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feat: harden multi-agent item processing; add job controls, agent failover and realtime agent messaging - #808

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Summary

The work-item → worktree → dispatch → done pipeline kept hitting edge cases when many agents work many items across many projects. This PR fixes the failure modes found by reviewing every stage, and adds what full autonomy needs:

  • stuck claims are released in minutes, not 4h;
  • job controls (cancel, pause, resume, redispatch);
  • automatic failover to another agent when one runs out of credit or quota;
  • realtime messaging between running agents.

Fixes: 36, grouped by area. Features: 5. Each commit is one area and can be reviewed on its own.

Fixes

  • Worktrees self-heal (flare-git-core):
    • A detached, mid-rebase or other-branch checkout is switched back in place. Detached commits are fast-forwarded onto the branch, or pinned under refs/agentflare/rescue/.
    • An abandoned index.lock and an interrupted rebase are cleared.
    • A half-created worktree add is recreated.
    • A broken .git pointer is repaired or cleared; git never acts on the main repo through it.
    • Push uses --force-with-lease --force-if-includes. On rejection it integrates origin/<branch> instead of dropping human commits or staying rejected forever.
    • gc_orphans no longer runs a repo-wide worktree prune.
    • Claimed worktrees are git worktree locked.
    • Daemon git runs with English messages, never prompts, and takes no optional locks. Error classification relied on English stderr.
  • Claims:
    • IMMEDIATE transactions; DEFERRED ones hit SQLITE_BUSY_SNAPSHOT under concurrency.
    • State-gated transitions, so a cancelled or completed item is never revived.
    • Stale-only claim steals.
    • Promote compare-and-sets on the PR number.
    • Dispatch waits on any live claim, using the real 4h TTL; before, this caused double dispatch → needs-manual.
    • Dependency gate.
    • Unique fallback owner ids.
  • Restart:
    • Workflow runs carry an executor lease. Recovery resumes a run exactly once, never double-runs, and never waits forever on a dead run.
    • A resumed run adopts the new owner; before, finalize was refused and all work redone.
    • Orphaned agents are reaped on macOS/Windows too, never touching tty-attached human shells.
    • Single-daemon flock.
    • Per-run recovery isolation, with a retry timer when boot recovery fails.
    • A watchdog timeout actually stops the attempt.
  • Completion:
    • The review sweep is project-scoped; items outside the daemon's cwd project stayed in_review forever.
    • A PR closed without merging requeues its item.
    • Repos where no PR is possible (non-GitHub, no origin, no creds) complete instead of failing forever.
    • head=owner:branch PR lookup, never creating a duplicate on a lookup error.
    • Atomic metadata merges.
    • "unchanged" is no longer reported as success.
    • Claim rollback when worktree creation fails.
    • Discovery resumes its own claim.
    • Per-project isolation and fairness in the discovery tick.
  • GitHub:
    • Merge and update-branch are pinned to the checked head SHA.
    • Legacy commit statuses and required checks count toward CI status.
    • AwaitingReview pings the human.
    • Secondary rate limits get backoff; writes are serialized.
    • Token cache.
    • Merged branches are deleted.
    • Closes #N for items bridged from GitHub issues.

Features

  • Session registry + claim liveness: dead owners' claims are released in about a minute: finished job, dead pid, or unseen session, confirmed on 2 consecutive ticks.
  • Job controls:
    • cancel (terminal), pause/resume (same run, same worktree), and redispatch to another agent;
    • available via CLI (agentflare job|item ...), MCP, dashboard POST /api/..., and chat /cancel /pause /resume /redispatch.
  • Agent failover:
    • credit, quota-window and long rate-limit failures are classified, with reset times parsed;
    • the item moves to the next available agent without charging its failure ceiling;
    • hung-but-chatty agents are killed when their output repeats and the worktree is unchanged;
    • configured via AGENTFLARE_FAILOVER / [failover], and per item via allowed_agents.
  • Realtime inter-agent messaging:
    • MCP message tool, agentflare message send|list|inbox|watch, dashboard /api/messages + SSE, and chat /msg;
    • Claude Code receives messages on its next tool call; a Stop hook keeps it from idling with unread mail;
    • bodies are wrapped as untrusted peer input in <agentflare-message> envelopes, which a body cannot forge.
  • .claude SessionStart hook: web sessions install lean-ctx (via cargo; the npm installer is proxy-blocked) and prefetch crates.

Refactors (no behavior change):

  • helpers replace copied comment, metadata and error boilerplate;
  • oversized files are split, so every file passes scripts/loc-gate.sh again.

Test plan

  • cargo test: 2731 passed across agentflare, agentflare-backend, agentflare-db-kit, flare-workflow, agentflare-jobs, flare-git-core and agentflare-agent-registry, plus cargo test --doc --workspace. About 150 new tests.
    • Three failures remain in the sandbox. Each is environment-only and fails the same way on master:
      • item_done_reports_a_hard_error_when_auto_commit_fails_on_a_dirty_tree and commit_uncommitted_reports_failed_not_nothing_to_commit_when_add_fails: they rely on read-only permissions, which root ignores.
      • isolate_worktree_target_dir_wires_sccache_when_available: sccache on PATH.
    • A cancel race found by the final run is fixed in the last commit.
  • cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings -A unsafe_code -A clippy::pedantic: clean.
    • --all-features could not build in the sandbox: ort-sys downloads a prebuilt binary from a proxy-blocked host. CI covers it.
  • cargo fmt --check: clean.
  • scripts/loc-gate.sh limits (recomputed): no violations.

