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

{"goal": "Implement a worker-ready orchestration loop that turns a persisted user message into durable orchestration_runs, agent_turns, streaming agent messages, ordered WebSocket events, provider-token streaming, final content persistence, partial failure preservation, per-agent failure continuation, and correct terminal run statuses.", "reason": "Do not split under the current fat policy: issue #18 is a cohesive orchestration-loop slice, and run state, durable turns/messages, provider streaming, prompt building, routing, WebSocket events, and failure handling must be verified together to avoid incompatible contracts.", "summary": "Start one Jules session from current main to implement the central multi-agent orchestrator on top of the merged message, realtime, provider, prompt, and routing layers.", "repo_policy": "reuse=Prefer continuing a receptive sam... max-cycles=1", "should_split": false, "verification": ["Run Go tests for orchestration, routing, prompt building, provider mock streaming, message persistence, and realtime event emission.", "Confirm user messages remain persisted if orchestration fails.", "Confirm each token event includes run_id, turn_id, message_id, room_id, agent_id, sequence, and content tied to durable DB rows.", "Confirm provider failure preserves partial agent content and marks message/turn failed.", "Confirm one local agent failure does not block later agents, while global failures mark the run appropriately.", "Confirm event order is run.started, agent.turn.started, token events, agent.turn.completed/failed, then run.completed/completed_with_failures/failed/cancelled.", "Confirm mock-provider integration tests cover a successful multi-agent run and a partial failed message path."], "admission_reason": "Issue #18 is ready and no live session owns it; the prerequisite routing-policy work has merged via PR #71, so the central orchestrator can start from current main as one cohesive backend slice.", "split_suppressed": false, "dependency_reason": "", "split_recommended": false, "issue_split_policy": "fat"}

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{"summary": "webhook reconciliation triggered", "event_type": "webhook_delivery_processed", "delivery_id": "ab294540-58f0-11f1-9b23-edfdd611d69b", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter", "source_event_type": "issue_comment"}

{"reason": "Do not start a fresh session for PR #72: a blocked session already owns this PR, and the routing-policy work was already merged via PR #71, so PR #72 should be closed as duplicate/obsolete rather than repaired in parallel.", "item_number": 72, "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter"}

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{"state": "ready", "reason": "state synced from deferred to ready", "item_number": "354", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

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{"action": "launch_repair", "reason": "PR is dirty and no active session remains.", "pr_number": 72, "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter"}

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{"task_key": "agent-task:stbmap/chatter:github_item:Stbmap/chatter#71:reviewer", "target_id": "Stbmap/chatter#71", "item_number": 71, "previous_error": "1 active session(s) already exist for Stbmap/chatter#71", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter"}

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{"summary": "webhook reconciliation triggered", "event_type": "webhook_delivery_processed", "delivery_id": "69d33240-58f0-11f1-94d5-4b5c99df525e", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter", "source_event_type": "pull_request"}

{"summary": "webhook reconciliation triggered", "event_type": "webhook_delivery_processed", "delivery_id": "6aba0fd0-58f0-11f1-8eee-218a916424ab", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter", "source_event_type": "issue_comment"}

{"state": "ready", "reason": "imported from GitHub", "item_number": "72", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter"}

{"summary": "webhook reconciliation triggered", "event_type": "webhook_delivery_processed", "delivery_id": "5fdfbdd0-58f0-11f1-8d83-3fc700571e31", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter", "source_event_type": "issue_comment"}

{"reason": "merged automatically after reviewer approval", "pull_number": 71}

{"outcome": "merged", "summary": "PR #71 was merged after reviewer approval, so this looks trustworthy enough to close out. It completes issue #17’s routing-policy engine work after the PR fast-lane review. Smallest next manager step: mark issue #17 complete and only reopen if post-merge CI or audit finds regressions in mention validation, round-robin selection, or MC synthesis error handling."}

