@nurix/etna 0.20.49 → 0.20.51

package/data/catalog/index.json

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
         "cloudflare",
         "code-eval-batcher",
         "database",
+        "execution",
         "frontend",
         "general",
         "kb",

package/data/catalog/rules/execution.md

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# Execution
+
+Execution mode: one session runs a long series of plans (a program of waves, or several plans in parallel) through to merge without waiting on a person between them. This rule sets the practices that keep that run from going brittle. A single plan's own lifecycle (its gate, its ledgers, its freeze) stays with the plan, the `testing` skill and the `boundary` skill. This rule governs only what a run of many plans adds on top of that.
+
+## The execution log
+
+**Every run keeps one execution log at `docs/history/executions/YYYY-MM-DD-{slug}.md`.** It is the run's whole memory. A session that has lost the conversation (to a compaction, a new sitting or a crash) re-anchors by reading it first, so nothing the run still needs may live only in context.
+
+- **It holds:**
+  - the plans and waves, each with its status;
+  - what is in flight (each dispatch's goal, budget and progress-file path);
+  - decisions taken mid-run, with their reasons;
+  - the standing constraints of the run;
+  - the owner's pending steps;
+  - the close: what remains, in order, until the run ends.
+- **It is written at every milestone:** before each dispatch, at each plan freeze and merge, and at each owner step discovered. It is never written after the fact from memory.
+- **It is a record.** It stays amendable while the run is open and is frozen when the run closes.
+
+## Sub-agents
+
+- **Every brief carries a contract:**
+  - the result that ends it;
+  - its milestones, in order;
+  - a wall-clock budget derived from the work: n browser tests take about n × 10 s, and a build step gets its last run's time plus 50%.
+
+  A sub-agent past its budget stops and reports what it has, with the blocker named. The budget limits itself; nothing outside the sub-agent has to enforce it.
+- **Progress goes to a file:** one line per milestone in `/tmp/<task>-progress.log`, in the form `<UTC time> <milestone> started|done|stuck — <result>`. A line is written before and after anything expected to run past two minutes.
+- **No alarms, monitors or watchers.** The main session learns a sub-agent's state from its completion notification and from its progress file, read at the main session's own turn breaks. A standing monitor, a polling loop or a scheduled alarm is machinery the run then has to watch too.
+- **An overrun is acted on, never waited out.** When a progress file shows a milestone past its budget, the main session checks the transcript, the processes and the logs. It then unblocks the sub-agent, stops it, or takes the step over, and says which. It never silently redoes a sub-agent's work inline.
+- **A workflow's sub-agent is never messaged directly.** A message starts a duplicate copy that edits the same files. Fix the shared state instead, or stop the workflow and re-run it.
+
+## Context
+
+- **Plan for the compaction boundary.** Earlier tool results are gone after a compaction, so whatever must survive one goes into a file: the execution log, the plan, a progress log, a changelog draft or memory.
+- **Bulky reads go to sub-agents,** so the main context compacts later.
+- **Tokens are not the constraint.** A read, check or verification is never trimmed to save tokens. Context capacity is what delegation protects.
+
+## Parallel plans
+
+- **Plans cascade into each other.**
+  - Every merge into `dev` moves the base under every open branch, so `dev` is re-merged before CI on an open pull request is trusted.
+  - Append-only files (the backlog, changelog entries, memory) conflict on every merge and resolve as a union.
+  - The typecheck and the touched suites re-run after every re-merge.
+- **Parallel load causes false failures.**
+  - A timing-sensitive test or latency measure run while other builds or apps are busy can go red falsely. It is re-run before the result is treated as real.
+  - Parallel test runs never rebuild a shared `dist/`; each gets a no-build config.
+- **A committed fix is revert-checked in place.** `git stash` cannot revert a fix already committed, so the bite check reverts it with a targeted edit, rebuilds, runs the pin, then restores the fix.

package/data/harness-index.json

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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package/data/harnesses/code/CLAUDE.md

