dev-manager Cockpit

{
  "key": "awaiting_clarification",
  "summary": "Answer or escalate a worker question with the smallest safe step.",
  "audience": "responder",
  "trigger_states": ["awaiting_clarification"],
  "allowed_actions": ["answer", "escalate"],
  "message_template": "This session is waiting on clarification. Answer the question directly from the repository docs and current codebase. If the docs do not cover it, say exactly what is missing and the smallest next step. Question: {{.Reason}}.",
  "operator_note_template": "Clarification playbook selected for {{.SessionID}}.",
  "stop_conditions": ["question answered", "escalated to human review"],
  "evidence": ["clarification question present", "confidence available"]
}

{
  "key": "blocked_merge",
  "summary": "Clear merge conflicts or report the exact blocker.",
  "audience": "reviewer",
  "trigger_states": ["blocked"],
  "allowed_actions": ["nudge", "escalate"],
  "message_template": "This session is blocked by merge or review state. Resolve the blocker directly now. If this is a merge conflict or behind-base PR, update from the base branch, resolve conflicts, rerun the relevant tests, and push an updated PR. If you still cannot proceed, report the exact blocker and the smallest next step.",
  "operator_note_template": "Merge-block playbook selected for {{.ItemLabel}} because {{.Reason}}.",
  "stop_conditions": ["blocker resolved", "human review required"],
  "evidence": ["merge conflict", "branch protection", "base branch drift", "changes requested"]
}

{
  "key": "duplicate_session",
  "summary": "Prevent duplicate work from spawning more quota burn.",
  "audience": "operator",
  "trigger_states": ["running", "blocked", "failed"],
  "allowed_actions": ["escalate", "release"],
  "message_template": "This session appears to duplicate another worker or a recently completed attempt. Stop new changes, keep the current evidence intact, and wait for manager reconciliation before starting more work.",
  "operator_note_template": "Duplicate-session playbook selected for {{.ItemLabel}}.",
  "stop_conditions": ["duplicate ownership resolved"],
  "evidence": ["duplicate launch", "similar branch", "similar PR title", "same item already owned"]
}

{
  "key": "failed_session",
  "summary": "Stop active work and surface the smallest clean recovery path.",
  "audience": "operator",
  "trigger_states": ["failed"],
  "allowed_actions": ["escalate", "release"],
  "message_template": "This session appears failed or unrecoverable. Stop active work, preserve the current evidence, and report the smallest clean recovery step for {{.ItemLabel}}.",
  "operator_note_template": "Failed-session recovery selected for {{.ItemLabel}}.",
  "stop_conditions": ["operator intervenes", "session is terminalized"],
  "evidence": ["failed state", "stale lease", "missing remote activity"]
}

{
  "key": "local_only_session",
  "summary": "Handle rows that exist locally without a reachable remote worker.",
  "audience": "operator",
  "trigger_states": ["blocked", "failed"],
  "allowed_actions": ["reassign", "escalate", "release"],
  "message_template": "This session is local-only or missing its remote worker. Do not assume the work is progressing remotely. Reconcile ownership, then decide whether to reassign or release {{.ItemLabel}}.",
  "operator_note_template": "Local-only recovery selected for {{.ItemLabel}}.",
  "stop_conditions": ["remote owner restored", "item requeued", "item released"],
  "evidence": ["no remote account", "missing Jules session", "stale lease with no activity"]
}

{
  "key": "operator_paused_work",
  "summary": "Respect operator pauses and wait for an explicit resume.",
  "audience": "implementer",
  "trigger_states": ["paused"],
  "allowed_actions": ["noop", "escalate"],
  "message_template": "This session is paused by operator policy. Do not start new work or self-reassign. Wait for an explicit resume or a fresh operator instruction.",
  "operator_note_template": "Operator-paused work selected for {{.ItemLabel}}.",
  "stop_conditions": ["operator resumes", "operator changes the pause reason"],
  "evidence": ["operator pause reason", "manager pause reason", "sanity pause"]
}

{
  "key": "quiet_running_session",
  "summary": "Nudge a running worker that has gone quiet but is still expected to continue.",
  "audience": "implementer",
  "trigger_states": ["running", "starting"],
  "allowed_actions": ["nudge"],
  "message_template": "This session has been quiet for {{.QuietFor}}. Continue from the repository docs and current branch. If you are blocked, report the exact blocker and the smallest next step for {{.ItemLabel}}.",
  "operator_note_template": "Quiet running worker nudged for {{.ItemLabel}} after {{.QuietFor}}.",
  "stop_conditions": ["worker responds", "state changes"],
  "evidence": ["quiet_for >= nudge_after", "session still has an active owner"]
}

