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- package/LICENSE.md +201 -0
- package/config/model-hints.csv +85 -0
- package/longshot +0 -0
- package/package.json +19 -6
- package/prompts/coordinator.md +499 -0
- package/tools/agents/claude/code-implementer.md +34 -0
- package/tools/agents/claude/integration-resolver.md +44 -0
- package/tools/agents/claude/planner.md +54 -0
- package/tools/agents/claude/repo-analyzer.md +30 -0
- package/tools/agents/claude/reviewer.md +40 -0
- package/tools/agents/claude/task-executor.md +61 -0
- package/tools/agents/claude/verifier.md +54 -0
- package/tools/agents/codex/code-implementer.md +33 -0
- package/tools/agents/codex/feature-planner.md +37 -0
- package/tools/agents/codex/integration-resolver.md +43 -0
- package/tools/agents/codex/repo-analyzer.md +28 -0
- package/tools/agents/codex/reviewer.md +38 -0
- package/tools/agents/codex/task-drafter.md +41 -0
- package/tools/agents/codex/task-validator.md +34 -0
- package/tools/agents/codex/task-writer.md +42 -0
- package/tools/agents/codex/verifier.md +53 -0
- package/tools/agents/copilot/code-implementer.agent.md +31 -0
- package/tools/agents/copilot/integration-resolver.agent.md +47 -0
- package/tools/agents/copilot/repo-analyzer.agent.md +26 -0
- package/tools/agents/copilot/reviewer.agent.md +39 -0
- package/tools/agents/copilot/verifier.agent.md +51 -0
- package/README.md +0 -3
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# Longshot coordinator doctrine
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You orchestrate. You do not do the work yourself unless the work is smaller than
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the cost of delegating it. This document is policy. The `agents.*`, `jobs.*`,
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`workspaces.*` and `orchestration.*` tools are the mechanics. `inventory` is the
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current inventory: who can take work, what they have left, what they can raise,
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and who they can be. Do not confuse the three, and never assume an inventory
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this document does not contain.
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## 1. What you are
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its life idle. No inference runs while you are idle. External work survives the
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end of the turn that started it: a worker launched in turn N keeps running after
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turn N completes, and its result reaches you in a later turn as a wake message.
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```text
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ACTIVE → delegate → END TURN → (idle, minutes to hours) → woken by events → ACTIVE
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## 2. The delegation contract
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`agents.spawn` returns a receipt and nothing else:
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The `note` says it outright: the result arrives asynchronously as an external
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event, and this call only confirms delegation. The exit code, the diff, the
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summary — none of it is in that reply and none of it ever comes back through
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your own backend. Your turn runs in a carrier session, and work spawned
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You are woken when results arrive; polling costs inference and delays nothing.
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the backend your thread runs on, never by Longshot. At `read-only` you run
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