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Run several independent Cotal features concurrently by creating one Git worktree and one spawn-capable mesh manager per feature; each manager staffs a review panel in a dedicated channel, adds one independent cold reviewer briefed under the cold-review skill, owns plan-to-commit delivery, and escalates unresolved product decisions by DM to the coordinator for relay to the user. Use when the user asks to split multiple features across managers/worktrees, run parallel feature teams on Cotal, or…

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What the file says

# Parallel feature managers

Use the live Cotal mesh as a hierarchy:

- The current session is the **coordinator**. It creates isolation, sets policy, monitors progress,
  and relays decisions. It does not duplicate implementation or panel review.
- Each feature gets one **manager** rooted in its own Git worktree and branch. The manager owns the
  complete plan -> implementation -> review -> test -> commit loop.
- Each manager spawns three or more **read/review-only peers** in one dedicated channel: engineer,
  security, and critic at minimum.
- Near the final gate, each manager adds one **independent cold reviewer**, briefed under the
  **`cold-review` skill**, which is the single source for how that seat is briefed, isolated and
  graded. It is a control on the panel rather than a fourth panelist.

## Models: cross-vendor panels are a correctness rule, not a preference

**No two seats whose agreement is load-bearing may share a model family.** A finding confirmed by a
seat of the same family as the one that made it is an echo, not a confirmation. A panel of three
same-model reviewers has approved a head carrying a defect that all three missed, and what surfaced
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add cotal-ai/cotal/parallel-feature-managers@sha256:a275c94eb9123ddd

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Source

GitHub

cotal-ai/cotal · 380 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4xuy5txcdlcr4dm5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cotal-ai/cotal/parallel-feature-managers
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a275c94eb9123ddd909830d3e1df56cd62dcdb25b57e449c5eb4c1f0b258618c

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