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 {"id":"skills-bo8","title":"Gemini skills access: ReadFile path restrictions block .claude/skills/","description":"Gemini agent couldn't read skill files from .claude/skills/orch/SKILL.md due to path restrictions. ReadFile tool restricts paths to workspace directories, so .claude/skills/ (symlinked from home-manager) is blocked. Agent had to fall back to shell cat command. Breaks skills portability across agents. Potential fixes: copy skills into repo, configure allowed paths, use MCP, or document workaround.","status":"closed","priority":3,"issue_type":"bug","created_at":"2026-01-09T10:58:04.037329419-08:00","created_by":"dan","updated_at":"2026-01-09T19:35:28.068433744-08:00","closed_at":"2026-01-09T19:35:28.068433744-08:00","close_reason":"Fix found: Gemini includeDirectories setting"}
 {"id":"skills-bvz","title":"spec-review: Add Definition of Ready checklists for each phase","description":"'Ready for /speckit.plan' and similar are underspecified.\n\nAdd concrete checklists:\n- Spec ready for planning: problem statement, goals, constraints, acceptance criteria, etc.\n- Plan ready for tasks: milestones, risks, dependencies, test strategy, etc.\n- Tasks ready for bd: each task has acceptance criteria, dependencies explicit, etc.","status":"closed","priority":2,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-12-15T00:23:24.877531852-08:00","updated_at":"2025-12-15T14:05:26.880419097-08:00","closed_at":"2025-12-15T14:05:26.880419097-08:00"}
 {"id":"skills-bww","title":"Benchmark AT-SPI overhead and coverage","description":"## Goal\nMeasure AT-SPI's runtime overhead and coverage across apps.\n\n## Prerequisites\n- Enable `services.gnome.at-spi2-core.enable = true` in NixOS\n- Set `QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1` for Qt apps\n- Rebuild and re-login\n\n## Overhead benchmarks\n1. **Startup time**: App launch with/without AT-SPI\n2. **Memory**: RSS delta with AT-SPI enabled\n3. **CPU**: Idle CPU with AT-SPI bus running\n4. **UI latency**: Input-to-paint latency (if measurable)\n\n## Coverage audit\nFor each app, document:\n- Does it expose accessibility tree?\n- How complete is the tree? (all elements vs partial)\n- Are coordinates accurate?\n- Are element types/roles correct?\n\n### Apps to test\n- [ ] Firefox\n- [ ] Ghostty terminal\n- [ ] Nautilus/file manager\n- [ ] VS Code / Electron app\n- [ ] A Qt app (if any installed)\n\n## Query benchmarks\n- Time to enumerate all elements in a window\n- Time to find element by role/name\n- Memory overhead of pyatspi queries\n\n## Depends on\n- skills-pdg (Enable AT-SPI for UI tree access)","status":"open","priority":2,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-12-17T14:13:21.599259773-08:00","updated_at":"2025-12-17T14:13:21.599259773-08:00","dependencies":[{"issue_id":"skills-bww","depends_on_id":"skills-pdg","type":"blocks","created_at":"2025-12-17T14:13:41.633210539-08:00","created_by":"daemon","metadata":"{}"}]}
-{"id":"skills-byq","title":"Integrate: review-gate with worker primitives","description":"Connect existing review-gate CLI with new worker system.\n\n## Current state\nreview-gate CLI exists with:\n- check/enable/approve/reject\n- Circuit breaker (3 strikes)\n- Stop hook integration (for Claude)\n\n## Integration needed\n- worker spawn enables review-gate automatically\n- worker status shows review state\n- worker approve/reject wraps review-gate\n- Evidence artifacts feed into review-gate\n\n## File coordination\n.worker-state/X.json includes:\n  - review_session_id (links to .review-state/)\n  - needs_review: true/false\n  - review_status: pending/approved/rejected","notes":"Consensus gap: Review gate lacks automated pre-checks. Add: lint pass, test pass, rebase freshness check before human/AI review. These are prerequisites, not the review itself.","status":"open","priority":2,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2026-01-10T12:15:04.625083755-08:00","created_by":"dan","updated_at":"2026-01-10T13:55:36.856709624-08:00","dependencies":[{"issue_id":"skills-byq","depends_on_id":"skills-s6y","type":"blocks","created_at":"2026-01-10T12:15:10.376067847-08:00","created_by":"dan"}]}
