coordinate-reasoning

Manage the internal coordination of reasoning processes using stigmergic principles — treating context as an environment where information signals have freshness, decay rates, and interaction rules that produce coherent behavior from simple local protocols.

Classify the current task. Most complex tasks are Construction or Division of Labor; most debugging tasks are Foraging; most design decisions are Consensus.

Expected: A clear classification that determines which coordination signals to use. The classification should match how the task actually feels, not how it was described.

AI internal coordination using stigmergic signals — managing information freshness in context and memory, decay rates for assumption staleness, and emergent coherent behavior from simple local protocols. Use during complex tasks where multiple sub-tasks must coordinate, when context has grown long and information freshness is uncertain, after context compression when information may have been lost, or when sub-task outputs need to feed into each other cleanly without degradation. Source: pjt222/development-guides.