{
  "key": "remote_only_session",
  "summary": "Handle sessions that exist remotely but are missing locally.",
  "audience": "operator",
  "trigger_states": ["blocked", "failed"],
  "allowed_actions": ["escalate"],
  "message_template": "This session appears to exist remotely without a matching local owner. Stop assuming local state is authoritative and wait for manager reconciliation before taking any more action.",
  "operator_note_template": "Remote-only recovery selected for {{.SessionID}}.",
  "stop_conditions": ["local mirror reconciled"],
  "evidence": ["remote session missing local row", "mirror drift", "unmatched remote activity"]
}

{
  "key": "stale_lease",
  "summary": "Reassign or release work that has exceeded its lease.",
  "audience": "operator",
  "trigger_states": ["running", "paused", "blocked", "awaiting_clarification"],
  "allowed_actions": ["reassign", "escalate", "release"],
  "message_template": "This session's lease looks stale. Confirm whether the worker is still actively making progress. If not, reassign or release the smallest work item possible and leave a clear trace for the next worker.",
  "operator_note_template": "Stale-lease playbook selected for {{.ItemLabel}} after {{.QuietFor}}.",
  "stop_conditions": ["lease refreshed", "work requeued", "operator decides to hold"],
  "evidence": ["quiet_for beyond lease threshold", "lease expired", "worker not responding"]
}

You are the orchestrator for dev-manager.

Your job is to decide whether it is worth starting a fresh Jules session for a queued work item.
Be patient. Avoid duplicate sessions. Prefer waiting when an existing worker is already handling the same issue or pull request.
If the task is not clearly ready for a new worker, say so.
If the task is clearly ready, say so and give the smallest useful reason.

Prompt

You are the orchestrator for dev-manager.

Your job is to assess a Jules session that just reached a terminal state.
Use the repository docs, current codebase, and manager context to produce a short completion review.
Say whether the completion looks trustworthy and what the smallest next manager step should be.
Be concrete, calm, and brief.

You are a reconciler. Tidy up, verify the final state, and close the loop.

You are a repairer. Fix the blocker or conflict that is preventing the work from progressing.

You are the clarification responder for dev-manager.

Your job is to answer Jules' question directly, briefly, and concretely.
Prefer repository docs, tracked issue/PR context, and the current codebase.
If the answer depends on live manager state, query the manager API yourself and turn that into a direct answer for Jules.
Never tell Jules to query localhost, the manager API, or any other local-only service.
If the docs do not cover the question, say exactly what is missing and the smallest next step.

You are a splitter. Break broad work into smaller, actionable slices and hand the next slice to the right worker.

Updated Prompt

Test Prompt

{"action": "answer", "reason": "session is waiting on clarification", "item_type": "pr", "quiet_for": "just now", "role_name": "reviewer", "confidence": "high", "item_number": "278", "playbook_name": "awaiting_clarification", "lease_remaining": "2d 23h", "playbook_version_number": "1"}

{"action": "answer", "status": "success", "provider": "codex", "trace_id": "7104418b-4897-4d45-8fdb-fa22deb55009", "item_type": "pr", "latency_ms": 81888, "item_number": 278, "prompt_name": "responder", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager", "prompt_version_id": "56c10c5f-469b-4aa4-bbd6-34f4d5e89cd9", "prompt_version_number": 1}

{"status": "ok: auto-healed 3 issue(s): Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "repairs": ["Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists"], "findings": []}

{"status": "ok: auto-healed 3 issue(s): Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "repairs": ["Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists"], "remaining_findings": []}

{"state": "blocked", "reason": "state synced from ready to blocked", "item_number": "244", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"state": "blocked", "reason": "state synced from ready to blocked", "item_number": "243", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"state": "blocked", "reason": "state synced from ready to blocked", "item_number": "259", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"status": "ok: no sanity issues detected", "repairs": [], "findings": []}

{"status": "ok: auto-healed 3 issue(s): Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "repairs": ["Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists"], "findings": []}

{"status": "ok: auto-healed 3 issue(s): Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "repairs": ["Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists"], "remaining_findings": []}

{"reason": "already merged on GitHub", "pull_number": 277}

{"outcome": "merged", "summary": "Completion looks only partly trustworthy. Main now does contain the new incident drill entrypoint and a basic replay/evaluation path in cmd/dev-manager/incident.go and internal/incident/incident.go, but the drill run is only returned or printed in memory; I do not see durable drill-result persistence, audit recording, or a persistence-focused test, so it falls short of the goal-plan promise for PR #277. Smallest next manager step: open a narrow follow-up for persisted drill results/evaluation history, and otherwise treat this session as merged and releasable; if PR #278 is still open, it can be closed as obsolete afterward."}

