From AI Chat Rooms to AI Councils

TL;DR

Multi-agent AI systems work best when chat-room flexibility gives way to council-style structure. AgentGate evolved from concurrent Slack-based agent conversations to a sequential pipeline where specialist agents each score a GitHub ticket from 1 to 10. All must reach 10 before work proceeds. This ticket-gate approach eliminates coordination overhead and enforces a Definition of Done, turning vague AI suggestions into actionable, consistently high-quality outputs.