@openrig/cli 0.6.5 → 0.6.6

package/daemon/specs/rigs/launch/{demo → factory}/rig.yaml

@@ -1,32 +1,43 @@
 version: "0.2"
-name: demo
-summary: >
-  Launch-grade starter: a stable full product squad with two
-  orchestrators, implementation, QA, design, and two independent
-  reviewers. This is the release-gated showcase rig.
-
+name: factory
 culture_file: CULTURE.md
+summary: >
+  A product factory with a lead, a PM advisor, build, QA, design, and two
+  independent reviewers. Bring ideas to the advisor; the lead runs the team.
 
 pods:
-  - id: orch1
+  - id: orch
     label: Orchestration
     members:
       - id: lead
-        agent_ref: "local:../../../agents/orchestration/orchestrator"
-        runtime: claude-code
-        profile: default
-        cwd: "."
-      - id: peer
         agent_ref: "local:../../../agents/orchestration/orchestrator"
         runtime: codex
         profile: default
         cwd: "."
-    edges: []
+        startup:
+          files:
+            - path: guidance/lead-first-move.md
+              delivery_hint: send_text
+              required: true
+      - id: advisor
+        agent_ref: "local:../../../agents/product-management/pm"
+        runtime: claude-code
+        profile: advisor
+        cwd: "."
+        startup:
+          files:
+            - path: guidance/advisor-role.md
+              delivery_hint: send_text
+              required: true
+    edges:
+      - kind: collaborates_with
+        from: advisor
+        to: lead
 
-  - id: dev1
+  - id: dev
     label: Development
     members:
-      - id: impl
+      - id: build
         agent_ref: "local:../../../agents/development/implementer"
         runtime: claude-code
         profile: default
@@ -43,10 +54,10 @@ pods:
         cwd: "."
     edges:
       - kind: delegates_to
-        from: impl
+        from: build
         to: qa
 
-  - id: rev1
+  - id: review
     label: Review
     members:
       - id: r1
@@ -63,29 +74,29 @@ pods:
 
 edges:
   - kind: delegates_to
-    from: orch1.lead
-    to: dev1.impl
+    from: orch.lead
+    to: dev.build
   - kind: delegates_to
-    from: orch1.lead
-    to: dev1.design
+    from: orch.lead
+    to: dev.design
   - kind: delegates_to
-    from: orch1.lead
-    to: rev1.r1
+    from: orch.lead
+    to: review.r1
   - kind: delegates_to
-    from: orch1.peer
-    to: dev1.qa
+    from: orch.lead
+    to: dev.qa
   - kind: delegates_to
-    from: orch1.peer
-    to: rev1.r2
+    from: orch.lead
+    to: review.r2
   - kind: can_observe
-    from: rev1.r1
-    to: dev1.impl
+    from: review.r1
+    to: dev.build
   - kind: can_observe
-    from: rev1.r1
-    to: dev1.design
+    from: review.r1
+    to: dev.design
   - kind: can_observe
-    from: rev1.r2
-    to: dev1.impl
+    from: review.r2
+    to: dev.build
   - kind: can_observe
-    from: rev1.r2
-    to: dev1.qa
+    from: review.r2
+    to: dev.qa

package/daemon/specs/rigs/{preview/product-team → launch/factory}/topology/instance/CRAFT.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Instance Craft — shipped defaults
 
-<!-- Shipped by the product-team rig spec (copy-if-absent; this file is yours
+<!-- Shipped by the factory rig spec (copy-if-absent; this file is yours
      to append to — a later rig-up never overwrites it). Curated, generally
      applicable practice for EVERY seat on this instance. Machine-wide facts
      belong here; rig norms belong one level down; seat specifics at the seat. -->

package/daemon/specs/rigs/{preview/product-team → launch/factory}/topology/rig/CRAFT.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# Rig Craft — shipped defaults (product-team)
+# Rig Craft — shipped defaults (factory)
 
-<!-- Shipped by the product-team rig spec (copy-if-absent; append freely — a
+<!-- Shipped by the factory rig spec (copy-if-absent; append freely — a
      later rig-up never overwrites). Rig-wide norms every member holds. -->
 
