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disclaw-team

Your First Team

This guide walks through the executive template — the default team that ships with disclaw-team. It’s the fastest way to get a working multi-bot setup without writing any configuration by hand.

What the executive template includes

The executive template is a 4-bot team:

  • Team Lead (orchestrator) — the entry point. Listens for tasks in the configured channel, delegates work to other bots via Discord @mentions, and synthesizes results.
  • Researcher (specialist) — handles web search, reading, and analysis. Spawns subagents for deep research tasks.
  • Validator (specialist) — reviews and validates work from other bots before delivery.
  • Engineer (executor) — produces code, documents, and implementations based on research and direction.

The orchestrator delegates via Discord @mentions rather than spawning subagents directly. This keeps each bot as an independent Claude session with its own reasoning — genuine collaboration, not one mind wearing three masks.

Running init with the executive template

Terminal window
disclaw-team init

When prompted for a template, select executive. The wizard pre-fills all role assignments — just supply your bot tokens (one per bot) and your server ID.

If you haven’t set up your bot tokens yet, see Discord Setup first.

Starting the team

Terminal window
disclaw-team start

What to expect in Discord

Once the team is running:

  • Each bot comes online as a separate Discord user with its own name and avatar

  • Bots show a typing indicator while processing

  • The orchestrator listens for messages in the channel you configured during init

  • @mention the orchestrator to start a task:

    @Orchestrator research the top 5 JavaScript frameworks and write a comparison

The orchestrator will @mention the Researcher, who will do the research and report back. The orchestrator then @mentions the Writer to produce the final output.

Two-phase first run

Attaching to a bot session

To inspect what a bot is doing or troubleshoot a stuck session:

Terminal window
disclaw-team attach

This drops you into the tmux session. Use Ctrl+B then a window number to switch between bots. Each window is one bot’s Claude Code session.