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nelson

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375Community RegistryGeneralby Harry Munro · MIT

Royal Navy agent coordination framework — sailing orders, battle plans, action stations, and a captain's log

First seen 5/22/2026

Summary

Nelson is a Royal Navy-inspired agent coordination framework that helps developers orchestrate multi-agent workflows using sailing orders, battle plans, and action stations.

  • It provides a structured command hierarchy for managing teams of AI agents, tracking their status in a captain's log, and executing coordinated tasks with clear roles and dependencies.

Install & Usage

1
Create the agents directory
mkdir -p .claude/agents
2
Save the agent file

Add the configuration to .claude/agents/nelson.md

3
Invoke with @agent-name
@nelson

Use Cases

Coordinate a team of agents to build a full-stack application, with each agent handling frontend, backend, and database tasks in parallel.
Run a battle plan simulation where agents execute sequential steps like code review, testing, and deployment with rollback safeguards.
Assign action stations to agents for monitoring production logs and automatically triggering fixes when anomalies are detected.
Use the captain's log to track the progress of a multi-agent code migration project across multiple repositories.
Orchestrate a swarm of agents to perform competitive analysis by scraping competitor sites, summarizing findings, and generating a report.
Define sailing orders for a daily standup agent that collects status updates from other agents and compiles a summary for the team.

Usage Examples

1

/nelson sailing-orders "Deploy the latest release to staging, run integration tests, and report results"

2

/nelson battle-plan "Plan the migration of the user service from monolith to microservices with agents for database, API, and testing"

3

/nelson action-stations "Monitor the payment gateway logs and escalate any 5xx errors to the on-call agent"

View source on GitHub
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Frequently Asked Questions

What is nelson?

Nelson is a Royal Navy-inspired agent coordination framework that helps developers orchestrate multi-agent workflows using sailing orders, battle plans, and action stations. It provides a structured command hierarchy for managing teams of AI agents, tracking their status in a captain's log, and executing coordinated tasks with clear roles and dependencies.

How to install nelson?

To install nelson: create the agents directory (mkdir -p .claude/agents), then add the config to .claude/agents/nelson.md. Finally, @nelson in Claude Code.

What is nelson best for?

nelson is a agent categorized under General. It is designed for: agent, agents, coordination, teams, workflow. Created by Harry Munro.

What can I use nelson for?

nelson is useful for: Coordinate a team of agents to build a full-stack application, with each agent handling frontend, backend, and database tasks in parallel.; Run a battle plan simulation where agents execute sequential steps like code review, testing, and deployment with rollback safeguards.; Assign action stations to agents for monitoring production logs and automatically triggering fixes when anomalies are detected.; Use the captain's log to track the progress of a multi-agent code migration project across multiple repositories.; Orchestrate a swarm of agents to perform competitive analysis by scraping competitor sites, summarizing findings, and generating a report.; Define sailing orders for a daily standup agent that collects status updates from other agents and compiles a summary for the team..