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