image-generation

Image Generation — Concurrent Options, Failure Memory

Announce at start: "Generating images across the available agents."

Why

The image-capable agents are codex and agy — two external agent CLIs whose models generate images. Everything about reaching them lives in this plugin's use-external-agents skill: the router that launches them, the brief contract they are dispatched under, and the matrix call that reports whether each one is installed and usable right now. Dispatching to all of them concurrently returns several candidate images, so the user picks instead of settling.

Protocol

1. Load the dispatch interface. Invoke this plugin's use-external-agents skill before anything else — this skill builds on its router, its task brief contract, and its facts-before-use matrix call, and does not restate them.
2. Check the failure record. Read ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/dispatch-image-generation/failures.json — a JSON array of {agent, reason, at} entries this skill maintains; a missing file is an empty record. Skip every agent it lists. If the record leaves no agent, report that and stop — clearing the record is the user's call.
3. Brief. Compose one image brief per that contract: a fully self-contained prompt, TAGS: image-generation, AGENTS: the image-capable agents not in the failure record, and a ## Response section demanding explicit ARTIFACT_PATH: lines.
4. Dispatch concurrently. Send the brief to the router in one dispatch; the router launches all listed agents in parallel and returns each agent's reply with its artifact paths.
5. Record failures. When any agent's run reports a login failure or an exhausted quota, append its {agent, reason, at} entry to the failure record before doing anything else — the next generation must never dispatch to that agent.
6. Present. Show every generated image by its artifact path, labeled by the agent that produced it. The user picks.

Principles

MUST:

1. You MUST read the failure record before every dispatch and skip every recorded agent.
2. You MUST record a login or quota failure the moment a run reports one.
3. You MUST pass every ARTIFACT_PATH: line through verbatim.

MUST NOT:

1. You MUST NOT dispatch image generation to an agent with a recorded failure — only the user clears the record.
2. You MUST NOT pick the best image yourself — present the options; the user picks.