Conductors and faculties#

The Brain hosts the specialist agents, split into two tiers by a single question: does it act, or only opine?

  • Conductors (agents/conductors/<name>/) are the front doors a human drives. They decide and act — a plan driven into development, a build, a release. Each is a directory with an AGENTS.md (what it reasons about) and a deterministic entrypoint script, so its behaviour is invoked identically by humans and CI rather than re-derived from prose each time.

  • Faculties (agents/faculties/<name>/) are read-only opinions the conductors consult. They return a judgment and stop — never dispatch, never mutate.

The live conductor set: intake (raw idea → formal Mind prompt), feature (plan the next growth task), bug (classify and route a repair), refactor (behaviour-preserving restructuring), profiling (the organism’s sense of its own effort), build, release, and health (the clinician loop toward GREEN). The faculties behind them: vitals (the only component that talks to Heart), review (the automatic-review leg of the ship gate), memory (cited digests over the Memory organ), and samplers (domain expertise for the live instance).

The consult graph is a DAG#

Conductors consult faculties; each faculty reads its sensor organ; only the vitals faculty talks to Heart. A conductor never consults another conductor — if it wants one’s opinion, that opinion should be extracted into a faculty. (A conductor may delegate execution to another organ, which is the normal call chain, not consultation.)

This shape is what keeps a society of agents debuggable: opinions are side-effect-free and reusable, actions have exactly one owner, and there is never a hidden path to an organ.

The growth rule#

New capability grows as a faculty by default — one directory, one doc, one script. A conductor is added only when a genuinely new human-driven verb earns it, and a new organ must own state or effects no existing organ can. The conductor set stays small and human-meaningful; faculties multiply behind them. Symmetry is never a reason to add an agent.

The command surface#

Humans don’t type agent names — they type short verbs (/intake, /bug, /feature, /health, /route) or plain natural language, and the Brain routes to the right agent. The command bodies are the Brain’s skills/ directory, installed into the agent harness (Claude Code’s ~/.claude) by bin/install.sh. The skills are production prompts: battle-tested operating procedure, not documentation. This site describes them; it never restates them.