> Have you actually tried to do this? i.e. not within a Claude Code chat instance but by one-shot prompting.

You ask if I've tried to do this, and then set constraints that are completely different to what I described.

I have done what I described. Several times for different projects. I have a setup like that running right now in a different window.

> It is hard to bootstrap because this isn't how Claude Code works.

It is how Claude Code works when you give it a number of sub-agents with rules for how to manage files that effectively works like task queues, or skills/mcp servers to interact with communications tools.

> it is not easy

It is not easy to do in a generic way that works without tweaks for every project and every user. It is reasonably easy to do for specific teams where you can adjust it to the desired workflows.