

Lightweight pre-commit quality gate for beads-managed workflows. Masters checkpoint status verification and staged change analysis.

Background monitor for conductor - watches workers and returns when action is needed. Use via Task tool with run_in_background: true.

Controls Chrome browser: takes screenshots, clicks buttons, fills forms, downloads images, inspects pages, captures network requests, checks console errors, debugs API issues. Use when: 'screenshot', 'click', 'fill form', 'download image', 'check browser', 'look at screen', 'capture page', 'check for errors', 'debug network', 'API failing', 'console errors'. Provides MCP tool discovery for 70 tabz_* browser automation tools.

Brainstorm ideas and design workflows with a beads expert. Use when: 'help me plan', 'how should I structure this', 'what beads features', 'brainstorm', 'before I create tasks', 'design my workflow'. For ideation BEFORE creating issues.

Docs/changelog checkpoint. Detects whether changes are user-facing and ensures documentation hygiene (CHANGELOG + lessons-learned) is handled or explicitly bypassed. Use when: 'docs check', 'changelog', 'release notes', 'did we update docs?'.

Multi-model conductor - spawns Haiku/Sonnet/Opus/Codex based on task complexity

AI-assisted backlog grooming: prioritize, add dependencies, assign quality gates, draft worker prompts

Code review checkpoint using codex review CLI. Returns structured result with pass/fail status and issues. Use when: 'code review', 'review changes', 'codex review', 'check my code'.

Test runner checkpoint for conductor gates. Detects test framework (jest, pytest, cargo test, go test, etc.), runs tests, and captures output. Returns structured result with pass/fail status and failed test details. Use when: 'run tests', 'test runner', 'check tests pass'.

Visual QA checkpoint. Verifies UI changes in the extension/backend via quick smoke flows, screenshots, and console/network checks. Use when: 'visual QA', 'UI looks wrong', 'screenshot', 'verify in Chrome'.