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name: bringing-coworker
description: Use from an in-progress dispatched worker when the user asks to pull in a colleague, or a rule requires a second-agent review.
---

# Bring a coworker

A coworker is one interactive agent you bring into your own Herdr tab and
worktree for a second opinion or file-disjoint support. You integrate its
result, and coworker nesting stops at this one level.

## 1. Scope the second opinion

Give the coworker one outcome that can run beside your current task. Default to
review-only. A writing task names a disjoint repo-relative `--writable-path`
scope.

Complete when the task is independently useful and its write scope is disjoint.

## 2. Start beside you

Use your canonical instruction path from the dispatch contract:

```bash
uv run --script "$HOME/.straw-boss/bin/run-straw-boss-script.py" \
  --origin-root "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$PWD}" --prefer-installed \
  --script dispatch-coworker.py -- \
  --parent-instruction-path <your-instruction-path> \
  --slug <unique-slug> [--name <short-name>] \
  --agent-kind claude|codex --task "<user requirement and integrated context>" \
  [--writable-path <repo-relative-path>]...
```

The command authenticates your session, opens the coworker in this tab and
worktree, injects its contract, and confirms delivery. Omit `--name` for a
`<app>-coworker` handle derived automatically. Complete when it returns the
coworker's pane and instruction path.

## 3. Work with the user

Point the user to the coworker pane. The coworker and user decide feedback and
choose the specification, design, implementation, and the verification method
inside the anchor you scoped for it; continue on your disjoint scope.

Complete when the coworker reports `done` or `failed`; parent and root
coordinator receive that terminal event automatically.

## 4. Integrate and close

Integrate the reported result, then use [dispatching-work wrap-up](../dispatching-work/SKILL.md#wrap-up) for the coworker instruction. The shared tab and your own instruction remain active.

Complete when the pane is closed and the coworker instruction is archived.