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001 - Agent Orchestrator

User Story

As the operator of many parallel agents, I want one simple Agent Orchestrator surface and a radio that only interrupts for urgent calls, so that agents spend few tokens on talk, urgent news reaches them at once, and I can drill from three views down to any agent, branch or artefact.

Decisions (operator-confirmed 2026-11-06; do not re-litigate)

  1. One document: radio model, surface, pkgmgr branch tree and views live in this one requirement as phases. Rejected: one document per feature (the operator wants the whole picture in one place).
  2. Location: docs/requirements/NNN-slug.md, numbered per repository. Rejected: a file next to the code (no index, no numbering).
  3. Radio classes: post, call, newsletter, broadcast, mayday, pan-pan, security. Rejected: broadcast only as the umbrella of the three alarms (the operator wants an immediate call to all without alarm).
  4. Mailbox: post (one agent) and newsletter (all agents) are delivered only when the agent ends its turn and goes idle, batched; an agent already idle is not woken and sees its mailbox at the end of its next turn. Rejected: next prompt, next tool step (interrupts work), batched wake-ups (one turn per wake).
  5. Immediate classes: call, broadcast, pan-pan, mayday and security reach the agent at its next tool step and wake an idle agent.
  6. Call receipt: the caller gets a delivered/read receipt and does not wait; an answer is a call of its own. Rejected: the caller blocks until the answer (costs the caller), delivery without feedback.
  7. Mayday pause: while a mayday holds, a PreToolUse hook blocks every writing action until radio.py clear; reading, the radio and teardown stay allowed. The sender and every agent that joins with radio.py assist to help keep working. Rejected: an instruction only (not enforced), heavy jobs only (today's behaviour, too weak), a full blockade that also stops the helpers.
  8. Radio and post: two channels. radio.py send is the radio and always immediate (call, broadcast, pan-pan, mayday, security); radio.py post is mail and always delayed (post with --to, newsletter without). send direct stays as an alias so running peers keep working: with --wake it becomes call, without it post. Rows stored before the change carry no version mark and are read as before: direct as post, broadcast as newsletter. Rejected: send broadcast as an alias of newsletter (makes the immediate broadcast unreachable).
  9. Name: kvb-hub is renamed in full, with a one-time migration: visible "Agent Orchestrator", technical kvb-orchestrator / kvb_orchestrator (directory, module, container, systemd unit, MCP server, environment KVB_ORCHESTRATOR_*, make targets). Rejected: visible name only (two names for one thing).
  10. Navigation: Stream (sub-items Inbox and Firewall) · Agents (ex Graph) · Artifacts (ex Tree). Agents and Artifacts each offer Orbit, Chord, Swimlane, Tree and 3D.
  11. Header: title · ⌘K · ⚙ only. The status pills become navigation badges (Inbox: waiting items, Agents: active agents, Artifacts: runner jobs); Mayday shows only as a red banner with "cancel" while active; the background shows day and night. Rejected: one status dot with a popover (an extra click), a status block in a side bar, a "Situation" screen (effort), no header at all.
  12. Tools: Controls (Radio to all, Cancel mayday, Priority, Day/Night) moves to the Agents toolbar, Firewall under Inbox, Sky, Music, Control room and Notifications to ⚙ "Ambience"; ⌘K reaches every one. Rejected: one ⋯ menu (hides instead of ordering).
  13. Stream: four category chips For you · Radio · Work · Transcripts; one search line with agent:, kind:, since:; sub-filters, saved views and a custom range under "Filter ▾"; the time bar becomes "24 h ▾" with the replay inside; transcripts are off by default. Rejected: a self-grouping stream, a Kibana-like query language (effort), preset chips only.
  14. 3D: 3d-force-graph 1.80.1 on three 0.186.1, vendored as in meta.infinito.nexus; the Canvas depth axes Time and Spawn depth become 3D options. Rejected: keeping the Orbit-only Canvas depth.
  15. Artifacts scope: git (repositories → branches → worktrees with their agents and reviews) plus the kvb-org-rasci register artefacts (images, volumes, logs) as leaves of the task or worktree that owns them. Rejected: git only.
  16. Artifacts views: Orbit: repository sun, branch planets (size = commits ahead), worktree moons, agent satellites. Chord: branch overlap (same files touched, merges) as conflict risk. Swimlane: one lane per branch with commits, reviews, gates and pushes. Tree: the pkgmgr branch tree.
  17. Tree data: the scan moves from hub/kvb_hub/tree.py into pkgmgr as pkgmgr branch tree --format json|yaml --output FILE, rewritten by a systemd user timer every minute and after every pkgmgr branch action; the orchestrator only reads the file, no git runs in its container. Rejected: the hub keeps scanning (pkgmgr is not the single source, git runs in the container), a live websocket daemon (effort). Hardened through kvb-think-dialectic before it is built.
  18. Order: 1 radio → 2 surface and rename → 3 pkgmgr branch tree → 4 views and 3D; one bundle per phase, each change set through kvb-code-refactor.
  19. Icons over text: every HTML surface a skill renders (the orchestrator, the review pages, the meditation page) shows Bootstrap Icons instead of text labels wherever an icon carries the meaning, each with a tooltip and an aria-label; terminal output and SKILL.md keep emoji. Rejected: Font Awesome Free (icons under CC BY 4.0, core loads it from a kit CDN), emoji in HTML (look differs per platform).
  20. Branch state: pkgmgr branch tree covers every repository pkgmgr manages and gives each branch and worktree the classification of pkgmgr branch gc (one implementation, no second copy): merged and by what, clean or uncommitted changes, unpushed commits, gone upstream, locked, stale, protected and the gc skip reason. The Artifacts Tree shows it as icons. Phase 3 builds the data, phase 4 the icons.
  21. Delete from the tree: merged, orphaned branches are deleted by click in the Artifacts Tree (phase 4), per item and as "Delete all merged":
    • Credentials: only while the Secret Service hands pkgmgr the GitHub token, which proves the merge and the missing open pull request; no secret passes the orchestrator container. Rejected: the master password typed into the dialog (secret crosses container and browser), the SSH key through the KeePassXC agent (a local delete pushes nothing; operator 2026-11-06).
    • Scope: local only (operator 2026-11-06): the worktree, the local branch, the compose stack without its volumes and its images of a merged-clean item, never a remote branch; a gc skip reason locks the button, and the dry run lists ignored files, any beyond known caches (__pycache__, node_modules, .venv) locking it too. Rejected: what pkgmgr branch gc --apply deletes today (remote branch and compose down -v).
