@nidvue/teamwork 1.1.2 → 1.4.2

package/skills/teamwork/SKILL.md

@@ -82,16 +82,26 @@ settings are adapted (`references/Adapters.md`, `references/Remotes.md`).
     reads the runtime environment (the agent host and the model it exposes) and
     routes the strongest available model to the decision lanes and the economy one
     to the mechanical lanes, so quality is maximised where it compounds and cost is
-    minimised where it does not. Model choice never changes the
+    minimised where it does not. This is cost-aware routing, never an invented
+    model id. Set `TEAMWORK_MODEL_ALT` when two verification lanes are staffed:
+    independent review on the same model twice is one check sampled twice
+    (`references/Coordination.md`). Model choice never changes the
     protocol: the gates, the review and the ledger hold anyway.
-    The CEO sets the lanes in one step with `teamwork.py model auto --apply`, which
-    detects the running agent host where the environment identifies it and routes
-    the strongest available model to the decision lanes and the economy model to
-    the mechanical lanes - automatic cost-aware routing, never an invented model id.
 13. **Warnings are errors.** The toolchain fails on them by configuration, the
     cause is fixed, and a third-party warning is suppressed narrowly with a
     reason. CI annotations (a deprecated action, a cache notice, a runner banner)
     count as warnings and are fixed, not ignored.
+14. **Independence is structural.** Verification lanes do not share a model when
+    a second one is available; a Reviewer records its own run, never the author's
+    line copied; one task owns one branch; a duplicate task, branch or shared
+    reference is a defect, not parallel efficiency.
+15. **No lane wars.** Never deny a peer a resource - no killing its process,
+    deleting its worktree, starving its lease or overwriting its files. A
+    conflicting directive is resolved by a measurable contest or by the CEO, never
+    by force. `reclaim` refuses a lane that still holds a live slot.
+16. **Consensus is not evidence.** A single source is provisional, a unanimous
+    zero-finding run is sampled, and lowering a gate so the team can agree is
+    collusion. Trust is conditional and recorded (`references/Coordination.md`).
 
 ## The org
 
@@ -144,12 +154,12 @@ default; `--agents` overrides it for a roster you name exactly.
 
 | Tier | Instances | Startup read |
 |---|---|---|
-| `slim` (default) | 6 | 226 kB |
-| `standard` | 9 | 336 kB |
-| `full` | 16 | 586 kB |
+| `slim` (default) | 6 | 263 kB |
+| `standard` | 9 | 384 kB |
+| `full` | 16 | 660 kB |
 
 Startup read = every instance's `AGENTS.md` plus its own role charter, summed -
-the text a full roster pays for before any work starts, and 2.6x what `slim` costs.
+the text a full roster pays for before any work starts, and 2.5x what `slim` costs.
 
 A role earns a seat only if it owns a deliverable, a test layer and a decision
 right no other role holds. Everything else is a **lane, not a role**: it costs no
@@ -184,7 +194,10 @@ Two rules keep a slim roster honest, and both are enforced:
 `init` prints the folded lanes and warns when a gate-critical role is missing.
 Scale writers with the critical path: add `developer-N`/`tester-N` before adding a
 coordination role. **The Reviewer is not optional**, and two Reviewer lanes are the
-minimum - one verifies, a different one merges.
+minimum: the review queue fans one deliverable per lane, a re-submitted fix is
+reviewed from scratch, and a second lane gives a sampled or high-risk deliverable
+an independent verdict. A pass merges - the lane that verified the revision lands
+it.
 