+{"id":"skills-byq","title":"Integrate: review-gate with worker primitives","description":"Connect existing review-gate CLI with new worker system.\n\n## Current state\nreview-gate CLI exists with:\n- check/enable/approve/reject\n- Circuit breaker (3 strikes)\n- Stop hook integration (for Claude)\n\n## Integration needed\n- worker spawn enables review-gate automatically\n- worker status shows review state\n- worker approve/reject wraps review-gate\n- Evidence artifacts feed into review-gate\n\n## File coordination\n.worker-state/X.json includes:\n  - review_session_id (links to .review-state/)\n  - needs_review: true/false\n  - review_status: pending/approved/rejected","notes":"MVP Tier 1: Wire review-gate to worker state machine","status":"open","priority":1,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2026-01-10T12:15:04.625083755-08:00","created_by":"dan","updated_at":"2026-01-10T15:44:17.993809509-08:00","dependencies":[{"issue_id":"skills-byq","depends_on_id":"skills-s6y","type":"blocks","created_at":"2026-01-10T12:15:10.376067847-08:00","created_by":"dan"}]}
 {"id":"skills-cc0","title":"spec-review: Add anti-hallucination constraints to prompts","description":"Models may paraphrase and present as quotes, or invent requirements/risks not in the doc.\n\nAdd:\n- 'Quotes must be verbatim'\n- 'Do not assume technologies/constraints not stated'\n- 'If missing info, list as open questions rather than speculating'","status":"closed","priority":3,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-12-15T00:23:26.045478292-08:00","updated_at":"2025-12-15T14:07:19.556888057-08:00","closed_at":"2025-12-15T14:07:19.556888057-08:00"}
 {"id":"skills-cjx","title":"Create spec-review skill for orch + spec-kit integration","description":"A new skill that integrates orch multi-model consensus with spec-kit workflows.\n\n**Purpose**: Use different models/temps/stances to review spec-kit artifacts before phase transitions.\n\n**Proposed commands**:\n- /spec-review.spec - Critique current spec for completeness, ambiguity, gaps\n- /spec-review.plan - Evaluate architecture decisions in plan\n- /spec-review.gate - Go/no-go consensus before phase transition\n\n**Structure**:\n```\nskills/spec-review/\n├── SKILL.md\n├── commands/\n│   ├── spec.md\n│   ├── plan.md\n│   └── gate.md\n└── prompts/\n    └── ...\n```\n\n**Key design points**:\n- Finds spec/plan files from current branch or specs/ directory\n- Invokes orch with appropriate prompt, models, stances\n- Presents consensus/critique results\n- AI reviewing AI is valuable redundancy (different models/temps/stances)\n\n**Dependencies**:\n- orch CLI must be available (blocked on dotfiles-3to)\n- spec-kit project structure conventions","status":"closed","priority":2,"issue_type":"feature","created_at":"2025-12-14T17:50:13.22879874-08:00","updated_at":"2025-12-15T00:10:23.122342449-08:00","closed_at":"2025-12-15T00:10:23.122342449-08:00"}
 {"id":"skills-cnc","title":"Add direnv helper for per-repo skill deployment","description":"Create sourceable helper script and documentation for the standard per-repo skill deployment pattern using direnv + nix build.","status":"closed","priority":2,"issue_type":"feature","created_at":"2025-11-30T12:19:20.71056749-08:00","updated_at":"2025-11-30T12:37:47.22638278-08:00","closed_at":"2025-11-30T12:37:47.22638278-08:00"}
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