    • Confirmation: the click shows the gc dry-run lines of the chosen items, and "Delete" needs the operator signature (/api/sign). Rejected: a second click without signature, one click without preview.
    • Execution: the orchestrator writes a signed job into a host directory; a systemd user path unit runs pkgmgr branch cleanup --apply --local for exactly those items and writes the result back. Rejected: an operator.py row (not direct).
  22. Organisation update: a new skill kvb-org-update tells every agent and client which skills changed and how to use them, as one newsletter per update; phase 1 announces the radio change through it.
  23. Phase 5 (23 to 43 operator-confirmed 2026-11-07): the console output shows under "Run"; a deny picks its channel (default post); agents request auto-approval rules through the inbox; the rules form and the Location fields never overlap; the radio plays with one line per station and highlights the speaking agent; the operator composer sends text or voice, recorded, transcribed locally with whisper in the container and kept as audio, to a recipient by post or call; a Hierarchy view shows the council offices with appoint and recall; the agent order (drag list) is separate from task priority (WSJF plus the operator's pin) and only breaks ties; one Tasks tab holds list, board and RASCI matrix, the inbox as its "waits on Operator" filter and the queue state; the merge flow, a pkgmgr-managed YAML per worktree with several pull sources and push targets, shows in Artifacts and Tasks.
  24. Firewall: the rules tab becomes Firewall and holds every form of allow-listing: the hub's auto-approval rules (ask, review, decision), allow and deny command patterns, and the Claude settings permissions (allow, ask, deny) and sandbox entries. Rejected: a separate settings page.
  25. Settings writes: a change to a Claude settings file shows as a diff, is signed with the passkey and applied by a host executor that verifies the signature, writes only files of a fixed list (~/.claude/settings.json and <project>/.claude/settings.json of the known projects) and keeps a backup. Rejected: an operator.py row only (no one-click path); an agent writing settings (never).
  26. Groups: a rule applies to one agent, a named agent group or all agents; rules form named rule sets that are taken over as a whole for an agent, a group or all. The Firewall reads the existing settings files and groups their entries by tool and command prefix by itself.
  27. Decisions are tasks: asks, rule requests, operator rows and choices appear only in the Tasks tab, under its "waits on Operator" filter. Rejected: a Choices column of its own (a choice is a decision the operator takes, so it is a task).
  28. Request choices: the Tasks tab has one button per channel, post and call with a multi-select of agents, newsletter, broadcast, security, mayday and pan-pan, that sends the fixed request "send me your open decisions as choices" without free text. Agents answer with kvb-think-choice items, shown as choice cards; the operator's click on an option is the passkey-signed answer.
  29. Night commands: evening, sunset and sunrise become drain (finish the current task, accept nothing new), suspend (park work, write the handover, idle) and resume (continue from the handover). Skills: kvb-org-evening → kvb-org-drain, kvb-org-sunset → kvb-org-suspend, kvb-org-sunrise → kvb-org-resume, kvb-agent-relax → kvb-agent-drain, kvb-agent-sleep → kvb-agent-suspend, kvb-agent-wakeup → kvb-agent-resume; night.py and the Controls menu follow, kvb-skill-cleanup removes the old names. Rejected: sleep / hibernate / wakeup, pause / park / resume.
  30. Agent popup: a click on an agent opens a fading popup with a simple, clear layout (face, name, earlier names, offices, tasks, claims, composer) instead of the Details side panel, which goes.
  31. Node popup: a click on a node in any graph view enlarges it, marks it red and opens a slightly transparent popup in the foreground, tied to the node by a leader line. A search field with suggestions replaces the list of every node.
  32. Faces: agents get simple animated 2D faces instead of emojis, built from independent attributes (shape, colour, eyes, brows, mouth, hair or headwear, accessory) with at least 1000 combinations, chosen deterministically from the agent's stable id; the mouth moves while the agent speaks.
  33. Fit to window: every view sizes to the window height; no page scrollbar on #agents/orbit.
  34. Rename once: a name change appears once in the Stream per session and name pair, never again per state build; earlier names show in the agent popup.
  35. Radio: the configured Deutschlandfunk stream https://st01.sslstream.dlf.de/dlf/01/high/aac/stream.aac?aggregator=web plays (root cause proven first, redirects and media-src included). A squelch control suppresses the radio beep; at 0 no beep plays, music on or off.
  36. Tree cause: the tree timer builds pkgmgr from the newest signed tag, and v2.3.0 has no branch tree, so no tree file exists. The Tree names that cause and the operator step (the pkgmgr release) instead of a bare "No tree"; with pkgmgr 2.4.0 released the timer writes the file.
  37. Resources: a tab Resources shows charts on the shared time axis: tokens per agent and accumulated (from the usage fields of the session transcripts), and CPU, RAM, disk and load of the host, sampled by a host unit into the state directory; several values per chart.
  38. Order of phase 6: serial subtrees, each in its own worktree under kvb-org-robot, merged into master before the next starts: S0 English and radio speech → S1 fixes (fit, rename once, radio, squelch, tree cause) → S2 popups and search → S3 faces → S4 night commands → S5 Tasks with asks and choices → S6 Firewall → S7 Resources.
  39. Sécurité: the class security keeps its id and shows as "Sécurité"; the radio speaks it as in maritime radio, "say-cure-ee-tay", three times.
  40. Hashes spoken: a hex run of 7 or more characters with at least one letter and one digit (commit, session and message ids) is spoken in the NATO alphabet, one character at a time (alfa, bravo, charlie, delta, echo, foxtrot and the digits of decision 41).
  41. Digits spoken: every digit is spoken on its own in ICAO radio pronunciation: zero, one, two, tree, four, fife, six, seven, eight, niner; 42305 is "four two tree zero fife". Only the spoken text changes; the displayed text keeps the digits and hashes.
  42. English: the whole skills repository is English: every orchestrator label, message, spoken text, script output, document and test string (Regeln → Firewall, Hierarchie → Hierarchy, Ressourcen → Resources, Steuerung → Controls, Ausführen → Run). Kept: trigger phrases in skill descriptions that quote what the operator says in German, and the rule that agents answer the operator in the operator's language.