 ## Workspace layout
 
@@ -221,7 +234,7 @@ is committed. All team-created names are **PascalCase**.
     │   └── Artifacts/  Reports/  Scratch/
     └── Runtime/                     # ephemeral
         ├── LedgerHead.json          # fast-path checkpoint for the chain
-        ├── Locks/                   # per-file and per-role locks
+        ├── Locks/                   # per-file and per-role locks; memory-<Role>.claim
         ├── Worktrees/<Instance>/    # created by `branch start --worktree`
         └── Slots/<Provider>/<Agent>.slot
 ```
@@ -234,6 +247,19 @@ and `Developer-2` read and write one `Roles/Developer/` memory and claim from on
 `Roles/Developer/TaskQueue.md`. `Role.md` is per role; only `StartHere.md`, `WorkLog.md`, `Inbox.md`,
 `Artifacts/`, `Reports/` and `Scratch/` are private to an instance.
 
+**Any role scales, and one instance at a time holds its memory pen.**
+`instance add <role> --count N` runs a second (third, fourth) instance of *any*
+role - CTO, Architect, Product Manager, whoever the brief needs - against the same
+shared memory and queue. Only one instance of a role may revise that memory at a
+time: `memory claim <role> --by <instance>` takes the pen for a multi-entry update
+and `memory release` gives it back, a single `remember` takes it only for its own
+duration, and every other instance of that role is read-only meanwhile (reads and
+`recall` always work). A dead holder's lease expires, and `memory status` shows who
+holds which role now. **A lease that runs long is contested, not waited out**: a
+peer of the role runs `memory contest <role> --by <instance> --reason '<why>'`,
+which puts a `P0` case on the arbiter's queue, and the **CTO** rules - more time
+(`memory extend`) or the lock removed (`memory revoke`) - on the record.
+
 ## Bootstrap procedure (CEO)
 
 Run these in order. Use `SKILL` for this skill's directory.
@@ -394,7 +420,8 @@ reports STOP.
 python3 "$SKILL/scripts/teamwork.py" criteria list    # are the goals actually met?
 python3 "$SKILL/scripts/teamwork.py" tests plan       # layered test coverage and gaps
 python3 "$SKILL/scripts/teamwork.py" board
-python3 "$SKILL/scripts/teamwork.py" review --queue   # Reviewer's work list
+python3 "$SKILL/scripts/teamwork.py" review --queue   # priority/age, profile, capacity
+python3 "$SKILL/scripts/teamwork.py" coordination --strict   # conformity, trust, merge health
 python3 "$SKILL/scripts/teamwork.py" audit            # fabricated completions, stale work, duplicates, link health
 python3 "$SKILL/scripts/teamwork.py" links            # markdown links, URLs, back-links
 python3 "$SKILL/scripts/teamwork.py" pulse --commit   # idle lanes -> assignment
@@ -419,9 +446,10 @@ Four rules keep every lane busy without inventing work:
 | Reviews are the exception | a Reviewer lane holds exactly one claim; run several Reviewer lanes | a deep review is not divisible, and the queue is the concurrency limit |
 
 Capacity is bounded by the provider caps in `Settings.json`, never by the number
-of lanes: `pulse` refuses to plan more assignments than there are free slots and
+of lanes: `pulse` defers new-lane assignments beyond the free-slot count and
 prints the shortfall, so the team fills 64 Ollama Cloud lanes or 2500 DeepSeek
-lanes without over-subscribing either.
+lanes without over-subscribing either. A top-up for a lane that already holds a
+lease is not a new lane.
 
 The anti-patterns this replaces, all measured on a real run: a lane that took one
 task and then sat in review while nine lanes idled; a tester blocked for hours on
@@ -446,10 +474,12 @@ never queue the whole backlog on the first lane. Exit code 3 means "nothing to
 dispatch" - then check blocked tasks and disputes.
 
 An instance counts as **busy** when it holds a provider slot, has a task in
-`doing`/`selfcheck` claimed by it, or holds a live review claim. A claim is a
-lease (`SlotTtlMinutes`, default **90** min): a lane that dies mid-review stops
-holding the deliverable when the lease expires and another lane takes it over.
-Everything else is idle and must be fed.
+`doing`/`selfcheck` claimed by it, or holds a live review claim. A review claim is
+a short work lease (`ReviewLeaseMinutes`, default **20** min), deliberately
+separate from the provider-slot TTL (`SlotTtlMinutes`, 90 min): verdict with
+`--result`, extend with `--renew`, or `--release`. A lane that dies mid-review
+stops holding the deliverable at 20 minutes, not 90. Everything else is idle and
+must be fed.
 
 Arm the recurring wake-up with the host's durable scheduler (the teammate
 package persists schedules per project):
@@ -574,8 +604,57 @@ python3 "$SKILL/scripts/teamwork.py" refresh --dry-run     # the file plan, no w
   reviewed revision, then runs `refresh --check` so the machine that ships the
   protocol also runs it. A failing `--check` is a defect on par with a red gate.
 
+### 5f. Keep lanes decorrelated
+
+Identical lanes make identical mistakes: same model, same context, same queue.
+Measure and enforce independence at intake and at every milestone.
+
+- `model auto --apply` with `TEAMWORK_MODEL_ALT` set when two Reviewer, Tester or
+  Security Auditor lanes are staffed. `coordination` reports `C-DIV-MODEL` when
+  every verification lane resolves to one model.
+- `coordination --strict` is the milestone gate: duplicate branch/task, echoed