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{"outcome": "merged", "summary": "PR #71 reached merged state after reviewer closeout, so the completion is reasonably trustworthy. It finalizes issue #17’s routing-policy engine path for all_respond, round_robin, mention_only, and MC synthesis. Smallest next manager step: mark issue #17 complete and watch post-merge CI/audit for regressions around mention validation, round-robin turn selection, and MC synthesis error handling."}

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

{"state": "ready", "reason": "state synced from deferred to ready", "item_number": "354", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"body": "", "kind": "done", "state": "awaiting_clarification", "title": "", "summary": "Jules reported completion", "trace_id": "67a737d6-ff86-4220-a94b-26d819a0d767", "source_id": "10191081861395462448", "session_id": "10191081861395462448", "source_type": "jules", "manager_status": "active", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter", "codex_forwarded": "false", "pr_closeout_repeated": "true", "pr_closeout_required": "true"}

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

{"state": "ready", "reason": "state synced from deferred to ready", "item_number": "354", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/dev-manager"}

{"action": "blocked", "reason": "PR #71 already has an active running reviewer session (10191081861395462448), so local closeout should not race or duplicate that review. Wait for the active reviewer to finish before issuing a merge verdict.", "pr_number": 71, "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter"}

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{"head_ref": "routing-engine-mc-synthesis-14349452141628097079", "pr_number": 71, "session_id": "14349452141628097079", "issue_number": 17, "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter"}

{"goal": "Make PR #71 mergeable by validating the routing policy engine against issue #17 acceptance criteria, including all_respond display-order selection, round_robin advancement from prior completed turns, mention_only parsing/deduplication/invalid mention behavior, inactive/disabled agent exclusion, no-enabled-agent handling, and mc_synthesis coordinator/consulted-agent planning with visible consulted-agent errors.", "reason": "Do not split PR fast-lane closeout work. The remaining task is a focused review/repair pass on one routing-engine PR to verify all modes, selection ordering, mention handling, MC synthesis planning, and tests before merge.", "summary": "Keep PR #71 in one closeout/review session against the PR branch.", "repo_policy": "reuse=Prefer continuing a receptive sam... max-cycles=1", "should_split": false, "verification": ["Run Go tests for orchestration routing, mention parsing, and any engine integration touched by MC synthesis.", "Confirm all_respond returns every enabled room agent in display_order.", "Confirm round_robin advances from prior completed turns and handles one-agent rooms and wrap-around.", "Confirm mention_only selects only valid mentioned room agents, de-duplicates mentions, orders by room display_order, and reports invalid mentions without silently choosing another agent.", "Confirm inactive/disabled agents and rooms with no enabled agents produce deterministic errors or system messages.", "Confirm mc_synthesis produces clear coordinator and consulted-agent turn plans, preserves internal evidence/history, suppresses only intended general-chat token broadcasts, and does not hide consulted-agent failures."], "admission_reason": "PR #71 is ready for fast-lane closeout/review, and no active session currently owns this PR or branch; start a targeted PR review before moving on to new issue work.", "split_suppressed": false, "dependency_reason": "", "split_recommended": false, "issue_split_policy": "fat"}

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{"item_number": 33, "defer_reason": "Blocked sessions should be resolved before launching fresh work repo=Stbmap/chatter: 1 blocked session(s) remain", "previous_state": "deferred", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter"}

{"item_number": 32, "defer_reason": "Blocked sessions should be resolved before launching fresh work repo=Stbmap/chatter: 1 blocked session(s) remain", "previous_state": "deferred", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter"}

{"item_number": 31, "defer_reason": "Blocked sessions should be resolved before launching fresh work repo=Stbmap/chatter: 1 blocked session(s) remain", "previous_state": "deferred", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter"}

{"item_number": 30, "defer_reason": "Blocked sessions should be resolved before launching fresh work repo=Stbmap/chatter: 1 blocked session(s) remain", "previous_state": "deferred", "repo_full_name": "Stbmap/chatter"}

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