  43. Shared cache (core concept settled by the operator 2026-11-07 18:40, owner IAM, report /tmp/shared-model-cache-base-20261107.md): the image build fetches every model, voice and source archive from ${INFINITO_ARTEFACT_BASE}/<host>/<path> with the same sha256 pins, and from the real upstream when the build arg is unset. Speech uses the core role svc-ai-speech when its URL is configured, else the in-container whisper and piper. make orchestrator-install without any core stack stays the standalone path. Subtree S8, after S7.
  44. Gantt (operator 2026-11-08, decisions 44 to 51): the Tasks tab gets a Gantt view next to List, Board and Matrix, one bar per task from its start to its end, a running task to now. Arrows come from three sources: an explicit rasci.py set <task> --after <task> (repeatable), the branch base (a task whose base branch is another task's branch follows it) and the queue order (each waiting queue.py job follows the one ahead of it). Rejected: branches only (tasks without a branch hang loose), the explicit field only, the queue position as a mere badge.
  45. Forecast: a selector sets how the Gantt draws tasks not yet started: always (default; with no estimate the median duration of done tasks, with story points the points times the median hours per point of done tasks), points only (a dot behind the predecessors without estimate) or real only (no forecast). Forecast bars are hatched.
  46. Estimation modes: a toggle in the Tasks toolbar, stored in the hub settings: No estimate (default, every task counts 1) and Story points (the Fibonacci complexity of rasci.py estimate, the median over its estimators).
  47. Burndown and burnup: one view in the Tasks tab with both curves. A selector sets the scope: the whole register over the whole time (default), the active list filter within the header time window, or one agent or line. With no estimate it counts tasks, with story points it sums complexity and draws unestimated tasks as a line of their own.
  48. Estimate request: only in story points mode, and only on a click on "Request estimates" or on /kvb-org-queue-estimate, never by itself, to save tokens. It sends one newsletter to all agents listing every unestimated task with its parties; every agent holding any RASCI role in a task (R, A, S, C or I) records business value and complexity (Fibonacci) for it with rasci.py estimate. Rejected: every agent estimates every task, the Accountable alone.
  49. Operator business value: the operator overrides the agents' business value, and WSJF uses that value instead of the median. It is set in the hub per task or as one bulk change over a selection in the list; one passkey assertion over the exact task ids and values covers the whole batch. Rejected: the origin guard alone (a forged request could reorder the queue), one signature per task.
  50. Sort modes: the task list sorts by prio (default), WSJF, business value, complexity, status, start, end, agent and title, each ascending or descending.
  51. Subtree: decisions 44 to 50 join subtree S5, Tasks with asks and choices, in its one worktree. Rejected: a subtree of their own after S8 or right after S1.
  52. Radio spot (operator 2026-11-09, decisions 52 to 58): the radio button of the Agents toolbar is the one place to send. It expands inline and shows the full composer below the toolbar (every channel, the recipients for post and call, Record, Send), a gear button with every radio setting (tones per class, squelch, read aloud with its classes and speakers, moved out of the general settings) and Cancel mayday, which leaves the toolbar. The Radio tab keeps the stations and the message log without a composer. Rejected: the Radio tab as the spot, removing the Radio tab.
  53. Day/Night menu: only the status badge and the Drain, Suspend and Resume buttons; each button's explanation is its hover tooltip.
  54. Tasks toolbar: views, filter, estimation toggle, sort and business value in one row that wraps on narrow screens; the request choices become one "Request choices" dropdown in that row; the status chips stay the second and last row. Rejected: moving the request choices into the radio spot.
  55. Trend and forecast: burndown and burnup get a trend selector, off (default), linear regression (least squares over the points in the shown window) and velocity (the mean burn rate of the last N days, N set freely, default 7), stored in the hub settings. The trend is drawn until remaining reaches 0 (burndown) or done meets scope (burnup); that date is the forecast, shown on the chart. Hovering a point lists the work packages that started, ended or joined the scope at that step.
  56. ETA: every work package in the list carries an ETA: its end when done, else its start (or now) plus the forecast length of decision 45 for the active estimation mode, behind the latest ETA of its predecessors.
  57. Tasks 3D: a sixth Tasks view on the 3D engine of the Agents tab: tasks as nodes, the dependency edges of decision 44 in the Gantt colors, layouts Force and Time, the same tooltips and popups. Rejected: a fixed time-agent-depth layout.
  58. Steady 3D camera: the 3D view fits the graph once per build; state refreshes keep the operator's camera.
  59. Radio in the header (operator 2026-11-10, replaces the toolbar button of decision 52 and the Radio tab): a radio icon button at the top right, next to Commands and Settings, opens the radio spot above the main area of whichever tab is open. The spot holds the composer, the gear, an icon-only Cancel mayday with its tooltip, who is speaking, the last five sent messages and the internet radio stations. The Agents toolbar loses its radio button, the Radio tab and its "Send …" button go away, and an old #stream/radio link opens the Stream with the spot open. Rejected: keeping the Radio tab, the speaker chips (every Agents view already marks the speaker).
  60. Radio numbers and paths (operator 2026-11-10): only the spoken line changes, the displayed text stays as written. Digits are spoken in ICAO words in Title Case, Ze-ro, One, Two, Tree, Fow-er, Fife, Six, Seven, Eight, Ni-ner, and the NATO letters of hashes too (Alfa to Foxtrot); this replaces the words of decisions 40 and 41. A time is four digits, hour padded, no colon, seconds as two more digits; a UTC time ("08:15 UTC", "08:15Z", "0815Z", "08:15 Zulu") ends in one "Zulu", another zone word follows the digits as written. A date with a time is the DTG DDHHMM, "Zulu" when zoned, the full month name and the two-digit year ("One Ze-ro One Fow-er Tree Ze-ro Zulu November Two Six"); an explicit offset is converted to UTC first, no zone drops "Zulu", a date alone is day, month and year. A dot between digits is "Decimal" and the "v" of a version is dropped. An absolute, home or relative path (the relative one with a slash and an extension on its last segment) is "file in " when the last segment has an extension (a dot and 1 to 5 alphanumerics), else "folder in "; a trailing slash means folder, "." is "dot", "-" and "_" a space, tmp at the root "temp", ~ "home"; a URL is no path. Paths go first, then date-times, times and the remaining digits and hashes. Rejected for paths: every segment with "slash", the file name only, mapping to known repositories, not speaking paths.