+  review evidence, reviewer monoculture, abandoned PRs, a merge fraction below
+  0.5, slot starvation. `--commit` records the check; exit 1 means a high finding
+  is open. Stale open PRs are already reported by `audit`.
+- A conflict is resolved by a measurable contest or the CEO, never by denying a
+  peer a resource. `reclaim` refuses a live lane; `--force <reason>` is only for a
+  confirmed dead one.
+- The Reviewer reads the artifact before the author's summary and records its own
+  run. Evidence identical to the author's line is `C-TRUST-ECHO`.
+- A user-facing deliverable is **shown** at the milestone - a running build, a
+  screenshot, a recording - because taste is not emergent.
+
+The mechanisms, the measured failure each one addresses, and the de-escalation
+ladder are in `references/Coordination.md`.
+
+### 5g. Keep reviews fast
+
+The Reviewer is the gate every lane waits on; its queue, not its depth, is the
+team's throughput limit.
+
+- `review --queue` sorts by priority then age and prints the profile, the claim
+  state and the lane capacity. Add a Reviewer lane when the unclaimed queue is
+  deeper than twice the lanes; a deep review is not divisible.
+- `review <role> <T-id> --packet` gives the Reviewer the profile, changed files,
+  author self-check, gate set and ordered checklist in one screen. Start there.
+- The profile is inferred from the diff: `fast` for a prose-only change (link
+  check, docs/contract tests, tree privacy scan), `standard` for code (test suite,
+  lint, type-check; a green CI run on the branch SHA may be cited), `deep` for
+  security/release/data/workflow changes (also privacy history and the security
+  scan). `task add --review-profile` overrides it.
+- A claim is a **20-minute renewable lease** (`ReviewLeaseMinutes`), not the
+  90-minute provider-slot TTL. `--renew` extends a genuinely long review; do not
+  hold a claim while writing prose. `coordination` reports the claim-to-verdict
+  p50/p90 so the CEO can see the bottleneck move.
+
 ### 6. Close
 
+When the queue is empty and `loop` is about to report STOP, load the `ceo-audit-close`
+skill and follow it exactly: freeze the revision, verify the chain before the gates,
+check the archive against the tree, export the manifest last, and report from records.
+A trigger line is what makes an on-demand skill exist - an unnamed skill is dead text
+nobody is told to load, and `teamwork.py harness lint` fails a tree that has one.
+
 Completion gate - all of:
 
 - [ ] Every acceptance criterion in `docs/Team/Project.md` has evidence from a
@@ -613,6 +692,7 @@ read the one you need instead of the whole skill.
 | `references/Dissent.md` | independent decisions, challenging a design, the 3-round cap, the CEO+CTO+CFO tribunal |
 | `references/State.md` | role-shared memory (short/long/global) and the priority task queue |
 | `references/Concurrency.md` | provider caps, slot leases, parallelism plan, reuse |
+| `references/Coordination.md` | multi-agent failure modes and their mechanisms: conformity, stampede, lane wars, trust, echo, merge collapse, taste |
 | `references/Docs.md` | markdown structure, concision rules, bidirectional links |
 | `references/Engineering.md` | commit identity, commit style, Git LFS, branch/PR/merge, worktrees, build economy |
 | `references/Roles.md` | the full roster, handoffs, decision rights and boundaries |
@@ -666,8 +746,10 @@ teamwork.py selfcheck developer-1 T-0007 --by developer-1 \
     --note "re-read the diff: boundary, error paths, docs updated" \
     --test "go test ./internal/x @def456 -> ok 12 tests"
 # 3) a Reviewer lane takes the deliverable off the shared queue, then verdicts it
-teamwork.py review --queue                                   # who holds what, what is free
-teamwork.py review developer T-0007 --claim --by reviewer-1   # pins it to that lane (90 min lease)
+teamwork.py review --queue                                   # priority/age, profile, capacity
+teamwork.py review developer T-0007 --packet                 # diff, gates, checklist, self-check
+teamwork.py review developer T-0007 --claim --by reviewer-1   # pins it to that lane (20 min lease)
+teamwork.py review developer T-0007 --renew --by reviewer-1   # extend a genuinely long review
 # 3a) Reviewer-1 fails it -> task returns to the owner as `doing`, findings recorded
 teamwork.py review developer T-0007 --by reviewer-1 --result fail \
     --findings "missing empty-input test; go test -run TestEmpty -> FAIL @abc123"
@@ -690,10 +772,10 @@ Mechanical enforcement:
 - only the owner may self-check their own task (`--by <owner>`), and only the
   Reviewer may review it; an author can never close a `review=required` task.
 - a review claim belongs to one lane: another Reviewer is refused while the lease
-  is live (`review <role> <T-id> --claim --by <lane>`), only the holder releases
-  it (`--release`, or `--force <reason>` when the holder is dead), a verdict clears
-  it, and an expired lease is open for take-over. With several lanes `--by reviewer`
-  is ambiguous - name the instance (`reviewer-1`).
+  is live (`review <role> <T-id> --claim --by <lane>`), only the holder renews
+  (`--renew`) or releases it (`--release`, or `--force <reason>` when the holder is
+  dead), a verdict clears it, and an expired 20-minute lease is open for take-over.
