Coordinator

The Coordinator is the specialisation that delegates. Its skills work through a companion: a cell that joined you through its own story. Before the first recruit, the Coordinator is locked, and only the Sentinel and Warden are playable.

How it works#

The Coordinator's flex choices are Engulf, Glide and Flex Ward.

Any class can bring a companion and give it orders by contact, pointing at a target within your own reach. Only the Coordinator can send it from a distance.

The lock#

On 31 October the user decided: "Keep it locked". The Coordinator, Direct, Swap and Huddle stay locked until the first companion is recruited, and the Studios Coordinator floor stays hidden. The user's reason: "having a helper too early game may make the game too easy".

• Recruitment is a quest outcome (see Recruitment). The first real recruit unlocks the class.
• One supervised try: in Act II (II3), a supervising resident may offer one Direct-style order to Mote, once. It grants no class, no Swap or Huddle and no reward.
• Kit v5 not approved: Claude B proposed a "solo-first" Coordinator that could direct support cells or a beacon. The user did not approve it as a pre-recruit class, but said its ideas "can also be integrated after coordinator is unlocked after the recruitment of the first helper".

Development#

• 27 October: a starter class that replaced the legacy Signal Beacon with a companion and Direct.
• 29 October (kit v4): Steer was removed; Swap was added.
• 2 November, lead's audit: two alpha hosts disagreed: one accepted the Coordinator at home and created a free generic companion, the other refused it in a room. The reconciled integration fixed this: the Coordinator and companions are gated by real recruitment, and no free generic helper exists.
• The bots drive only the Ranger, so Coordinator upgrades (Eager Friend, Shared Turn) are not measured.

See also#

Recruitment · Direct · Swap · Huddle · Kit history

Sources#

1. b89f778c2:src/main-game/alpha/public/encounter/src/skills/turns/catalog.jscopy
2. 215bfbf88:docs/game-balance/31-turn-based-encounters.mdcopy
3. 215bfbf88:docs/game-balance/28-recruits-rest-stops-economy.mdcopy
4. 215bfbf88:docs/ops/agent-messages/2026-10-31-claude-b-solo-skills-helper-income.mdcopy
5. b89f778c2:src/main-game/game/encounters.jscopy
6. docs/ops/agent-messages/2026-11-02-lead-full-project-reconciliation-audit.md (working copy, not in Git)