Approach

flowchart TD
    subgraph P["🧭 0 · Preparation"]
        P1["📋 Write requirement"] --> P2{"✅ Operator approves?"}
        P2 -- "✏️ corrections" --> P1
    end
    P2 -- "🤖 yes" --> R1
    subgraph R["📻 1 · Radio model"]
        R1["🔴 Red tests: classes, mailbox, receipt, mayday block"] --> R2["🛠️ radio.py, Stop mailbox hook, PreToolUse mayday hook, SKILL.md"]
        R2 --> R3{"🧪 Tests and make test green?"}
        R3 -- "🔴 no: fix" --> R2
        R3 -- "🟢 yes" --> R4["🧹 kvb-code-refactor"]
        R4 --> RF{"💬 Operator feedback?"}
        RF -- "✏️ changes" --> R2
    end
    RF -- "👍 commit word" --> S0
    subgraph S["🧭 2 · Surface and rename"]
        S0["🔀 Rebase feature/kvb-hub onto origin/master"] --> S1["🔴 Red tests: nav, header, badges, stream, migration"]
        S1 --> S2["🛠️ Nav, header, badges, banner, stream, inbox, tools, rename + migration"]
        S2 --> S3{"🧪 Tests green?"}
        S3 -- "🔴 no: fix" --> S2
        S3 -- "🟢 yes" --> S4["📸 Screenshots 1920 / 1366 / 390 px"]
        S4 --> SF{"💬 Operator feedback?"}
        SF -- "✏️ changes" --> S2
    end
    SF -- "👍 commit word" --> T0
    subgraph T["🌳 3 · pkgmgr branch tree"]
        T0["⚖️ kvb-think-dialectic on the data path"] --> T1["🔴 Red tests on fixture repositories"]
        T1 --> T2["🛠️ pkgmgr branch tree with gc states, timer, orchestrator reads the file"]
        T2 --> T3{"🧪 Tests green, no git in the container?"}
        T3 -- "🔴 no: fix" --> T2
        T3 -- "🟢 yes" --> TF{"💬 Operator feedback?"}
        TF -- "✏️ changes" --> T2
    end
    TF -- "👍 commit word" --> V1
    subgraph V["🪐 4 · Agents and Artifacts views"]
        V1["🔴 Red tests: five views per tab, artefact leaves, delete job"] --> V2["🛠️ Orbit, Chord, Swimlane, Tree with state icons and delete, 3D (3d-force-graph), host gc unit"]
        V2 --> V3{"🧪 Tests green?"}
        V3 -- "🔴 no: fix" --> V2
        V3 -- "🟢 yes" --> V4["📸 Screenshots of every view"]
        V4 --> VF{"💬 Operator feedback?"}
        VF -- "✏️ changes" --> V2
    end
    VF -- "👍 fits" --> D1["🏁 Full gate, commit with operator OK, push hand-over"]

