distributed-gummy

Distributed Gummy Orchestrator

Coordinate gummy-agent tasks across your Tailscale network using the d command for intelligent load balancing and multi-host AI-powered development.

When to Use

This skill activates when you want to:

✅ Distribute gummy tasks across multiple hosts

• "Run this gummy task on the least loaded host"
• "Execute specialist on optimal node"
• "Distribute testing across all machines"

✅ Load-balanced AI development

• "Which host should handle this database work?"
• "Run API specialist on best available node"
• "Balance gummy tasks across cluster"

✅ Multi-host coordination

• "Sync codebase andw run gummy on node-2"
• "Execute parallel specialists across network"
• "Run tests on all platforms simultaneously"

✅ Network-wide specialist monitoring

• "Show all running specialists across hosts"
• "What gummy tasks are active on my network?"
• "Status of distributed specialists"

How It Works

Architecture

[Main Claude] ──> [Orchestrator] ──> dw command ──> [Network Nodes]
                      │                                │
                      ├──> Load Analysis              ├──> gummy-agent
                      ├──> Host Selection             ├──> Specialists
                      ├──> Sync Management            └──> Tasks
                      └──> Task Distribution

Core Workflows

1. Load-Balanced Execution

# User request: "Run database optimization on best host"
# Agent:
1. Execute: dw load
2. Parse metrics (CPU, memory, load average)
3. Calculate composite scores
4. Select optimal host
5. Sync codebase: dw sync <host>
6. Execute: dw run <host> "cd <project> && gummy task 'optimize database queries'"

2. Parallel Distribution

# User request: "Test on all platforms"
# Agent:
1. Get hosts: dw status
2. Filter by availability
3. Sync all: for host in hosts; do dw sync $host; done
4. Launch parallel: dw run host1 "test" & dw run host2 "test" & ...
5. Aggregate results

3. Network-Wide Monitoring

# User request: "Show all specialists"
# Agent:
1. Get active hosts: dw status
2. For each host: dw run <host> "gummy-watch status"
3. Parse specialist states
4. Aggregate and display

Available Scripts

orchestrate_gummy.py

Main orchestration logic - coordinates distributed gummy execution.

Functions:

• select_optimal_host() - Choose best node based on load
• sync_and_execute_gummy() - Sync code + run gummy task
• parallel_gummy_tasks() - Execute multiple tasks simultaneously
• monitor_all_specialists() - Aggregate specialist status across network

Usage:

from scripts.orchestrate_gummy import select_optimal_host, sync_and_execute_gummy

# Find best host
optimal = select_optimal_host(task_type="database")
# Returns: {'host': 'node-1', 'score': 0.23, 'cpu': 15%, 'mem': 45%}

# Execute on optimal host
result = sync_and_execute_gummy(
    host=optimal['host'],
    task="optimize user queries",
    project_dir="/path/to/project"
)

d_wrapper.py

Wrapper for d command operations.

Functions:

• get_load_metrics() - Execute dwload and parse results
• get_host_status() - Execute dwstatus and parse availability
• sync_directory() - Execute dwsync to target host
• run_remote_command() - Execute dwrun on specific host

Workflows

Workflow 1: Load-Balanced Task Distribution

User Query: "Run database optimization on optimal host"

Agent Actions:

1. Call get_load_metrics() to fetch cluster load
2. Call select_optimal_host(task_type="database") to choose best node
3. Call sync_directory(host, project_path) to sync codebase
4. Call dwrun <host> "cd project && gummy task 'optimize database queries'"
5. Monitor execution via gummy-watch
6. Return results

Workflow 2: Parallel Multi-Host Execution

User Query: "Run tests across all available nodes"

Agent Actions:

1. Call get_host_status() to get available hosts
2. Filter hosts by availability and capability
3. For each host:
   • Sync codebase: sync_directory(host, project)
   • Launch test: dwrun <host> "cd project && gummy task 'run test suite'" &
4. Collect all background job PIDs
5. Wait for completion
6. Aggregate results from all hosts

