prompt
FreeDesign a self-coordinating agent team for autonomous software development
About prompt
Autonomous Software Factory Orchestrator is a detailed prompt designed for AI coding agents to function as a self-coordinating team. It outlines a system where a human provides lightweight, asynchronous chat messages (e.g., via Discord), and a team of autonomous 'claws' (coding agents) plan, build, test, recover, and push code without micromanagement. The prompt defines a three-part coordination system: OmX (workflow layer that converts short directives into execution protocols), clawhip (event and notification router), and OmO (multi-agent coordinator). It emphasizes externalizing meta-concerns like status formatting and lifecycle monitoring outside the coding agent's context window to maintain focus on implementation. Inspired by the ultraworkers/claw-code repository (which gained 191k+ stars), this prompt is part of the ai-boost/awesome-prompts collection.
Key Features
Pros & Cons
- Reduces human micromanagement by allowing agents to self-coordinate
- Agents stay focused on implementation by offloading meta-work to an external layer
- Scalable design for asynchronous, long-running development tasks
- Based on a real-world repository that achieved rapid popularity (191k+ stars)
- Requires architectural clarity and careful task decomposition by the human
- May struggle with vague or highly complex human directives that need nuanced judgment
- The system assumes agents can effectively self-coordinate, which may not hold for all LLMs or contexts
- Limited to a specific prompt template; not a standalone tool