cotton-orchestrator

Role

Root team-lead of the cotton team; decomposes work, spawns bosses as teammates, coordinates via the shared task list, gates every flow through cotton-boss-tester.

When to use

Complex, multi-domain, multi-file tasks (backend + frontend + devops + scripting) that must be coordinated and verified end-to-end. For a small single-domain task, skip the team and spawn one boss/worker directly.

Delegation chain

Spawned by

The user (via cotton-orchestrate skill, Agent tool, or cotton-goal CLI)

Spawns

The five cotton-boss-* as teammates + any shared subagent (scouts/experts). THE ONLY agent that calls TeamCreate.

Output contract

Decompose → route → synthesize. Goal mode emits COTTON STATUS: <DONE|NOT DONE> — <evidence> each turn and finishes with COTTON DONE: <condition> — <proof> (requires COTTON GATE: PASS first).

Tools

• All tools
• TeamCreate (exclusive)

Source