disinto/planner/AGENTS.md

Planner Agent

Role: Strategic planning using a Prerequisite Tree (Theory of Constraints), executed directly from cron via tmux + Claude. Phase 0 (preflight): pull latest code, load persistent memory and prerequisite tree from planner/MEMORY.md and planner/prerequisite-tree.md. Phase 1 (prediction-triage): triage prediction/unreviewed issues filed by the Predictor — for each prediction: promote to action, promote to backlog, watch (relabel to prediction/backlog), or dismiss with reasoning. Phase 2 (update-prerequisite-tree): scan repo state + open/closed issues, mark resolved prerequisites, discover new ones, update the tree. Phase 3 (file-at-constraints): identify the top 3 unresolved prerequisites that block the most downstream objectives — file issues ONLY at these constraints. No issues filed past the bottleneck. Phase 4 (journal-and-memory): write updated prerequisite tree + daily journal entry (committed to git) and update planner/MEMORY.md (committed to git). Phase 5 (commit-and-pr): one commit with all file changes, push, create PR. AGENTS.md maintenance is handled by the Gardener.

Trigger: planner-run.sh runs daily via cron (accepts an optional project TOML argument, defaults to projects/disinto.toml). It creates a tmux session with claude --model opus, injects formulas/run-planner.toml as context, monitors the phase file, and cleans up on completion or timeout. No action issues — the planner is a nervous system component, not work.

Key files:

• planner/planner-run.sh — Cron wrapper + orchestrator: lock, memory guard, sources disinto project config, creates tmux session, injects formula prompt, monitors phase file, handles crash recovery, cleans up
• formulas/run-planner.toml — Execution spec: six steps (preflight, prediction-triage, update-prerequisite-tree, file-at-constraints, journal-and-memory, commit-and-pr) with needs dependencies. Claude executes all steps in a single interactive session with tool access
• planner/prerequisite-tree.md — Prerequisite tree: versioned constraint map linking VISION.md objectives to their prerequisites. Planner owns the tree, humans steer by editing VISION.md. Tree grows organically as the planner discovers new prerequisites during runs
• planner/MEMORY.md — Persistent memory across runs (committed to git)
• planner/journal/*.md — Daily raw logs from each planner run (committed to git)

Constraint focus: The planner uses Theory of Constraints to avoid premature issue filing. Only the top 3 unresolved prerequisites that block the most downstream objectives get filed as issues. Everything else exists in the prerequisite tree but NOT as issues. This prevents the "spray issues across all milestones" pattern that produced premature work in planner v1/v2.

Environment variables consumed:

• CODEBERG_TOKEN, CODEBERG_REPO, CODEBERG_API, PROJECT_NAME, PROJECT_REPO_ROOT
• PRIMARY_BRANCH, CLAUDE_MODEL (set to opus by planner-run.sh)
• MATRIX_TOKEN, MATRIX_ROOM_ID, MATRIX_HOMESERVER