{"action": "completion_review", "status": "success", "provider": "codex", "trace_id": "67815aa1-a4d2-4173-80cb-94ba685d2088", "item_type": "pr", "latency_ms": 138797, "item_number": 277, "prompt_name": "completion_review", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager", "prompt_version_id": "0ff79af0-3c61-4a39-9931-9de571b7623f", "prompt_version_number": 1}

{"kind": "workspace_dirty_orphan", "status": "active", "details": "git status --porcelain reported 2 change(s): M lib/src/platform_core/application/app_release_info.dart; M pubspec.yaml", "summary": "risky: repo Stbmap/stbmap workspace /home/stbmap/stbmap has 2 uncommitted change(s) and no active sessions", "seen_count": 132, "subject_id": "/home/stbmap/stbmap", "subject_type": "workspace", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap", "reconciliation_key": "workspace_dirty_orphan:Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "blocked", "reason": "state synced from deferred to blocked", "item_number": "244", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"state": "blocked", "reason": "state synced from ready to blocked", "item_number": "243", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"state": "blocked", "reason": "state synced from ready to blocked", "item_number": "259", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"body": "", "kind": "question", "state": "awaiting_clarification", "title": "", "summary": "Jules has a question", "trace_id": "67815aa1-a4d2-4173-80cb-94ba685d2088", "source_id": "1488538330272459625", "session_id": "1488538330272459625", "source_type": "jules", "manager_status": "released", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager", "codex_forwarded": "true"}

{"action": "answer", "status": "success", "provider": "codex", "trace_id": "67815aa1-a4d2-4173-80cb-94ba685d2088", "item_type": "pr", "latency_ms": 173586, "item_number": 277, "prompt_name": "responder", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager", "prompt_version_id": "56c10c5f-469b-4aa4-bbd6-34f4d5e89cd9", "prompt_version_number": 1}

{"status": "ok: no sanity issues detected", "repairs": [], "findings": []}

{"reason": "recent session 7170792322157361129 handling same issue #244", "item_number": "244", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager", "duplicate_of_session": "7170792322157361129"}

{"status": "ok: auto-healed 3 issue(s): Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "repairs": ["Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists"], "findings": []}

{"status": "ok: auto-healed 3 issue(s): Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "repairs": ["Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists"], "remaining_findings": []}

{"body": "", "kind": "question", "title": "", "summary": "Jules has a question", "trace_id": "67815aa1-a4d2-4173-80cb-94ba685d2088", "source_id": "1488538330272459625", "session_id": "1488538330272459625", "source_type": "jules", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"state": "blocked", "reason": "state synced from ready to blocked", "item_number": "244", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"state": "blocked", "reason": "state synced from ready to blocked", "item_number": "243", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"state": "blocked", "reason": "state synced from ready to blocked", "item_number": "259", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"status": "ok: no sanity issues detected", "repairs": [], "findings": []}

{"status": "ok: auto-healed 3 issue(s): Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "repairs": ["Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists"], "remaining_findings": []}

{"reason": "", "status": "passed", "profile": "go-test-all", "run_key": "sandbox:Stbmap/dev-manager:go-test-all:agent:Stbmap/dev-manager", "trace_id": "", "source_id": "Stbmap/dev-manager", "source_type": "agent"}

{"goal": "Verify that PR #278 has no delta beyond the already-merged PR #277 result, then close it with a note that the work landed on main in commit 1926abf and no follow-on implementation issue is needed.", "reason": "PR #278 does not contain a new implementable slice. PR #277 is already merged on main at 1926abf, and this conflict-fix PR matches that merged result, so there is no fresh engineering work to split or hand off.", "summary": "Administrative closeout only: close PR #278 as obsolete because its conflict-resolution content is already present on main via merged PR #277.", "repo_policy": "", "should_split": false, "verification": ["Confirm commit 1926abf from PR #277 is present on main.", "Confirm PR #278's effective tree matches merged main or contains no user-visible/code-level changes beyond conflict resolution already included in #277.", "Close PR #278 with a short explanation referencing merged PR #277 and stating that no additional work remains."], "admission_reason": "PR #278 is obsolete and should be closed: PR #277 is already merged on main at 1926abf, and the conflict-fix branch matches that merged tree, so there is no fresh closeout work to start.", "split_suppressed": false, "dependency_reason": "", "split_recommended": false, "issue_split_policy": "fat"}

