docs: update README for multi-project vision, add gardener, expand setup

- Remove harb-specific framing — describe as project-agnostic factory
- Add gardener agent (was missing from docs entirely)
- New Prerequisites section with required vs optional dependencies
- Expand Setup with full annotated .env example
- Add Agents summary table
- Add "project-agnostic" design principle

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# 🏭 Dark Factory
# Dark Factory
Autonomous CI/CD factory for [harb](https://codeberg.org/johba/harb). Three agents, zero supervision needed.
Autonomous CI/CD factory. Four agents, zero supervision needed.
Point it at a Codeberg repo with a Woodpecker CI pipeline and it will pick up issues, implement them, review PRs, and keep the system healthy — all on its own.
## Architecture
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cron (*/10) ──→ review-poll.sh ← finds unreviewed PRs, spawns review
└── review-pr.sh ← claude -p: review → approve/request changes
cron (daily) ──→ gardener-poll.sh ← backlog grooming (duplicates, stale, tech-debt)
└── claude -p: triage → promote/close/escalate
```
## Prerequisites
**Required:**
- [Claude CLI](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-cli) — `claude` in PATH, authenticated
- [Codeberg](https://codeberg.org/) account with an API token — the factory reads issues, opens PRs, posts comments, and merges via the Codeberg API
- A second Codeberg account for the review bot — reviews posted under a separate identity so the dev-agent doesn't review its own PRs (`REVIEW_BOT_TOKEN`)
- [Woodpecker CI](https://woodpecker-ci.org/) — local instance connected to your Codeberg repo; the factory monitors pipelines, retries failures, and queries the Woodpecker Postgres DB directly
- PostgreSQL client (`psql`) — for Woodpecker DB queries (pipeline status, build counts)
- `jq`, `curl`, `git`
**Optional:**
- [OpenClaw](https://openclaw.ai/) — escalation notifications; when agents hit something they can't resolve, they send a system event via `openclaw` CLI
- [Foundry](https://getfoundry.sh/) (`forge`, `cast`, `anvil`) — only needed if your target project uses Solidity
- [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/) — only needed if your target project uses Node
## Setup
```bash
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# 2. Configure
cp .env.example .env
# Fill in your tokens (see .env.example for descriptions)
```
# 3. Install cron (staggered — supervisor first, then review, then dev)
Edit `.env` with your values:
```bash
# Target repo
CODEBERG_REPO=yourorg/yourproject # Codeberg org/repo slug
CODEBERG_API=https://codeberg.org/api/v1/repos/yourorg/yourproject
PROJECT_REPO_ROOT=/path/to/your/project # local clone of the target repo
# Auth tokens
CODEBERG_TOKEN=... # main account — or put it in ~/.netrc
REVIEW_BOT_TOKEN=... # separate Codeberg account for code reviews
# Woodpecker CI
WOODPECKER_SERVER=http://localhost:8000
WOODPECKER_TOKEN=...
WOODPECKER_DB_PASSWORD=...
WOODPECKER_DB_USER=woodpecker
WOODPECKER_DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
WOODPECKER_DB_NAME=woodpecker
# Tuning
CLAUDE_TIMEOUT=7200 # max seconds per Claude invocation (default: 2h)
```
```bash
# 3. Install cron (staggered to avoid overlap)
crontab -e
# Add:
# 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /path/to/dark-factory/factory/factory-poll.sh
# 3,13,23,33,43,53 * * * * /path/to/dark-factory/review/review-poll.sh
# 6,16,26,36,46,56 * * * * /path/to/dark-factory/dev/dev-poll.sh
# 15 8 * * * /path/to/dark-factory/gardener/gardener-poll.sh
# 4. Verify
bash factory/factory-poll.sh # should log "all clear"
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```
dark-factory/
├── .env.example # Template — copy to .env, add secrets
├── .env.example # Template — copy to .env, add secrets + project config
├── .gitignore # Excludes .env, logs, state files
├── lib/
│ ├── env.sh # Shared: load .env, PATH, API helpers
│ ├── env.sh # Shared: load .env, PATH, Codeberg/Woodpecker API helpers
│ └── ci-debug.sh # Woodpecker CI log/failure helper
├── dev/
│ ├── dev-poll.sh # Cron entry: find ready issues
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├── review/
│ ├── review-poll.sh # Cron entry: find unreviewed PRs
│ └── review-pr.sh # Review agent (claude -p)
├── gardener/
│ ├── gardener-poll.sh # Cron entry: backlog grooming
│ └── best-practices.md # Gardener knowledge base
└── factory/
├── factory-poll.sh # Supervisor: health checks + claude -p
├── PROMPT.md # Supervisor's system prompt
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└── git.md
```
## Agents
| Agent | Trigger | Job |
|-------|---------|-----|
| **Factory** (supervisor) | Every 10 min | Health checks (RAM, disk, CI, git). Calls Claude only when something is broken. Self-improving via `best-practices/`. |
| **Dev** | Every 10 min | Picks up `backlog`-labeled issues, creates a branch, implements, opens a PR, monitors CI, responds to review, merges. |
| **Review** | Every 10 min | Finds PRs without review, runs Claude-powered code review, approves or requests changes. |
| **Gardener** | Daily | Grooms the issue backlog: detects duplicates, promotes `tech-debt` to `backlog`, closes stale issues, escalates ambiguous items. |
## Design Principles
- **Bash for checks, AI for judgment** — health checks are shell scripts; AI is only invoked when something needs diagnosing or fixing
- **Bash for checks, AI for judgment**polling and health checks are shell scripts; Claude is only invoked when something needs diagnosing or deciding
- **Pull over push** — dev-agent derives readiness from merged dependencies, not labels or manual assignment
- **Progressive disclosure** — the supervisor reads only the best-practices file relevant to the current problem, not all of them
- **Self-improving** — when the AI fixes something new, it appends the lesson to best-practices for next time
- **Self-improving** — when Claude fixes something new, the lesson is appended to best-practices for next time
- **Project-agnostic** — all project-specific values (repo, paths, CI IDs) come from `.env`, not hardcoded scripts
## Requirements
- [Claude CLI](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-cli) (`claude` in PATH)
- [Foundry](https://getfoundry.sh/) (`forge`, `cast`, `anvil`)
- [Woodpecker CI](https://woodpecker-ci.org/) (local instance)
- PostgreSQL client (`psql`)
- [OpenClaw](https://openclaw.ai/) (for escalation notifications, optional)
- `jq`, `curl`, `git`