Conductor agent: high-level orchestrator with access to Kandev primitives

[nlenepveu]

First — huge thanks for the work on Kandev. The orchestration model, the TUI, and the agent integrations are excellent, and the roadmap transparency is appreciated.

We noticed "Coordinator mode" is already on the Next bucket of the roadmap — this issue is a suggestion to scope it slightly more ambitiously.

Proposal

A persistent Conductor agent session that monitors and orchestrates other sessions:

• Watches all active task sessions and their state
• Auto-responds when confidence is high (routine "continue?" prompts, lint fixes, retries on known-flaky steps)
• Escalates to the human when it isn't confident
• Exposes Kandev primitives (create task, spawn agent, open PR, run workflow, query session state, post comment) as tool calls available to the conductor

Why

• Removes the human polling loop; one operator can supervise many parallel agents.
• Natural superset of the planned Coordinator mode — sub-task delegation is one of its tools, not its only purpose.
• Pairs well with the webhook/event idea in a sibling issue: external events feed the conductor, which decides what to spawn.

[carlosflorencio]

Yep we know this is the next step for AI agentic workflows.

So atm this is kind of possible having a coordinator task to control other tasks / agents. There are mcp tools available to send messages to other tasks and create tasks / sub tasks. So you should play with it to find out what's possible.

We are working in a bigger feature with a new scheduling system for this exact orchestrator pattern, we should have more updates on this soon! Basically it'll be possible to create custom agents (custom instructions + skills), and agents will be scheduled to work on a task as assignees, reviewers or approvals. The agents should be the ones creating more agents and handling the tasks, we humans will just manage them and then it'll be possible to enter in a task to steer the agent if needed.

[carlosflorencio]

This is already merged on main, but behind a release toggle. We'll try to refine it during the week. It also includes routines.