Phases 5 and 6 (decisions 23 to 42):

flowchart TD
    subgraph W["🧩 5 · Inbox, UI, Hierarchy, Tasks"]
        W1["🛠️ W1 to W4 in own worktrees"] --> W2["🕵️ Skeptic round, fix round per worktree"]
        W2 --> W3{"🧪 Suite, e2e, MEDUSA, score green?"}
        W3 -- "🔴 no: fix" --> W2
        W3 -- "🟢 yes" --> W4["🔀 Rebase on master, commit, merge one by one"]
    end
    W4 --> L1
    subgraph L["👂 6.0 · Listen and record"]
        L1["❓ kvb-think-listen: names, Firewall writes, choices, groups"] --> L2["📋 Decisions 24 to 42 in this file on master"]
    end
    L2 --> S0
    subgraph S["🤖 6.0 to 6.7 · Serial subtrees under kvb-org-robot"]
        S0["🇬🇧 S0 English, Sécurité, NATO hashes, ICAO digits"] --> S1["🩹 S1 fit, rename once, radio, squelch, tree cause"]
        S1 --> S2["🪟 S2 agent and node popups, search"]
        S2 --> S3["🙂 S3 animated faces"]
        S3 --> S4["🌙 S4 drain, suspend, resume"]
        S4 --> S5["🗳️ S5 Tasks: asks, choices, Gantt, estimates, burn charts"]
        S5 --> S6["🧱 S6 Firewall and settings writes"]
        S6 --> S7["📈 S7 Resources charts"]
        S7 --> S8["🗄️ S8 artefact base URL, optional core speech"]
    end
    subgraph G["🔁 Each subtree"]
        G1["🔴 Red tests"] --> G2["🛠️ Change"]
        G2 --> G3{"🧪 Suite, e2e, MEDUSA, score green?"}
        G3 -- "🔴 no: fix" --> G2
        G3 -- "🟢 yes" --> G4["📸 Screenshots 1920 / 1366 / 390 px"]
        G4 --> GF{"💬 Operator feedback?"}
        GF -- "✏️ changes" --> G2
        GF -- "👍 fits" --> G5["🔀 Commit, merge into master, next subtree"]
    end
    S8 --> D2["🏁 install-skills-master row, push hand-over"]

Acceptance Criteria

Radio model

  • radio.py send accepts exactly call, broadcast, pan-pan, mayday, security and the alias direct; post, newsletter and any other class exit 2.
  • radio.py post --to X stores post; radio.py post without --to stores newsletter.
  • call and send direct require --to; broadcast, pan-pan, mayday and security exit 2 with --to.
  • send direct --wake is stored as call, send direct as post.
  • New rows carry a version mark; rows without it are read as before: direct as post (as call when it woke), broadcast as newsletter.
  • The UserPromptSubmit hook (radio.py hook) and the PostToolBatch hook (radio.py tool) never print a post or newsletter row.
  • A new Stop hook radio.py mailbox, registered in scripts/enable-plugins.js, prints the unseen post and newsletter rows of the session at most 10 at a time with a "N more" line, marks them seen and exits 2; with nothing unseen it exits 0 and prints nothing.
  • radio.py listen wakes an idle session only for call, broadcast, pan-pan, mayday and security, never for post or newsletter.
  • radio.py tool delivers call (to its addressee), broadcast, pan-pan, mayday and security at the next tool step.
  • When a call reaches the callee's context, a receipt row (callee, call time, read time) is stored; the caller's mailbox shows "CALL read
  • While radio-silence.json holds an active mayday, a PreToolUse hook (matcher Edit|Write|MultiEdit|NotebookEdit|Bash) exits 2 for Edit, Write, MultiEdit and NotebookEdit and for every Bash command that matches neither the config's never_block nor its new mayday_allow regexes nor a plain call of radio.py.
  • The mayday's sender passes; radio.py assist adds the caller to the mayday's helpers, who pass too, and the mayday line names them.
  • After radio.py clear the same calls pass again.
  • skills/kvb-org-radio/SKILL.md separates the radio (send, immediate) and the post (post, delayed), each class with when to use it and how it is delivered; post is the default; markdownlint stays green.

Organisation update

  • A skill kvb-org-update with scripts/update.py exists.
  • update.py --repo <skills repo> --dry-run prints every skill whose files changed between the last announced revision (kept in the council directory) and HEAD, with the subjects of the commits that touched it.
  • Without --dry-run it sends one newsletter through radio.py post that names each changed skill and tells every agent to re-read its SKILL.md before the next use, then records HEAD as announced; a second run without new commits sends nothing.
  • The radio change of phase 1 is announced through it.