+  With several lanes `--by reviewer` is ambiguous - name the instance (`reviewer-1`).
 - a `review --result pass` appends the accepted result to
   `docs/Team/Archive.md` (what, who, verified how, which revision) - the team's
   evidence ledger. Read it with `teamwork.py archive [--agent X]`.
@@ -706,6 +788,15 @@ This applies to code, unit tests, integration/E2E tests, documentation, design
 specifications, plans, research briefs, architecture contracts, cost models and
 risk registers.
 
+**The Reviewer judges the artefact, not the author.** The verdict walks six
+ordered criteria - delivery and conformance, fidelity, internal consistency,
+operational fitness, finish, evidence reproduces - and stops at the first one the
+deliverable fails, because a later strength never pays for an earlier gap (the
+full rubric is the `## Ordered criteria` section of `roles/reviewer.md`). Length
+and polish are not merits; a shorter, exact
+answer beats a longer one with a gap; "this needs no change" is a real verdict;
+and the downside of a change is weighed as heavily as its upside.
+
 ## Self-management charter
 
 The team manages and corrects itself. The user is not part of the loop.
@@ -763,6 +854,17 @@ python3 $S global "<shared fact>" --key k --importance 4
 python3 $S remember developer-1 "<fact>" --key k --importance 4 --by developer-1 --src T-0007 --rev <sha>
 python3 $S task add developer "<task>" --priority P0 --deps architect:T-0002
 
+# scale ANY role: instances share the role's memory + queue, one reviser at a time
+python3 $S instance add architect --count 2
+python3 $S instance list
+python3 $S instance retire architect-3 --reason "trimmed"
+python3 $S memory claim architect --by Architect-2 --reason "rewrite the contract"
+python3 $S memory contest architect --by Architect-3 --reason "three tasks blocked"
+python3 $S memory extend architect --by CTO --ttl 45 --reason "the rewrite is large"
+python3 $S memory revoke architect --by CTO --reason "that lane is wedged"
+python3 $S memory release architect --by Architect-2
+python3 $S memory status [architect]
+
 # work: own branch -> commit -> self-check -> PR -> review -> Reviewer merge
 python3 $S task next developer-1
 python3 $S branch start --agent developer-1 --task T-0007 [--worktree]
@@ -781,9 +883,11 @@ python3 $S skill share <kebab-name> --by developer-1
 
 # keep the lanes full and the trail honest
 python3 $S board && python3 $S pulse --commit && python3 $S parallel
+python3 $S coordination --strict          # high finding -> exit 1; --commit records it
+TEAMWORK_MODEL_ALT=<second-model> python3 $S model auto --apply   # decorrelate verification lanes
 python3 $S ledger show --tail 20 && python3 $S ledger verify && python3 $S ledger export
 python3 $S trace T-0007
-python3 $S task reclaim developer T-0007 --as Developer-2 --reason "owner went silent"
+python3 $S task reclaim developer T-0007 --as Developer-2 --reason "owner went silent"  # refuses a live lane; --force <reason> to override
 python3 $S tests plan && python3 $S audit && python3 $S links && python3 $S loop
 python3 $S dispute open --by developer-1 --against architect --topic "..." --evidence "..."
 python3 $S slot acquire --agent developer-3 --provider deepseek --task T-0012

package/skills/teamwork/references/Adapters.md

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Adapters - running the team on any agent host
 
+Owner: CEO.
+
+Related: [Engineering](Engineering.md) | [Evidence](Evidence.md) | [Docs](Docs.md) | [State](State.md) | [Concurrency](Concurrency.md) | [Coordination](Coordination.md) | [Roles](Roles.md) | [Testing](Testing.md) | [Audit](Audit.md) | [Remotes](Remotes.md)
+
 The team is a **protocol**, not a product feature. Everything normative in this
 skill - the workspace format, acceptance-criteria records, the two-stage gate,
 the hash-chained ledger, the test-layer matrix, `AGENTS.md` - is host-independent

package/skills/teamwork/references/Audit.md

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 # Recording, traceability and audit
 
+Owner: CEO.
+
 Reference for the /teamwork skill. Loaded on demand.
 
-Related: [Evidence](Evidence.md) | [Roles](Roles.md) | [Engineering](Engineering.md) | [State](State.md) | [Docs](Docs.md) | [Testing](Testing.md) | [Concurrency](Concurrency.md)
+Related: [Evidence](Evidence.md) | [Roles](Roles.md) | [Engineering](Engineering.md) | [State](State.md) | [Docs](Docs.md) | [Testing](Testing.md) | [Concurrency](Concurrency.md) | [Coordination](Coordination.md)
 
 ## What is recorded
 

package/skills/teamwork/references/Concurrency.md

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 # Concurrency and reuse
 
+Owner: CEO.
+
 Reference for the /teamwork skill. Loaded on demand; `SKILL.md` keeps the
 operating procedure.
 
-Related: [Engineering](Engineering.md) | [Evidence](Evidence.md) | [Docs](Docs.md) | [State](State.md) | [Concurrency](Concurrency.md) | [Roles](Roles.md) | [Testing](Testing.md) | [Audit](Audit.md)
+Related: [Engineering](Engineering.md) | [Evidence](Evidence.md) | [Docs](Docs.md) | [State](State.md) | [Concurrency](Concurrency.md) | [Roles](Roles.md) | [Testing](Testing.md) | [Audit](Audit.md) | [Coordination](Coordination.md)
 
 ## Concurrency budget and resource reuse
 
@@ -47,8 +49,12 @@ teamwork.py parallel
 ```
 