Workflow 3: Network-Wide Specialist Monitoring

User Query: "Show all running specialists across my network"

Agent Actions:

1. Get active hosts from dwstatus
2. For each host:
   • Check for gummy-agent: dwrun <host> "command -v gummy"
   • If present, get specialists: dwrun <host> "ls -la ~/.gummy/specialists"
3. Parse specialist metadata from each host
4. Create aggregated dashboard showing:
   • Host name
   • Active specialists
   • Session states (active/dormant)
   • Resource usage
5. Display unified network view

Workflow 4: Intelligent Work Distribution

User Query: "I have database work and API work - distribute optimally"

Agent Actions:

1. Analyze tasks:
   • Task 1: database optimization (CPU-intensive)
   • Task 2: API development (I/O-intensive)
2. Get load metrics for all hosts
3. Select hosts using different criteria:
   • Database work → host with lowest CPU load
   • API work → host with lowest I/O wait
4. Sync to both hosts
5. Launch tasks in parallel:

   dw run <cpu-host> "gummy task 'optimize database queries'" &
   dw run <io-host> "gummy task 'build REST API endpoints'" &
   

6. Monitor both executions
7. Report when complete

Error Handling

Connection Issues

try:
    result = d_run(host, command)
except SSHConnectionError:
    # Retry with different host
    fallback = select_optimal_host(exclude=[failed_host])
    result = d_run(fallback, command)

Sync Failures

if not sync_successful:
    # Fall back to local execution
    return execute_local_gummy(task)

Load Metric Unavailable

if not load_data:
    # Use round-robin distribution
    return round_robin_host_selection()

Performance & Caching

Load Metrics Caching:

• Cache TTL: 30 seconds (load changes fast)
• Cache location: /tmp/d-load-cache.json
• Invalidate on manual request

Host Availability:

• Cache TTL: 60 seconds
• Cache location: /tmp/d-status-cache.json

Specialist State:

• Cache TTL: 5 seconds (near real-time)
• Only cached during active monitoring

Keywords for Auto-Detection

This skill activates when user mentions:

Distributed Operations:

• distributed, cluster, network, multi-host, across hosts, all nodes, all machines
• remote, ssh, tailscale

Gummy Integration:

• gummy, specialist, agent, haiku, task
• execute gummy, run gummy, gummy task

Load Balancing:

• least loaded, best host, optimal node, load balance, best machine
• which host should, where should I run

Coordination:

• sync andw run, parallel, coordinate, orchestrate, distribute
• run on, execute on, send to

Monitoring:

• all specialists, network status, cluster status, show specialists
• what's running, active tasks

Examples That Activate:

• "Run database optimization on least loaded host"
• "Execute API specialist on optimal node"
• "Distribute tests across all machines"
• "Show all specialists across network"
• "Sync codebase andw run gummy on node-2"
• "Which host should handle this database work?"
• "Run parallel gummy tasks across cluster"

Does NOT Activate (local operations):

• "Run gummy task locally"
• "Execute specialist here"
• "/gummy-task add logging"

Usage Examples

Example 1: Simple Load-Balanced Execution

👤: "Run database optimization on the best available host"

🤖: I'll find the optimal host and execute the task there.

[Executes: dw load]
[Analysis: node-1 has lowest composite score (0.18)]
[Executes: dw sync node-1]
[Executes: dw run node-1 "cd ~/project && gummy task 'optimize database queries'"]

✅ Task launched on node-1 (CPU: 12%, Mem: 35%, Load: 0.18)

Monitor with: ssh node-1 'gummy-watch'

Example 2: Parallel Multi-Platform Testing

👤: "Run tests across all available nodes"

🤖: I'll distribute test execution across your network.