Orchestrator surface and rename

  • The page title and heading read "Agent Orchestrator".
  • grep -rnE 'kvb-hub|kvb_hub|KVB_HUB' over the repository finds only the migration code and its tests.
  • The install migrates ~/.local/share/kvb-hub, ~/.config/kvb-hub, ~/.local/state/kvb-hub-approvals, the kvb-hub MCP registration, the settings hook entries, the systemd unit and the container to the kvb-orchestrator names. A second run changes nothing (scratch-HOME test).
  • The navigation has exactly three top-level entries Stream, Agents and Artifacts; Stream has the sub-items Inbox and Firewall.
  • Every agent appears once under its current name: a register worker such as "Stage (this session)" or "infinito-nexus-core-c8 (Production)" maps to the agent named before the bracket.
  • The keys 1 to 3 switch the top-level entries.
  • The hashes #stream, #stream/inbox, #stream/rules, #agents/<view> and #artifacts/<view> route; #graph… and #tree redirect to their successors.
  • Agents and Artifacts show a switch with Orbit, Chord, Swimlane, Tree and 3D in this order, and each view has its own hash.
  • The header holds exactly the title, the ⌘K button and the ⚙ button.
  • Badges:
    • Inbox shows the waiting items that are not snoozed.
    • Agents shows the agents with a heartbeat in the last 900 s.
    • Artifacts shows the runner jobs that are queued or running.
    • A badge at 0 is hidden.
  • A red Mayday banner with "cancel" exists if and only if a mayday is active; "cancel" runs radio.py clear.
  • The Agents toolbar holds:
    • Radio to all, with the class choice Newsletter, Broadcast, Pan-Pan, Security, Mayday and Newsletter preselected.
    • Cancel mayday, Priority and Day/Night.
  • The agent panel sends with the choice Post (preselected) or Call.
  • ⚙ "Ambience" holds Sky, Music, Control room and Notifications; ⌘K lists every former header tool.
  • The Stream shows exactly four category chips For you, Radio, Work and Transcripts, and one search line that filters by agent:, kind: and since:.
  • "Filter ▾" holds the kind sub-filters, the transcript parts, the saved views and the custom range.
  • The time control reads "24 h ▾" and holds the replay.
  • Transcripts are off by default.
  • The Inbox renders in the main area under #stream/inbox; the right rail #rail no longer exists, at any width.
  • The read-aloud class choice lists exactly the seven classes of decision 3; Mayday stays checked and locked.

pkgmgr branch tree

  • The kvb-think-dialectic result on the data path is recorded in the phase 3 commit body before any code of phase 3 is written.
  • pkgmgr branch tree --format json prints, for every repository pkgmgr knows and every worktree under <repo>/.worktrees and ~/.local/share/worktrees, these fields:
    • the repository's path, remote and default branch;
    • per branch: upstream, ahead, behind and gone;
    • per worktree: path, HEAD and its state, one of clean, changed or missing;
    • detached worktrees, and generated_at.
  • It lists every repository pkgmgr list names, also one without extra branches or worktrees.
  • Per branch and worktree it carries the gc state (merged-clean, unmerged, dirty, protected, stale), what merged it (ancestor, pr#N, line:X), the counts of staged, unstaged and untracked files, ahead, behind, gone, locked and the gc skip reason.
  • Tree and gc share one classification function; on a fixture pkgmgr branch tree --format json and pkgmgr branch gc --json agree on every item's state.
  • Forge facts (open and merged pull requests) are fetched at most once per 10 min per repository, only with a token from the Secret Service; without one the file says forge: unavailable and "merged by" falls back to ancestor and line.
  • delete_ready is true only while the token resolves through the Secret Service, which the scan never unlocks; otherwise it is false with the reason.
  • --format yaml prints the same data.
  • --output FILE writes it atomically.
  • The scan starts no hook, filter, fsmonitor, pager or external diff of a scanned repository and never lazy-fetches (fixture test with a planted core.fsmonitor).
  • pkgmgr branch open|close|drop|gc rewrite the file when it exists.
  • The orchestrator install enables a systemd user timer that writes it 60 s after its previous run ended while the page polled within the last 5 min, on at most half a core, with pkgmgr built from the newest signed tag.
  • The orchestrator mounts the file read-only and reads only it.
  • orchestrator/kvb_orchestrator/tree.py's git scan is gone and no module of the orchestrator starts git.

Agents and Artifacts views

  • Artifacts:
    • Orbit, Chord, Swimlane and Tree draw what decision 16 names, from the pkgmgr tree file.
    • Register artefacts (images, volumes, logs) appear as leaves of their task or worktree.
  • Agents:
    • Orbit, Chord and Swimlane keep today's content.
    • Tree shows the operator → chair → sessions → subagents spawn tree with running and finished states.
  • 3D in both tabs runs on the vendored 3d-force-graph 1.80.1 and three 0.186.1, with their MIT licence texts beside them and no CDN request (CSP unchanged).
  • 3D offers the layouts Force, Time and Spawn depth.
  • A click on a 3D node opens the same panel as in 2D.
  • 3D respects prefers-reduced-motion.

Delete merged branches

  • The Artifacts Tree marks every branch and worktree with icons for merged (with what merged it), clean, uncommitted changes (with counts), unpushed commits, gone upstream, locked, stale and protected.
  • A merged-clean item without a gc skip reason shows a delete button, and the Tree header shows "Delete all merged"; both are disabled, with the reason as tooltip, while delete_ready is false.
  • A click shows the gc dry-run lines of exactly the chosen items; "Delete" requires the operator signature through /api/sign.
  • The orchestrator writes the signed job (repository, branch, worktree and tip sha per item, no command) into a host-mounted job directory and holds no git, token or key.
  • A systemd user path unit verifies the signature on the host and runs pkgmgr branch cleanup --apply --local for exactly the signed items, matched exactly, never as a pattern; --local removes the worktree, the local branch, the compose stack without -v and its images, never a remote branch, and needs no SSH key.
  • The unit refuses, and changes nothing for, an item whose tip or state differs from the signed one, an unknown repository, a non-merged-clean item and a job with a bad or missing signature, and reports why.
  • The unit writes each item's result back and rewrites the tree file; the Tree shows the result.

