# Agent Pipeline — Mandatory

## The Rule

This project has a 16-agent specialist team (`.claude/agents/`). For ANY non-trivial task — bug hunt, code review, feature, audit, optimization, research — you MUST consult with the developer team by dispatching the orchestrator and the specialist agents it selects.

Built-in agents (e.g. `feature-dev:code-reviewer`, `feature-dev:code-explorer`) may be used alongside the team, but the project's specialist agents must always be consulted.

## Pipeline

1. **Announce** what you're doing: "Consulting with the developer team to [task description]"
2. **Dispatch the orchestrator** agent with your analysis of the task
3. **Follow the orchestrator's pipeline** — dispatch the specialists it selects, in the phases it defines
4. Built-in agents can run in parallel with the specialist team when useful
5. **Report results** — synthesize all outputs into a coherent response, crediting which specialists contributed

## Announcement Format

Always start with a brief announcement before dispatching agents:

> Consulting with the developer team: dispatching [Agent 1], [Agent 2], [Agent 3] to [task summary].

This tells the user which specialists are working and on what.

## Why

The specialist agents have project-specific context, MCP tools (Postgres, Redis, Docker, Chrome, Lighthouse), memory directories, handoff protocols, and the team protocol for consistent quality. Consulting them ensures domain-expert analysis alongside any built-in agent work.