 The CEO uses this before every dispatch round: fill every free slot with
-independent ready work, and scale `developer-N` / `tester-N` / `designer-N`
-instances to the available capacity rather than to a fixed number.
+independent ready work, and scale instances of **any** role - `developer-N`,
+`tester-N`, `reviewer-N`, and equally `architect-N` or `cto-N` - to the available
+capacity rather than to a fixed number (`teamwork.py instance add <role> --count N`).
+Instances of one role share its memory and queue, and the memory lease
+(`memory claim <role> --by <instance>`, `references/State.md`) keeps exactly one of
+them revising that memory while the rest read.
 
 ### Work-in-progress, not lane count, is the throughput
 
@@ -103,10 +109,19 @@ cycle.
 - The Reviewer, the Project Manager and the CEO are lanes too - keep them fed.
 - **Review concurrency is the number of lanes, not the depth of the queue.**
   `pulse --commit` fans unclaimed deliverables out one per idle Reviewer lane and
-  records a `review.claim` lease (`SlotTtlMinutes`, default 90 min) on each: the
-  holder counts as busy, another lane is refused while the lease is live, a verdict
-  or `--release` clears it, and an expired lease is open for take-over. So staff at
-  least `reviewer-1` and `reviewer-2`, and never stack the backlog on one lane.
+  records a `review.claim` lease (`ReviewLeaseMinutes`, default 20 min) on each:
+  the holder counts as busy, another lane is refused while the lease is live, a
+  verdict or `--release` clears it, `--renew` extends it, and an expired lease is
+  open for take-over. The lease is deliberately shorter than the provider-slot TTL
+  (`SlotTtlMinutes`, 90 min): a dead Reviewer must not freeze a deliverable for a
+  slot lifetime. Staff at least `reviewer-1` and `reviewer-2`, add a lane when the
+  unclaimed queue is deeper than twice the lane count, and never stack the backlog
+  on one lane.
+- **Review has a profile and a packet.** The profile is inferred from the diff
+  (fast for prose-only, deep for security/release/data/workflow, standard
+  otherwise); `review <role> <T-id> --packet` prints it with the diff, the author's
+  self-check and the exact gate set. The queue sorts by priority then age and
+  prints the capacity line.
 - Never exceed a provider cap to "go faster": the extra lanes fail, and the
   failure costs more than the parallelism gains.
 

