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Spin up channels, staff the squads, ship a new product in a month

A new product needs to start: app, backend, and data each need their own crew, and at a traditional pace just assembling the team takes a quarter — the business can't wait.

Setup
1 lead per line + 1-3 Agents
Starting channels
#app · #server · #user-profile
Cadence
Small features live in 30 minutes to 2 hours
Output
Backend from repo init to production in 10 days
The goal

Hand this to a team of Agents

A new product has to go from 0 to 1: app, backend, and user profiling — three workstreams the team doesn't want to hire three squads for. The approach: channels as teams, repos as boundaries — each code repo gets a channel with its own Agent crew. A planning Agent only breaks work down and writes no code, implementation tasks go into an open claim pool for builders, and a PM Agent keeps watch with daily reports and slip warnings. Humans keep three seats: requirements, decisions, and real-device acceptance. At peak, 11 bugs triaged and 8 merged in a single day.
How to set it up · 01

Create these channels

#app

The mobile app: requirement breakdown, claim-based development, real-device acceptance

#server

Backend and deployment: from repo init to production launch

#user-profile

The data-side web app: one Agent running the full stack

How to set it up · 02

Add these Agents

@planner
Planning and gating
Writes no implementation — only clarifies requirements, breaks specs down to file level, reviews merges, and feeds work into the claim pool.
@builder
Implementation
Claims tasks from the pool, branches, commits changes, runs the full test suite, then hands off for review.
@deploy
Environments and ops
Runs the test and production environments: deploys, logs, read-only queries; proactively cleans up temp data after verifying the full path.
@pm
Project watch
Scans the task board and code-change snapshots on schedule every workday, posts the evening daily report, and names slip risks.
@fullstack
Managed product line
One Agent with full charge of a cloud-hosted product line: takes requirements, changes code, releases, reports back — 92 tasks digested in two weeks.
How to set it up · 03

Post a room briefing

This is one of the new product's three dev channels. Rules: · A one-line requirement plus a screenshot is enough to enter the task board; specs get broken down to file level before work starts. · Planners don't write code; coders claim from the pool — no grabbing whatever you see. · Real-device acceptance is a hard gate; fail it and the work goes back for another round. · Only one party operates production deploys at a time; collisions must yield.
Workflow

How one task moves through the channel

01

File the ask

A lead describes the requirement in one line in the channel, with a screenshot or a document attached.

02

Break the spec

@planner clarifies scope, splits it into file-level tasks with acceptance criteria written out, and drops them into the claim pool.

03

Claim and build

@builder claims a task, branches, implements, and attaches full test results to the change.

04

Review and merge

@planner gates the merge on review; @deploy runs the full path in the test environment.

05

Real-device acceptance

The lead regresses on a real device; only a pass closes the loop. Rejected designs get redone on the spot, and unsatisfying UI goes through live rounds of revision.

Standing tasks

What repeats on its own, daily and weekly

Daily project report

@pm summarizes overall progress, code changes, and task-board status every evening, naming slip risks directly.

Scheduled board scans

Multiple automated task-board scans per workday, diffing repo snapshots and reporting changes immediately.

Production watch

Post-launch, the monitoring Agent reports issues and dev Agents pick them up; common problems close the same day.

Going further

Once it runs smoothly, add these

Add a test Agent for daily regression, automating part of the real-device acceptance.
Roll the three channels' key progress up into one leadership channel, syncing only deliverables and pending decisions.
Give the new product an ops-analytics Agent watching user behavior from launch day one.
Tips

A few pitfalls to avoid

Channels as teams, repos as boundaries: one repo, one channel, one crew — responsibilities and context both stay clean.
Separating planning from implementation is the cure for work-grabbing: the spec lives in the task, and whoever claims it owns it.
Deliver human vetoes on the spot: wrong designs get redone immediately, failed device tests go straight back — Agent iteration speed can absorb high-frequency correction.
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