chore: skein setup, the multi-coordinator sandbox - #9
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Sets this repo up as the team's sandbox for running several coordinators at once with skein (https://github.com/bayological/skein): .skein/config.json, the vendored runtime at scripts/skein/, AGENTS.md worker rules (money: swap is dry-run only; no network in tests; addresses from the SDK; never publish; --json is a contract), docs/plan (runbook, coordinator prompt, onboarding, task DAG), CI running the gate on PRs, a pre-push hook refusing main, Superset lifecycle scripts. Plan: CLI-00 (test harness) briefed and dispatchable; CLI-01 (README) and CLI-02 (parseAmount validation) left unbriefed on purpose so a new coordinator's first act is a brief. The former AGENTS.md master-context note lives on as rule P3. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In @.github/workflows/skein-gate.yml:
- Line 27: Update the Skein gate command’s --only list to include accept
alongside the existing checks, ensuring CI runs the acceptance task and its
required typecheck and tests.
- Line 27: Update the branch-resolution logic used by gate.mjs to prefer
process.env.GITHUB_HEAD_REF, falling back to git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
when unavailable, so pull-request runs resolve task plan IDs despite detached
HEAD checkout.
- Around line 18-20: Update the actions/checkout step in the pull_request job to
set persist-credentials to false while preserving fetch-depth: 0, preventing the
checkout token from being stored in local Git configuration.
In @.superset/setup.sh:
- Line 14: Update the ENV_WITHHOLD configuration and setup flow so the branch
that copies environment files cannot copy the unredacted .env into agent
workspaces; use an explicit safe allowlist, copy only .env.example, or require a
non-empty withholding policy while preserving protection for credentials and
personal data.
In `@scripts/skein/commands/dispatch.sh`:
- Around line 33-35: Update the dispatch flow around check_caps and board_claim
so capacity validation and task claiming are atomic, preventing concurrent
coordinators from exceeding maxAgents. Prefer moving the cap check into the
board reservation; otherwise revalidate immediately after board_claim and
release the claim before workspace creation when capacity is exceeded.
- Around line 41-45: Update the workspace validation flow in dispatch.sh so
every post-creation failure, including missing worktrees or briefs and a
nonmatching HEAD in the checks around driver_path, task_field, and git
rev-parse, invokes a single cleanup path that calls board_release to mark the
claim blocked and intentionally removes or preserves the workspace. Keep normal
dispatch behavior unchanged.
In `@scripts/skein/commands/merge.sh`:
- Around line 21-23: Update the merge evidence check around task_field and the
gh pr view query to require the unique machine-readable marker posted by
review.sh, rather than matching comments containing “review”. Ensure the marker
is accepted only when posted by an authorized reviewer, and preserve the
existing failure path for money/PII tasks without valid review evidence.
- Around line 27-31: Update the merge flow around the NOGATE handling to verify
the required PR gate check has completed successfully before allowing a merge
without running the local gate. Reject missing or failed CI results, and
preserve the existing local gate execution for normal merges.
In `@scripts/skein/commands/review.sh`:
- Around line 32-35: Update the codex and claude invocation paths in the review
command to run inside an enforced read-only sandbox with filesystem,
environment, and network isolation, rather than disabling approval and sandbox
controls. Preserve the existing working-directory, prompt, model, output, and
warning behavior while ensuring both reviewer processes cannot modify files or
access unrestricted resources.
In `@scripts/skein/lib/boards/github.sh`:
- Around line 39-44: Make task claiming exclusive in both board backends: in
scripts/skein/lib/boards/github.sh lines 39-44, update the flow around
_issue_for and gh issue create to use an atomic claim or verify this coordinator
owns the created/assigned issue before returning success; apply the equivalent
change in scripts/skein/lib/boards/superset.sh lines 24-29 around its task
lookup and creation/assignment. Ensure a competing coordinator cannot proceed
with a successful claim or launch a duplicate worker.
