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Workflows

Chain models with > and +. Steer with /frontier, /team, /repeat, /parallel, /oss, /deterministic, /btw, /interrupt. Captain still routes bare prompts and owns handoff and memory.

Control words (steer without leaving the thread)

WordEffect
/team <task>Director plans an ensemble on one task, one reviewed answer. /team /frontier … binds a member.
/frontier <task>Claude at maximum effort; fallback depends on availability
/cheap /save /speed /qualityPreference for this turn; the director chooses inside it
/ossOpen-weight models only; composes with other modifiers in either order
/deterministicADI-green serving tuple only; pins the stack for the run. See ADI
/repeat N <task>Rounds until N or until /repeat stop; /repeat status, /repeat abort
/parallel <task>A second task beside this chat; show, status, stop
/wf <english>Compile English into a workflow, preview, then /run wf_id. /wf save|run|list for named workflows
/claude /grokForce a specific leg for this turn
/contextInspect or shape conversation context for the current turn
/captainThe cheat sheet, in the TUI (also /captain <helm> to switch director live)
/btw <note>Steer the worker already running (mid-turn on claude/opencode legs)
/interruptStop the running worker; keep a handoff note or marked partial

Workflow chaining syntax

One line. > (or then, ->) advances a stage; + (or and, &) runs legs in parallel inside a stage. A connector counts only when a leg prefix follows it, so prose is never misread.

/grok analyse @src/queue.ts > /cursor review it for missed cases > /codex red-team it + /claude red-team it
/grok draft the migration > /frontier harden it + /codex write the docs
/claude fix the flaky test gate: go test ./... > /codex review the fix
  • A bare leg (> /codex) requests a refinement of the previous output
  • One task per line also fans out in parallel
  • gate: <cmd> must exit 0 for that worker’s result to count as successful; one repair retry. Other successful workers can still feed the next stage
  • Preference words (/cheap, /quality) are rejected inside a chain: name the legs
  • Max 4 stages, 4 legs per stage, 8 declared worker slots. Retries and the final director review add executions. The review combines the findings into one answer

Loop compiler

State intent ("until tests pass", "while coverage < 80%"). Use /repeat N to bound rounds and gate: <command> in a workflow to check a result. A natural-language target alone is not a machine-verified completion condition.