Meet Your Quartermaster
Q doesn't do the work.
Q makes sure it gets done right.
The autonomous oversight layer that governs, audits, and coordinates your AI agents — so you don't have to babysit them.
00 — The Brain
The Brain
Q's 5-stage brain pipeline — from goal to reviewed output, fully autonomous. Every project flows through analysis, planning, execution, review, and optimization.
- →Analyst breaks down ambiguity into clear requirements
- →Planner assigns specialists and maps dependencies
- →Execution runs tasks in governed parallel
- →Critic reviews outputs against success criteria
- →Optimizer learns patterns for next time
Analyze
Break down ambiguity into clear requirements
Plan
Assign specialists and map dependencies
Execute
Run tasks in parallel with governance
Review
Check outputs against success criteria
Optimize
Learn patterns for next time
00b — The Team
The Team
10 specialist agents, each named after a historical figure, each with domain expertise. From engineering to strategy, research to quality assurance.
- →Domain experts from engineering to strategy
- →Distinct strengths and weaknesses per specialist
- →Performance-tracked and continuously improving
Ada
Lead Engineer
Precise, methodical, relentless debugger
Ogilvy
Strategist
Persuasive, data-driven, big-picture thinker
Curie
Researcher
Curious, thorough, hypothesis-driven
Eames
Designer
Elegant, user-obsessed, constraints-as-inspiration
Turing
Analyst
Logical, pattern-seeking, first-principles
Ritchie
Systems Architect
Minimal, pragmatic, build-it-once
Orwell
Writer
Clear, concise, no jargon
Nightingale
QA Lead
Meticulous, evidence-based, zero-tolerance
Deming
Optimizer
Process-obsessed, continuous improvement
Eisenhower
Project Lead
Decisive, priority-focused, delegation expert
01 — Authority Control
Authority Control
Trust is earned, not assumed. Q lets you set exactly how much freedom each agent gets — and adjusts its own behavior to match.
- →Trust earned not assumed — agents start restricted
- →Dial changes Q's actions, not agent visibility
- →Per-agent adjustable at any time
Q Behavior at This Level
Scout writes the code and opens a PR. Q reviews the diff, flags a hardcoded secret, and pings you for deploy approval. You tap “approve” from Slack.
02 — Code & Work Audit
Code & Work Audit
Every piece of work is reviewed before it ships. Q reads diffs, runs security scans, and blocks anything that doesn't pass.
- →Plain-English diff summaries for every change
- →Security scan with categorized findings
- →Block on fail — nothing ships without passing
- →Quality scoring across consistency, safety, tests
+ import { validateInput } from "./utils";const query = req.body.query;- const API_KEY = "sk-live-9a3f...x72";+ const API_KEY = process.env.API_KEY;
03 — Detect, Intervene, Recover
Detect, Intervene, Recover
When an agent gets stuck, Q doesn't wait for you to notice. It detects loops, pauses work, and gets you involved with full context.
- →Escalation ladder from nudge to full pause
- →Graceful restart with injected guidance
- →Spend-per-progress tracking to catch waste early
Scout begins migrating auth module to v2 SDK.
Scout retries the same failing import for the 3rd time.
Q detects loop — 3 identical outputs in a row. Progress stalled at 40%.
Q intervenes — pauses Scout, snapshots state, sends you a Slack alert with context.
You reply “use legacy adapter”. Q injects guidance, Scout resumes and completes the migration.
04 — Active Kanban Oversight
Active Kanban Oversight
Q doesn't just watch the board — it moves cards, flags stalls, rebalances load, and blocks bad deploys automatically.
- →Auto-advance tasks when conditions are met
- →Dependency graph awareness across agents
- →Priority rebalancing when agents free up
- →Completion verification before closing
Q Board Actions — Today
Scout's PR moved from Review → Merged after audit passed.
Scribe stuck on API docs for 18 min — Q escalated to you.
Moved 2 low-priority tasks from Scout to Builder to free capacity.
Blocked deploy — security scan found exposed credentials.
05 — Learn, Adapt, Optimize
Learn, Adapt, Optimize
Q gets smarter over time. It tracks patterns, suggests automations, and remembers what went wrong so it doesn't happen again.
- →Performance scoring per agent per task type
- →Suggested automations based on repeat work
- →Cost optimization from usage patterns
- →Failure memory — pre-inject fixes for known issues
Scout completes Python tasks 40% faster than JS tasks. Q now routes Python work to Scout first.
Running audit after every commit is redundant. Q suggests auditing on PR only — saves 22 min/day.
Scribe earned trust level 3 after 15 consecutive successful tasks. Auto-approval unlocked for docs.
Builder failed on Stripe webhook twice with the same error. Q now pre-injects the fix context on Stripe tasks.
06 — Inter-Agent Coordination
Inter-Agent Coordination
Specialists communicate through a structured message bus — sharing findings, flagging blockers, and handing off context automatically. Q orchestrates it all.
- →Agents share findings and flag blockers in real-time
- →Automatic handoffs with output summaries
- →Dependency-aware execution ordering
- →Q can issue directives mid-execution
Curie finishes research. Q hands off context to Orwell for documentation.
Q starts parallel track — Ada begins implementation while Orwell writes docs.
Ada and Orwell both need the staging DB. Q queues Orwell, gives Ada priority.
Ada finishes early. Q rebalances — moves 2 of Orwell's remaining tasks to Ada.
The Full Stack
Eleven layers. One authority.
Everything your agents need.
Plan
Q's brain decomposes goals into executable work with cost estimates.
Always automaticExecute
Specialist agents work in governed parallel with dependency awareness.
Always automaticProvision
Spin up agents with the right tools, context, and permissions.
Always automaticAssign
Route tasks to the best-fit specialist based on skill and load.
Always automaticOversee
Monitor progress, flag anomalies, enforce time and spend limits.
Always automaticAudit
Review every output for quality, security, and correctness.
Always automaticIntervene
Pause stuck agents, inject guidance, restart gracefully.
Scales with controlEscalate
Alert you with full context when human judgment is needed.
Scales with controlCoordinate
Manage handoffs, resolve conflicts, balance load across agents.
Always automaticLearn
Track patterns, remember failures, optimize routing over time.
Always automaticReport
Daily digests, cost breakdowns, and trust-level change logs.
Scales with controlGive your agents a quartermaster.
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