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fix: pass gt prime as initial prompt in crew start commands

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The issue: gt crew start --all was not priming crew sessions like
gt crew at does.

Root cause: gt crew at passes "gt prime" as the initial prompt to
BuildCrewStartupCommand(), while gt crew start (via startCrewMember
and runStartCrew) passed an empty string and tried to send gt prime
afterwards via NudgeSession. This created a race condition where the
SessionStart hook would fire and Claude would start responding before
the nudge arrived.

Fix: Pass "gt prime" directly in the startup command for all three
cases: startCrewMember, runStartCrew new session, and runStartCrew
session restart. This makes the behavior consistent with gt crew at.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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george
2026-01-04 22:18:09 -08:00
committed by Steve Yegge
parent 1508177d9a
commit cfdce55770
1 changed files with 7 additions and 55 deletions
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internal/cmd/start.go
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@@ -774,21 +774,12 @@ func runStartCrew(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
if hasSession {
// Session exists - check if Claude is still running
if !t.IsClaudeRunning(sessionID) {
// Claude has exited, restart it
// Claude has exited, restart it with "gt prime" as initial prompt
fmt.Printf("Session exists, restarting Claude...\n")
claudeCmd := config.BuildCrewStartupCommand(rigName, name, r.Path, "")
claudeCmd := config.BuildCrewStartupCommand(rigName, name, r.Path, "gt prime")
if err := t.SendKeys(sessionID, claudeCmd); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("restarting claude: %w", err)
}
// Wait for Claude to start, then prime
shells := constants.SupportedShells
if err := t.WaitForCommand(sessionID, shells, constants.ClaudeStartTimeout); err != nil {
style.PrintWarning("Timeout waiting for Claude to start: %v", err)
}
time.Sleep(constants.ShutdownNotifyDelay)
if err := t.NudgeSession(sessionID, "gt prime"); err != nil {
style.PrintWarning("Could not send prime command: %v", err)
}
} else {
fmt.Printf("%s Session already running: %s\n", style.Dim.Render("○"), sessionID)
}
@@ -818,33 +809,12 @@ func runStartCrew(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
}
// Start claude with skip permissions and proper env vars for seance
claudeCmd := config.BuildCrewStartupCommand(rigName, name, r.Path, "")
// Pass "gt prime" as initial prompt so context is loaded immediately
claudeCmd := config.BuildCrewStartupCommand(rigName, name, r.Path, "gt prime")
if err := t.SendKeys(sessionID, claudeCmd); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("starting claude: %w", err)
}
// Wait for Claude to start
shells := constants.SupportedShells
if err := t.WaitForCommand(sessionID, shells, constants.ClaudeStartTimeout); err != nil {
style.PrintWarning("Timeout waiting for Claude to start: %v", err)
}
// Give Claude time to initialize after process starts
time.Sleep(constants.ShutdownNotifyDelay)
// Inject startup nudge for predecessor discovery via /resume
address := fmt.Sprintf("%s/crew/%s", rigName, name)
_ = session.StartupNudge(t, sessionID, session.StartupNudgeConfig{
Recipient: address,
Sender: "human",
Topic: "cold-start",
}) // Non-fatal: session works without nudge
// Send gt prime to initialize context
if err := t.NudgeSession(sessionID, "gt prime"); err != nil {
style.PrintWarning("Could not send prime command: %v", err)
}
fmt.Printf("%s Started crew workspace: %s/%s\n",
style.Bold.Render("✓"), rigName, name)
}
@@ -961,30 +931,12 @@ func startCrewMember(rigName, crewName, townRoot string) error {
}
// Start claude with proper env vars for seance
claudeCmd := config.BuildCrewStartupCommand(rigName, crewName, r.Path, "")
// Pass "gt prime" as initial prompt so context is loaded immediately
// (SessionStart hook fires, then Claude processes "gt prime" as first user message)
claudeCmd := config.BuildCrewStartupCommand(rigName, crewName, r.Path, "gt prime")
if err := t.SendKeys(sessionID, claudeCmd); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("starting claude: %w", err)
}
// Wait for Claude to start
shells := constants.SupportedShells
if err := t.WaitForCommand(sessionID, shells, constants.ClaudeStartTimeout); err != nil {
// Non-fatal: Claude might still be starting
}
// Give Claude time to initialize
time.Sleep(constants.ShutdownNotifyDelay)
// Inject startup nudge for predecessor discovery via /resume
address := fmt.Sprintf("%s/crew/%s", rigName, crewName)
_ = session.StartupNudge(t, sessionID, session.StartupNudgeConfig{
Recipient: address,
Sender: "human",
Topic: "cold-start",
}) // Non-fatal
// Send gt prime to initialize context (non-fatal: session works without priming)
_ = t.NudgeSession(sessionID, "gt prime")
return nil
}