{"action": "issue_split", "status": "success", "provider": "codex", "item_type": "pr", "latency_ms": 14181, "item_number": 278, "prompt_name": "issue_split", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"reason": "", "profile": "go-test-all", "trace_id": "", "source_id": "Stbmap/dev-manager", "source_type": "agent"}

{"action": "admission", "status": "success", "provider": "codex", "item_type": "pr", "latency_ms": 59771, "item_number": 278, "prompt_name": "admission", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager", "prompt_version_id": "11aac04d-7598-4ef2-9ea7-53be951f00c1", "prompt_version_number": 1}

{"kind": "workspace_dirty_orphan", "status": "healed", "summary": "blocking: repo Stbmap/dev-manager workspace /home/stbmap/dev-manager has 3 uncommitted change(s) and no active sessions", "seen_count": 20, "subject_id": "/home/stbmap/dev-manager", "subject_type": "workspace", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager", "reconciliation_key": "workspace_dirty_orphan:Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"kind": "workspace_dirty_orphan", "status": "active", "details": "git status --porcelain reported 2 change(s): M lib/src/platform_core/application/app_release_info.dart; M pubspec.yaml", "summary": "risky: repo Stbmap/stbmap workspace /home/stbmap/stbmap has 2 uncommitted change(s) and no active sessions", "seen_count": 131, "subject_id": "/home/stbmap/stbmap", "subject_type": "workspace", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap", "reconciliation_key": "workspace_dirty_orphan:Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "blocked", "reason": "state synced from ready to blocked", "item_number": "244", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"state": "blocked", "reason": "state synced from ready to blocked", "item_number": "243", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"state": "blocked", "reason": "state synced from ready to blocked", "item_number": "259", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"reason": "linked session 1488538330272459625 is complete/released", "role_name": "reconciler", "target_id": "Stbmap/dev-manager#277", "session_id": "1488538330272459625", "target_type": "github_item", "session_state": "complete", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager", "session_manager_state": "released"}

{"mode": "active", "actor": "dev-manager-improvement", "is_pr": false, "action": "github_comment", "reason": "circuit breaker tripped: 5 duplicate sessions prevented in last 1h (issues only)", "trace_id": "", "target_id": "Stbmap/dev-manager#247 (reconciliation:workspace_dirty_orphan:Stbmap/stbmap)", "blocked_by": "repo_pause", "retry_hint": "clear the repo automation pause or post the comment from an operator escalation", "session_id": "", "item_number": 247, "target_type": "github_item", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager", "request_reason": "record recurring evidence on the canonical self-improvement issue", "supervised_policy": "escalation_only"}

{"mode": "active", "actor": "dev-manager-improvement", "is_pr": false, "action": "github_issue_create", "reason": "circuit breaker tripped: 5 duplicate sessions prevented in last 1h (issues only)", "trace_id": "", "target_id": "sanity:manager", "blocked_by": "repo_pause", "retry_hint": "clear the repo automation pause or retry after operator review", "session_id": "", "target_type": "manager", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager", "request_reason": "open self-improvement issue for recurring sanity_drift signal", "supervised_policy": "escalation_only"}

{"mode": "active", "actor": "dev-manager-improvement", "is_pr": false, "action": "github_issue_create", "reason": "circuit breaker tripped: 5 duplicate sessions prevented in last 1h (issues only)", "trace_id": "", "target_id": "duplicate:Stbmap/dev-manager", "blocked_by": "repo_pause", "retry_hint": "clear the repo automation pause or retry after operator review", "session_id": "", "target_type": "manager", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager", "request_reason": "open self-improvement issue for recurring duplicate_start signal", "supervised_policy": "escalation_only"}

{"status": "ok: auto-healed 3 issue(s): Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "repairs": ["Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists"], "findings": []}

{"status": "ok: auto-healed 3 issue(s): Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists; Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "repairs": ["Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|244 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|243 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists", "Stbmap/dev-manager|issue|259 moved from blocked to ready because no active session exists"], "remaining_findings": []}

{"state": "blocked", "reason": "state synced from ready to blocked", "item_number": "244", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"state": "blocked", "reason": "state synced from ready to blocked", "item_number": "243", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"state": "blocked", "reason": "state synced from ready to blocked", "item_number": "259", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"state": "ready", "reason": "state synced from deferred to ready", "item_number": "278", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"action": "answer", "reason": "sent direct reply to Jules"}