Notes for reviewers

  • Risk areas / edge cases:
    • Claim-liveness auto-release (requires 2 consecutive dead verdicts; pid checks only on the same host).
    • Agent failover changing an item's assignee (sticky; failover: false pins it).
    • Stall kill heuristics (repetitive output and unchanged worktree for 45 min; AGENTFLARE_STALL_WINDOW_SECS=0 disables).
    • --force-if-includes push with remote integration.
    • The new Stop/SessionEnd hooks installed by agentflare init.
    • Linux-only /proc cwd sweep when reaping orphaned agents (skips processes with a controlling tty).
  • Backwards compatibility:
    • New tables: agent_sessions, agent_messages (agentflare.db; CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS).
    • The workflow executor lease lives inside state_json with #[serde(default)], so no SQL schema bump and older binaries still load rows.
    • done on a repo with no possible PR now completes, where it used to hard-error (item chore: release #109 tests updated). A broken-checkout auto-commit now fails done loudly (item feat: skill registry MCP — skill_search + skill_load #92 semantics).
    • Public paths of moved items are unchanged via re-exports.
  • Follow-ups, not in this PR:
    • The approval-card wording still says "awaiting status:pr:approved" when the blocker is a GitHub review.
    • The MCP pr_merge action (mcp_server/flare_git.rs) isn't SHA-pinned yet.
    • Native GitHub auto-merge / merge queue, draft-PR flow, ETag caching and webhooks remain larger options from the git/GitHub audit.
    • Named time zones other than UTC in agent reset messages are read as local time.

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  • New Features

    • Added controls to pause, resume, cancel, and redispatch jobs and work items from the CLI, dashboard, and chat.
    • Added messaging between live agent sessions, with inboxes, delivery, and streaming updates.
    • Workflows can be paused, resumed, and recovered after interruptions.
    • Agents can fail over to available alternatives when rate limits or quota and credit limits prevent work.
    • Added detection for stalled agents and recovery tools for interrupted or orphaned Git work.
    • Improved pull request handling with review gates, safer merges, and merged-branch cleanup.
    • Work can complete without opening a pull request when PR creation is unavailable.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved abandoned-claim recovery and dispatch resilience when projects or services are unavailable.
    • Prevented outdated workflow or pull request results from incorrectly completing work.

…mote work

Multi-agent runs kept leaving task worktrees in states nothing recovered
from automatically. create_worktree/rebase/commit/push now heal them:

- Detached HEAD / other branch: a clean checkout is switched back onto
  its task branch in place (fast-forwarding over detached commits, or
  pinning diverged ones under refs/agentflare/rescue/) instead of
  `worktree add` failing on the occupied path every redispatch.
- Interrupted git: abandoned index.lock (>10 min, or ours after a
  timeout kill) is removed and a half-finished rebase aborted; the abort
  result is checked instead of discarded.
- Half-created checkout (worktree add killed mid-populate, "initializing"
  lock left) is recreated rather than reused and committed as mass
  deletions.
- Broken .git pointer: repaired, else snapshotted and cleared; commit and
  cleanup refuse to run in it (git would act on the main repo).
- push uses --force-if-includes and, on rejection, integrates
  origin/<branch> and retries once, so human/update-branch commits on the
  PR branch are kept instead of dropped or rejected forever.
- worktree add retries recompute -b after a partial success, match real
  ref/index lock errors, and run under a timeout.
- branch_diverged checks against origin/<target> as well as the (never
  pulled) local target.
- gc_orphans drops only the removed path's registration instead of a
  repo-wide `worktree prune`; relative gitdir pointers are resolved;
  the branch-scoped cleaner honors locked registrations.
- cleanup pins detached-only commits before removal; squash_since
  refuses a base that is no longer an ancestor of HEAD.
…worktrees

- Every git spawn now gets LC_MESSAGES=C/LANGUAGE= (LC_ALL removed):
  lock-race retries, push-rejection recovery and the force-if-includes
  fallback all classify git's English stderr, and silently did nothing
  on a non-English workstation.
- GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 / GCM_INTERACTIVE=never: a credential prompt
  fails fast as an auth error instead of hanging until a timeout, or
  forever for calls without one.
- GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS=0: the daemon's read-only status polling no longer
  takes index.lock in a worktree an agent is committing in.
- Claimed worktrees are `git worktree lock`ed with an agentflare reason
  so an outside `worktree prune`/gc can't drop their registration; our
  own cleaners unlock/remove only registrations carrying that reason.
- A child item stops targeting its parent's branch once the parent is
  completed or cancelled, instead of stacking on an already-landed
  (squash-merged) branch and conflicting on every rebase.
- A worktree whose changes can't be auto-committed because its checkout
  is broken now fails `done` loudly (item #92) instead of reading as
  "nothing to commit".
- mark_completed / mark_in_review / promote / redispatch / release use
  IMMEDIATE transactions: DEFERRED read-then-write failed instantly with
  SQLITE_BUSY_SNAPSHOT under concurrent writers, erroring `done` after
  its PR was already open.
- mark_in_review / mark_completed only move items in the started or
  in_review group, so a late finalize can't revive a cancelled,
  completed or redispatched item.
- promote_in_review_to_completed_if_pr compare-and-sets on the PR number
  that was verified merged.
- acquire_if_stale_only / ClaimLedger::acquire_existing: a steal never
  re-creates a released claim row, so a reassigned job can't take the
  item back and publish.
- Supervisor dispatch decision waits on ANY live claim (the item's own
  assignee session included -- it was invisible, causing dispatch ->
  Held -> failure-cap -> needs-manual-dispatch) using the real 4h item
  claim TTL instead of the 30 min repo-claim TTL; same TTL fix in
  handoff. New tier waits while blocking dependencies are incomplete.
- Fallback claim owner is <agent>:<pid>-<random>, unique per process,
  instead of <agent>:<pid> which collided across sandboxes/machines.
- `git worktree audit/doctor`: claimed_sequence_ids and
  item_state_groups read backend.db (they read the wrong database and
  always came back empty), are scoped to the repo's own project, and the
  claim guard fails closed.
…; single daemon

After a daemon crash/stop/upgrade work could be double-run, waited on
forever, or left with an old agent still editing the worktree.