Icons

  • Bootstrap Icons 1.13.1 is vendored once as an SVG sprite with its MIT licence text beside it; no page loads it from a CDN.
  • The navigation, the header, the view switches, the toolbars, the Stream chips and the Inbox actions of the orchestrator show icons instead of text labels.
  • The review pages and the meditation page show icons instead of text labels on their buttons.
  • Every icon element has a title and an aria-label that carry the former text (DOM test over every page).

Phase 5: inbox, UI, Hierarchy, Tasks

  • A deny is refused by the hub unless its passkey proof verifies; the PermissionRequest hook quotes a deny reason only when it verifies.
  • A rule, also one an agent requested, is stored only with a passkey assertion the hub verified against the pinned keys.
  • operator_message(id, text, to) answers match only for a verified proof whose signed text and recipient equal the arguments.
  • The offices unit and the runner stay off while the installed council.py, nofollow.py or rasci.py differ from the tree.
  • rasci.py agents order writes only agent-order.json and no --prio.
  • W1 to W4 are merged into master, each commit with its score block.

Phase 6: English and radio speech (S0)

  • The text handed to the speech engine for a security row starts with "say-cure-ee-tay" three times; the page shows "Sécurité".
  • 8e180be is spoken "eight echo one eight zero bravo echo" and 42305 "four two tree zero fife" (unit test on the pronunciation step); the displayed line is unchanged.
  • A scan of the tree finds no German UI, message or document text outside quoted trigger phrases (test with an allowlist of those phrases).

Phase 6: fixes (S1)

  • #agents/orbit at 1920, 1366 and 390 px has document.documentElement.scrollHeight <= innerHeight (e2e probe).
  • Two state builds with the same claims add no second rename event to the Stream (unit test on the timeline).
  • The Deutschlandfunk AAC stream plays in Chromium and Firefox through the radio (e2e with a recorded fixture of its redirect chain) and the root cause is named in the commit message.
  • With squelch at 0 no beep plays, music on or off (unit test on the audio scheduler).
  • Without a tree file the Tree names the missing pkgmgr branch tree and the release step.

Phase 6: popups and search (S2)

  • A click on an agent opens the popup with a fade; Escape and a click outside close it; the Details side panel no longer exists.
  • A click on a node enlarges it, marks it red and draws a leader line to a translucent popup; a second click elsewhere restores the node.
  • A search field with suggestions replaces the node chip list; no view renders more than one chip per search hit.

Phase 6: faces (S3)

  • The face generator yields at least 1000 distinct attribute combinations and the same face for the same agent id (unit test).
  • A speaking agent's face animates its mouth; a silent one does not (DOM test on the class while the radio plays).

Phase 6: night commands (S4)

  • kvb-org-drain, kvb-org-suspend, kvb-org-resume, kvb-agent-drain, kvb-agent-suspend and kvb-agent-resume exist; the old six names exist nowhere in the tree except in the migration and kvb-skill-cleanup history (grep test).
  • The Controls menu shows Drain, Suspend and Resume and each needs the passkey, like the board actions today.

Phase 6: Tasks with asks and choices (S5)

  • Every pending ask, rule request, operator row and choice card shows in the Tasks tab under "waits on Operator"; no Choices column exists.
  • Each channel button sends the fixed choice request with no text field; post and call take a multi-select of agents.
  • A click on a choice option sends a passkey-signed answer the agent can check with operator_message.

Phase 6: Firewall (S6)

  • The tab is called Firewall and lists hub rules, allow and deny patterns and the settings permissions, grouped by tool and prefix as read from the settings files.
  • A rule or rule set applies to one agent, a named group or all agents.
  • A settings change is written only by the host executor after the passkey check, only to a listed file, with a backup beside it; a forged, replayed or unlisted-file job changes nothing (unit tests).

Phase 6: Resources (S7)

  • The tab shows tokens per agent and accumulated, and CPU, RAM, disk and load, on the shared time axis, several values per chart.
  • Token counts equal the sum of the transcript usage fields of a fixture (unit test); host samples come from the host unit's file, not from the container.

Phase 6: shared cache (S8)

  • With INFINITO_ARTEFACT_BASE set, every ADD and clone of the image build uses <base>/<host>/<path> and the unchanged sha256 pins; unset, the build uses the upstream URLs (test over the rendered Dockerfile).
  • With a configured svc-ai-speech URL the hub sends STT and TTS there; without it the in-container engines answer (unit test with a stub).
  • make orchestrator-install succeeds in a scratch HOME without any core stack.

