hydra-panel

Hydra Panel

Principle

Use diversity to expose assumptions, then let Sol verify and decide. Never turn model agreement into proof.

Hard limits

• Use a maximum three Claude sessions.
• Use a maximum one Fable session.
• Use a maximum two debate rounds: one independent proposal round and one critique round.
• Respect the lower runtime concurrency limit returned by hydra_route.
• Use only top-level Claude sessions. Do not create nested teams or automatic fallback work.
• Keep each test or execute session in its own worktree.

Setup

1. Call hydra_preflight. Stop on any error or ambiguous billing boundary.
2. Call hydra_budget with {"action":"status"}. Build the context capsule below. Call hydra_route with its exact byte count and independentJudgmentsRequired: true. Use userMode: "maximum" only when the user explicitly requested maximum mode.
3. Follow the staged plan. Start two members immediately only when the task is parallelizable and independent judgments are the explicit product requirement. A third Fable perspective remains conditional on a named contradiction or missing long-horizon assumption.
4. Define one output schema for all panel members with proposal, claims, evidence, assumptions, uncertainty, tests, and decisionCriteria. Cap each independent proposal at 8,192 UTF-8 bytes; it cites capsule evidence by reference and contains no copied capsule or transcript.

Round 1: independent proposals

Call hydra_start separately for each member. Route-required immediate panel members use budgetIntent.priority: "quality-floor". A conditional third member uses "opportunistic", valuableWork: true, and distinctInformationGain: true only when a named contradiction or missing assumption makes that statement true. Give every member only:

• the original objective and constraints;
• repository root and current Git SHA;
• its distinct role;
• access mode and expected output schema.

Do not reveal another member's identity, prompt, proposal, or intermediate event. Collect terminal results with hydra_status and hydra_result. A failed job does not authorize a replacement beyond the session cap.