@@ -140,10 +140,9 @@ The single policy for sub-agent dispatch — when to fan out, at what tier, and
 
 **[override]** — this section replaces any runtime default that withholds dispatch until it is asked for. A runtime instruction of the shape "do not use sub-agents unless the user requested it" is exactly the default meant here, and it loses: delegating the work named below is the STANDING instruction, and the user re-requesting it each time is not a precondition. THE MARKER IS WHAT MAKES THAT TRUE — without it this section is merely a project preference meeting a runtime rule, and the runtime rule wins silently. Observed: a session that read its own source files inline, then authored its test bodies inline, while both this section and `.claude/rules/testing.md` said to dispatch — nothing in the repo claimed precedence, so nothing was violated.
 
-- **Delegate to keep bulk out of the main context.** Wide file reads, sweeps, broad research, audits, fixture prep — work whose raw tool output the main session doesn't need — defaults to a sub-agent: output a sub-agent reads dies with it, while output read inline fills the main context and brings its compaction closer, which is where a long session loses what it knew. **Tokens are not the constraint — assume them abundant.** Never trim a read, a check or a verification to save them; the main context's capacity is what delegation protects. The hand-off is self-contained (the sub-agent sees none of the conversation); run independent delegations in parallel.
+- **Delegate to keep bulk out of the main context.** Wide file reads, sweeps, broad research, audits, fixture prep — work whose raw tool output the main session doesn't need — defaults to a sub-agent: output a sub-agent reads dies with it, while output read inline is re-read and re-billed on every later turn. The hand-off is self-contained (the sub-agent sees none of the conversation), so it must still cost less than the work; run independent delegations in parallel.
 - **The policy binds every agent, not only the main session.** A sub-agent doing build work inherits these defaults with the dispatch capability to honor them (Runtime Notes): it dispatches its own sub-agents for work this policy routes off-thread — the bookkeeping drain, a wide read — instead of absorbing it into its own loop. What never delegates (a gate verdict, browser driving, the pins the drive earned) never delegates at any level.
-- **Every dispatch carries a goal, milestones, a budget and a progress file.** The brief names the result that ends it, its intermediate milestones in order, and a wall-clock budget derived from the work — a run of n browser journeys is n × 10 s, a build step is what its last run took plus half again — and tells the sub-agent to append one line per milestone to `/tmp/<task>-progress.log` (`<UTC time> <milestone> <started|done|stuck> — <one-line result>`), before and after anything expected to run past two minutes. The dispatching agent checks that file on a schedule matched to the budget — a background monitor or a timed check, never a blind wait — and when a milestone overruns its budget it looks at the transcript, the process list and the log, then unblocks the sub-agent with a message, stops it, or takes the step over. An overrun never passes unread. Both failure modes this replaces were observed in one program run: sub-agents that stalled for an hour with nobody watching, and a main session that then redid the dispatched work inline, losing the parallelism the dispatch existed for.
-- **Parallel plans cascade into each other.** Running several plans of one program at once, each on its own branch, pays only when the cascade is planned for. Every merge into `dev` moves the base under every open branch, so an open pull request re-merges `dev` before its CI run is worth waiting on — a run on a stale base spends twenty to forty minutes proving nothing. The append-only files every plan writes (the changelog index, the backlog, project memory) conflict on every merge and resolve as a union, in priority order where the file is ordered; a re-merge re-runs the typecheck and the touched suites before its push. Parallel load is a fault of its own: a suite run beside several building sub-agents times out tests that pass alone, so a timeout in a file the plan does not touch is re-run alone before it is called a defect.
+- **A dispatch is scoped to minutes and read before anything else starts.** One file, one sweep — never a build. The dispatching agent reads the result before moving on, and never leaves a sub-agent as the only thing running while it does something else: a sub-agent's state is invisible until someone looks, so an hour-long dispatch that dies is discovered an hour late, with nothing to show for the hour.
 - **Small or judgment work stays inline.** A task finishable in a handful of tool calls is faster done than briefed. **Never delegate judgment by reflex** — a second opinion is for a high-stakes call or an explicit request.
 - **A delegated result is a report, not verifiable ground truth** — verify load-bearing results directly.
 - **Tiers**: mechanical fan-out → the cheapest capable tier; judgment-heavy delegation → the session's standard tier; the strongest tier **only** on explicit user request. The session itself defaults to the standard tier, entering the strongest only by explicit user switch. Model names live in Runtime Notes. **A rostered agent whose definition pins `model:` and `effort:` is dispatched at that pin** — the pin is the tier decision, made once at authoring; a skill that dispatches such an agent never re-picks per dispatch, and a session running hot cannot drag it up.