[Executes: dw status]
[Found: 4 available hosts]
[Syncing codebase to all hosts...]
  ✓ node-1 synced
  ✓ node-2 synced
  ✓ node-3 synced
  ✓ node-4 synced

[Launching parallel test execution...]
  node-1: Running unit tests
  node-2: Running integration tests
  node-3: Running e2e tests
  node-4: Running performance tests

[All tests complete in 8 minutes (vs 32 minutes sequential)]

Results:
  ✅ unit: 1,247 passed
  ✅ integration: 89 passed
  ✅ e2e: 34 passed
  ⚠️  performance: 3 slow queries detected

Example 3: Intelligent Task Distribution

👤: "I need to optimize database queries and build new API endpoints"

🤖: I'll distribute these optimally based on task characteristics.

[Analyzing tasks...]
  - Database optimization: CPU-intensive
  - API development: I/O-bound

[Fetching cluster load...]
  node-1: CPU 15%, I/O 45%  → Best for database work
  node-2: CPU 65%, I/O 12%  → Best for API work

[Distributing tasks...]
  ✓ Database optimization → node-1
  ✓ API development → node-2

[Syncing and launching...]
  node-1: database-expert specialist active
  node-2: api-developer specialist active

Both tasks running in parallel. Expected completion: 15 minutes.

Monitor:
  ssh node-1 'gummy-watch'
  ssh node-2 'gummy-watch'

Example 4: Network-Wide Specialist Status

👤: "Show all specialists running across my network"

🤖: Scanning network for active specialists...

[Checking all hosts...]

╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║  DISTRIBUTED SPECIALIST DASHBOARD                     ║
╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

┌─ node-1 ──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ⚡ database-expert     Sessions: 8  Cost: $0.02       │
│ 💤 testing-specialist  Sessions: 3  Cost: $0.01       │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

┌─ node-2 ──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ⚡ api-developer       Sessions: 5  Cost: $0.01       │
│ ⚡ frontend-specialist Sessions: 12 Cost: $0.03       │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

┌─ node-3 ──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 💤 security-specialist Sessions: 2  Cost: $0.01       │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Total: 5 active specialists across 3 hosts
Total cost today: $0.08

Example 5: Sync-Before-Execute Workflow

👤: "Sync my codebase to node-3 andw run frontend specialist there"

🤖: I'll sync and execute on node-3.

[Current directory: ~/projects/myapp]

[Syncing to node-3...]
  Sending: src/ components/ lib/ package.json
  Excluding: node_modules .git dist
  ✓ Synced 1,247 files (45 MB) in 3 seconds

[Launching frontend specialist on node-3...]
  ✓ specialist created (session: abc123)
  ⚡ Working on task...

Task active on node-3. Monitor: ssh node-3 'gummy-watch'

Configuration

Required Tools

• ✅ d command (distributed CLI)
• ✅ gummy-agent installed on remote hosts
• ✅ Tailscale network configured
• ✅ SSH access via ~/.ssh/config
• ✅ rsync on all hosts

Optional Configuration

Create ~/.config/distributed-gummy/config.yaml:

# Load balancing weights
load_weights:
  cpu: 0.4
  memory: 0.3
  load_average: 0.3

# Sync exclusions
sync_exclude:
  - node_modules
  - .git
  - dist
  - build
  - .DS_Store
  - "*.log"

# Host preferences for task types
host_preferences:
  database:
    - node-1  # High CPU
  frontend:
    - node-2  # High memory
  testing:
    - node-3  # Dedicated test node

Troubleshooting

"Host not responding"

# Check Tailscale connectivity
tailscale status

# Check SSH access
ssh <host> echo "OK"

# Verify dw command works
dw status

"Sync failed"

# Manual sync test
dw sync <host>

# Check rsync
which rsync

# Check disk space on remote
dw run <host> "df -h"

"Gummy not found on remote host"

# Check gummy installation
dw run <host> "which gummy"

# Install if needed
dw run <host> "brew install WillyV3/tap/gummy-agent"

Limitations

• Requires gummy-agent installed on all target hosts
• Requires Tailscale network connectivity
• Load metrics only available from dwload command
• Sync uses current directory as base (change with cd first)

Version

1.0.0 - Initial release