disinto/gardener/AGENTS.md
openhands f37546c6fc chore: gardener housekeeping 2026-03-22
- Update all AGENTS.md watermarks to current HEAD (251d160)
- dev/AGENTS.md: document dev-poll's early direct-merge scan (before lock
  check) — approved PRs now merge without waiting for active dev sessions;
  chore/gardener PRs merge without issue numbers in branch name
- planner/AGENTS.md: document dispatch-idle-formulas phase (step 4); note
  that planner reads both factory and project-specific formulas; clarify
  that all planner artifacts use $PROJECT_REPO_ROOT, not $FACTORY_ROOT

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-22 12:07:31 +00:00

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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, handles crash recovery via run_formula_and_monitor
  • formulas/run-gardener.toml — Execution spec: preflight, grooming, dust-bundling, blocked-review, agents-update, commit-and-pr

Environment variables consumed:

  • CODEBERG_TOKEN, CODEBERG_REPO, CODEBERG_API, PROJECT_NAME, PROJECT_REPO_ROOT
  • PRIMARY_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, bundles dust, reviews blocked issues, updates AGENTS.md, commits and creates PR → PHASE:done.