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Orchestrator session ID should be {project-id}-orchestrator, not numbered alongside workers #405

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@harshitsinghbhandari

Problem

The orchestrator session is assigned a numbered session ID from the same sequence as workers (e.g. ao-agents-10). This makes the orchestrator indistinguishable from a worker at a glance, and the orchestrator's number shifts depending on how many workers have been spawned.

Expected

The orchestrator session should have a stable, semantic ID: {project-id}-orchestrator (e.g. ao-agents-orchestrator).

Workers keep their numbered IDs (ao-agents-1, ao-agents-2, ...); only the orchestrator gets the reserved -orchestrator suffix.

Why

  • Clear, immediate distinction between the coordinator session and worker sessions.
  • Stable ID that doesn't depend on worker spawn order/count, so it can be referenced reliably (logs, ao send, tmux targets, scripts).
  • Matches how the worktree path is already named (.../orchestrator/ao-agents-orchestrator), so naming is consistent end to end.

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