@kurrent/kcap 1.3.0-beta.6 → 1.3.0-beta.8

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@@ -31,13 +31,16 @@ When the user asks you to recap a session **and carry on with it** ("recap sessi
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  kcap recap <X> --continue
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  ```
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- It attaches this session to X's work items and unfinished plans, prints what it attached, then prints the recap. `continue_session(session_id: X)` in the `kcap-handoff` MCP server does the same takeover without the recap.
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+ It attaches this session to X's work items and unfinished plans, asks the server to adopt X's loose-end claims, prints the outcomes, then prints the recap. `continue_session(session_id: X)` in the `kcap-handoff` MCP server does the same takeover without the recap. Claim adoption runs independently of work-item availability, including on Free.
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  - **Exit 2 means it refused** — X may still be running, was not found, is this session itself, is not a session id, or no current session could be identified. Read the message and tell the user. Only when it says X may still be running, ask whether X is gone, and retry with `--force` (`force: true`) only when they confirm. Never pass it on your own judgement. When `continue_session` says there is no current session and you know this session's id, pass it as `current_session_id`.
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  - **Exit 1 means nothing, or not everything, was linked** — a server read or write failed (the report names which). Tell the user; do not carry on as if the work was taken over. When it also says the server rejected the login, ask the user to run `kcap login`, then retry.
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  - **More than one plan adopted?** Only the one reported as the current plan (`current_plan_id`) is implied; pass `plan_id` on every plan call for any other.
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  - **Before resuming a plan task, verify it** as the `plans` skill's "Verify before continuing" says: a task left `in_progress` may be half-written.
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- - Tell the user which work items and which plan task you took over. Work items reported as not available on this plan are expected on the Free plan.
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+ - **Read `loose_end_claims.results` individually.** Each `attempted_claim_id` identifies the predecessor; a transferred or reacquired claim supplies the current `claim_id`. Keep that new identity for completion or release. `recorded_catching_up` is recorded ownership, not a reason to acquire another attempt.
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+ - **Partial adoption is not success.** `ownership_lost`, `already_claimed` or unavailable ownership can coexist with successful transfers. Report which attempts failed; do not act as their owner, close them with the predecessor id, or launch duplicates. `--force` changes only the local liveness confirmation, not server ownership admission.
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+ - **`unsupported`** means the server has no claim-adoption route; report that separately from an ordinary API failure. Takeover is incomplete: the MCP tool returns an error and recap exits 1, even if work-item or plan attachment succeeded. Attachment alone does not prove ownership.
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+ - Tell the user which work items, plan task and claims you took over, including failures. Work items reported as not available on this plan are expected on the Free plan.
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  ## Usage
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  this skill (and do NOT call the flows MCP tools) for an ordinary review
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  request such as "review my PR", "review this diff/spec/design", or "code
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  review" where the user just wants you to review it yourself — perform that
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+ review directly instead. For any other catalogue flow, or a flow offered
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+ from your session context, use `agent-flows`.
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  ---
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  # Review Flows
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  ## Workflow
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  ```
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- start_review_flow(kind, target_kind, target_ref, target_title, context)
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+ get_flow_definition(kind)
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+ → follow its guide: what to submit, how to iterate (a server that publishes no guides says so; the rest of this skill applies)
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+ start_review_flow(kind, target_kind, target_ref, target_title, session_title, context)
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  → reviewer returns a result: findings (with the findings text) | clean
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  | Tool | Required args | Optional args | When to call |
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- | `start_review_flow` | `kind` (`spec-review`\|`code-review`), `target_kind` (what is being reviewed: `spec`, `code`, `pr`, `branch`, `file`, etc.), `target_ref` (a path, branch name, or PR URL/number that identifies the target), `target_title` (short human-readable title, e.g. spec name or PR title), `context` (background context: what to focus on, constraints, definition of done) | `vendor` (explicit reviewer vendor; omit to use the definition's authored vendor, or your saved `flows.reviewer_vendor` preference if it declares none), `model` (explicit reviewer model override — REQUIRES `vendor`; only pass it when the user named a model), `instructions`, `mode` (`context-only` — optional) | Once, at the start of a review task. |
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+ | `start_review_flow` | `kind` (`spec-review`\|`code-review`), `target_kind` (what is being reviewed: `spec`, `code`, `pr`, `branch`, `file`, etc.), `target_ref` (a path, branch name, or PR URL/number that identifies the target), `target_title` (short human-readable title, e.g. spec name or PR title), `session_title` (the reviewer session's title: a short phrase naming this review, specific enough to tell it apart from other sessions — it replaces the generic "Review this PR/code" name), `context` (background context: what to focus on, constraints, definition of done) | `vendor` (explicit reviewer vendor; omit to use the definition's authored vendor, or your saved `flows.reviewer_vendor` preference if it declares none), `model` (explicit reviewer model override — REQUIRES `vendor`; only pass it when the user named a model), `instructions`, `mode` (`context-only` — optional) | Once, at the start of a review task. |
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  | `submit_review_round` | `flow_run_id`, `context` | `instructions` | After addressing findings. Pass the same `flow_run_id` and the updated context. |
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  | `get_review_flow_status` | — | `flow_run_id` (omit to read the newest open flow this session started, or on a harness without a session identity the newest one started from this workspace; several open flows are listed instead), `session_id` (look up another session's flows; defaults to this session), `wait` (`true`/`false`, defaults to `false`) — when `true`, blocks until the round is terminal or roughly 3.5 minutes pass, instead of returning the current snapshot immediately | Poll or check the current status of a flow (running, waiting, completed, failed). Use `wait: true` to ride out a long round instead of polling repeatedly yourself, and omit `flow_run_id` to recover a flow whose id you never received or lost. |
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  | `close_review_flow` | `flow_run_id` | — | Only after the reviewer returns `clean`. |
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  ## Example (code review)
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  ```
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+ # Step 1 — start (all six args required; the reviewer sees a mirror of THIS SESSION's
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+ - `title`: required. A short phrase naming this agent's task, specific
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+ enough to tell its session apart from the others in the repository. It is
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+ the session's title from the start, and titles generated later do not
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+ replace it.
