HARD-GATE: ONBOARDING — Before any work, verify br and bv are accessible and .beads/ is initialized (beo-reference → references/shared-hard-gates.md). If stale or missing, load beo-onboard and stop.

Protocol References — Shared protocol rules live in beo-reference → references/<file>.

beo-swarm

Atomic purpose

Coordinate parallel workers for approved independent beads.

When to use

• approved current-phase work contains at least 3 independent ready beads
• candidate beads have non-overlapping file scopes
• parallel coordination is materially better than serial execution