Bringing Coworker

---
name: bringing-coworker
description: Use from an in-progress dispatched worker when the user asks to pull in a colleague, or a rule requires a second-agent review.
---

# Bring a coworker

A coworker is one interactive agent you bring into your own Herdr tab and worktree for a second opinion or file-disjoint support.
You integrate its result, and coworker nesting stops at this one level.

## 1. Scope the second opinion

Give the coworker one outcome that can run beside your current task.
Default to review-only.
A writing task names a disjoint repo-relative `--writable-path` scope.

Complete when the task is independently useful and its write scope is disjoint.

## 2. Start beside you

Use your canonical instruction path from the dispatch contract:

```bash
uv run --script "$HOME/.straw-boss/bin/run-straw-boss-script.py" \
  --origin-root "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$PWD}" --prefer-installed \
  --script dispatch-coworker.py -- \
  --parent-instruction-path <your-instruction-path> \
  --slug <unique-slug> [--name <short-name>] \
  --agent-kind claude|codex|agy --task "<user requirement and integrated context>" \
  [--writable-path <repo-relative-path>]...
```

The command authenticates your session, opens the coworker in this tab and worktree, injects its contract, and confirms delivery.
Omit `--name` for a `<app>-coworker` handle derived automatically.
Complete when it returns the coworker's pane and instruction path.

## 3. Work with the user

Point the user to the coworker pane.
The coworker and user decide feedback and choose the specification, design, implementation, and the verification method inside the anchor you scoped for it; continue on your disjoint scope.

Complete when the coworker reports `done` or `failed`; parent and root coordinator receive that terminal event automatically.

## 4. Integrate and close

Integrate the reported result, then use [dispatching-work wrap-up](../dispatching-work/SKILL.md#wrap-up) for the coworker instruction.
The shared tab and your own instruction remain active.

Complete when the pane is closed and the coworker instruction is archived, before your own `done` or `failed` report.