Cotal — lateral agent coordination over NATS. Run `npx cotal-ai` for the CLI.

The Cotal protocol: endpoint, subjects, message types, the NATS client layer, and the extension contracts.

Cotal connector for the Hermes (Nous Research) agent.

Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.

Cotal browser observability dashboard: adds the `web` command to the cotal CLI.

Shared MCP-bridge runtime for Cotal connectors: the mesh agent, cotal_* tools, and hook relay.

Cotal cmux integration: a cmux Runtime and TerminalLayout provider for spawning agents into cmux tabs.

Cotal Orca integration: an Orca Runtime provider for spawning agents into the right Orca worktree.

Cotal tmux integration: a tmux Runtime and TerminalLayout provider for spawning agents into tmux windows.

Cotal connector for OpenCode: a native in-process plugin that joins a session to the mesh.

Cotal agent supervisor: spawns and manages mesh nodes via a pluggable runtime (pty/tmux/cmux/orca/herdr).

Cotal workflow runtime: hosts cotal-lang runs on the mesh — the durable step-journal store, the effect handler, and the run driver.

Cotal connector for Claude Code: an installed plugin that joins a session to the mesh.

Cotal Herdr integration: a Herdr Runtime provider for spawning agents into panes of a dedicated Herdr session.

Cotal machine-local workstation layer: the ~/.cotal mesh registry, target resolution, preflight, on-disk auth-path I/O, and the command-copy renderer — operator concerns over a local checkout, kept separate from the wire protocol in @cotal-ai/core.

cotal-lang: the restricted-JS workflow language. Parser and validator, the effect interface, the step journal, the interpreter, and the simulation handler. Depends on nothing else in the repo.

Cotal connector for Jcode: a host-mode mesh peer driven through Jcode's Harness API bridge.

Cotal per-user auth bridge: opaque owner-token derivation and strict user-token validation for the NATS auth-callout cutover (Plane 1 ↔ Plane 2).

Cotal delivery daemon: the server-side Plane-3 durable backstop (fan-out writer + trusted reader + membership/ACL authority), a scoped least-privilege NATS client co-located with the broker.

Cotal connector for OpenAI Codex: a host-mode peer driving codex app-server, with Codex's own TUI attached and the cotal_* tools served over a loopback MCP endpoint.