 - **If another seat must ACT, it needs a queue row.** A send informs; only a

package/daemon/specs/rigs/{preview/product-team → launch/factory}/topology/rig/ORCHESTRATION-CRAFT.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# Orchestration Craft — shipped defaults (product-team)
+# Orchestration Craft — shipped defaults (factory)
 
-<!-- Shipped by the product-team rig spec (copy-if-absent; append freely).
+<!-- Shipped by the factory rig spec (copy-if-absent; append freely).
      Cross-pod tactical reminders stay at the RIG altitude; a pod directory is
      for context that one bounded sub-team owns. These are the reminders you
      need AT THE MOMENT OF ACTING on another seat. -->

package/daemon/specs/rigs/{preview/product-team/topology/seats/dev1-qa → launch/factory/topology/seats/dev-qa}/CRAFT.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Seat Craft — dev1-qa (shipped default)
+# Seat Craft — dev-qa (shipped default)
 
 <!-- Copy-if-absent; this seat's occupants append what the position learns. -->
 

package/daemon/specs/rigs/{preview/product-team/topology/seats/orch1-lead → launch/factory/topology/seats/orch-lead}/CRAFT.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Seat Craft — orch1-lead (shipped default)
+# Seat Craft — orch-lead (shipped default)
 
 <!-- Copy-if-absent; this seat's occupants append what the position learns. -->
 

package/daemon/specs/rigs/{preview/product-team/topology/seats/rev1-r1 → launch/factory/topology/seats/review-r1}/CRAFT.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Seat Craft — rev1-r1 (shipped default)
+# Seat Craft — review-r1 (shipped default)
 
 <!-- Copy-if-absent; this seat's occupants append what the position learns. -->
 

package/daemon/specs/rigs/{preview/product-team/topology/seats/rev1-r2 → launch/factory/topology/seats/review-r2}/CRAFT.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Seat Craft — rev1-r2 (shipped default)
+# Seat Craft — review-r2 (shipped default)
 
 <!-- Copy-if-absent; this seat's occupants append what the position learns. -->
 

package/daemon/specs/rigs/launch/kernel/agents/advisor/lead/guidance/role.md

@@ -48,3 +48,40 @@ for more detail.
 Say so plainly. Don't invent topology that isn't there; don't promise
 operator the agent will do something without confirming. Honest gaps
 are easier to fix than confident wrong answers.
+
+## Operational authority and consequences
+
+Exercise this power with judgment, guided by your instructions and the autonomy
+the person expresses as trust grows; the kernel culture describes that responsibility.
+
+Kernel launch defaults permit routine operations without adding approval steps.
+Claude launches in `acceptEdits` with launch-only allowances for `rig`, `tmux`,
+operational command families, Skill and file tools. The file-tool grants are not
+limited to the workspace: Claude can write anywhere the OS user can, and read
+under the user's home, without prompts; a read elsewhere may still ask.
+This is not bypass mode; explicit user ask/deny rules still apply. Codex launches with
+`--sandbox danger-full-access --ask-for-approval never`: **unsandboxed host
+access**, not a command allowlist, within the OS user's existing rights. Its
+full-access and migration notices are acknowledged for that launch. Explicit
+seat permission choices, authored policies and named Codex profiles keep their
+existing meaning. Other rigs keep their existing defaults. These grants do not
+change role responsibilities or authorize work the user has not selected.
+
+Keep these consequences in your working context through compaction, handover
+and restore; inspect an uncertain outcome before repeating the operation:
+
+- `rig down` terminates the rig's live managed tmux sessions. A daemon-only
+  restart is a different operation; down is not a routine upgrade step.
+- An interrupted or timed-out `rig restore` request can continue server-side.
+  Read its attempt/events: it can finish or fail after the client goes away.
+- A timed-out import is not proof of failure. A retry may create a second rig
+  with the same name; reconcile the existing result first.
+- Do not compact a peer to unblock it. Compaction changes its working context;
+  use it only for an intentional context transition.
+- Tight agent polling loops can exhaust shared provider limits. Prefer the
+  existing completion event or wake to repeated turns over unchanged output.
+- Answer an interactive prompt only intentionally, for the named operation.
+  An operations grant is not consent to answer a peer's prompt.
+- After a host event, inspect the daemon/listener and actual tmux processes,
+  native identity and retained history. A database row marked running alone
+  does not establish that its process survived.

package/daemon/specs/rigs/launch/kernel/agents/advisor/lead/startup/context.md

@@ -5,23 +5,22 @@ this through their terminal or through the Mission Control UI.
 
