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 an implementer. Write the code to solve the issue.

You are an orchestrator. Route and plan the work.

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 reviewer. Review the code changes.

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

Updated Prompt

Test Prompt

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

{"reason": "no active session remains", "source": "stale issue sweep", "next_state": "ready", "item_number": 211, "labels_removed": ["blocked", "jules", "in-progress"], "previous_state": "claimed", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "claimed", "reason": "state synced from ready to claimed", "item_number": "211", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "ready", "reason": "state synced from deferred to ready", "item_number": "315", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"status": "ok: auto-healed 1 issue(s): Stbmap/chatter|issue|1 moved from ready to in-progress because 1 active session(s) exist", "repairs": ["Stbmap/chatter|issue|1 moved from ready to in-progress because 1 active session(s) exist"], "findings": []}

{"status": "ok: auto-healed 1 issue(s): Stbmap/chatter|issue|1 moved from ready to in-progress because 1 active session(s) exist", "repairs": ["Stbmap/chatter|issue|1 moved from ready to in-progress because 1 active session(s) exist"], "remaining_findings": []}

{"reason": "no active session remains", "source": "stale issue sweep", "next_state": "ready", "item_number": 1, "labels_removed": ["blocked", "jules", "in-progress"], "previous_state": "in-progress", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter"}

{"reason": "the pull request has merge conflicts with the base branch", "pull_number": 255}

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

{"action": "answer", "reason": "remote user reply already followed the latest agent message", "trace_id": "a71660bc-ffdd-4a95-afb5-3cf9af59737c", "session_id": "12514038694284651855"}

{"goal": "Create a comprehensive, implementation-ready GitHub issue list for Stbmap/chatter from the attached specification documents. Each issue should include detailed scope, acceptance criteria, technical notes, UI/UX expectations where relevant, dependencies, verification steps, and labels so Jules implementer agents can start work with minimal follow-up questions.", "reason": "Do not split this issue. The requested work is a cohesive backlog-generation task: one agent should read the attached specification once, reconcile the PDF/DOCX content, account for the clarifications about multi-agent MC-style chat and local Codex/Gemini CLI execution, then create a complete, consistently structured GitHub issue set. Splitting the planning work would likely produce duplicate, inconsistent, or poorly sequenced issues. Under the current fat split policy, this should stay as one broad Codex planning/closeout task.", "summary": "Route issue #1 as a single task for an agent to inspect the specification attachments and produce a detailed implementation issue backlog for the new Go/Postgres chat system with a premium Apple Liquid Glass web UI and local CLI-backed agent orchestration.", "repo_policy": "", "should_split": false, "verification": ["Confirm both attached spec formats were reviewed or that the PDF/DOCX contents are equivalent before deriving issues.", "Confirm the generated backlog covers backend Go service, Postgres schema/migrations, agent orchestration, Codex CLI/Gemini CLI integration, chat/session flows, premium Liquid Glass UI, auth/config if specified, observability, tests, deployment, and documentation.", "Check that each created GitHub issue is independently actionable, has detailed acceptance criteria, includes implementation hints, and avoids overlapping ownership.", "Check that issue sequencing/dependencies are explicit without making future implementation slices depend on the original planning issue.", "Confirm no implementation work is attempted in this task beyond creating and organizing the GitHub issues."], "admission_reason": "Issue #1 is marked ready, existing_sessions is empty, and the durable memories are for other repos, so no live duplicate or prerequisite ownership is visible.", "split_suppressed": false, "dependency_reason": "", "split_recommended": false, "issue_split_policy": "fat"}

{"model": "gpt-5.5", "action": "issue_split", "status": "success", "provider": "codex", "item_type": "issue", "latency_ms": 19654, "item_number": 1, "prompt_name": "issue_split", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter"}

{"model": "gpt-5.5", "action": "admission", "status": "success", "provider": "codex", "item_type": "issue", "latency_ms": 42233, "item_number": 1, "prompt_name": "admission", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter", "prompt_version_id": "11aac04d-7598-4ef2-9ea7-53be951f00c1", "prompt_version_number": 1}

{"reason": "no active session remains", "source": "stale issue sweep", "next_state": "ready", "item_number": 211, "labels_removed": ["blocked", "jules", "in-progress"], "previous_state": "claimed", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"reason": "target pull request is closed", "status": "retired", "task_key": "agent-task:stbmap/stbmap:github_item:Stbmap/stbmap#257:reviewer", "target_id": "Stbmap/stbmap#257", "disposition": "closed_unmerged", "target_type": "github_item", "owner_task_key": "", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap", "owner_session_id": ""}

{"reason": "target pull request is closed", "status": "retired", "task_key": "agent-task:stbmap/stbmap:github_item:Stbmap/stbmap#257:repairer", "target_id": "Stbmap/stbmap#257", "disposition": "closed_unmerged", "target_type": "github_item", "owner_task_key": "", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap", "owner_session_id": ""}

{"reason": "target pull request is closed", "status": "retired", "task_key": "agent-task:stbmap/stbmap:github_item:Stbmap/stbmap#257:reconciler", "target_id": "Stbmap/stbmap#257", "disposition": "closed_unmerged", "target_type": "github_item", "owner_task_key": "", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap", "owner_session_id": ""}

{"reason": "merged automatically after reviewer approval", "pull_number": 257}

{"outcome": "merged", "summary": "PR #257 reached a clean terminal state: merged automatically after reviewer approval. That is a good process signal, and the stated scope matches the recent reload-cause telemetry goals.\n\nI could not independently inspect the checkout or manager API in this environment because every local command failed at sandbox startup with `bwrap: loopback: Failed RTM_NEWADDR: Operation not permitted`. So treat the merge as plausibly trustworthy, but not fully proof-closed.\n\nSmallest next manager step: run one proof-only Codex closeout on current `main` to verify cohort and assessment reload callers now route reload cause through the shared workspace/CoreDiagnosticsService path, with no feature-local telemetry fork, then mark the item closed if that passes."}

