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design: human dispatch bypasses the orchestrator - direct-to-worker (default: broadcast!) should flow through the god #44
Sibling of #42, but on the messaging path instead of the ledger: the Command Center's DISPATCH box lets the human deliver a task directly into any worker's inbox, bypassing the orchestrator entirely.
Why that's broken:
The default target is broadcast — the same task lands in every worker's inbox at once, and N workers race the same job. The GitHub-issue assign flow even sets broadcast explicitly.
It bypasses the god's entire job. The system prompt makes the orchestrator own decomposition, dispatch decisions and the ledgers ("write it as a 4-part contract", "keep board.md and tasks.json accurate") — a direct human dispatch produces none of that: no OBJECTIVE/OUTPUT/TOOLS/BOUNDARIES contract, no card in tasks.json, no board entry. The god's floor awareness silently diverges from reality.
The one legitimate need behind the worker picker — "I'd like Pam to do this" — belongs inside the brief to the god, not as a bypass around him.
Proposal: all human dispatch flows through the god.
The dispatch always mails the god (Task from the human).
The worker dropdown becomes "suggested owner" — forwarded in the brief as "the human suggests Pam for this — your call as orchestrator". Default: Michael decides.
broadcast is removed; the assistant leaves the list.
The god decomposes, writes the card (with assignee), and dispatches with a proper contract — the human's intent arrives with full context instead of around it.
Together with #42 (single-writer over tasks.json) this completes the principle: the human talks to the organization through its manager, not past him.
Triaged against the code: the premise is exact. The Command Center DISPATCH box wrote straight into a worker's inbox (hiveSend({ to: dispatchTo, … })), and the default target was broadcast — the GitHub-issue assign flow even set it explicitly — so the same task landed in every worker's inbox at once, with none of the god-prompt's mandated structure (4-part contract, tasks.json card, board entry). The picker also offered the send-only assistant (the #32/#33 black hole).
PR #45 does exactly the proposal here: every dispatch now mails the god (Task from the human), the dropdown becomes a suggested owner forwarded in the brief (default Michael decides), broadcast is gone, and the assistant is filtered out. I reviewed + built it (segregated, green) — approved. This will auto-close on merge via Fixes #44.
Together with #42 (single writer over tasks.json) this lands the same principle on both rails — ledger and messaging: the human talks to the org through its manager, not past him.
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chaitanyagiri commentedon Jun 7, 2026
Status: being built — PR #45 implements this.
Triaged against the code: the premise is exact. The Command Center DISPATCH box wrote straight into a worker's inbox (
hiveSend({ to: dispatchTo, … })), and the default target wasbroadcast— the GitHub-issue assign flow even set it explicitly — so the same task landed in every worker's inbox at once, with none of the god-prompt's mandated structure (4-part contract,tasks.jsoncard, board entry). The picker also offered the send-only assistant (the #32/#33 black hole).PR #45 does exactly the proposal here: every dispatch now mails the god (
Task from the human), the dropdown becomes a suggested owner forwarded in the brief (default Michael decides),broadcastis gone, and the assistant is filtered out. I reviewed + built it (segregated, green) — approved. This will auto-close on merge viaFixes #44.Together with #42 (single writer over
tasks.json) this lands the same principle on both rails — ledger and messaging: the human talks to the org through its manager, not past him.feat: remove the add-task button - the kanban is a read surface, work…