Conductors

A conductor is an agent that coordinates other agents. Give it a request that spans repositories or has several separable parts. It scopes the work, starts worker agents for each piece, and is told as each one reports back, so it can check the results and decide what happens next.

Start a conductor

In New work, choose Conductor instead of One agent. From the command line:

hyperbeam run "Add dark mode" --conductor --repo acme/api --repo acme/web --workstream "Dark mode"

What its workers may do

A worker started by a conductor can hold at most what the conductor holds. If the conductor can’t merge pull requests, neither can its workers.

Workers use the conductor’s model unless the conductor chooses another for a piece of work.

Questions from workers

When a worker asks a question, its conductor is prompted with it and answers by messaging the worker. If the decision is not the conductor's to make, it asks you instead and passes your answer on. You can also answer a worker directly from its page. See Questions from the agent.

Following the work

Workers appear on the conductor’s page under Agents it started, and nested under the conductor on the workstream’s page. Each worker has its own page, transcript and sandbox, so you can watch or direct any of them.