 {"id":"skills-s6y","title":"Multi-agent orchestration: Lego brick architecture","description":"Simple, composable primitives for multi-agent coordination. Inspired by Gastown but dramatically simpler - Lego bricks not pirate ships.\n\n## Architecture\n- Human-attended orchestrator (any agent)\n- Background workers (any agent, own git branch)\n- Local message passing (.worker-state/messages/*.jsonl)\n- Review gates (review-gate CLI)\n- File-based state (.worker-state/)\n\n## Core Primitives\n1. worker spawn - start background agent on own branch\n2. worker status - check all workers via local files\n3. worker merge - merge completed worker branch\n4. review-gate - quality gates (pass/fail)\n5. worker stuck - detect non-progress (Rubber Duck)\n6. worker veto - block without doing (for reviewers)\n\n## Phased Approach\nPhase 1 (Now): Simple JSONL, basic primitives, pass/fail review\nPhase 2 (When Needed): Threading, SQLite cache, richer review scoring\nPhase 3 (Future): Talu or service layer for rich querying\n\n## Key Principles\n- Everything is local filesystem (no network for coordination)\n- Any agent that can read/write files can participate\n- Git branches for code isolation\n- Start simple, grow as needed\n- 80-90% automation realistic (human for the rest)\n\n## Research Sources\n- OpenHands: Worker → critique → feedback loop, git-based coordination\n- JWZ (emes): JSONL + SQLite, topic-based messaging\n- Gastown: What NOT to do (too complex, Kubernetes-level)\n- LangGraph: State serialization breakpoints\n- MetaGPT: Role-based agents","status":"open","priority":1,"issue_type":"epic","created_at":"2026-01-10T12:14:16.141746066-08:00","created_by":"dan","updated_at":"2026-01-10T13:34:00.126490996-08:00"}
 {"id":"skills-s92","title":"Add tests for config injection (deploy-skill.sh)","description":"File: bin/deploy-skill.sh (lines 112-137)\n\nCritical logic with NO test coverage:\n- Idempotency (running twice should be safe)\n- Correct brace matching in Nix\n- Syntax validity of injected config\n- Rollback on failure\n\nRisk: MEDIUM-HIGH - can break dotfiles Nix config\n\nFix:\n- Test idempotent injection\n- Validate Nix syntax after injection\n- Test with malformed input\n\nSeverity: MEDIUM","status":"closed","priority":3,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-12-24T02:51:01.314513824-05:00","updated_at":"2026-01-06T16:29:18.728097676-08:00","closed_at":"2026-01-06T16:29:18.728097676-08:00","close_reason":"21 tests added covering idempotency, brace preservation, inject_home_file wrapper, edge cases"}
 {"id":"skills-sh6","title":"Research: OpenHands iterative refinement pattern","description":"Document OpenHands SDK patterns for our architecture.\n\n## Iterative Refinement Loop\n1. Worker agent does work\n2. Critique agent evaluates (correctness, quality, completeness)\n3. If not good → worker tries again with feedback\n4. Repeat until standard met\n\n## Parallel Agent Orchestration\n- Git-based coordination (not direct communication)\n- Each agent works on own branch\n- PRs to intermediate 'rolling branch'\n- Human reviews and merges\n- Agents pull latest, handle conflicts\n\n## Key Quote\n'Don't expect 100% automation—tasks are 80-90% automatable.\nYou need a human who understands full context.'\n\n## Mapping to Our Architecture\n- Worker = their refactoring agent\n- Reviewer = their critique agent\n- review-gate = their quality threshold\n- Human orchestrator = their human on rolling branch\n\n## Sources\n- https://openhands.dev/blog/automating-massive-refactors-with-parallel-agents\n- https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03690\n- https://docs.openhands.dev/sdk","status":"open","priority":3,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2026-01-10T12:24:02.368542878-08:00","created_by":"dan","updated_at":"2026-01-10T12:24:02.368542878-08:00","dependencies":[{"issue_id":"skills-sh6","depends_on_id":"skills-s6y","type":"blocks","created_at":"2026-01-10T12:24:07.013388857-08:00","created_by":"dan"}]}
