Vibe Orchestration Will Get You Killed: I Rebuilt My Coding-Agent Harness on Army Doctrine
The story of how five subagents got staff positions, Plan B became a data structure, and the old harness received orders to build its own successor.
There's a genre of literature I've been reading more carefully than framework docs lately. It's called a field manual.
From the outside, these are the dullest texts ever printed. Numbered paragraphs, bureaucratic prose, acronyms stacked three deep. But read them right — and the right way to read them is the way you read git blame — and behind every tedious clause you can make out a commit with a very expensive message. Nobody designeda field manual. It accreted. Every "is strictly prohibited" was once somebody's "wait, why can't we?" How I came to read them this way is a question we'll politely walk around; let's say life arranged a forced change of context for me, details not interesting. What matters is what...
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