Implements redundant systems to ensure infrastructure stays operational:
- gt spawn: Auto-starts refinery and witness if not running
- mol-witness-patrol: Added check-refinery step to verify refinery is alive
This ensures polecats don't wait forever for merges.
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Remove redundant phrases like 'ephemeral wisp' and 'ephemeral molecule'
since wisp already implies ephemeral. Keep 'ephemeral' only where it is
definitional (explaining what wisps are) or contrasting (vs durable mol).
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- Remove 3-second sleep and NudgeSession from spawn.go
(Claude takes 10-20s to initialize, message arrived too early)
- Add trigger-pending-spawns step to deacon patrol molecule
(Deacon polls with WaitForClaudeReady, sends trigger when ready)
- SessionStart hook handles gt prime (internal, reliable)
- Deacon sends minimal 'Begin.' trigger to start polecat working
The spawn command now returns immediately after starting the session.
The deacon's patrol cycle will trigger the polecat when it's ready.
Introduces Proto → Wisp → Mol architecture for agent sessions:
- mol-crew-session: Light harness enabling autonomous overnight work
Key insight: if attached mol exists, continue without awaiting input
- mol-polecat-session: One-shot wisp wrapping polecat work assignments
Handles onboard → execute → cleanup lifecycle
This separates "how to work" (proto) from "what to work on" (mol),
enabling session continuity and autonomous long-mol processing.
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Updates mol-polecat-work and polecat.md with comprehensive molecule protocol:
Molecule changes:
- Added exit-decision step as convergence point for all exits
- Four exit types: COMPLETED, BLOCKED, REFACTOR, ESCALATE
- Non-linear jumps allowed from any step to exit-decision
- Dynamic modifications allowed (add steps, file work, refresh)
Polecat role documentation:
- Full molecule protocol section explaining the contract
- Exit strategies with concrete commands
- Wisps vs Molecules comparison for context
- Session continuity for multi-session work
- Updated exit checklist
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Update mol-polecat-work submit-merge step and polecat.md role docs
to explicitly forbid GitHub PRs and direct to beads merge-requests.
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The Refinery now has a formal patrol molecule with structural enforcement
of the Beads Promise via the handle-failures verification gate.
Changes:
- Add RefineryPatrolMolecule() to builtin_molecules.go with 10 steps
- Add prompts/roles/refinery.md template following deacon/witness pattern
- Update test to expect 9 built-in molecules
Key insight: The handle-failures step is a GATE - you cannot proceed to
merge-push without either fixing the issue or filing a bead. This makes
disavowal structurally impossible, not just philosophically discouraged.
The Scotty Test: "Would Scotty walk past a warp core leak because it
existed before his shift?"
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Two mechanisms, different purposes:
- Pinned molecule (bd mol run) = What you are working on, tracked by beads
- Handoff mail = Optional context notes for session restarts
Updated templates, architecture.md, and builtin_molecules.go
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- New docs/deacon-plugins.md with full plugin architecture
- Directory-based discovery at ~/gt/plugins/
- Gate types: cooldown, cron, condition, event
- Parallel execution support via Task tool subagents
- Updated mol-deacon-patrol plugin-run step to reference new docs
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Define the Deacon patrol molecule in builtin_molecules.go with 7 steps:
1. inbox-check - Handle callbacks from agents
2. health-scan - Ping Witnesses and Refineries
3. plugin-run - Execute registered plugins
4. orphan-check - Find abandoned work (uses wisp terminology)
5. session-gc - Clean dead sessions and wisp artifacts
6. context-check - Check own context limit
7. loop-or-exit - Burn and let daemon respawn, or exit if context high
Added DeaconPatrolMolecule() to BuiltinMolecules() list and added
corresponding test in builtin_molecules_test.go.
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- Add MIT LICENSE file
- Update version to 0.1.0
- Add mol-version-bump molecule for release workflow
- Terse README for OSS release
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The "hq-" prefix for town-level beads revealed that "HQ" (headquarters)
is a better name than "harness" for the top-level Gas Town structure.
- Renamed docs/harness.md to docs/hq.md with updated content
- Updated all documentation references in architecture.md and bootstrap.md
- Updated CLI help text and user-facing messages in install.go
- Updated gitinit.go with HQGitignore constant and HQ terminology
- Updated molecule templates in builtin_molecules.go
- Kept InitGitForHarness function name for backwards compatibility
HQ is more intuitive (where the mayor sits), fits the Mad Max aesthetic,
matches the beads prefix (hq-*), and is self-documenting.
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Defines the standard polecat work lifecycle molecule with 8 steps:
- load-context: Load context and verify assignment
- implement: Do the work, file discovered issues
- self-review: Review changes for bugs and issues
- verify-tests: Run tests, add new ones as needed
- rebase-main: Rebase against main
- submit-merge: Submit to merge queue
- update-handoff: Update handoff state
- request-shutdown: Request witness termination
This molecule enables nondeterministic idempotence for polecat work.
Crash recovery is automatic - restart reads molecule state and continues
from the last completed step.
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Defines a multi-step workflow for bootstrapping a new Gas Town installation:
- locate-harness: Interactive harness location selection
- create-harness: Directory structure creation
- setup-rigs: Rig configuration and cloning
- build-gt: Go binary compilation
- install-paths: PATH configuration
- init-beads: Beads database initialization
- sync-beads: Remote sync and doctor fixes
- verify: Installation verification
Note: Requires bd to support 'molecule' issue type (see gt-qn4l)
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Add a single-step molecule for building and installing the gt binary.
The molecule contains one step:
- install: Build with `go build -o gt ./cmd/gt` and install with
`go install ./cmd/gt`
Added InstallGoBinaryMolecule() function and test.
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Add three built-in molecule definitions that are automatically seeded
during `gt install`:
- engineer-in-box: Full workflow from design to merge (5 steps)
- quick-fix: Fast path for small changes (3 steps)
- research: Investigation workflow (2 steps)
These molecules provide reusable workflow templates that polecats can
instantiate to execute multi-step procedures with proper dependency
tracking between steps.
Closes gt-4nn.4
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