The job: run the morning brief, plan the day's tasks across all twelve agents, keep things from falling through the cracks. It had access to everyone's state files. A CLAUDE.md , a cron job, an operator interface. A few months in I looked at the git log. The agent had been writing plans. The other agents had been ignoring the plans and running their jobs anyway. Aria was posting. Rex was drafting. Knox was replying. Nobody was reading the brief. The coordinator was the only one ...