-{"id":"skills-sse","title":"Design: worker spawn/status primitives","description":"Basic worker lifecycle management.\n\n## Commands\n- worker spawn \"task\" --id X - runs agent in background\n- worker status - shows all worker states\n- worker kill X - terminate worker\n\n## State\n.worker-state/X.json:\n  - id, status, task, started_at\n  - output (truncated)\n  - exit_code (when done)\n\n## Implementation\n~50 lines bash wrapper that:\n- Spawns claude/gemini/codex in background\n- Redirects output to log file\n- Writes status JSON\n- Updates on completion","status":"open","priority":2,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2026-01-10T12:14:33.115131833-08:00","created_by":"dan","updated_at":"2026-01-10T12:14:33.115131833-08:00","dependencies":[{"issue_id":"skills-sse","depends_on_id":"skills-s6y","type":"blocks","created_at":"2026-01-10T12:15:10.014285119-08:00","created_by":"dan"}]}
+{"id":"skills-sse","title":"Design: worker spawn/status primitives","description":"Basic worker lifecycle management.\n\n## Commands\n- worker spawn \"task\" --id X - runs agent in background\n- worker status - shows all worker states\n- worker kill X - terminate worker\n\n## State\n.worker-state/X.json:\n  - id, status, task, started_at\n  - output (truncated)\n  - exit_code (when done)\n\n## Implementation\n~50 lines bash wrapper that:\n- Spawns claude/gemini/codex in background\n- Redirects output to log file\n- Writes status JSON\n- Updates on completion","notes":"MVP Tier 1: Core CLI commands for worker spawn/status/assign/merge","status":"open","priority":1,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2026-01-10T12:14:33.115131833-08:00","created_by":"dan","updated_at":"2026-01-10T15:44:17.939255017-08:00","dependencies":[{"issue_id":"skills-sse","depends_on_id":"skills-s6y","type":"blocks","created_at":"2026-01-10T12:15:10.014285119-08:00","created_by":"dan"}]}
 {"id":"skills-thk","title":"Design: Hybrid hook + gate architecture","description":"Design enforcement that uses hooks where available, orchestrator gates elsewhere.\n\n## Hook-Capable Agents (Claude, Gemini)\n- Stop hook checks beads for review status\n- Mechanical enforcement - agent can't bypass\n\n## Non-Hook Agents (OpenCode, Codex)  \n- Orchestrator pattern enforces gate\n- Orchestrator checks beads before declaring done\n- Worker can't bypass because doesn't control session\n\n## Shared Components\n- beads: persistent state (issues, review status)\n- jwz: transient state (session messages, async handoffs)\n- review-gate CLI: checks state, returns exit code\n\n## Deliverable\nArchitecture doc showing:\n1. Hook configuration for Claude/Gemini\n2. Orchestrator flow for OpenCode/Codex\n3. State schema in beads\n4. review-gate CLI design","status":"closed","priority":2,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2026-01-09T19:01:24.270855877-08:00","created_by":"dan","updated_at":"2026-01-09T19:33:36.705975116-08:00","closed_at":"2026-01-09T19:33:36.705975116-08:00","close_reason":"Consolidated into skills-8sj"}
 {"id":"skills-tta","title":"Design: Circuit breaker patterns","description":"Design circuit breakers to prevent agent infinite loops.\n\n## Patterns to Implement\n\n### Semantic Drift Detection\n- Embed last N agent thoughts\n- If \u003e95% similar, inject \"try different approach\"\n- Use cheap embedding model\n\n### Three-Strike Tool Rule  \n- Track tool call signatures (tool + args + error)\n- 3 identical failures → force strategy shift\n- Implement in PostToolUse hook\n\n### Budget-Based Interrupts\n- Allocate token budget per sub-task\n- Pause if \u003e50% budget used with \u003c30% progress\n- Request plan refinement\n\n### Time-Based Breaker\n- Timeout per task type\n- Escalate to review if exceeded\n\n## Implementation Options\n- Hook-based (Claude/Gemini)\n- Wrapper-based (all agents)\n- Orchestrator-enforced (all agents)\n\n## Deliverable\n- Circuit breaker design doc\n- Prototype implementation for one pattern","status":"closed","priority":2,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2026-01-09T19:01:44.536499408-08:00","created_by":"dan","updated_at":"2026-01-09T19:59:37.700476328-08:00","closed_at":"2026-01-09T19:59:37.700476328-08:00","close_reason":"Covered in architecture design doc (docs/design/cross-agent-enforcement-architecture.md)"}