package/data/harnesses/code/harness.json

@@ -29,5 +29,5 @@
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package/data/harnesses/etna/CLAUDE.md

@@ -154,8 +154,7 @@ When a plan's implementation surfaces work that is important but outside the pla
 
 The single policy for sub-agent dispatch — when to fan out, at what tier, and how far to trust the result. Component-internal dispatch mechanics (the foreman loop, the brainstorm twin, batch classification) stay in their components and defer here for anything this section covers. No dispatch mechanism ⇒ inline.
 
-- **Delegate to keep bulk out of the main context.** Wide file reads, sweeps, broad research, audits, fixture prep — work whose raw tool output the main session doesn't need — defaults to a sub-agent: output a sub-agent reads dies with it, while output read inline fills the main context and brings its compaction closer, which is where a long session loses what it knew. **Tokens are not the constraint — assume them abundant.** Never trim a read, a check or a verification to save them; the main context's capacity is what delegation protects. The hand-off is self-contained (the sub-agent sees none of the conversation); run independent delegations in parallel.
-- **Every dispatch carries a goal, milestones, a budget and a progress file.** The brief names the result that ends it, its intermediate milestones in order, and a wall-clock budget derived from the work — a run of n browser journeys is n × 10 s, a build step is what its last run took plus half again — and tells the sub-agent to append one line per milestone to `/tmp/<task>-progress.log` (`<UTC time> <milestone> <started|done|stuck> — <one-line result>`), before and after anything expected to run past two minutes. The dispatching agent checks that file on a schedule matched to the budget — a background monitor or a timed check, never a blind wait — and when a milestone overruns its budget it looks at the transcript, the process list and the log, then unblocks the sub-agent with a message, stops it, or takes the step over. An overrun never passes unread. Both failure modes this replaces were observed in one program run: sub-agents that stalled for an hour with nobody watching, and a main session that then redid the dispatched work inline, losing the parallelism the dispatch existed for.
+- **Delegate to keep bulk out of the main context.** Wide file reads, sweeps, broad research, audits, fixture prep — work whose raw tool output the main session doesn't need — defaults to a sub-agent: output a sub-agent reads dies with it, while output read inline is re-read and re-billed on every later turn. The hand-off is self-contained (the sub-agent sees none of the conversation), so it must still cost less than the work; run independent delegations in parallel.
 - **Small or judgment work stays inline.** A task finishable in a handful of tool calls is faster done than briefed. **Never delegate judgment by reflex** — a second opinion is for a high-stakes call or an explicit request.
 - **A delegated result is a report, not verifiable ground truth** — verify load-bearing results directly.
 - **Tiers**: mechanical fan-out → the cheapest capable tier; judgment-heavy delegation → the session's standard tier; the strongest tier **only** on explicit user request. The session itself defaults to the standard tier, entering the strongest only by explicit user switch. Model names live in Runtime Notes.

package/data/harnesses/etna/harness.json

@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@
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package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@nurix/etna",
-  "version": "0.20.49",
+  "version": "0.20.51",
   "description": "Bootstrap a project with a Nurix harness — writes the committed contract (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .claude/harness.json, settings.json, the mount hook) and mounts the harness itself, gitignored, from a bundled payload; sessions keep it current from the CDN.",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {
@@ -46,5 +46,5 @@
     "agent",
     "plugin"
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