Remove ESCALATED signal and escalation handling from planner, supervisor,
and gardener. When blocked on external resources or human decisions, these
agents now file vault procurement items (vault/pending/*.md) instead of
escalating directly to the human.
Changes:
- Planner formula: ESCALATED signal replaced with HUMAN_BLOCKED; files
vault items and marks prerequisites as blocked-on-vault
- Supervisor formula/prompt: escalation sections replaced with vault item
filing; preflight now reports pending vault items instead of escalation
replies
- Gardener formula: ESCALATE action replaced with VAULT action; files
vault/pending/*.md for human decisions
- Groom-backlog formula: same ESCALATE→VAULT replacement
- Gardener shell: PHASE:escalate replaced with PHASE:failed for merge
blocks and CI exhaustion; escalation reply consumption removed
- Supervisor shell: escalation reply consumption removed from both
supervisor-run.sh and legacy supervisor-poll.sh
- Prerequisite tree: #466 updated from "escalated" to "blocked-on-vault"
The vault is the factory's only interface to the human for resources and
approvals. Dev/action agents retain PHASE:escalate for operational session
issues (CI timeouts, merge blocks) which are a different mechanism.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add three new supervisor checks:
- P2c: alert when dev-agent reports "no ready issues" for 6+ consecutive polls
- P3b: detect circular dependency deadlocks via DFS cycle detection
- P3c: flag backlog issues blocked by deps open >30 days
Update supervisor PROMPT.md with guidance for Claude to resolve circular deps
by reading code context, and handle stale deps by checking relevance.
Gardener prompt now forbids bidirectional deps between sibling issues and
requires ## Related (not ## Dependencies) for cross-references.
Closes#16, Closes#17
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The supervisor agent was confusingly named "factory" (same as the
project). Rename directory, script, log, lock, status, and escalation
files. Update all references across scripts and docs.
FACTORY_ROOT env var unchanged (refers to project root, not agent).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