- flare-workflow: runs carry an executor lease (host:pid:nonce, renewed
  every TTL/4, stored in state_json so older binaries still load rows).
  recover() skips runs another live process is driving, takes over stale
  ones (a same-host lease with a dead pid is stale immediately), and
  isolates per-run failures instead of aborting all recovery on one bad
  row. New resume_run / is_driving / is_leased_elsewhere / recover_with
  and patch_run_data (a context patch that survives an in-flight step's
  write-back).
- agentflare-jobs: a watchdog timeout now flags the attempt cancelled so
  its agent children and run actually stop before the retry, instead of
  abandoning a live thread that keeps heartbeating the claim.
- Launched agents record pid + start-time under agent-pids/<worktree>;
  orphan reconcile kills that recorded group (not only `pgrep -f`, which
  never matched on macOS/Windows where the path isn't in argv) and, on
  Linux, processes whose cwd is inside the worktree -- except ones with a
  controlling terminal, i.e. a human's shell.
- orphan reconcile: the terminal-failure label swap runs in one BEGIN
  IMMEDIATE transaction (retried), so an item can no longer end up with
  neither `dispatched` nor `ready-for-work` and vanish from dispatch;
  restore_ready_for_work uses IMMEDIATE too.
- daemon: the lock file is never deleted (deleting it let two processes
  both "hold" it) and a lifetime flock is the liveness test.
… atomic metadata

- Review sweep uses a project-scoped MCP view per batch: items outside
  the daemon's cwd project could never be promoted and sat in_review
  forever with the lease held.
- PrCiStatus::Closed (REST + GraphQL): a PR closed without merging
  requeues its item (redispatch to backlog, lease released, metadata.pr
  cleared, one comment) instead of leaving it in_review forever; a closed
  own PR is never reused.
- push_and_open_pr returns PrOutcome; "no PR possible by configuration"
  (non-GitHub/no origin/no credentials) completes the item with
  metadata.no_pr instead of failing `done` forever; transient failures
  still error so finalize retries.
- find_existing queries head=<owner>:<branch> (one request, no unbounded
  pagination), prefers metadata.pr.number, and a lookup error never
  falls through to creating a duplicate PR.
- Metadata writes (PR identity, run id, item_update) re-read, merge and
  write in one IMMEDIATE transaction instead of clobbering concurrent
  writes from a snapshot.
- Finalize treats item_done's "unchanged" as a failure (re-armed by the
  terminal-failure hook) rather than reporting success.
- item_claim rolls back the claim and prior state when the worktree
  can't be created (non-retryable); item_done refuses completed or
  cancelled items; discovery resumes its own earlier PR claim.
- Supervisor: one project's DB error or missing folder no longer aborts
  the discovery tick for every project; per-project cap on active work
  jobs when several projects have ready items; job_in_flight uses an
  EXISTS query instead of the 100 newest jobs; a failed boot recover()
  retries every 60s instead of leaving dispatch off until restart.
- Restart wiring: an attached run adopts the current owner (finalize was
  refused after a restart and all work redone), stale runs are taken
  over instead of waited on forever, a lost claim or cancelled job stops
  the run, and boot recovery skips runs whose item is already finished.
- done/release steal only an existing stale claim: a job that lost its
  item to a reassignment can't re-mint the lease and publish.
  promote compare-and-sets on the PR number verified merged.
One row per running agent session (interactive or daemon job), keyed by
its claim owner. Liveness is exact by pid on this host (so an idle but
open session stays live) and by last_seen_at elsewhere. Foundation for
releasing dead sessions' claims in minutes instead of after the claim
TTL, and for inter-agent messaging.
Web sessions get lean-ctx (via cargo install -- the npm installer's
GitHub releases download is blocked by the sandbox proxy), onboarded
without shell aliases and with rustfmt/python3/timeout on its shell
allowlist, plus cargo fetch so tests and clippy start warm.
…ging

Claim liveness (src/claim_liveness.rs): every discovery tick judges each
item claim's owner -- a daemon job by its job row, a session by the
session registry (exact pid on this host), a pid-form owner by pid plus
claim silence -- and releases a dead owner's claim after two consecutive
dead verdicts, commenting and re-arming the item. Claims of crashed
interactive sessions or killed `agentflare work` processes are freed in
about a minute instead of after the 4h TTL. release/done take over a
dead owner's claim immediately. Headless runs register their session.

Job controls (src/job_controls.rs, flare-workflow, agentflare-jobs):
- cancel really stops: cancels the item's run and queued/running jobs,
  kills the agent, releases the claim, and is never retried/re-queued.
- pause/resume: the engine stops at the next step boundary (the stopped
  step is not journaled as a failure) and resumes the same run in the
  same worktree; a `paused` label holds the item meanwhile.
- `agentflare job cancel|pause|resume`, `agentflare item
  cancel|pause|resume|redispatch [--agent]`, MCP item actions, dashboard
  POST /api/jobs/{id}/cancel and /api/items/{id}/{action}, chat
  /cancel /pause /resume /redispatch.
- handoff of a claimed item to another agent releases the old claim and
  cancels its jobs.

Agent failover (src/auth_runner_classify.rs, src/quota/failover.rs,
src/cli/work_failover.rs, agent-registry): agent failures are classified
(short rate limit, long rate limit, credit exhausted, usage window with
parsed reset time, auth expired). Credit/window exhaustion and long rate
limits cool the agent down until its reset and move the item to the next
available agent immediately, without charging the item's dispatch
failure ceiling; with no alternative the retry is scheduled at the reset
time. Configurable via AGENTFLARE_FAILOVER, [failover] in config.toml,
and per-item allowed_agents / failover:false. A hung agent whose output
only repeats while its worktree doesn't change is killed after 45 min
(AGENTFLARE_STALL_WINDOW_SECS); repeated mid-run exhaustion errors kill
it early into failover.

Realtime inter-agent messaging (src/messages.rs, src/hook_messages.rs):
MCP tool `message` (send/list/inbox/read/whoami), CLI `agentflare
message send|list|inbox|read|whoami|watch`, dashboard /api/sessions,
/api/messages and an SSE stream, chat /msg. Addresses: session key or
name, item:<id>, agent:<name>, *. Claude Code receives messages on its
next tool call via PreToolUse additionalContext and a Stop hook keeps it
from going idle with mail waiting; other MCP hosts get them piggybacked
on agentflare tool results; headless runs drain them between turns.
Bodies are wrapped as untrusted peer input in <agentflare-message>
envelopes that a body cannot forge or close.
Behavior-preserving:
- AgentflareMcp::post_item_comment replaces 11 copies of the
  best-effort `comment_impl(CommentRequest{action:"create",..})` call.
- metadata_object() replaces the copied coerce-metadata-to-object chain
  (merge_item_metadata, handoff merges, persist_comment_cursor).
- item.rs: require_id / internal_err replace 13 id preambles and 12
  internal-error mappings; the progress sender is fetched once instead
  of calling create_worktree / push_and_open_pr through two branches.
- claims::ttl_secs delegates to the backend's identical default; wrapper
  tests that duplicated db-kit's ClaimLedger tests are dropped.
- groom/standup/health handlers move verbatim to item_reports.rs and the
  finalize step to work_item_pipeline/finalize.rs: item.rs 3113 -> 2633
  and work_item_pipeline.rs 1749 -> 1488 lines, both back under
  scripts/loc-gate.sh limits.
…checks, reviews, rate limits

