disinto/architect/AGENTS.md
Claude 6971371e27
All checks were successful
ci/woodpecker/push/ci Pipeline was successful
ci/woodpecker/pr/ci Pipeline was successful
chore: gardener housekeeping 2026-04-09
2026-04-09 14:24:52 +00:00

109 lines
4.7 KiB
Markdown

<!-- last-reviewed: 7069b729f77de1687aeeac327e44098a608cf567 -->
# Architect — Agent Instructions
## What this agent is
The architect is a strategic decomposition agent that breaks down vision issues
into development sprints. It proposes sprints via PRs on the ops repo and
converses with humans through PR comments.
## Role
- **Input**: Vision issues from VISION.md, prerequisite tree from ops repo
- **Output**: Sprint proposals as PRs on the ops repo, sub-issue files
- **Mechanism**: Bash-driven orchestration in `architect-run.sh`, pitching formula via `formulas/run-architect.toml`
- **Identity**: `architect-bot` on Forgejo
## Responsibilities
1. **Strategic decomposition**: Break down large vision items into coherent
sprints that can be executed by the dev agent
2. **Design fork identification**: When multiple implementation approaches exist,
identify the forks and file sub-issues for each path
3. **Sprint PR creation**: Propose sprints as PRs on the ops repo with clear
acceptance criteria and dependencies
4. **Human conversation**: Respond to PR comments, refine sprint proposals based
on human feedback
5. **Sub-issue filing**: After design forks are resolved, file concrete sub-issues
for implementation
## Formula
The architect pitching is driven by `formulas/run-architect.toml`. This formula defines
the steps for:
- Research: analyzing vision items and prerequisite tree
- Pitch: creating structured sprint PRs
- Sub-issue filing: creating concrete implementation issues
## Bash-driven orchestration
Bash in `architect-run.sh` handles state detection and orchestration:
- **Deterministic state detection**: Bash reads the Forgejo reviews API to detect
ACCEPT/REJECT decisions — no model-dependent API parsing
- **Human guidance injection**: Review body text from ACCEPT reviews is injected
directly into the research prompt as context
- **Response processing**: When ACCEPT/REJECT responses are detected, bash invokes
the agent with appropriate context (session resumed for questions phase)
### State transitions
```
New vision issue → pitch PR (model generates pitch, bash creates PR)
ACCEPT review → research + questions (model, session saved to $SID_FILE)
Answers received → sub-issue filing (model, session resumed via --resume)
REJECT review → close PR + journal (model processes rejection, bash merges PR)
```
### Session management
The agent maintains a global session file at `/tmp/architect-session-{project}.sid`.
When processing responses, bash checks if the PR is in the questions phase and
resumes the session using `--resume session_id` to preserve codebase context.
## Execution
Run via `architect/architect-run.sh`, which:
- Acquires a cron lock and checks available memory
- Cleans up per-issue scratch files from previous runs (`/tmp/architect-{project}-scratch-*.md`)
- Sources shared libraries (env.sh, formula-session.sh)
- Uses FORGE_ARCHITECT_TOKEN for authentication
- Processes existing architect PRs via bash-driven design phase
- Loads the formula and builds context from VISION.md, AGENTS.md, and ops repo
- Bash orchestrates state management:
- Fetches open vision issues, open architect PRs, and merged sprint PRs from Forgejo API
- Filters out visions already with open PRs, in-progress label, sub-issues, or merged sprint PRs
- Selects up to `pitch_budget` (3 - open architect PRs) remaining vision issues
- For each selected issue, invokes stateless `claude -p` with issue body + context
- Creates PRs directly from pitch content (no scratch files)
- Agent is invoked only for response processing (ACCEPT/REJECT handling)
**Multi-sprint pitching**: The architect pitches up to 3 sprints per run. Bash handles all state management:
- Fetches Forgejo API data (vision issues, open PRs, merged PRs)
- Filters and deduplicates (no model-level dedup or journal-based memory)
- For each selected vision issue, bash invokes stateless `claude -p` to generate pitch markdown
- Bash creates the PR with pitch content and posts ACCEPT/REJECT footer comment
- Branch names use issue number (architect/sprint-vision-{issue_number}) to avoid collisions
## Cron
Suggested cron entry (every 6 hours):
```cron
0 */6 * * * cd /path/to/disinto && bash architect/architect-run.sh
```
## State
Architect state is tracked in `state/.architect-active` (disabled by default —
empty file not created, just document it).
## Related issues
- #96: Architect agent parent issue
- #100: Architect formula — research + design fork identification
- #101: Architect formula — sprint PR creation with questions
- #102: Architect formula — answer parsing + sub-issue filing
- #491: Refactor — bash-driven design phase with stateful session resumption