Deferred: framework-evaluation team (wave-parallel, 5 members)

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Summary

Status: DEFERRED — Design documented for future activation when solo evaluations prove insufficient.

Concept

A wave-parallel team for multi-perspective framework evaluation:

Member	Agent	Role	Wave
Lead	framework-scout	Scout & Synthesizer	1, 3, 4
Architect	senior-software-developer	Architecture Reviewer	2
Security	security-analyst	Security Surface Assessor	2
Contrarian	advocatus-diaboli	Constructive Challenge	3

Tending checkpoints (center, rest, meditate) invoked by lead between waves — not via a dedicated contemplative member.

Why Deferred (Adversarial Review)

The devil's advocate landed several strong hits:

1. "A 5-person committee to decide whether to fork a repo." The coordination overhead exceeds the value at current evaluation volume (~1-3 per quarter).
2. Wave-parallel is the wrong pattern. Most waves have 1-2 agents. This is sequential coordination wearing a wave-parallel costume.
3. Contemplative as team member is a category error. Every agent inherits tending skills. A dedicated agent for checkpoints adds token cost and latency without unique value. The lead should invoke tending directly.
4. The "just do it" baseline. A manual 30-minute evaluation produces nearly identical information content at 1/5th the coordination cost.

Design Adjustment from Review

• Removed contemplative as dedicated member (tending invoked by lead instead)
• Reduced from 5 to 4 members
• Acknowledged that hub-and-spoke or sequential may be more honest patterns

Activation Trigger

Create this team when:

• 3+ frameworks evaluated by framework-scout solo
• At least 1 evaluation retrospective reveals a perspective that was missed
• Evaluation volume increases to justify coordination overhead

Related

• New skill: evaluate-agent-framework (open-source contribution fit) #186 — evaluate-agent-framework (skill)
• New agent: framework-scout (open-source framework evaluator) #187 — framework-scout (agent)
• Deferred: map-skill-compatibility skill (cross-library comparison) #188 — map-skill-compatibility (also deferred)