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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 what it can; files vault items for what it cannot.
Trigger: gardener-run.sh runs 4x/day via cron. Sources lib/guard.sh and
calls check_active gardener first — skips if $FACTORY_ROOT/state/.gardener-active
is absent. Then creates a tmux session with claude --model sonnet, injects
formulas/run-gardener.toml 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, sources disinto project config, creates tmux session, injects formula prompt, monitors phase file via custom_gardener_on_phase_changecallback (passed torun_formula_and_monitor). 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, 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:
FORGE_TOKEN,FORGE_GARDENER_TOKEN(falls back to FORGE_TOKEN),FORGE_REPO,FORGE_API,PROJECT_NAME,PROJECT_REPO_ROOTPRIMARY_BRANCH,CLAUDE_MODEL(set to sonnet by gardener-run.sh)
Lifecycle: gardener-run.sh (cron 0,6,12,18) → check_active gardener → lock + memory guard →
load formula + context → create tmux session →
Claude grooms backlog (writes proposed actions to manifest), bundles dust,
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. When blocked on external resources
or human decisions, files a vault item instead of escalating.