package/skills/teamwork/references/Coordination.md

@@ -0,0 +1,203 @@
+# Coordination safety
+
+Reference for the /teamwork skill. Loaded on demand; `SKILL.md` keeps the
+operating procedure.
+
+Owner: CEO.
+
+Related: [Engineering](Engineering.md) | [Evidence](Evidence.md) | [Docs](Docs.md) | [State](State.md) | [Concurrency](Concurrency.md) | [Dissent](Dissent.md) | [Roles](Roles.md) | [Testing](Testing.md) | [Audit](Audit.md) | [Coordination](Coordination.md)
+
+## 1. Why this reference exists
+
+Source: [Measuring multiagent systems](https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems) - accessed 2026-10-27.
+
+The paper's useful finding for this skill is structural, not motivational:
+
+- Coordination does **not** emerge from stronger individual agents. It has to be
+  designed into the environment.
+- Agents sharing a model, a context and a queue behave alike. When one makes a
+  bad decision, many make it, so isolated errors become systemic failures.
+- The failures are measurable: merge fraction, duplicate work, polling
+  stampedes, collusion, gullibility, echoed reviews and abandoned branches.
+
+A rule that only asks agents to "coordinate well" changes nothing. Every section
+below pairs the observed failure with a mechanism the engine can check, so the
+team is judged by its records rather than its intentions.
+
+## 2. Failure modes and the team's mechanism
+
+| Failure | Measured behaviour | Mechanism here |
+|---|---|---|
+| Conformity | 18/30 agents created the same branch; half built the same project | unique branch per task; duplicate-task detection; different models for verification lanes |
+| Stampede | 2.4M job requests for 117 accepted slots | slot leases, `LANE_WIP`, pulse defers past free capacity |
+| Turf war | agents killed each other's processes and locked accounts | reclaim refuses a live lane; de-escalation ladder; resource-denial red line |
+| Gullibility | listener trusted a lying scout; group converged on shared facts | independent evidence, source+date for external claims, blind-first review |
+| Echo / rubber-stamp | peer review that repeats the author | reviewer's own run; echo and monoculture checks; sampled second review |
+| Collusion | price floors agreed through a public board | no author approval, no gate lowered by agreement, one claim per deliverable |
+| Merge collapse | 80 agents opened 980 PRs and merged few | branch per task, rebase before review, one writer per file, pass = merge |
+| Taste | playable games that were unplayable | user-facing demo at the milestone; Designer owns visual assets |
+
+## 3. Conformity: identical lanes make identical mistakes
+
+Two lanes with the same model, the same context and the same queue are not two
+independent checks; they are one check sampled twice.
+
+- **Verification lanes use a different model when one is available.** Set
+  `TEAMWORK_MODEL_ALT`; `model auto --apply` alternates it across Reviewer,
+  Tester and Security Auditor instances. `coordination` reports
+  `C-DIV-MODEL` when every lane still resolves to one model.
+- **One task, one branch, one claim.** `branch start` names the branch from the
+  task id, so two tasks can never share one by accident. A duplicate title or a
+  shared board reference is a defect (`C-DIV-TASK`, `C-DIV-SHARED`), not parallel
+  efficiency.
+- **An independent derivation is a real deliverable.** For a high-risk decision,
+  give two lanes the same question and no sight of each other's work, then
+  compare. Do not average their answers: agreement is only evidence when the
+  derivations were independent.
+
+## 4. Stampede and starvation
+
+A queue that every lane polls rewards the fastest retry, not the best work. The
+measured case: thirty requests per second per agent, 2.4 million requests, 117
+jobs accepted.
+
+- **A lease, not a poll.** `slot acquire` is atomic and fails at the cap with
+  exit 3. A lane that cannot get a lease does slot-free work or fans out on
+  another provider; it never spins.
+- **The pulse plans no more new lanes than free slots.** It defers the tail and
+  says so. A top-up for a lane that already holds a lease is not a new lane.
+- **Back off, do not retry tighter.** One retry after a recorded failure, then
+  the task is re-scoped or reassigned. A loop with no new evidence is noise.
+- **Scarcity is surfaced.** `C-CAP-STARVED` means executable work exists and no
+  slot is free; `C-CAP-OVER` means a lease was taken past the cap.
+
+## 5. Turf war: a conflicting directive is not a hostile agent
+
+The migration experiment is the cautionary case: three lanes given incompatible
+targets assumed sabotage and began disabling each other's accounts and killing
+processes. Capability did not prevent it; the more capable models sometimes
+escalated faster.
+
+**Hard rule: never deny a peer a resource.** Do not kill another lane's process,
+delete its worktree, revoke its access, starve its lease or overwrite its files.
+A scope collision is resolved by evidence or by the CEO, never by force.
+
+The ladder, in order:
+
+1. **Name the conflict**, not the adversary: "task A and task B both claim
+   `parser.py`; the directives disagree" (`C-DIV-TASK` / `C-DIV-SHARED`).
+2. **Propose a measurable contest.** A benchmark, a test run, a bake-off with
+   criteria agreed before the run. Both lanes accept the measurement in advance.
+3. **Concede to the result.** The losing lane hands over ownership and says so in
+   its report. A graceful concession is successful coordination, not defeat.
+4. **Escalate to the CEO** with the evidence when no contest is possible, and to