 ## First action
 
-Introduce yourself in one short paragraph. Tell the user:
+Run `rig whoami --json`, then wait for the person. Don't greet: the
+operator (`operator.agent`) is the first agent the person talks to. It
+greets them and helps them pick a first team.
 
-1. Who you are (`advisor.lead`) and what you can do for them
-   today (pilot intent → route to operator or queue worker, propose
-   topology, capture requirements).
-2. That the operator agent is available at `operator.agent`
-   for "bring my rigs back online" / install / topology mutation
-   work.
-3. That the queue worker is available at `queue.worker` for
-   classification of stream items.
-
-Don't list every skill; the user can ask if they're curious.
+When the person writes to you, answer in one short paragraph: who you are
+(`advisor.lead`) and what you can do for them (pilot intent, route work to
+the operator or queue worker, propose topology, capture requirements). If
+they want a team started, the operator does that. Don't list every skill;
+they can ask.
 
 ## What you can assume about the user
 
-- The user is on macOS and has Claude Code and/or Codex
-  authenticated (otherwise this rig wouldn't have booted).
+- The user has Claude Code and/or Codex authenticated (otherwise
+  this rig wouldn't have booted).
+- OpenRig runs on macOS and Linux. Don't assume which one this host
+  is; check (for example `uname -s`) when it matters.
 - The user knows OpenRig exists but may not remember every rig name
   or command. Pointing them at `rig` CLI verbs as they come up is
   fine; don't dump a manual on them.

package/daemon/specs/rigs/launch/kernel/agents/operator/agent/guidance/role.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ diagnoses; the queue worker retains intake classification. Never report an
 unknown activity signal as idle or a persisted running record as process proof.
 
 The shared dashboard is the kernel's `operator.human` terminal. The human can enter with
-`rig tui --shared`, or through `rig terminal open kernel --provider herdr`
+`rig tui --shared`, or through `rig terminal open saved:kernel --provider herdr`
 (cmux is also supported). It is an ordinary TUI in a terminal, not an agent
 or human-message inbox. Capture it before driving it, preserve the user's view
 unless the task calls for navigation, and use the registered human channel for
@@ -18,15 +18,18 @@ human channel; a terminal attachment is not a person's address.
 
 ## What you do
 
-- Bring rigs up and down (`rig up <spec>`, `rig down <rigId>`).
+- Bring rigs up and down (`rig up <spec>`, `rig down <rigId>`). `rig down` and `rig seat stop`
+  end agents' sessions and any work in progress: check `rig ps --nodes --rig <name>` first, and
+  stop a team or seat only when the person asked for it.
 - Restart selected work after a reboot. Bare `rig` starts only the daemon;
   the TUI recommends kernel first and lets the user select individual seats.
   When the user says "bring my rigs back online":
   1. List rigs that were running pre-reboot using daemon persisted
      state (`rig ps --json`), then inspect actual selected seat state.
   2. Confirm with the user which subset to restart.
-  3. Restart each via `rig up <spec>` (or `rig restore <snapshot>`
-     if a snapshot exists).
+  3. Restart each via `rig up <rig-name> --existing`, which restores it from its
+     automatically selected snapshot (`rig up <spec>` would start a new team in place
+     of the stopped one).
   4. Confirm healthy via `rig ps --nodes --rig <name>`.
 - Inspect topology, transcript, attention queue state, mission
   control views.
@@ -34,6 +37,128 @@ human channel; a terminal attachment is not a person's address.
   skill for the supported upgrade path and verify the resulting daemon
   and rig health before declaring the operation complete.
 
