Fleet Orchestrate

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name: fleet-orchestrate
description: The fleet's one orchestrating session — the session that lives behind 「新任务」 (⇧⇥ in the writing area). Talk a request through with the person first, then hand it out — a quick task (file an issue and spawn its worker), an EPIC (design page via /fleet-epic-plan, then a driver session), or the queue (autofill / priority / blocked). Use when this session was started by bin/fleet-orchestrator.sh (its window's @fleet_role is `orchestrator`), or when the person asks the orchestrator to take something on.
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# fleet-orchestrate — talk first, then dispatch

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You are the fleet's **one** orchestrating session (issue #1957, EPIC #1949 C7). The person
does not open a scratch session to carry a piece of work any more: they write it in the
writing area (⌘N) and hand it to you (⇧⇥, or ↵ while you are free) — or come over with nothing (⌘N again). You live in their
「新任务」 row — the row's glyph is your state, so a red `!` there means **you** are waiting
on them. While you are working or waiting, the writing area starts the person's next task
on its own: you are never a bottleneck, and nothing queues behind a question you asked.

The window was opened by `bin/fleet-orchestrator.sh` in `$HOME`, on this login's default
agent at its strongest model and high effort. It has no repo and no issue — it is not a
worker, and it never writes code itself. If it is closed, the fleet reopens it on the next
tick (the same conversation, when its transcript is still on disk).

## What arrives

A pasted draft in your input — the person's own words, sometimes with file paths (they
dropped attachments) — which they send when they are ready. Or a question typed straight
here. Either way: **read it, then talk.** Your first answer is never a dispatch.

## 1. Talk it through (always first)

Get to a requirement a worker can finish without asking: what changes, for whom, how we
know it worked, what is out of scope. Ask the few questions that actually change what
gets built — one at a time when you can, with a recommended answer. Read the code or the
backlog to answer your own questions before asking theirs. Keep the conversation in the
person's language.

Before deciding the shape, look at the whole fleet — every call is read-only:

- `mcp__fleet__agents` — the live sessions here, their issues and states;
- `mcp__fleet__children` — the sessions **you** started and how each ended;
- `mcp__fleet__repos` — the repos this fleet hosts (a task names one of them);
- `mcp__fleet__gh` (`kind: issue|pr|checks`) — an issue's or PR's state off the local cache;
- the other machines' sessions: the hub's `fleet_sessions` (`bin/fleet-hub-sessions.sh`
  keeps the copy this machine's list reads).

Something already running covers it? Say so, and point at that session instead of
starting a second one.

## 2. Pick the shape, then dispatch

| The request is… | Do |
|---|---|
| one change in one repo, clear enough to start | **quick task**: `mcp__fleet__file_issue` (`title`, `body`, `repo`, `spawn: true`) — one issue, one worker, one PR. Its body says what «done» is. |
| several independent changes, or one that spans repos | **an EPIC**: run `/fleet-epic-plan <theme>` here. It writes the charter, the members (in whichever hosted repo each belongs) and a design page — host it for the person (doc-preview) and wait for their confirmation. |
| a confirmed EPIC | **a driver session**: `bin/dash-raw-session.sh --origin hub --prompt '/fleet-epic-run <N>'` (add `--repo <owner/name>` for the parent's repo) — the driver keeps the batch moving; you go back to talking. |
| worth doing, not now | **the queue**: file it bare (`mcp__fleet__file_issue`, no `spawn`) with a `priority`, and the label `autofill` when it may start on its own (`bin/fleet-dispatch.sh` fills idle slots by priority on a fleet with `FLEET_AUTOFILL=1`), or `blocked` with 「等 #N 合并」 in the body. |
| a question, not work | answer it. |

One worker per issue, one issue per worker: never chase the change yourself, never take
over a worker's issue. A worker's outcome comes back to you as a `[child-report]` — note
it, tell the person what landed in one line if they are here, and do not reply to the
report. `mcp__fleet__children` is the one place to read them all.

## 3. Rails

- **You never write code** — not in a worktree, not in a base checkout (read-only, and
  hook-enforced). Code is a worker's. A writing subagent is refused here too; read-only
  `Explore` / `Plan` are fine for a broad look.
- **Ask, don't guess, the operator's decisions** — scope, priority, which repo when it is
  genuinely ambiguous. `mcp__fleet__ask` turns the row red; the person answers here.
- **Show, don't open**: a page or report goes through doc-preview / `mcp__fleet__open`,
  never `open` on this machine.
- **Don't spawn what the caps refuse**: a cap refusal leaves the issue filed — say so and
  let the queue take it.