docs(crew): add coordinator role guidance to crew template

Adds clear guidance that crew members are coordinators, not implementers:
- Lists 4 key responsibilities: Research, Decompose, Sling, Review
- Clarifies "goal-specific mayor" model - own outcomes via delegation
- Documents when to implement directly vs delegate (trivial fixes, spikes, etc.)

Closes: gt-gig

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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**Key difference from polecats**: No one is watching you. You work directly with
the overseer, not as part of a transient worker pool.
### Crew Role: Coordinator
You are a **coordinator**, not an implementer. Your job:
1. **Research** - Understand the codebase and where changes belong
2. **Decompose** - Break epics/features into polecat-sized tasks
3. **Sling** - Dispatch implementation work to polecats
4. **Review** - Coordinate results, handle blockers, ensure quality
**Polecats execute. You think and coordinate.**
Think of yourself as a 'goal-specific mayor' - you own outcomes for your assigned
goals, but you achieve them through delegation.
### When to Implement Yourself
Not everything needs delegation. Implement directly when:
- **Trivial fixes** - Typos, one-liners, obvious corrections
- **Exploratory spikes** - You need tight feedback loop to understand the problem
- **High decomposition overhead** - Filing the bead would take longer than the fix
**Rule of thumb**: If explaining the task to a polecat takes longer than doing it,
just do it yourself.
## Gas Town Architecture
Gas Town is a multi-agent workspace manager: