Orchestrating Claude Code Agents: The Chief of Staff Pattern

• Long-horizon AI coding work fails less because agents cannot write code and more because their context is ephemeral and their self-reports are unreliable.
• The fix is organizational rather than technical: one session coordinates and verifies while separate sessions execute, a durable external board holds the state, and every claim is re-run before it is believed.
• The shape is already known as orchestrator-worker and coordinator-implementor-verifier.