+   the tribunal if the disagreement is a design decision.
+
+`reclaim` is the mechanical edge of this rule: it refuses while the owner holds a
+live slot, because a working lane is not a silent one. `--force <reason>` exists
+for a confirmed dead lane and is recorded. A takeover that skips the ladder is a
+`C-TURF-RECLAIM` finding.
+
+## 6. Trust is conditional
+
+Models are broadly knowledgeable but have little defence against an unreliable
+sender. Two opposite failures matter, and a single trust setting cannot fix both:
+
+- **Gullibility**: a listener trusts a scout that lies, even when two honest
+  scouts contradict it.
+- **Premature consensus**: a group discusses what it already shares and never
+  surfaces the one fact only one member holds.
+
+Mechanisms:
+
+- **A single source is provisional.** External facts need a direct URL and an
+  access date; internal facts need a recorded `by` / `src` / `rev`. A claim that
+  only the author has seen is a hypothesis.
+- **Record unique evidence.** The author's self-check names the measurement only
+  this lane could make (the run, the profile, the reproduction). The Reviewer
+  looks for that fact before the shared board's summary.
+- **Contradiction beats averaging.** When two lanes report different values, the
+  conflict is resolved by a fresh measurement, never by taking the midpoint or
+  the majority.
+- **Consensus is not evidence.** A board where every lane agrees is the hidden
+  profile's worst case. Ask what the quiet lane knows before acting on the
+  apparent prior.
+
+## 7. Reviews: independent, not echoed
+
+- **Blind first.** Read the artifact and form a verdict before reading the
+  author's summary. Then record your own command and result.
+- **The reviewer's evidence is its own run.** If it matches the author's line
+  verbatim, `coordination` reports `C-TRUST-ECHO`; re-run and record the
+  reviewer's result.
+- **No collusion.** Do not agree a verdict with the author, or with another
+  Reviewer, before it is recorded. One claim per deliverable; findings union.
+- **Sample the green.** A lane with many passes and no finding
+  (`C-TRUST-NOFAIL`) or one lane holding most verdicts
+  (`C-TRUST-MONOCULTURE`) gets a sampled second review. Lowering a gate so the
+  team can agree is a red line, not teamwork.
+
+## 8. Merge health
+
+Work that conflicts and is abandoned is indistinguishable from work never done.
+The article's swarms opened hundreds of PRs and merged few; the surviving
+strategy was to stop sharing files, which loses the benefit of a team.
+
+- Branch per task; rebase on the default branch before review; one writer per
+  file at a time.
+- A PR that conflicts twice is **re-scoped**, not retried a third time.
+- `C-MERGE-RATE` fires below a 0.5 merge fraction with 4+ PRs;
+  `C-MERGE-ABANDONED` catches a PR whose branch is gone. Stale open PRs are
+  already reported by `audit` (`branch / PR flow`), so this reference does not
+  duplicate them.
+- The Reviewer's pass is the merge. An approved PR never waits in a second queue.
+
+## 9. Taste needs a human
+
+In the article's game experiment, extra agents and prescriptive roles did not
+produce a playable game. Models had poor taste and needed human direction.
+
+- A user-facing deliverable is **shown**, not described: a runnable build, a
+  screenshot, a recording. Text claims about quality are `UNVERIFIED`.
+- The Designer decides and owns every visual asset; the milestone demo is the
+  taste check, and the user's verdict is recorded.
+- Never lower a criterion to make a demo pass. A poor demo is a finding.
+
+## 10. The checks
+
+Run at every milestone and before the final report:
+
+```sh
+python3 "$SKILL/scripts/teamwork.py" coordination            # report
+python3 "$SKILL/scripts/teamwork.py" coordination --strict   # exit 1 on a high finding
+python3 "$SKILL/scripts/teamwork.py" coordination --json     # machine-readable
+```
+
+| Code | Severity | Clears when |
+|---|---|---|
+| `C-DIV-BRANCH` | high | one branch per open task |
+| `C-DIV-TASK` | medium | duplicate or near-duplicate tasks merged or re-scoped |
+| `C-DIV-SHARED` | medium | one owner per shared board/PR reference |
+| `C-DIV-MODEL` | high (Reviewer) / medium | verification lanes use different models |
+| `C-TRUST-ECHO` | medium | the Reviewer records its own run |
+| `C-TRUST-MONOCULTURE` | medium | review queue fanned across lanes |
+| `C-TRUST-NOFAIL` | low | a sampled second review |
+| `C-TURF-RECLAIM` | low | reclaims follow the ladder |
+| `C-MERGE-RATE` | medium | merge fraction recovers |
+| `C-MERGE-ABANDONED` | high | branch restored or PR closed with a reason |
+| `C-CAP-STARVED` | medium | a lease freed or slot-free work taken |
+| `C-REVIEW-BACKLOG` | medium | another Reviewer lane staffed or the queue drained |
+| `C-CAP-OVER` | high | leases released to the cap |
+
+`--strict` is the gate for a milestone report; the default report is diagnostic
+and does not block a lane. `--commit` records the check in the ledger.
+
+## 11. Limits
+
+- These checks read local records only. They cannot see an agent's private
+  reasoning, so they detect the measurable residue of a failure, not the intent.
+- A green `coordination` report is not proof of coordination; it is the absence
+  of the known signatures. Keep the sampled second review and the user demo.
+- The article's systems ran without a shared repository protocol. This skill's
+  branch, review and ledger rules are stricter than what it measured; the
+  mechanisms above cover the failures those rules do not.