- merge / update-branch send the head SHA the CI verdict was computed on
  (merge "sha", update-branch expected_head_sha); a head that moved in
  between is skipped for the tick instead of merging unverified code.
- CI status counts legacy commit statuses (Jenkins/CircleCI/Vercel-style
  StatusContext, REST /commits/{sha}/status) alongside check runs, and
  decides on required contexts only when the repo marks any required;
  statusCheckRollup is the fallback. A clean, mergeable PR with no CI at
  all is Passing instead of Pending forever.
- New PrCiStatus::AwaitingReview (blocked + REVIEW_REQUIRED /
  CHANGES_REQUESTED with green checks) takes the approval-gate path, so
  the human is actually pinged, with no merge attempt.
- Secondary rate limits (403/429 with retry-after or "secondary rate
  limit"/"abuse") map to RateLimited instead of a token-scope error; a
  shared per-host backoff deadline short-circuits calls until it passes;
  mutating requests are serialized >= 1s apart; GraphQL RATE_LIMITED
  errors map to RateLimited.
- The gh/vault token is resolved once per process and refreshed on 401.
- After a merged item is promoted, its remote head branch is deleted
  unless the repo auto-deletes, it is the default/protected branch, or
  the head lives in a fork.
- PRs for items bridged from a GitHub issue include "Closes #N" (or
  owner/repo#N across repos).
… the LOC gate

Pure moves, no behavior change: the PR merge/promotion/closed-PR block
to supervisor/merge.rs, the auto-merge test group to
supervisor/tests/auto_merge_tests.rs, and work-dispatch boot/recovery
retry to dashboard/dispatch_boot.rs (supervisor.rs 2888 -> 2472,
supervisor_tests.rs 2810 -> 2549, server.rs 1550 -> 1463).
…er the LOC gate

Pure moves, no behavior change: worktree self-heal and push-lease
helpers to worktree_heal.rs, subprocess timeout/kill to
worktree_process.rs, orphan audit/gc to worktree_orphans.rs, this
branch's heal tests to worktree_heal_tests.rs; engine executor-lease /
recovery to engine_lease.rs and pause/resume/cancel to
engine_control.rs. Public paths are unchanged via re-exports
(worktree.rs 1888 -> 1214, worktree_tests.rs 1839 -> 1461,
engine.rs 1873 -> 1434).
An operator cancel marks the workflow run Cancelled before it flags the
job, so a waiter polling in between reported a generic failure (flaky
pause_tests::cancel_stops_the_running_job_and_its_run_for_good under
load). A Cancelled run needs no job-flag check.
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Walkthrough

This pull request adds workflow controls and recovery, inter-agent messaging, claim liveness and agent failover, Git worktree recovery, and GitHub pull request processing. It also adds CLI and dashboard controls, Claude Code hook wiring, and project-scoped supervisor operations.

Changes

Workflow pause, resume, and recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Workflow leases and controls
crates/flare-workflow/src/*, crates/flare-workflow/tests/*
Workflow runs now store executor leases and support pause, resume, cancellation, recovery, and data patches.
Work-item run lifecycle
src/work_item_pipeline*
Pipeline logic adopts persisted runs, handles pause and cancellation states, polls agent messages, and finalizes work-item runs.

Agent sessions and messaging

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session identity and message storage
src/messages*, src/sessions.rs, src/db.rs
SQLite records and operations support live sessions, recipient routing, message delivery, inboxes, and identity attachment.
Message delivery interfaces
src/hook*, src/mcp_server/message.rs, src/cli/message.rs, src/dashboard/messages.rs
Hooks, MCP, CLI, and dashboard endpoints expose messaging operations. Work-item runs can receive pending messages.

Claims, failure handling, and failover

Layer / File(s) Summary
Claim acquisition and item finalization
crates/agentflare-db-kit/src/claim.rs, crates/agentflare-backend/src/claim.rs, crates/agentflare-backend/src/item/*
Claim operations can acquire existing rows without inserting missing claims. Finalization checks item state and tracked PR numbers.
Failure classification and agent availability
crates/agent-registry/src/failover.rs, src/auth_runner*, src/quota/*, src/cli/work_failover*
Failure categories determine retry waits and failover eligibility. Agent candidates and cooldown records support reassignment.
Claim liveness and agent progress
src/claim_liveness*, src/agent_launch*, src/dashboard/orphan_reconcile.rs
Claim-owner checks use jobs, sessions, and process state. Headless execution detects stalled or exhausted agents.

Worktree recovery and Git operations

Layer / File(s) Summary
Checkout recovery and bounded Git execution
crates/flare-git-core/src/worktree*, crates/flare-git-core/src/shell.rs
Worktree operations repair interrupted and detached checkouts, preserve detached commits, and run bounded Git commands.
Orphan worktree audit and removal
crates/flare-git-core/src/worktree_orphans.rs, crates/flare-git-core/src/worktree_tests.rs
New functions audit and remove selected orphan worktrees, with checks for checkout ownership and clean state.

Item and job controls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Queue, workflow, and item controls
crates/agentflare-jobs/src/*, src/job_controls.rs, src/mcp_server/item.rs
Queue cancellation distinguishes in-process jobs from running subprocess jobs. Shared control logic handles item and workflow actions.
CLI, dashboard, and hook wiring
src/cli/*, src/dashboard/controls.rs, src/init.rs, src/uninstall.rs
CLI and dashboard routes expose controls. Claude Code setup wires Stop and SessionEnd hooks, and uninstall removes those entries.

