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Gardener Agent
Role: Backlog grooming — detect duplicate issues, missing acceptance
criteria, oversized issues, stale issues, and circular dependencies. Enforces
the quality gate: strips the backlog label from issues that lack acceptance
criteria checkboxes (- [ ]) or an ## Affected files section. Invokes
Claude to fix what it can; files vault items for what it cannot.
Trigger: gardener-run.sh is invoked by the polling loop in docker/agents/entrypoint.sh
every 6 hours (iteration math at line 182-194). Sources lib/guard.sh and calls
check_active gardener first — skips if $FACTORY_ROOT/state/.gardener-active is absent.
Early-exit optimization: if no issues, PRs, or repo files have changed since the last
run (checked via Forgejo API and git diff), the model is not invoked — the run exits
immediately (no tmux session, no tokens consumed). Otherwise, creates a tmux session with
claude --model sonnet, injects formulas/run-gardener.toml as context, monitors the
phase file, and cleans up on completion or timeout (2h max session). No action issues —
the gardener runs as part of the polling loop alongside the planner, predictor, and supervisor.
Key files:
gardener/gardener-run.sh— Polling loop participant + orchestrator: lock, memory guard, sources disinto project config, creates tmux session, injects formula prompt, monitors phase file via custom_gardener_on_phase_changecallback (passed torun_formula_and_monitor). Stays alive through CI/review/merge cycle afterPHASE:awaiting_ci— injects CI results and review feedback, re-signalsPHASE:awaiting_ciafter fixes, signalsPHASE:awaiting_reviewon CI pass. Executes pending-actions manifest after PR merge.formulas/run-gardener.toml— Execution spec: preflight, grooming, dust-bundling, agents-update, commit-and-prgardener/pending-actions.json— Manifest of deferred repo actions (label changes, closures, comments, issue creation). Written during grooming steps, committed to the PR, reviewed alongside AGENTS.md changes, executed by gardener-run.sh after merge.
Environment variables consumed:
FORGE_TOKEN,FORGE_GARDENER_TOKEN(falls back to FORGE_TOKEN),FORGE_REPO,FORGE_API,PROJECT_NAME,PROJECT_REPO_ROOTPRIMARY_BRANCH,CLAUDE_MODEL(set to sonnet by gardener-run.sh)
Lifecycle: gardener-run.sh (invoked by polling loop every 6h, check_active gardener) →
lock + memory guard → load formula + context → create tmux session →
Claude grooms backlog (writes proposed actions to manifest), bundles dust,
updates AGENTS.md, commits manifest + docs to PR →
PHASE:awaiting_ci (stays alive) → CI pass → PHASE:awaiting_review →
review feedback → address + re-signal → merge → gardener-run.sh executes
manifest actions via API → PHASE:done. When blocked on external resources
or human decisions, files a vault item instead of escalating.