 {"id":"skills-ty7","title":"Define trace levels (audit vs debug)","description":"Two trace levels to manage noise vs utility:\n\n1. Audit trace (minimal, safe, always on):\n   - skill id/ref, start/end\n   - high-level checkpoints\n   - artifact hashes/paths\n   - exit status\n\n2. Debug trace (opt-in, verbose):\n   - tool calls with args\n   - stdout/stderr snippets\n   - expanded inputs\n   - timing details\n\nConsider OpenTelemetry span model as reference.\nGPT proposed this; Gemini focused on rotation/caps instead.","status":"closed","priority":3,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-12-23T19:49:48.514684945-05:00","updated_at":"2025-12-29T13:55:35.838961236-05:00","closed_at":"2025-12-29T13:55:35.838961236-05:00","close_reason":"Parked with ADR-001: skills-molecules integration deferred. Current simpler approach (skills as standalone) works well. Revisit when complex orchestration needed."}
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@
 {"id":"skills-wm9","title":"Research Steve Yegge's orchestration work","description":"Steve Yegge is working on something new related to AI orchestration. Research what it is and how it might inform our skills+molecules integration design.\n\nBlocks: skills-hin (ADR finalization)","status":"closed","priority":2,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-12-24T02:41:47.848905848-05:00","updated_at":"2025-12-24T02:42:24.40239935-05:00","closed_at":"2025-12-24T02:42:24.40239935-05:00","close_reason":"Not needed - just parking the ADR work"}
 {"id":"skills-x2l","title":"Investigate hooks for parallel orch queries","description":"When using orch skill, it would be useful to spin off multiple model queries in parallel automatically (e.g., gemini + gpt simultaneously). Explore if Claude Code hooks can trigger parallel background processes when the orch skill is invoked.","status":"closed","priority":2,"issue_type":"feature","created_at":"2025-12-06T19:29:00.165752425-08:00","updated_at":"2025-12-29T15:49:43.831970326-05:00","closed_at":"2025-12-29T15:49:43.831970326-05:00","close_reason":"Investigated. Hooks are synchronous with 60s timeout - unsuitable for background orch queries. Alternatives: (1) SessionStart hook for initial consensus, (2) Explicit skill invocation, (3) PostToolUse for validation. orch consensus already runs models in parallel internally."}
 {"id":"skills-x33","title":"Add tests for branch name generation","description":"File: .specify/scripts/bash/create-new-feature.sh (lines 137-181)\n\nCritical logic with NO test coverage:\n- Word filtering with stop-words\n- Acronym detection\n- Unicode/special character handling\n- Max length boundary (244 bytes)\n- Empty/single-word descriptions\n\nRisk: HIGH - affects all branch creation\n\nFix:\n- Create test suite with edge cases\n- Test stop-word filtering accuracy\n- Test boundary conditions\n\nSeverity: HIGH","status":"closed","priority":2,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-12-24T02:51:00.311664646-05:00","updated_at":"2026-01-02T00:53:35.147800477-05:00","closed_at":"2026-01-02T00:53:35.147800477-05:00","close_reason":"Created test suite with 27 tests covering stop words, acronyms, word limits, special chars, unicode, edge cases, and fallback logic"}
-{"id":"skills-yak","title":"Design: Human observability (status command)","description":"Consensus gap: No observability for humans. Implement worker-status command showing: all workers and state, time in state, branch status, review status, last message. Human-readable dashboard of the factory floor.","status":"open","priority":2,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2026-01-10T13:55:23.910743917-08:00","created_by":"dan","updated_at":"2026-01-10T13:55:23.910743917-08:00","dependencies":[{"issue_id":"skills-yak","depends_on_id":"skills-s6y","type":"blocks","created_at":"2026-01-10T13:55:23.912386443-08:00","created_by":"dan"}]}