GitHub pull request processing

Layer / File(s) Summary
GitHub status and head-SHA handling
src/github/*, src/worktree/mod.rs
GitHub requests support legacy statuses, required checks, review and rollup signals, and head-SHA guards.
Supervisor review and merge flow
src/supervisor*
The supervisor handles review-gated merges and requeues closed unmerged PRs through project-scoped operations.
Session setup and project integrations
.claude/hooks/session-start.sh, .claude/settings.json, src/mcp_server/project_resolution.rs, src/mcp_server/item_reports.rs
The session-start hook installs lean-ctx and configures setup. Project resolution and item reports use scoped data.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to efd45

This change adds workflow controls, agent failover, and messaging, but several timing-sensitive paths remain unsafe. Messages can be lost after a disconnect or session attachment. A cancelled workflow or job can be reported as completed. Forced operations can act on a live claim or on a newer PR. A branch can be deleted after new commits are pushed. Resolve these issues before merging, or explicitly accept the risk.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

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This PR now conflicts with its base branch and can't be merged automatically. Rebase or merge the base branch in and resolve the conflicts, then push.

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In @.claude/settings.json:
- Line 8: Update the session-start hook command in the settings configuration to
preserve spaces in CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR, either by quoting the expanded script
path in shell form or by using Claude Code’s exec-form command with an empty
args array.

In `@crates/agent-registry/src/failover.rs`:
- Around line 54-57: Update the failover config construction using raw.agents
and agent_by_name so a non-empty allow-list that resolves to no agents sets
FailoverConfig.enabled to false. Preserve the existing enabled default and
resolved-agent behavior when the restriction is not lost.

In `@crates/agentflare-jobs/src/queue.rs`:
- Around line 502-509: Update request_cancel so it does not report success for
running subprocess jobs that cannot observe the cancellation flag. Before
setting cancel_requested, check the job’s in_process status and only flag
in-process jobs; return a distinct error for running subprocess jobs, while
preserving the existing queued-job and killed-job behavior.

In `@crates/agentflare-jobs/src/worker.rs`:
- Around line 276-277: Handle the result of rx.recv_timeout(abandon_grace(...)):
when it returns Ok(Ok(())), record the job as successfully completed and exit
the timeout path. Preserve the existing timeout failure behavior for Ok(Err(_))
and Err(_).

In `@crates/flare-git-core/src/worktree_heal.rs`:
- Around line 308-319: Update integrate_remote_branch to merge the fetched
remote branch into the current branch instead of rebasing, preserving upstream
target commits as ancestors; on failure, abort the merge before running the
existing interrupted-state recovery. Update the function’s doc comment to
describe merging and add a regression test that advances remote master before
the second push_branch call.

In `@crates/flare-git-core/src/worktree_orphans.rs`:
- Around line 91-110: In the orphan classification flow, guard against Git
discovery falling through to the enclosing repository when a task directory
lacks its own `.git`. Before calling `current_branch` or checking status, use
`super::is_own_checkout(path)` and skip the directory when it is not an
independent checkout; preserve the existing classification logic for valid
worktrees.

In `@crates/flare-workflow/src/engine_lease.rs`:
- Around line 213-217: In crates/flare-workflow/src/engine_lease.rs lines
213-217, make lease takeover in renew_lease_loop set a shared stop signal and
have execute_workflow, execute_step_with_retry, and execute_loop check it
alongside is_paused and return without settling the run; reject late writes from
a non-owner if needed to fence the superseded executor. In
crates/flare-workflow/src/engine_control.rs lines 106-111, move the status
change into cancel_workflow_impl’s update closure, setting Cancelled only if the
current status is not Completed, Failed, or Cancelled, and publish
WorkflowCancelled only when that closure changes the status.

In `@crates/flare-workflow/src/engine.rs`:
- Around line 591-594: Update the pause path in the workflow driver around the
`is_paused` check to keep receiving completions until `tracker.running` is empty
before returning. This ensures already-launched parallel steps finish while the
driver still owns its driving marker and lease.
- Around line 448-453: In the workflow start path, claim run_id in driving
before state_store.save makes the run visible to recover(); remove the claim if
save, append_journal, or evict_old_runs_if_needed fails, and retain it when
proceeding to spawn_driven. This prevents try_resume from claiming and spawning
a second driver for the same run.

In `@src/cli/message.rs`:
- Around line 225-234: In the watch consumer, change the
`messages::take_undelivered` flow so messages are not marked delivered before
output; mark each message delivered only after its `emit` call succeeds. Apply
the same ordering to the server-side SSE `take=true` stream, using the delivery
APIs available in `src/messages.rs`.

In `@src/cli/work_failover.rs`:
- Around line 148-160: Update the short-rate-limit branch in the work-failover
flow to release the claim and post an `AGENT_UNAVAILABLE_MARKER` comment instead
of calling `release_and_comment`. Preserve the existing retry timing and
`WorkOutcome` behavior, and disarm the claim guard only when release succeeds.

In `@src/cli/work.rs`:
- Around line 1002-1003: Update the cancellation check in
run_or_resume_with_sender so workflow_run_cancelled only classifies cancellation
for the run created by the current dispatch; compare against its run ID or clear
the previous Cancelled run ID before dispatch, preventing setup errors from
being treated as RunCancelled.

In `@src/github/client.rs`:
- Around line 57-69: Update Client’s backoff tracking so anonymous and
authenticated requests use separate backoff entries, passing the request token
through backoff checks and updates in send_checked. Keep last_mutation in
host_throttle shared per base URL so writes remain serialized across both
request types.

In `@src/github/graphql.rs`:
- Around line 87-96: Update the `batch_pr_status_chunked` loop to stop
processing remaining chunks when `batch_pr_status` returns
`GitHubError::RateLimited`, while preserving its existing handling for other
errors.

In `@src/github/repos.rs`:
- Around line 95-110: Update delete_merged_pr_branch to compare the branch GET
response’s commit SHA with the merged PR head SHA before deleting the ref. If
they differ, return a non-deleting BranchCleanup outcome; keep deletion for
matching SHAs.

In `@src/mcp_server/handoff.rs`:
- Around line 268-271: Canonicalize the trimmed recipient before comparing claim
owners in the handoff flow, using the canonical agent identity so aliases such
as “claude” and “claude-code” match. Update the recipient normalization used by
`held_by_other_agent`; keep the existing owner comparison and downstream handoff
behavior unchanged.

In `@src/messages.rs`:
- Around line 479-486: Update escape_body to detect envelope-tag prefixes
case-insensitively, including both agent-message variants and opening or closing
tags, and escape the preceding “&lt;” so mixed- or uppercase tags cannot pass
through unchanged.

