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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 or escalate to a human via Matrix.
Trigger: gardener-run.sh runs 4x/day via cron. It creates a tmux
session with claude --model sonnet, injects formulas/run-gardener.toml
with escalation replies as context, monitors the phase file, and cleans up
on completion or timeout (2h max session). No action issues — the gardener
runs directly from cron like the planner, predictor, and supervisor.
Key files:
gardener/gardener-run.sh— Cron wrapper + orchestrator: lock, memory guard, consumes escalation replies, sources disinto project config, creates tmux session, injects formula prompt, monitors phase file via custom_gardener_on_phase_changecallback (passed torun_formula_and_monitor). Kills session onPHASE:escalateto prevent zombies. 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, blocked-review, 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:
CODEBERG_TOKEN,CODEBERG_REPO,CODEBERG_API,PROJECT_NAME,PROJECT_REPO_ROOTPRIMARY_BRANCH,CLAUDE_MODEL(set to sonnet by gardener-run.sh)MATRIX_TOKEN,MATRIX_ROOM_ID,MATRIX_HOMESERVER
Lifecycle: gardener-run.sh (cron 0,6,12,18) → lock + memory guard →
consume escalation replies → load formula + context → create tmux session →
Claude grooms backlog (writes proposed actions to manifest), bundles dust,
reviews blocked issues, 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. On PHASE:escalate: session killed
immediately.