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  - `work_item`: required, and there is no default. Pass the `wi:` or `le:` key
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  an error, which is the point: a task is never filed under the wrong item by
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+ accident. A `le:` target reserves a durable loose-end claim before dispatch,
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+ even without a work item. Do not claim it for the calling session first.
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  ## After the calls
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- Each call answers `requested`, with the agent's id and the url of its page.
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+ Read the returned status and dispatch state together:
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+ - `requested` / `sent`: the launch command was sent, not confirmed running.
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+ - `pending` / `unknown`: ownership is reserved, but delivery is uncertain.
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+ - `pending` / `not_sent`: ownership is reserved, but dispatch has not happened.
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+ all three to the user with the dispatch state. A pending result is not permission
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+ to launch again: inspect the claim/agent through the dashboard. It is neither
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+ `list_loose_ends(claimed_session_id: <worker>)` and must close with that claim id
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+ existing claim or agent; waiting 30 seconds does not release durable ownership.
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+ Do not bypass it with another key, dismissal, closure or another launch path.
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+ - `loose_end_claims_unavailable`: ownership could not be verified or recorded.
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+ Report the readiness failure; do not launch without the claim.
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  name: work-items
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- work item — that it breaks into sub-tasks (a parent and its parts), or that
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- one piece must land before another (a blocks / blocked-by dependency) — and
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- you want that structure recorded so it shows up in Kurrent Capacitor's Home
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- "Blockers & dependencies" view and progress figures. Also use it the moment
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- you decide to defer a piece of work, to record it as a loose end in the
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- user's next-work ledger, and whenever the user asks what to work on next or
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- you are about to propose new work, to read the ranked next-work feed first.
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- Use the `kcap mcp workitems` MCP tools to DECLARE the breakdown, the
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- relations and the loose ends, and to read the feed. Do NOT declare STRUCTURE
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+ or wrong attachment, or deferring unfinished work as a loose end. Also use
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+ 2. Work stays **open**, but the claim keeps it out of next-work suggestions.
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+ `list_loose_ends(claimed_session_id: <worker>)` finds ownership;
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+ `session_id` instead filters where work was sighted. Attachment to a work item
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+ does not claim anything, and itemless work needs no new work item.
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package/package.json CHANGED
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  "name": "@kurrent/kcap",
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+ "@kurrent/kcap-linux-musl-x64": "1.3.0-beta.8",
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- - **Implementation complete** — the change is functionally finished (you say so,
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- or you are about to commit / open a PR / merge) → offer a `code-review` flow.
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- Do NOT offer (stay silent) when:
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- - You are only part-way through: rough mid-stream brainstorming, a partial plan,
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- - A review flow for this artifact is already engaged, active, or just completed.
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- **Offer at most once per artifact.** Key the offer on (milestone type + the
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- ## How to recommend a reviewer
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- 1. Call **`list_reviewer_vendors`** (read-only; safe to call before offering).
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- if several, offer a short choice — never assert one vendor is "better".
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- 3. **If the only available reviewer is your own vendor, still offer it** —
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- 4. **If `driver_vendor` is absent (unknown)**, do NOT claim "a different model";
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- - `no_repo_hosting_daemon` → run a daemon on a machine that has this repo.
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- - `no_unattended_reviewer` → install/certify a second harness as a reviewer.
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- - `repo_unresolved` → the current directory isn't a recognized repo.
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- - `lookup_failed` → couldn't reach the server; suggest checking `kcap status`.
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- ## Handing off (only after the user accepts)
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- - On acceptance, invoke the **`review-flows`** skill to run it, preserving the
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- vendor.
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- - If the reviewer vendor turns out to be unavailable at start (a snapshot race),
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- ## If `list_reviewer_vendors` is not available
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- Do NOT guess availability and do NOT shell out as a workaround — tell the user
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