Agent coordination

Skill a5c-ai/babysitter/library/methodologies/gastown/skills/agent-coordination

Babysitter enforces obedience on agentic workforces and enables them to manage extremely complex tasks and workflows through deterministic, hallucination-free self-orchestration

Install

npx -y skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill agent-coordination

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Coordinate Crew (persistent) and Polecat (transient) agents using Gas Town's hook-based work distribution and GUPP principle.

SKILL.md

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Managing agent handoffs
Nudging stuck agents
Coordinating Crew and Polecat workers
Setting up hook hierarchies

Agent Types

Crew: Long-lived, named agents for persistent collaboration
Polecats: Transient workers with persistent identity but ephemeral sessions
Dogs: Deacon helpers for infrastructure tasks

Hook Hierarchy

Three-tier hook system (base -> role -> rig+role):

Base hooks: Apply to all agents
Role hooks: Apply to agents in a specific role
Rig+Role hooks: Apply to agents on a specific rig in a specific role

Key Commands

gt agents - List available agents
gt feed - Feed work to an agent's hook
gt handoff - Hand off work between agents
gt nudge - Nudge a stuck agent
gt seance - Revive a dead agent session

Tool Use

Invoke via babysitter process: methodologies/gastown/gastown-orchestrator (assign-workers step)

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Counted across 1,193 of the 1,976 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-06

dispatch a fresh implementer subagent per taskin 48 of 1193, across 19 files
dispatch final reviewer after all tasksin 37 of 1193, across 11 files
provide full task text to the subagentin 31 of 1193, across 10 files
review spec compliance before code qualityin 27 of 1193, across 10 files
make the hook script executablein 26 of 1193, across 8 files
re-snapshot after navigation or DOM changesin 25 of 1193, across 17 files
answer subagent questions before proceedingin 22 of 1193, across 7 files
mark task complete in TodoWrite after approvalin 22 of 1193, across 6 files
merge hook into existing settingsin 21 of 1193, across 3 files
read files before editing themin 21 of 1193, across 9 files
ask if installation is global or projectin 20 of 1193, across 2 files
copy the hook script to target locationin 20 of 1193, across 2 files

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use hooks to distribute work
manage agent handoffs
nudge stuck agents
coordinate crew and polecat workers
set up hook hierarchies
invoke gastown orchestrator via babysitter

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