Polish help text across all agent commands to clarify roles:
- crew: persistent workspaces vs ephemeral polecats
- deacon: town-level watchdog receiving heartbeats
- dog: cross-rig infrastructure workers (cats vs dogs)
- mayor: Chief of Staff for cross-rig coordination
- nudge: universal synchronous messaging API
- polecat: ephemeral one-task workers, self-cleaning
- refinery: merge queue serializer per rig
- witness: per-rig polecat health monitor
Add comprehensive gt nudge documentation to crew template explaining
when to use nudge vs mail, common patterns, and target shortcuts.
Add orphan-process-cleanup step to deacon patrol formula to clean up
claude subagent processes that fail to exit (TTY = "?").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Cost tracking infrastructure works but has no data source:
- Claude Code displays costs in TUI status bar, not scrollback
- tmux capture-pane can't see TUI chrome
- All sessions show $0.00
Changes:
- Mark gt costs command as [DISABLED] with deprecation warnings
- Mark costs-digest patrol step as [DISABLED] with skip instructions
- Document requirement for Claude Code to expose CLAUDE_SESSION_COST
Infrastructure preserved for re-enabling when Claude Code adds support.
Ref: GH#24, gt-7awfjq
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per-cycle patrol digests were polluting JSONL with O(cycles/day) beads.
Apply the same pattern used for cost digests:
- Make per-cycle squash digests ephemeral (not exported to JSONL)
- Add 'gt patrol digest' command to aggregate into daily summary
- Add patrol-digest step to deacon patrol formula
Daily cadence reduces noise while preserving observability.
Closes: gt-nbmceh
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds supervision for dispatched dogs that may get stuck.
The new step (between dog-pool-maintenance and orphan-check):
- Lists dogs in "working" state
- Checks work duration vs plugin timeout (default 10m)
- Decision matrix based on how long overdue:
- < 2x timeout: log warning, check next cycle
- 2x-5x timeout: file death warrant
- > 5x timeout: force clear + escalate to Mayor
- Tracks chronic failures for repeat offenders
This closes the supervision gap where dogs could hang forever
after being dispatched via `gt dog dispatch --plugin`.
Closes: gt-s4dp3
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Deacon patrol formula now uses `gt mol step await-signal` with
exponential backoff instead of vague "sleep 60s" instructions.
How it works:
- Subscribes to `bd activity --follow` (beads activity feed)
- Returns IMMEDIATELY when any gt/bd command triggers activity
- On timeout, waits exponentially longer: 60s → 120s → 240s → max 10m
- Tracks idle:N label on hq-deacon bead across invocations
This connects the designed-but-unintegrated backoff mechanism to the
actual patrol loop. Idle towns let Deacon sleep; active work wakes it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the missing github-gate-check step that runs `bd gate discover` and
`bd gate check --type=gh` to evaluate GitHub CI gates. Updates
dispatch-gated-molecules to depend on both gate-evaluation and
github-gate-check.
Fixes: gt-sfxpr
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(costs): redesign session cost tracking with wisps and daily digests
Implement the wisp-based cost tracking architecture per gt-cm900:
- gt costs record now creates ephemeral wisps (not exported to JSONL)
to avoid log-in-database pollution with O(sessions/day) events
- gt costs digest aggregates yesterday's session wisps into a single
permanent "Cost Report YYYY-MM-DD" bead for audit purposes
- gt costs query updated: --today queries wisps, --week queries
digest beads + today's wisps
- gt costs migrate closes legacy open session.ended beads
- Deacon patrol formula updated with costs-digest step
The new architecture:
Session ends -> Wisp (fast, N/day) -> Patrol digest -> Bead (1/day)
This preserves audit trail while keeping issues.jsonl clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: sync canonical formula with embedded copy
Update .beads/formulas/ with the costs-digest step added to
mol-deacon-patrol.formula.toml. The go:generate copies from
.beads/formulas/ to internal/formula/formulas/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---------
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add new step to mol-deacon-patrol.formula.toml that discovers molecules
blocked on gates that have now closed, and dispatches them to the
appropriate rig's polecat pool.
This completes the async resume cycle without explicit waiter tracking.
The molecule state IS the waiter - patrol discovers reality each cycle.
- Uses bd mol ready --gated to find gate-ready molecules
- Dispatches via gt sling <mol-id> <rig>/polecats
- Runs after gate-evaluation, before health-scan
- Bumps formula version to 6
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Deacon patrol formula's zombie-scan step now:
- Only detects zombies via --dry-run, never kills directly
- Files death warrants for Boot to handle interrogation/execution
- Includes psychological weight language about termination gravity
This prevents accidental destruction of worker context, mid-task
progress, and unsaved state. Kill authority belongs to Boot.
Bumped version to 5.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add --verbose/-v flag to show detailed multi-line output (old behavior)
- Compact mode shows: name + status indicator (●/○) + hook + mail count
- MQ info displayed inline with refinery
- Fix Makefile install target to use ~/.local/bin
🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add `gt deacon stale-hooks` command to find and unhook stale beads.
Problem: Beads can get stuck in 'hooked' status when agents die or
abandon work without properly unhooking.
Solution:
- New command scans for hooked beads older than threshold (default 1h)
- Checks if assignee agent is still alive (tmux session exists)
- Unhooks beads with dead agents (sets status back to 'open')
- Supports --dry-run to preview without making changes
Also adds "stale-hook-check" step to Deacon patrol formula.
🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: Commit embedded formulas for go install @latest
The internal/formula/formulas/ directory was gitignored, causing
`go install github.com/steveyegge/gastown/cmd/gt@latest` to fail with:
pattern formulas/*.formula.json: no matching files found
The go:embed directive requires these files at build time, but
go install @latest doesn't run go:generate. By committing the
generated formulas, users can install directly without cloning.
Maintainers should run `go generate ./...` after modifying
.beads/formulas/ to keep the embedded copy in sync.
🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* ci: Add check for committed embedded formulas
Adds a new CI job that:
1. Builds without running go:generate (catches missing formulas)
2. Verifies committed formulas match .beads/formulas/ source
Also removes redundant go:generate steps from other jobs since
formulas are now committed.
🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: exclude towers-of-hanoi test formulas from embed
These are durability stress test fixtures (pre-computed move sequences),
not production formulas users need. Excluding them reduces embedded
content by ~10K lines.
🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---------
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: gus <steve.yegge@gmail.com>