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+# Ideas and Potential Improvements
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+- **Status Polling Mechanism**: Implement a mandatory `status` file for all agents that the orchestrator can poll. This would prevent having to tail `chat` files to estimate if an agent is stuck or done (see [TRIAL_1.md](experiments/TRIAL_1.md)).
+- **Verification of Premises**: Require agents to perform an "Environment Check" before acting on prompts to prevent fulfillment of hallucinated requirements (e.g., CMake in a Makefile-only project).
+- **Administrative Handshake**: Force a "Sync" step at the end of every subagent task where they must receive an ACK from the parent before idling, reducing the "Done State Trap."
+- **Purity Reviewers**: Introduce specialized reviewer scripts that look for "extraness" (extra files, unrelated changes, or phantom technical debt) rather than just functional correctness.
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