+{"id":"skills-yak","title":"Design: Human observability (status command)","description":"Consensus gap: No observability for humans. Implement worker-status command showing: all workers and state, time in state, branch status, review status, last message. Human-readable dashboard of the factory floor.","notes":"MVP Tier 1: Human observability - status dashboard","status":"open","priority":1,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2026-01-10T13:55:23.910743917-08:00","created_by":"dan","updated_at":"2026-01-10T15:44:17.97048629-08:00","dependencies":[{"issue_id":"skills-yak","depends_on_id":"skills-s6y","type":"blocks","created_at":"2026-01-10T13:55:23.912386443-08:00","created_by":"dan"}]}
 {"id":"skills-ybq","title":"Reorganize lens directory structure","description":"Current structure puts ops lenses as subdirectory of code-review lenses:\n\n```\n~/.config/lenses/           \u003c- code-review lenses\n~/.config/lenses/ops/       \u003c- ops-review lenses\n```\n\nThis is asymmetric. Consider:\n\nOption A: Separate top-level directories\n```\n~/.config/lenses/code-review/\n~/.config/lenses/ops-review/\n```\n\nOption B: Keep flat but with prefixes\n```\n~/.config/lenses/code-*.md\n~/.config/lenses/ops-*.md\n```\n\nOption C: Per-skill lens directories\n```\n~/.claude/skills/code-review/lenses/\n~/.claude/skills/ops-review/lenses/\n```\n\nRequires updating:\n- modules/ai-skills.nix (deployment paths)\n- skills/code-review/SKILL.md (expected paths)\n- skills/ops-review/SKILL.md (expected paths)","status":"closed","priority":3,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2026-01-01T21:57:06.726997606-05:00","created_by":"dan","updated_at":"2026-01-02T00:24:53.647409845-05:00","closed_at":"2026-01-02T00:24:53.647409845-05:00","close_reason":"Reorganized lens directories: code-review → ~/.config/lenses/code/, ops-review → ~/.config/lenses/ops/. Updated ai-skills.nix, SKILL.md, and README references."}
 {"id":"skills-yc6","title":"Research: Document brainstorm findings","description":"Capture research findings in docs/research/ or docs/design/.\n\n## Sources to document\n1. orch consensus on permission patterns (sonar, gemini)\n2. orch brainstorm on creative patterns (flash-or, qwen, gpt, gemini)\n3. Gastown architecture analysis\n4. Steve Yegge Larry Wall/Perl critique (Lego vs pirate ships)\n5. LangGraph breakpoints pattern\n6. MetaGPT software company pattern\n7. Claude Code permission-based gating\n\n## Key patterns to document\n- Negative permission (exclusion-based)\n- Evidence artifacts (structured handoff)\n- Rubber Duck interrupt (stuck detection)\n- Role + Veto (some block, some do)\n- Circuit breakers (non-progress detection)\n- Capability Provenance Pipeline (GPT)\n\n## Output\ndocs/design/multi-agent-lego-architecture.md","notes":"Research complete. Created docs/design/multi-agent-footguns-and-patterns.md with synthesis of HN discussions, practitioner blogs, and orch consensus. Key findings: Rule of 4 (3-4 agents max), spec-driven development, layered coordination, PostgreSQL advisory locks pattern, git bundles for checkpoints. Validated our SQLite, worktree, and rebase decisions. Identified gaps: structured task specs, role boundaries, review funnel, token budgets.","status":"open","priority":3,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2026-01-10T12:15:04.476532719-08:00","created_by":"dan","updated_at":"2026-01-10T15:34:24.496673317-08:00","dependencies":[{"issue_id":"skills-yc6","depends_on_id":"skills-s6y","type":"blocks","created_at":"2026-01-10T12:15:10.316852381-08:00","created_by":"dan"}]}
 {"id":"skills-yxv","title":"worklog: extract hardcoded path to variable","description":"SKILL.md repeats ~/.claude/skills/worklog/ path 4-5 times. Define SKILL_ROOT once, reference throughout. Found by bloat+smells lens review.","status":"closed","priority":3,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-12-25T02:03:15.831699081-05:00","updated_at":"2025-12-27T10:05:51.532722628-05:00","closed_at":"2025-12-27T10:05:51.532722628-05:00","close_reason":"Closed"}

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