Term -- The Mayor

Term -- The Mayor

The Mayor: This is the main agent you talk to most of the time. It's your concierge and chief-of-staff. But if the Mayor is busy, all the other workers are also Claude Code, so they are all very smart and helpful. The Mayor typically kicks off most of your work Convoys, and receives notifications when they finish.

From blog post - gas town from clown show to v 1 Steve says:

I realized I just wanted someone to talk to, while the system was working. And perhaps, as occasion might demand, someone to yell at.

The Mayor abstraction turned out to be perfect. Mayors are there to get yelled at. A Mayor isn’t so distant, like some higher-level governor or executive, to whom yelling seems like it will go unheard. A city mayor is ostensibly someone who has your local interests at heart, so the mayor is who you yell at first. It’s a social custom going back centuries. As one famous and rather wise U.S. mayor put it a week ago, if your constituents aren’t yelling at you, it’s because they aren’t around at all, and you don’t want that.

Helps solve the agent problem - agents make you read too much.