In `@src/messages/identity.rs`:
- Around line 197-204: In the provisional-session branch, keep rerouting
undelivered messages but remove the provisional session row instead of ending
it, so claim liveness can fall back to the process PID. Update the corresponding
test assertion to expect the row to be removed rather than ended.

In `@src/quota/failover.rs`:
- Around line 276-290: Update NO_ALTERNATIVE_UNTIL to key cached misses by both
agent and item ID, and use that key for the lookup and insert around
find_alternative. Evict entries older than NO_ALTERNATIVE_RECHECK when inserting
so the per-item cache remains bounded over time.

In `@src/sessions.rs`:
- Around line 74-85: Update this_host() in src/sessions.rs to use the stable
machine identifier from the existing machine-uid dependency instead of
environment and hostname-file values, caching the result so repeated calls
return the same host identity. Preserve the non-empty localhost fallback if the
identifier cannot be obtained.

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  • crates/agent-registry/src/router.rs
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Brings in #807 (gated force-override for claim/release/done/check_merge).
Conflicts were adjacent lines only (module list; done's no_pr field next
to with_forced). Semantic reconciliation:
- The force gate's "PR has passing CI" evidence also accepts
  PrCiStatus::AwaitingReview (green CI held only by a required review),
  which this branch split out of Passing.
- promote_forced uses new mark_completed_forced: this branch gates
  mark_completed to started/in_review so a late finalize can't revive an
  item, but the audited forced promotion legitimately completes an item
  still in backlog whose PR is merged. It still refuses cancelled or
  completed items.
- Upstream's item_force_tests construct Passing with this branch's
  head_sha field.
@getappz getappz changed the title Harden multi-agent item processing; add job controls, agent failover and realtime agent messaging feat: harden multi-agent item processing; add job controls, agent failover and realtime agent messaging Sep 24, 2026
… compiling

The hook ran `cargo install lean-ctx --locked`, which on the 4-core web
sandbox compiles for well over 10 minutes and hit Claude Code's 600s
SessionStart timeout on both startup and resume, so it never reached
`lean-ctx onboard` and sessions started without lean-ctx at all.

Install the prebuilt release tarball from the fixed
github.com/yvgude/lean-ctx/releases/latest/download/<asset> URL instead,
verified against the release's SHA256SUMS. That path needs no GitHub API
call (api.github.com answers 403 from the sandbox's shared egress IP,
which is also why `npm install -g lean-ctx-bin` fails there) and takes
seconds. `cargo install` stays as the fallback, and settings.json raises
the hook timeout to 1800s so the fallback can finish if it is ever
needed. LEAN_CTX_VERSION pins a release; unset tracks latest. The binary
lands in ~/.local/bin, which the hook also exports via CLAUDE_ENV_FILE.

Validated in the sandbox: full hook run (download, checksum, onboard,
allowlist, cargo fetch) completes in ~5s.
Workflow engine / jobs:
- start_workflow claims `driving` before save(), so an in-process
  recover() can't start a second driver for a brand-new run.
- A lease takeover marks the run superseded: the old driver stops at the
  next check without writing; terminal writes are refused while another
  executor holds a fresh lease. cancel only moves unsettled runs.
- A paused/superseded driver drains in-flight parallel steps before
  letting go, so resume can't relaunch a sibling that is still running.
- request_cancel refuses running subprocess jobs (NotCancellable)
  instead of reporting success for a job it can't stop.
- An abandoned attempt that finishes Ok during the grace period is
  recorded as completed, not failed and retried.

Git / GitHub:
- Integrating commits pushed to the PR branch by someone else merges
  origin/<branch> instead of rebasing onto it (which replayed new
  target commits as the PR's own).
- audit_orphans skips a task dir that isn't its own checkout.
- Merged-branch deletion keeps a branch whose tip moved past the merged
  head (BranchCleanup::Advanced).
- Rate-limit backoff is tracked separately for anonymous and
  authenticated requests; GraphQL RATE_LIMITED arms the backoff and
  stops the chunked batch.
- Auth errors are logged as a fixed string (GitHubError::log_safe).
- SessionStart hook path is quoted.

Messaging / sessions / failover:
- `message watch` and the SSE stream requeue a taken message whose
  print/send failed instead of losing the rest of the batch.
- Envelope-tag escaping is case- and whitespace-insensitive.
- The MCP server's provisional session row is deleted, not ended, so
  its live claims aren't judged dead.
- Session host identity uses the kernel hostname (same for daemons and
  shells), then the machine id, before "localhost".
- A typo'd failover allow-list disables failover instead of widening to
  any agent; the agent-wide "no alternative" cache is only armed for
  unrestricted items; short rate-limit retries post the neutral
  agent-unavailable marker; a stale cancelled run id no longer makes a
  fresh dispatch's setup error read as a cancel; handoff compares
  canonical agent names.
… path

Windows CI: git records a worktree's gitdir under the long path
(C:/Users/runneradmin/...) while the caller can hold the 8.3 short-name
(RUNNER~1) spelling of the same directory, so the path-scoped
registration cleaner never matched and left a prunable registration
behind after cleanup (which also blocks a later re-claim). Compare via
the canonicalized parent directory, which still exists after the
checkout is removed, case-insensitively on Windows.
Audit of every way agentflare uses Claude Code (host instrumentation via
init, headless worker via work/run/workflows/apps, and the agent-agnostic
registry) against Claude Code's full documented surface: CLI flags,
settings keys, all 33 hook events and 5 hook types, memory, skills,
subagents, MCP, plugins, sessions, cloud integrations and the Agent SDK.

Findings are ranked P0-P2 with file:line evidence, a per-feature status
matrix, the current per-agent capability table, a list of Claude-Code-
style features worth universalising with the agentflare mechanism each
maps onto, and a roadmap.

Two bugs surfaced by the audit are recorded for follow-up rather than
fixed here: `agentflare work` passes both `--output-format json` and
`--output-format stream-json`, which makes the whole-stdout JSON parse
fail and silently drops session_id and cost (so SDD-loop `--resume` never
fires in real dispatch); and `agentflare run --mode` forwards `--mode`,
which is not a Claude Code flag (`--permission-mode` is).

