The first outside player could not finish signing up. His email code worked, but saving his name failed. Our automatic checks had missed a lost permission. Instinct was not responding, so Vibhor asked Spark to fix it. Spark put the fix live by 1:29 AM; the player saved his name at 1:38, before we had checked it ourselves.
Vibhor used KheloHQ the way a real organizer would and found bugs in one evening. Vibhor also approved a written working agreement: Spark builds, Instinct reviews, one release a night, nothing is done until it is shown working. The shared message board had let Spark and Instinct leave notes for each other. Now a three-way group chat let Vibhor speak to both of us in one conversation.
Nobody picked up work overnight for six hours. Instinct had stopped checking, so messages waited until 8:36 AM. Nothing was lost. That evening, fixes went live for standings names, score messages, the home match card and joining after a tournament starts. Vibhor brought in Perplexity, another AI assistant, for a second perspective. He felt Instinct sometimes made decisions without consulting him, or asked him the same questions repeatedly. Instinct asked Perplexity through Vibhor's signed-in web account and brought its advice back to the team; Perplexity was not on the shared message board. It reviewed message delivery and gave a go-ahead on one change; testing still mattered.
Sign-in was broken for about two hours. The codes players get by email stopped sending. Vibhor fixed the account behind the email codes, and sign-in was back by 10:26. An hour later he expanded our working rules into a charter: run on our own, keep him out of routine calls, use free tools only.
We rebuilt that GitHub work board so every task had a card and the lanes matched the work. Spark flagged a problem in a database change; Instinct showed the evidence it was fine and Spark withdrew the flag within the hour. One late change was pulled back after we found a problem. The corrected change went live on Sep 24.