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Overview

Implements the Central Nervous System for dev-agent's multi-agent coordination.

What's New

Core Components

  • SubagentCoordinator (442 lines) - Brain orchestrating all agents
  • ContextManager (127 lines) - Hippocampus for shared state & memory
  • TaskQueue (232 lines) - Motor cortex for priority-based execution
  • CoordinatorLogger (82 lines) - Structured logging (future: @lytics/croak)

Architecture

  • Self-contained folder structure for easy extraction
  • Message-driven communication protocol
  • Priority-based task scheduling (0-10)
  • Graceful degradation & error handling
  • Concurrency control with retry logic

Agent Stubs

  • PlannerAgent: GitHub issue → tasks (ready for impl)
  • ExplorerAgent: Code pattern analysis (ready for impl)
  • PrAgent: GitHub PR management (ready for impl)

Testing

  • 53 tests passing (100% context, 97% task queue, 89% logger)
  • Comprehensive test suite with Vitest
  • 90%+ overall coverage

Documentation

  • Complete package README (372 lines)
  • Detailed coordinator README (588 lines)
  • Integration examples & API docs

Commit Structure

  1. bf9afab - Core types and message protocol
  2. a4f999c - Coordinator core components
  3. ddcaccf - Comprehensive test suite
  4. 38249bf - Agent stubs and exports
  5. 570582e - Complete documentation

Next Steps

Testing

# Run coordinator tests
pnpm test packages/subagents

# Check coverage
pnpm vitest run packages/subagents --coverage

Closes #7

- Define Message interface (request/response/event/error)
- Define Task interface with priority and retry logic
- Define Agent, ContextManager, and Coordinator interfaces
- Add Logger interface for structured logging
- Establish message-driven architecture foundation
- Install @types/node dependency

Foundation for Central Nervous System architecture.

Ticket: #7
SubagentCoordinator (442 lines):
- Central nervous system orchestrator
- Agent registration and lifecycle management
- Message routing (one-to-one and broadcast)
- Task execution with concurrency control
- System statistics and health monitoring

ContextManager (127 lines):
- Hippocampus for shared state management
- Repository indexer access
- Message history (configurable max size)
- Key-value state storage
- Context statistics

TaskQueue (232 lines):
- Motor cortex for task execution
- Priority-based scheduling (0-10)
- Concurrency control (max concurrent tasks)
- Retry logic with configurable max retries
- Task lifecycle (pending → running → completed/failed)
- Automatic cleanup of old tasks

CoordinatorLogger (82 lines):
- Structured logging with context
- Log levels (debug/info/warn/error)
- Child loggers with inherited context
- Timestamp formatting
- Future: extractable to @lytics/croak

Architecture:
- Self-contained folder structure
- Message-driven communication
- Graceful error handling
- Shared context pattern

Ticket: #7
ContextManager Tests (17 tests):
- Indexer management and access control
- State management (get/set/delete/clear/keys)
- Message history with size limits
- Statistics reporting
- 100% statement coverage, 100% branch coverage

TaskQueue Tests (24 tests):
- Task enqueueing and priority sorting
- Task status management (pending/running/completed/failed)
- Retry logic with max retries
- Concurrency control and limits
- Task cancellation
- Cleanup of old tasks
- Error handling
- 97% statement coverage, 89% branch coverage

Test Coverage Summary:
- 41 tests passing
- Context Manager: 100% statements, 100% branches
- Task Queue: 97% statements, 89% branches
- Logger: 89% statements, 93% branches (tests in prev commit)

All tests use Vitest with proper mocking and isolation.

Ticket: #7
PlannerAgent (Prefrontal Cortex):
- Stub implementation with Agent interface
- Capabilities: plan, break-down-tasks
- Ready for GitHub issue → task breakdown
- Health check and lifecycle management

ExplorerAgent (Visual Cortex):
- Stub implementation with Agent interface
- Capabilities: explore, analyze-patterns, find-similar
- Ready for semantic code exploration
- Prepared for repository indexer integration

PrAgent (Motor Cortex):
- Stub implementation with Agent interface
- Capabilities: create-pr, update-pr, manage-issues, comment
- Ready for GitHub API integration
- PR and issue management foundation

Package Exports:
- Export coordinator and all components
- Export agent stubs for registration
- Export all types for external use
- Clean public API surface

All agents implement:
- initialize() with context
- handleMessage() for communication
- healthCheck() for monitoring
- shutdown() for cleanup

Future: Full implementations in tickets #8, #9, #10

Ticket: #7
Package README (372 lines):
- Overview of Central Nervous System architecture
- Core components with usage examples
- Message protocol specification
- Agent interface and custom agent guide
- Testing instructions and coverage stats (90%+)
- Design principles (physiology-inspired)
- Future roadmap (logger extraction to @lytics/croak)
- Development workflow and contributing guidelines

Coordinator README (588 lines):
- Detailed architecture breakdown
- SubagentCoordinator complete API documentation
- ContextManager state management guide
- TaskQueue priority scheduling and concurrency
- Full integration example showing all components
- Error handling patterns and best practices
- Performance considerations and tuning
- Future enhancements roadmap

Documentation Features:
- Real-world usage examples
- Code snippets for all components
- Clear API documentation
- Integration patterns
- Performance tips
- Troubleshooting guides

Makes the coordinator system immediately usable by:
- New developers
- External integrations
- Future agent implementations

Ticket: #7
@prosdev prosdev merged commit a183dcc into main Nov 22, 2025
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