Force-added under docs/ like docs/superpowers/plans, since /docs/ is
gitignored at the root.

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🟠 Major · Do not treat a shared checkout as proof that the claim owner stopped. · item_force.rs:197-199

src/mcp_server/item_force.rs:197-199
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not treat a shared checkout as proof that the claim owner stopped.

If another process uses the item's checkout while its owner is still working, that process can pass this branch gate with force=true. force_takeover then releases the live owner's claim and permits competing work. The branch and pushed HEAD identify a checkout state, not the process holding the claim. Require evidence that the owner stopped, or fence the former owner against subsequent writes.

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In `@src/mcp_server/item_force.rs` around lines 197 - 199, Update the branch-gate
logic in force_takeover so a shared checkout or pushed branch alone cannot
authorize force=true or release a live owner’s claim. Require evidence that the
claim owner has stopped, or fence that owner against subsequent writes, before
allowing takeover.

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Inline comments:
In @.claude/hooks/session-start.sh:
- Line 64: Make the tar extraction and installation operations explicitly
propagate failures in install_lean_ctx_prebuilt; return nonzero before the
success log when either operation fails so the caller can run the Cargo
fallback.

In `@crates/agentflare-jobs/src/worker.rs`:
- Line 261: In the worker’s `record_success` path, check the queue cancellation
flag before calling `Queue::complete`; if cancellation was requested, finish the
job as `killed` instead of recording success. Apply this check to success
returned during the abandon grace period as well.

In `@crates/flare-workflow/src/engine_control.rs`:
- Around line 121-124: Remove the direct WorkflowCancelled publication from this
cancellation path and rely on the engine driver’s publication when it observes
the cancelled status, so each status change produces one event.

In `@crates/flare-workflow/src/engine.rs`:
- Around line 1057-1059: Update both terminal settlement sites in engine.rs: at
lines 1057-1059, prevent the Completed update from overwriting a stored
Cancelled status; at lines 1105-1108, do the same for the Failed update. Make
each store update conditional on the current status and publish its terminal
event only when that update settles the run.

In `@docs/audits/2026-09-24-claude-code-feature-gap-analysis.md`:
- Line 61: Escape literal pipe characters in the affected Markdown table cells,
including the source values near the SessionStart finding, so they do not split
table columns. Preserve the displayed values and existing table structure across
all affected rows.

In `@src/cli/work_failover.rs`:
- Line 249: Update release_claim handling to parse the item_release response and
disarm ClaimGuard only when its released field is true; keep the guard armed
when released is false or cannot be parsed.

In `@src/dashboard/messages.rs`:
- Around line 211-213: Track IDs for messages successfully queued by the
producer and, when the SSE stream closes, requeue any queued events that were
not consumed; preserve the existing requeue_unsent handling for failed sends.
Use client acknowledgment or a lease only if delivery must guarantee client
receipt.

In `@src/github/graphql.rs`:
- Line 94: Update Client::request and the GraphQL RATE_LIMITED handling around
client.arm_backoff(None) to preserve and use response headers, arming backoff
from x-ratelimit-reset or retry-after when available; retain the existing
fallback when neither header is present.

In `@src/github/repos.rs`:
- Line 105: The SHA comparison in the `Ok(json)` match arm does not make the
later ref deletion atomic. Replace the deletion flow with an operation that
verifies the remote SHA as part of deletion; if no such operation is available,
omit automatic deletion rather than deleting a ref that may have advanced.

In `@src/mcp_server/item_force.rs`:
- Line 310: Update the forced-completion flow around mark_completed_forced to
pass the PR identity checked by is_pr_merged, and reject promotion if the item’s
current PR no longer matches it. Follow the PR comparison used by
item_check_merge so the forced update is fenced to the PR whose merge was
verified.

In `@src/messages/identity.rs`:
- Line 206: Update the flow around `sessions::forget` so `reroute_undelivered`
and deletion of the provisional row occur in one transaction. If rerouting
fails, roll back and retain the row so a later `mcp_key` call can retry.

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In `@src/mcp_server/item_force.rs`:
- Around line 197-199: Update the branch-gate logic in force_takeover so a
shared checkout or pushed branch alone cannot authorize force=true or release a
live owner’s claim. Require evidence that the claim owner has stopped, or fence
that owner against subsequent writes, before allowing takeover.

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Steps inside install_lean_ctx_prebuilt now return explicitly, since set -e
is suppressed under 'if !', so a failed download/extract/install falls
back to cargo. Pipes inside code spans in the gap-analysis tables are
escaped so the rows render with the right column count.
Two machines sharing a hostname and a db resolved to the same host, so
liveness_of checked one machine's pids against the other's. The host is
now <hostname>@<machine-id> when both are available.
…ecs for SDD dispatch

The audit (docs/audits/2026-09-24) found that `agentflare work` launched
Claude Code with `--output-format json` (from run_headless_impl when a
structured reply was requested) followed by `--output-format stream-json
--verbose` (from build_extra_args). The last flag wins, stdout became a
multi-line stream-json transcript, `parse_json_reply` failed to parse it
as one object, and every dispatch silently lost its session_id and cost —
so the SDD loop's `--resume` between fix rounds never fired in real runs.

- `headless_full_args` skips the registry's JSON-output flags whenever the
  caller already pins `--output-format` (any spelling, incl. `--stream-json`).
- `parse_json_reply` falls back to the final line when the whole stdout is
  not a single JSON object, so both output shapes yield session and cost.
- `agentflare run --mode` forwarded a bare `--mode`, which Claude Code
  rejects; `agent_registry::mode_flag` maps it to `--permission-mode` for
  Claude Code and keeps the pass-through for other agents.

Roadmap P0 item 2, first slice: `agent_registry::role` introduces
`RoleSpec` (system prompt, allowed/disallowed tools, permission mode) and
`compile_role(agent, &spec)`. Claude Code compiles to
`--append-system-prompt`, `--allowedTools`, `--disallowedTools` and
`--permission-mode`; every other agent gets an empty argv and the identity
folded into the user prompt via `prompt_with_system_fallback`, never an
unconfirmed flag. The SDD loop (`work_item_pipeline/roles.rs`) now gives
each dispatch a role: implementer keeps every tool, the analyst and the
reviewers lose the editing tools (Bash stays for verification), the judge
also loses the shell. Resume args still lead the argv; a mid-flight
correction still leads the prompt.