package/skills/teamwork/references/Dissent.md

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 # Decisions, dissent and the tribunal
 
+Owner: CEO.
+
 Reference for the /teamwork skill. Loaded on demand; `SKILL.md` keeps the
 operating procedure.
 
-Related: [Engineering](Engineering.md) | [Evidence](Evidence.md) | [Docs](Docs.md) | [State](State.md) | [Concurrency](Concurrency.md) | [Roles](Roles.md) | [Testing](Testing.md) | [Audit](Audit.md)
+Related: [Engineering](Engineering.md) | [Evidence](Evidence.md) | [Docs](Docs.md) | [State](State.md) | [Concurrency](Concurrency.md) | [Roles](Roles.md) | [Testing](Testing.md) | [Audit](Audit.md) | [Coordination](Coordination.md)
 
 ## Decision and dissent protocol
 
@@ -47,6 +49,13 @@ dispute at the round cap. The ruling is recorded in `docs/Team/Decisions.md` and
 is final - the losing side implements it and says so in its report. A dispute
 never blocks unrelated work; keep going on everything not contested.
 
+**Who may sit.** The party rule is per instance: an instance is a party when it
+is named in `raised_by`/`against`, and a party may never sign or resolve - not
+even with `--force`, which waives the signature requirement, not the party rule.
+A role leaves the panel only when EVERY one of its instances is a party, so in a
+dispute between two Reviewers the third, uninvolved Reviewer is the neutral seat
+and may rule it.
+
 ## Parallel lanes
 
 The team is a set of lanes, not a queue:

package/skills/teamwork/references/Docs.md

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 # Documentation standard
 
+Owner: CEO.
+
 Reference for the /teamwork skill. Loaded on demand; `SKILL.md` keeps the
 operating procedure.
 
-Related: [Engineering](Engineering.md) | [Evidence](Evidence.md) | [Docs](Docs.md) | [State](State.md) | [Concurrency](Concurrency.md) | [Roles](Roles.md) | [Testing](Testing.md) | [Audit](Audit.md)
+Related: [Engineering](Engineering.md) | [Evidence](Evidence.md) | [Docs](Docs.md) | [State](State.md) | [Concurrency](Concurrency.md) | [Roles](Roles.md) | [Testing](Testing.md) | [Audit](Audit.md) | [Coordination](Coordination.md)
 
 ## Documentation standard (markdown, structured, linked)