{"model": "gpt-5.5", "action": "completion_review", "status": "success", "provider": "codex", "trace_id": "33575c77-f5cd-4917-b60c-8962d8fb4b15", "item_type": "pr", "latency_ms": 37996, "item_number": 257, "prompt_name": "completion_review", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap", "prompt_version_id": "0ff79af0-3c61-4a39-9931-9de571b7623f", "prompt_version_number": 1}

{"action": "answer", "reason": "session is waiting on clarification", "item_type": "pr", "quiet_for": "just now", "role_name": "reviewer", "confidence": "low", "item_number": "255", "playbook_name": "awaiting_clarification", "lease_remaining": "2d 23h", "playbook_version_number": "1"}

{"model": "gpt-5.4-mini", "action": "answer", "status": "success", "provider": "codex", "trace_id": "a71660bc-ffdd-4a95-afb5-3cf9af59737c", "item_type": "pr", "latency_ms": 16350, "item_number": 255, "prompt_name": "responder", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap", "prompt_version_id": "56c10c5f-469b-4aa4-bbd6-34f4d5e89cd9", "prompt_version_number": 1}

{"outcome": "merged", "summary": "PR #257 is in a terminal merged state for the intended telemetry rollout fix, but I could not independently verify the manager API or repo contents because every local command failed at sandbox startup with `bwrap: loopback: Failed RTM_NEWADDR: Operation not permitted`.\n\nTrust level: limited. The outcome is directionally consistent with the durable plan, but without session activities, code diff, tests, or PF69 evidence, treat it as merged-not-yet-proven rather than fully closed.\n\nSmallest next manager step: run a single proof-only Codex closeout against `main` to verify cohort and assessment reload callers now pass the shared reload-cause path into `CoreDiagnosticsService`, with no feature-local telemetry fork. If that check passes, mark the memory closed; do not open another implementation task."}

{"model": "gpt-5.5", "action": "completion_review", "status": "success", "provider": "codex", "trace_id": "33575c77-f5cd-4917-b60c-8962d8fb4b15", "item_type": "pr", "latency_ms": 53769, "item_number": 257, "prompt_name": "completion_review", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap", "prompt_version_id": "0ff79af0-3c61-4a39-9931-9de571b7623f", "prompt_version_number": 1}

{"status": "ok: auto-healed 1 issue(s): Stbmap/stbmap|pr|257 moved from in-progress to ready because no active session exists", "repairs": ["Stbmap/stbmap|pr|257 moved from in-progress to ready because no active session exists"], "findings": []}

{"status": "ok: auto-healed 1 issue(s): Stbmap/stbmap|pr|257 moved from in-progress to ready because no active session exists", "repairs": ["Stbmap/stbmap|pr|257 moved from in-progress to ready because no active session exists"], "remaining_findings": []}

{"state": "claimed", "reason": "state synced from ready to claimed", "item_number": "211", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "ready", "reason": "state synced from deferred to ready", "item_number": "315", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"reason": "no active session remains", "source": "stale issue sweep", "next_state": "ready", "item_number": 211, "labels_removed": ["blocked", "jules", "in-progress"], "previous_state": "claimed", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "claimed", "reason": "state synced from ready to claimed", "item_number": "211", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "ready", "reason": "state synced from deferred to ready", "item_number": "315", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"reason": "no active session remains", "source": "stale issue sweep", "next_state": "ready", "item_number": 211, "labels_removed": ["blocked", "jules", "in-progress"], "previous_state": "claimed", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "claimed", "reason": "state synced from ready to claimed", "item_number": "211", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "ready", "reason": "state synced from deferred to ready", "item_number": "315", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"model": "gpt-5.5", "action": "monitor", "status": "success", "provider": "codex", "latency_ms": 17082, "prompt_name": "monitor_agent"}

{"reason": "no active session remains", "source": "stale issue sweep", "next_state": "ready", "item_number": 211, "labels_removed": ["blocked", "jules", "in-progress"], "previous_state": "claimed", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "claimed", "reason": "state synced from ready to claimed", "item_number": "211", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "ready", "reason": "state synced from deferred to ready", "item_number": "315", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"reason": "no active session remains", "source": "stale issue sweep", "next_state": "ready", "item_number": 211, "labels_removed": ["blocked", "jules", "in-progress"], "previous_state": "claimed", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "claimed", "reason": "state synced from ready to claimed", "item_number": "211", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "ready", "reason": "state synced from deferred to ready", "item_number": "315", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"state": "ready", "reason": "imported from GitHub", "item_number": "1", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter"}

{"reason": "no active session remains", "source": "stale issue sweep", "next_state": "ready", "item_number": 211, "labels_removed": ["blocked", "jules", "in-progress"], "previous_state": "claimed", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "claimed", "reason": "state synced from ready to claimed", "item_number": "211", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "needs_split", "reason": "state synced from ready to needs_split", "item_number": "256", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "ready", "reason": "state synced from deferred to ready", "item_number": "315", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"state": "ready", "reason": "imported from GitHub", "item_number": "316", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"reason": "no active session remains", "source": "stale issue sweep", "next_state": "ready", "item_number": 211, "labels_removed": ["blocked", "jules", "in-progress"], "previous_state": "claimed", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "claimed", "reason": "state synced from ready to claimed", "item_number": "211", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/stbmap"}

{"state": "ready", "reason": "state synced from deferred to ready", "item_number": "315", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}