In `@scripts/skein/lib/boards/superset.sh`:
- Line 18: Update _ss_set_state to propagate failures from the superset state
update instead of masking them with || true, so board_claim stops when the
state:running update fails. Preserve best-effort error suppression only for
cleanup operations.
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📓 Common learnings
Learnt from: CR
Repo: mento-protocol/cli
Timestamp: 2026-09-22T16:46:51.071Z
Learning: Before claiming done, run the gate and make it pass:
Learnt from: CR
Repo: mento-protocol/cli
Timestamp: 2026-09-22T16:46:51.071Z
Learning: Read the brief and everything it lists under "Read first".
Learnt from: CR
Repo: mento-protocol/cli
Timestamp: 2026-09-22T16:46:51.071Z
Learning: Never print, log, or put in an error
message a key, a token, a signing secret, or a user's personal data.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: mento-protocol/cli
Timestamp: 2026-09-22T16:46:51.071Z
Learning: Rules for every agent working in this repository.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: mento-protocol/cli
Timestamp: 2026-09-22T16:46:51.071Z
Learning: Never weaken a test to get green.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: mento-protocol/cli
Timestamp: 2026-09-22T16:46:51.071Z
Learning: With `--json`, stdout carries exactly one JSON document
and nothing else; progress and warnings go to `stderr`.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: mento-protocol/cli
Timestamp: 2026-09-22T16:46:51.071Z
Learning: Never push to `main`, never merge, never force-push a branch that is not yours.
Learnt from: CR
Repo: mento-protocol/cli
Timestamp: 2026-09-22T16:46:51.071Z
Learning: Tests never depend on the network.
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docs/adr/README.md
[style] ~4-~4: Consider using “who” when you are referring to a person instead of an object.
Context: ... the architecture is as it is. A worker that hits an ambiguity writes `DRAFT-<task-i...
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docs/plan/ONBOARDING.md
[uncategorized] ~33-~33: The official name of this software platform is spelled with a capital “H”.
Context: ...how it will be judged. - The board (github) is where claims live. Assign yourself ...
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docs/plan/COORDINATOR.md
[uncategorized] ~42-~42: The official name of this software platform is spelled with a capital “H”.
Context: ...s: N coordinators, one board The board (github) holds one entry per task, titled `...
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AGENTS.md
[uncategorized] ~21-~21: The official name of this software platform is spelled with a capital “H”.
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scripts/skein/commands/brief.sh
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.superset/setup.sh
[warning] 25-25: This loop will only ever run once. Bad quoting or missing glob/expansion?
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scripts/skein/commands/merge.sh
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scripts/skein/commands/status.sh
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.superset/teardown.sh
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scripts/skein/commands/review.sh
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scripts/skein/commands/dispatch.sh
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scripts/skein/commands/doctor.sh
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scripts/skein/commands/watch.sh
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scripts/skein/lib/boards/superset.sh
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scripts/skein/lib/common.sh
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.github/workflows/skein-gate.yml
[warning] 18-20: credential persistence through GitHub Actions artifacts (artipacked): does not set persist-credentials: false
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.github/workflows/skein-gate.yml (1)
18-20: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Detected with Advanced TierRestrict the token before executing pull request code. The workflow executes
scripts/skein/skeinfrom the pull request checkout. Setpermissions: contents: readandpersist-credentials: falseso the script cannot use a write-capable persisted token. Confirm the repository’s default token permissions.
Cursor Bugbot and CodeRabbit findings, fixed upstream in the kit and re-vendored: PR task resolution from GITHUB_HEAD_REF, CI permissions and no persisted token, accept commands in the PR gate, claims released on every dispatch failure, cap rechecked after claiming, ownership verified after the write, read-only reviewers with a machine-readable review marker that merge requires, --no-gate needs a green CI check, vendored templates for brief --new and review, macOS-safe entrypoint and local driver, workspaces get .env.example only by default. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Thanks, both reviewers were right on most of these. All fixed upstream in skein 0.1.1 and re-vendored here (commit on this branch): Cursor Bugbot
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| gh issue edit "$num" -R "$BOARD_REPO" --add-assignee "$me" --add-label state:running \ | ||
| --remove-label state:ready --remove-label state:gating --remove-label state:blocked >/dev/null 2>&1 \ | ||
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Gating re-dispatch drops the claim
High Severity
board_claim only refuses a second dispatch when the issue is state:running. After skein review the issue is gating and still assigned, so dispatch re-claims it, then workspace create or the HEAD check fails and fail() releases the issue to ready and clears the assignee. A reviewed task with a live workspace and open PR becomes unclaimed, and skein merge treats an empty owner as allowed.
