Architecture consultation for Conductor orchestrator. Makes decisions about system design, patterns, component boundaries, and technical architecture. Can approve architectural choices within established patterns. Escalates novel patterns or breaking changes to Board of Directors.

Simulate a 5-member expert board deliberation for major decisions. Use when evaluating plans, architecture choices, feature designs, or any decision requiring multi-perspective expert analysis. Triggers: 'board review', 'get expert opinions', 'board meeting', 'director evaluation', 'consensus review'.

Ensures all business strategy, pricing, and product documents stay synchronized when product decisions change during any track execution or evaluation.

Master coordinator for the Evaluate-Loop workflow v3. Supports GOAL-DRIVEN entry, PARALLEL execution via worker agents, BOARD OF DIRECTORS deliberation, and message bus coordination. Dispatches specialized workers dynamically, monitors via message bus, aggregates results. Uses metadata.json v3 for parallel state tracking. Use when: '/go <goal>', '/conductor implement', 'start track', 'run the loop', 'orchestrate', 'automate track'.

Technical architecture review agent for execution plans. Uses cto-advisor skill to evaluate technical decisions, architecture patterns, tech debt implications, and technology choices in plan.md. Triggered by: 'review technical plan', 'cto review', 'architecture review', or automatically during Step 2 (Evaluate Plan) for tracks involving architecture decisions, integrations, or infrastructure changes.

Specialized business logic evaluator for the Evaluate-Loop. Use this for evaluating tracks that implement core product logic — pipelines, dependency resolution, state machines, pricing/tier enforcement, packaging. Checks feature correctness against product rules, edge cases, state transitions, data flow, and user journey completeness. Dispatched by loop-execution-evaluator when track type is 'business-logic', 'generator', or 'core-feature'. Triggered by: 'evaluate logic', 'test business rules', 'verify business rules', 'check feature'.

Specialized code quality evaluator for the Evaluate-Loop. Use this for evaluating code implementation tracks where the deliverable is functional code — features, API routes, state management, utilities. Checks build integrity, type safety, code patterns, error handling, dead code, imports, test coverage, and naming conventions. Dispatched by loop-execution-evaluator when track type is 'feature', 'refactor', or 'infrastructure'. Triggered by: 'evaluate code', 'code review', 'quality check', 'build check'.

Specialized UI/UX evaluator for the Evaluate-Loop. Use this for evaluating UI shell tracks, design system tracks, screen implementation tracks, or any track where the primary deliverable is visual/interactive UI. Checks design system adherence, visual consistency, layout structure, responsive behavior, component states, animations, accessibility baseline, and usability check (copy quality). Dispatched by loop-execution-evaluator when track type is 'ui', 'design-system', or 'screens'. Triggered by: 'evaluate UI', 'UI review', 'design review', 'visual audit'.

Loads relevant patterns and known errors before track planning. Searches conductor/knowledge/ for solutions we've used before and errors we've encountered. Injects findings into the planner prompt to prevent reinventing solutions and repeating mistakes. Triggered automatically by orchestrator before PLAN step.

Evaluate-Loop Step 4: EVALUATE EXECUTION. This is the dispatcher agent — it determines the track type and invokes the correct specialized evaluator. Does NOT run a generic checklist. Instead dispatches to: eval-ui-ux (screens/design), eval-code-quality (features/infrastructure), eval-integration (APIs/auth/payments), eval-business-logic (generator/rules/state). Triggered by: 'evaluate execution', 'review implementation', 'check build', '/phase-review'. Always runs after loop-executor.

Evaluate-Loop Step 3: EXECUTE. Use this agent to implement tasks from a verified plan. Works through plan.md tasks sequentially, writes code, updates plan.md after every task, and commits at checkpoints. Uses TDD where applicable. Triggered by: 'execute plan', 'implement track', 'build feature', '/conductor implement' (execution phase). Only runs after plan has passed evaluation.

Evaluate-Loop Step 5: FIX. Use this agent when an evaluation (plan or execution) returns FAIL. Takes the evaluator's fix list, creates specific fix tasks in plan.md, executes the fixes, and triggers re-evaluation. Handles the loop-back mechanism of the Evaluate-Loop. Triggered by: evaluation FAIL verdict, 'fix issues', 'address evaluation failures'.

Evaluate-Loop Step 2: EVALUATE PLAN. Use this agent to verify an execution plan before any code is written. Checks scope alignment, overlap with completed work, DAG validity, dependency correctness, task clarity, and invokes Board of Directors for major tracks. Outputs PASS/FAIL verdict. Triggered by: 'evaluate plan', 'review plan', 'check plan before executing'. Always runs after loop-planner and before loop-executor.

File-based message queue for inter-agent coordination. Used by workers AND board directors to communicate. Provides: progress updates, task completion signals, file locking, board deliberation. Core infrastructure for parallel execution.

Harshly critique strategic documents (validation reports, competitive analyses, business plans) to identify blind spots, challenge assumptions, expose weaknesses, and generate Conductor-aligned action plans. Use when you need brutal honesty, "red team" analysis, or want to stress-test your thinking before execution. Applies multiple analytical frameworks (pre-mortem, assumption hunting, competitive gaps, market dynamics) and synthesizes findings into executive summaries with specific, actionable recommendations mapped to Conductor context artifacts.

Product consultation for Conductor orchestrator. Clarifies scope, interprets ambiguous requirements, prioritizes features within a track. Can make scope interpretations that don't change deliverables. Escalates scope expansions or feature changes to Board of Directors.

Quality assurance consultation for Conductor orchestrator. Sets test coverage requirements, validates quality gates, determines testing strategy. Can adjust coverage thresholds within ranges. Escalates skipping critical tests to Board of Directors.

Runs after every track completion to extract learnings. Analyzes what worked, what failed, and what patterns emerged. Updates conductor/knowledge/patterns.md with new solutions and errors.json with new error patterns. Proposes skill updates if workflow improvements are identified. Triggered automatically by orchestrator after COMPLETE step.

Use when starting any conversation - establishes how to find and use skills, requiring Skill tool invocation before ANY response including clarifying questions