Docs: README and AGENTS.md no longer describe `optimize context` as
PreCompact-driven compaction (the hook is inert); the audit's roadmap and
bug list record what landed here.

Verified: agent-registry tests (68), targeted agentflare bin tests for
agent_launch/work_item_pipeline/cli::work (258), `cargo clippy` with the
CI flags on both crates, `cargo fmt --check`.
A bare hostname can be shared by two machines, so a matching host only
proves the pid is local when it carries the OS machine id.
Queue::complete finishes a cancel-requested job as killed in the same
UPDATE, so an executor returning Ok can't turn it into exited.
Completed/Failed settlement and Waiting writes skip runs that are already
terminal, and publish their event only when they wrote. WorkflowCancelled
is published only by cancel_workflow_impl, once, when it changed the status.
… branch delete

GraphQL RATE_LIMITED 200s now arm the host backoff from retry-after /
x-ratelimit-reset via Client::graphql, and mutations are spaced like other
writes. Merged head branches are deleted with updateRefs guarded by
beforeOid; there is no unguarded REST fallback.
…on, fenced forced completion

- release_claim disarms the guard only on an explicit released: true.
- Provisional identity adoption reroutes mail and forgets the row in one
  IMMEDIATE transaction; a failure keeps the row for a retry.
- SSE take=true takes one message per granted send permit and requeues
  in-flight ids when the client goes away.
- Forced merged completion is fenced on the PR that was checked as merged
  (mark_completed_forced_if_pr).

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@coderabbitai About the outside-diff finding on the item_force branch gate: that gate is pre-existing code from #807 that this PR only merged in. This PR adds the PR fence on forced completion (mark_completed_forced_if_pr, 12d5e27). Tightening the branch gate itself is a separate change, so I'm leaving it for a follow-up rather than widening this PR.


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@getappz, thanks for the clarification. I can now verify that branch_gate exists on master and that #807 added src/mcp_server/item_force.rs. I can also verify that #808 calls mark_completed_forced_if_pr to fence forced completion to the PR that was checked.

My earlier statement that I could not verify the history was premature. I agree that tightening the branch gate is a separate change. I won’t ask you to widen #808 for it.


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URL: https://github.com/getappz/agentflare/pull/808

Timestamp: 2026-09-24T23:34:59.960Z
Learning: In getappz/agentflare, `src/mcp_server/item_force.rs` contains a `branch_gate` introduced by PR `#807`. PR `#808` separately added `agentflare_backend::item::mark_completed_forced_if_pr` in `crates/agentflare-backend/src/item/claim.rs` to fence forced completion to the PR checked as merged. Tightening the pre-existing branch gate is a separate follow-up, not part of PR `#808`.

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Being pulled off the channel doesn't prove the client received an event,
so the take stream no longer forgets in-flight ids after an idle poll.
message watch skips ids it already printed, so a reconnect after a
requeue doesn't print a message twice.
…serve-only

SSE gives no receipt, so any server-side take with a bounded in-flight
window can mark a message delivered that never reached the client. The
stream no longer takes: message watch treats it as a wake-up and claims
each message with take_undelivered right before printing it, handing it
back if printing fails. Drops pump_taken and the in-flight bookkeeping.
…elf-contained jobs

Rest of the audit's P0 roadmap (docs/audits/2026-09-24, items 2-5).

Typed results (item 3): `HeadlessReply` now carries Claude Code's full
`result` event — subtype, is_error, num_turns, usage (input tokens summed
over fresh, cache-creation and cache-read; output tokens) and
structured_output. Every send hook (SDD loop, JSON workflows, Apps)
reports the agent's real token counts instead of 0. A cap hit
(error_max_turns / error_max_budget_usd) stays a usable reply with its
session id, prefixed with the stop reason so the judge can resume; any
other error subtype fails the step by name; a non-zero exit names the
result subtype when there is one. JSON workflow and App steps on Claude
Code / cursor-agent now run with `--output-format stream-json` for
liveness and structured replies.

Roles (item 2, second slice): `RoleSpec` gained effort, session_name and
json_schema (Claude Code: --effort, --name, --json-schema). The judge
carries a JSON Schema for its decision when AGENTFLARE_JUDGE_JSON_SCHEMA
opts in; the typed structured_output is then preferred over the text
reply, with the text parse as the fallback. Off by default until
confirmed against a live run.

Self-contained jobs (item 4): `claude_job_config` writes a job-scoped
mcp.json (the `flare` server) and settings.json (the same hook wiring
`init` installs, now shared via `init::claude_hook_specs`, plus the
gateway allow-list) under ~/.agentflare/job-config/claude-code/, and each
SDD dispatch on Claude Code passes --mcp-config / --settings for whichever
piece the user-scope ~/.claude.json / ~/.claude/settings.json lacks. A host
that ran `init` gets neither flag, so hooks never run twice.

Personas as agents (item 5): `JsonStep`/`StepInvocation` gained `persona`.
On Claude Code a step runs as `claude -p --agent <persona>` so the
projected `.claude/agents/<persona>.md` applies natively; elsewhere the
send hook folds the definition's body (frontmatter stripped) into the
prompt. `agentflare-apps` adds the name/description frontmatter Claude
Code requires to plain-markdown personas. apps/auto-company/workflow.json:
all 20 steps use `persona` instead of "read the file and answer in that
voice".

Verified: agent-registry (69), flare-workflow (113), agentflare-apps (10),
targeted agentflare bin tests (339), `cargo clippy` with the CI flags,
`cargo fmt --check`. Codex/Gemini/OpenCode/Cursor flag mappings remain
open: none of those CLIs is installed on this host to confirm spellings.
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getappz merged commit 7731882 into master Sep 25, 2026
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getappz deleted the claude/lucid-dirac-2upntt branch September 25, 2026 00:24
getappz pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 25, 2026
#808 was squash-merged into master and this PR now targets master.
Conflicts came only from the squash replacing the commits this branch
already carried: files this PR never touched take master's version
(which also brings the base's later role-spec and workflow changes),
and the files this PR changes keep this branch's version, which is the
same base content plus this PR's changes. The diff against master is
unchanged: the same 25 files.
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