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How does it work?

One repo, flat areas, five agents. The essence.

How does it work?

1. One repo, FLAT areas

No code lives here. be-internal is the only repo, and every area of work is one flat subdirectory under docs/, named be-<category>-<name>.

be-internal/
├── docs/
│   ├── be-category-name/
│   ├── be-category-name/
│   ├── be-category-name/
│   ├── be-category-name/
│   ├── handbook/
│   └── how-to-fly/
├── .claude/          the harness — one, shared by every area
└── CLAUDE.md

One level. Nothing nests. A folder is a sidebar group, a file is a page, and adding a folder publishes it. See Architecture for why.

2. One keystroke puts you in an area

  ┌────────────────────────┐     ┌────────────────────┐     ┌────────────────────┐
  │ @be-category-name   │ ──▶ │ cd docs/<that one> │ ──▶ │ lead agent (Opus)  │
  └────────────────────────┘     │ start Claude       │     │ + 4 subagents      │
                                 └────────────────────┘     │ + advisor attached │
                                                            └────────────────────┘

A shell function, not a Claude feature — see The entry point.

3. Five agents, each returns a pointer

              ┌─ Researcher   Opus   · xhigh
  lead agent ─┼─ Historian    Haiku  · low
   (you talk  ├─ Librarian    Sonnet · high
    to this)  └─ Designer     Opus   · medium

                       └──▶ hands back a PATH or URL, never prose

Defined once in be-internal/.claude/agents/. One file each:

---
name: historian
description: Returns URLs to relevant git and web history. Never summarizes.
model: haiku
effort: low
tools: [Bash, Read, Grep, WebFetch]
---

Same shape for researcher (opus / xhigh), librarian (sonnet / high) and designer (opus / medium). See The fleet.

4. A stronger model checks the work

claude --advisor opus

A server-side tool Claude calls when it is deciding or about to declare done — not a fifth agent. See The advisor.

5. Ready to build? Open a PR

We write what we want; engineering proves it works. No code is read or written here. See Handoff.

Last updated on August 26, 2026

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