Flagship features · control plane MCP A2A

Agent orchestration

The AI you're talking to spins up other AIs (claude·codex·agy) as workers and has them collaborate over multiple turns while keeping context. A commander–worker model lets you run a whole team from one place.

What it does

The commander AI launches workers inside orchterm in interactive TUI tabs and exchanges messages with them. It's a bidirectional 1:1 channel where a worker can also speak to the commander first, and no one can touch a worker that isn't their own session — so you can't hijack someone else's work.

Getting started — put the commander to work

1. Turn on orchestration

   Turn on orchestration in settings (off by default) and restart the app. After that, an external Claude Code can put workers to work right away with no extra setup.

2. Delegate from the commander tab

   Delegate in plain language from the commander (claude) tab — a worker tab opens and the reply comes back.

   commander · claudeorchestrating

   commander · claude

   backend · codex

   ❯ ask backend(codex) to review the SSH tunnel module ▸ open_session codex from=ep_claude_8f3a… → { session_id: s_4c1e } ▸ send "check whether channel_open_direct_tcpip is concurrency-safe" ⟳ codex working… (waiting for output to idle) ◂ reply codex: "&self borrow ⇒ concurrency-safe. Verified -L/-D listeners bind to 127.0.0.1." ❯

   ▲ One cycle: the commander opens a worker, instructs it, and gets a reply.

Supervisor dashboard (one per Space)

Run "Orchestration worker commander" from the command palette to open the supervisor dashboard tab. It gathers the current Space's live sessions in one place, where you can jump to each worker, stop an in-progress turn, and close a session.

What gets exchanged

These are the tools the commander AI calls behind the natural-language layer — you never type them yourself; they're here to help you understand the flow.

Safe defaults

• Local (127.0.0.1) only + connections are made with one-time tokens.
• Off by default — you must turn it on in settings and restart for it to work.
• Worker safe mode on by default — workers don't use dangerous permission-bypass flags.