Phase 6: Gantt, estimates, burndown and burnup (S5)

  • rasci.py set <task> --after <other> stores the dependency and --drop-after <other> removes it; an unknown task and a cycle are refused.
  • The Gantt view draws one bar per task from start to end, a running task to now, and one arrow per explicit, branch-base and queue-order edge of a fixture register and queue.
  • The forecast selector offers always (default), points only and real only; a hatched bar is as long as the median duration of done tasks (no estimate) or points times median hours per point (story points).
  • The estimation toggle defaults to No estimate, is stored in the hub settings and survives a reload.
  • Burndown and burnup offer the scopes whole register (default), list filter within the time window, and one agent or line; with no estimate they count tasks, with story points they sum complexity and draw the unestimated tasks as a line of their own.
  • "Request estimates" shows only in story points mode; a click or /kvb-org-queue-estimate sends exactly one newsletter to all agents that lists every unestimated task with every party holding a RASCI role in it; a state build or a mode switch sends none.
  • A per-task or bulk business value change is stored only with a verified passkey assertion over the exact task ids and values; a forged, replayed or altered batch changes nothing, and WSJF uses the operator value instead of the median.
  • The task list sorts by each mode of decision 50 in both directions.

Phase 6: radio spot, compact menus, trend, ETA, Tasks 3D (S5.1)

  • The toolbar radio button expands inline and sends a post, a call to chosen agents and each to-all class, Record included; the Radio tab shows no composer.
  • The radio gear holds the tones, squelch and read-aloud settings, the general settings no longer do, and a changed value survives a reload.
  • Cancel mayday sits in the expanded radio spot and no longer in the toolbar; it still needs its confirmation.
  • The Day/Night menu shows only the badge and three buttons; hovering each shows its explanation.
  • The Tasks toolbar is one row at 1920 and 1366 px; "Request choices" is a dropdown sending the same signed choice requests as before.
  • The trend selector offers off (default), linear regression and velocity over N days; the line and the forecast date match the fixture's computed values, and the choice survives a reload.
  • Hovering a burn chart point lists exactly the fixture work packages of that step.
  • Every list row shows an ETA, which equals the end for done tasks and start or now plus the forecast length otherwise, in both estimation modes.
  • The Tasks 3D view draws one node per task and one edge per dependency of the fixture, in Force and Time layouts.
  • Two state refreshes after a manual camera move leave the 3D camera where the operator put it.

Phase 6: radio in the header (S5.4)

  • The header shows Radio, Commands and Settings as icon buttons; Radio opens the spot above the main area on Stream, Inbox, Agents, Artifacts and Tasks, and closes it again.
  • No Radio tab, no "Send …" button and no radio button in the Agents toolbar remain; #stream/radio lands on #stream with the spot open and the message field focused.
  • Cancel mayday shows only its icon, keeps its tooltip, its confirmation and its passkey signature.
  • The spot shows the speaking caption, the last five sent messages and the stations with play and stop.

Tests

  • Unit
    • Radio: class mapping, --to rules, the mailbox Stop hook, the receipt and the mayday block hook, each red before and green after.
    • Organisation update on a fixture repository: changed skills with their subjects, nothing new sends nothing.
    • pkgmgr branch tree on fixture repositories: ahead, behind, gone, detached and missing worktree, JSON and YAML, the planted fsmonitor, staged, unstaged and untracked counts, tree and gc states agreeing.
    • Delete job: a bad signature, a changed tip, a non-merged-clean item and a branch name with pattern characters are each refused.
    • Orchestrator: the scratch-HOME migration, routing including old hashes, badge counts.
    • Phase 6: pronunciation (Sécurité, NATO hashes, ICAO digits), rename-once timeline, squelch scheduler, face generator, settings writer (forged, replayed, unlisted file), token sums, German text scan.
    • S5 Gantt and estimates: dependency edges and cycle refusal, forecast lengths, burn sums per mode and scope, newsletter body and its single send, bulk business value signature (forged, replayed, altered), sort orders.
    • S5.1: regression and velocity trend with their forecast dates, point tooltips, ETA in both modes, radio settings stored from the gear.
    • S5.4: the navigation without the Radio tab, #stream/radio redirecting to #stream with the spot flag.
    • S5.5: ICAO digit words, Zulu times, DTG with offset conversion, dates, decimals and spoken paths.
  • Integration
    • Two scratch sessions exchange post and call through the real hook entry points (JSON on stdin): the post appears only on the callee's Stop and the call at its next tool step with a receipt to the caller.
    • A mayday blocks an Edit until clear.
    • The orchestrator's /api/tree serves a pkgmgr-written file.
    • On a fixture repository with a file remote and a test token source, a signed job through the path unit removes the merged worktree, the local and the remote branch, and the rewritten tree no longer lists them.
    • make test green on the commit of each phase.
  • E2E
    • A headless Chromium and Firefox run opens Stream, Inbox, Firewall and every view of Agents and Artifacts at 1920, 1366 and 390 px wide and saves the screenshots shown at each operator checkpoint.
    • It sends a Call from the agent panel and sees its receipt in the Stream.
    • On fixture data it shows the state icons in the Artifacts Tree and runs the delete flow: dry-run dialog, signature, result.
    • Phase 6: no page scrollbar on any view, agent and node popups, choice request and signed answer, Firewall settings diff and signature, Resources charts, each at 1920, 1366 and 390 px.
    • S5: Gantt with arrows, burndown and burnup, the estimation toggle, "Request estimates" and a signed bulk business value change, each at 1920, 1366 and 390 px.
    • S5.1: radio spot (send, gear, cancel mayday), Day/Night tooltips, one-row Tasks toolbar, trend and point tooltips, ETA column, Tasks 3D and a steady 3D camera, each at 1920, 1366 and 390 px.
    • S5.4: the header radio button opens the spot on every tab, every class sends from it, the icon-only Cancel mayday, the speaking caption and the stations inside the spot, in Chromium and Firefox at 1920, 1366 and 390 px.