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Find hits review workspace first
Medium Severity
driver_find returns the first workspace whose name contains (TASK-ID). Review workspaces are named review: … (ID), the same suffix as the worker, and they live for the whole review. skein merge, watch, and send can therefore attach to the review worktree: the gate runs in the wrong tree, send/watch miss the worker, and merge may delete the review workspace instead of the worker’s.
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| git -C "$ROOT" worktree add -q "$path" "$branch" || die "git worktree add failed" | ||
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Local retry cannot leave a stale branch
Medium Severity
The local driver reuses an existing task branch instead of forking origin/main, and driver_delete removes only the worktree. After the worker has committed, a later dispatch checks out that branch, the HEAD-equals-origin/main check fails, fail() deletes the worktree, and the branch stays. Every retry hits the same failure, so a dead worker cannot be restarted under SKEIN_DRIVER=local.
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Failed review leaks the workspace
Medium Severity
skein review creates a workspace and then uses die/exit 1 on later failures (empty reviewer output, unknown agent) without calling driver_delete. On Superset the review name is reused, so alreadyExists makes every later review of that task fail until someone deletes the leftover workspace by hand.
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What this is
This repo becomes the team's sandbox for building with several coding agents in parallel, under any number of coordinators, using skein. Nothing here is load-bearing; the point is to see the loop with two or more people coordinating on one board.
What's in the PR
.skein/config.jsonand the vendored runtime atscripts/skein/(skein plan|brief|dispatch|watch|status|send|gate|review|merge)AGENTS.md: the rules every worker follows, plus five project rules (swap is dry-run only, no network in tests, addresses come from the SDK, never publish,--jsonis a contract). The old master-context note is now rule P3.docs/plan/: coordinator runbook, the paste-in coordinator prompt, onboarding, and the task DAG with three tasks:/skein-brief.github/workflows/skein-gate.ymlruns the gate on every PRscripts/githooks/pre-pushrefuses pushes to main;.superset/lifecycle scripts for workspacesHow to try it
git clone https://github.com/bayological/skein ~/.claude/skills/skein && ~/.claude/skills/skein/setupgit config core.hooksPath scripts/githooks,npm cidocs/plan/COORDINATOR-PROMPT.mdDetails in
docs/plan/ONBOARDING.md. Without Superset,export SKEIN_DRIVER=localruns workers as Claude Code headless in git worktrees.Notes for reviewers
npm run builduntil CLI-00 adds typecheck and test scripts; the coordinator then switches it.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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Overview
Turns mento-cli into a skein multi-coordinator sandbox: parallel agents, path-owned tasks, and a shared merge gate instead of ad-hoc agent instructions.
Infrastructure added:
.skein/config.json, vendoredscripts/skein/(plan,dispatch,watch,gate,review,merge, GitHub/Superset boards, local worktree driver),.superset/workspace setup/teardown, andscripts/githooks/pre-push(blocksmainunlessCLI_COORDINATOR=1). CI runsskein gateon every PR (--from-branch) andnpm run buildonmainvia.github/workflows/skein-gate.yml.Process & docs:
AGENTS.mdis replaced with worker rules (path boundaries, secrets, no test weakening, Mento P1–P5).docs/plan/wps.jsonseeds CLI-00 (briefed test harness), CLI-01/CLI-02 (unbriefed on purpose), plus coordinator runbook, onboarding, and CLI-00 brief. Gate standard is onlynpm run builduntil CLI-00 lands typecheck/tests.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit ed9e6f8. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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