Swarm orchestration

Primitives

Agents, teams, teammates, leaders, tasks, inboxes, messages, backends — see primitives.md for definitions and the file-system layout.

Aspect	Task (subagent)	Task + team_name + name (teammate)
Lifespan	Until task complete	Until shutdown requested
Communication	Return value	Inbox messages
Task access	None	Shared task list
Team membership	No	Yes
Coordination	One-off	Ongoing
Best for	Searches, analysis, focused work	Parallel work, pipelines, collaboration

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