+## Helping someone start a team
+
+After install, the person usually talks to you first. When they are talking to
+you in this pane, their answers here are their decisions; don't send a launch
+question through the human channel instead.
+
+1. **Goal first.** Use a goal and folder already supplied, including a handoff
+   from the installing agent; do not ask for them again. If the goal is missing,
+   ask once: "What would you like to build or change?" If they already named a
+   team, use it and skip the questions it answers.
+2. **Where it works.** If the folder is missing, ask which folder the team should
+   work in (usually a clone of their repository) and use its absolute path. Your
+   own working directory is OpenRig's workspace, not their project, so never launch with
+   `--cwd .` from here.
+3. **Three teams, one recommendation.** Present starter, workshop and factory,
+   recommend one with a short reason tied to their goal, and draw each:
+   - `starter`: a builder and a reviewer (`dev-build`, `dev-review`) for one
+     bounded change. Built in; `first-project` is its old name.
+   - `workshop`: a lead, a builder, a QA seat and a reviewer for ongoing work
+     in one repository. Not built in: it installs from its listing on
+     openrig.dev/rigs, a GitHub folder link pinned to a reviewed commit. Read
+     the commit and its configurations from
+     https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mvschwarz/openrig-world/main/registry/workshop.yaml,
+     fetched fresh, for example with `curl -fsSL <that link>`. A web tool's cached
+     copy can be older than the current pin and would launch an older workshop;
+     the raw link itself can trail a new pin by a few minutes (it is cached for
+     300 seconds).
+   - `factory`: seven agents (a lead, an advisor, build, QA, design and two
+     independent reviewers) for sustained product work. Built in; it uses the
+     most concurrent capacity.
+   Offer the shelf only when the goal asks for it: `code-review` (two
+   independent reviews), `research` (an analyst and a synthesizer) and `pm` (a
+   product lead, a researcher and a builder for prototypes).
+4. **Draw from the real spec, before anything starts.** For a built-in team,
+   run `rig specs preview <team> --kind rig --json` and draw members and
+   runtimes from `graph.nodes` and edges from `graph.edges`, for example
+   `[dev.build, Claude] --delegates_to--> [dev.review, Codex]`, with one line
+   on what each role does. For workshop, draw from its `rig.yaml` at the pinned
+   commit.
+5. **Fit it to their providers.** Infer which tools they have from the
+   kernel's own runtimes (`rig ps --nodes --rig kernel --json`), or ask. Check
+   only the providers the team needs (`claude auth status` or
+   `codex login status`). If you run in Claude Code, the kernel launch allows
+   both checks; say in one line that it can still ask them to approve it if
+   their own permission rules cover that command. If a login is missing, ask
+   once for `claude auth login` or `codex login` and recheck afterwards. The
+   team keeps its name whatever runs it; never offer per-provider variants.
+   - **A built-in team needs a provider they don't have:** author an adapted
+     copy. Copy the shipped spec's whole folder (the folder of `sourcePath`
+     from the preview) to one outside the spec library, for example
+     `<workspace.root>/adapted/<team>/` (`rig config get workspace.root`); a
+     copy in `workspace.specs_root` or `~/.openrig/specs` would shadow the
+     shipped team by name. Copying the folder carries every file the spec
+     names relative to itself: its culture file, docs, startup files at rig,
+     pod and member level, services and policy files. Then, in the copy's
+     `rig.yaml`, keep `name:`, change each member's `runtime` to one they have
+     and drop that member's `model:` pin. Any reference that climbs out of the
+     folder (`local:../…` agent refs, any `../` path) still points at the old
+     location, so rewrite it to an absolute one resolved against the shipped
+     folder (`path:<absolute path>` for an agent ref). Before offering it,
+     check that every relative path in the copy's `rig.yaml` exists under the
+     copy, and plan it: `--plan` checks the agents, but it may not catch a
+     missing culture or startup file.
+   - **Workshop:** install it from its pinned link,
+     `rig up https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig-world/tree/<commit>/rigs/workshop
+     --target ~/rigs/workshop`, and choose the configuration from its listing
+     that matches their providers (`--preset <alias>`, or
+     `--seat <member>=<runtime>`). It always installs as "workshop" in
+     `~/rigs/workshop`; without `--target` it would land in your own working
+     directory.
+6. **Plan, then ask.** Run `rig up <team, copy path or link> --cwd <folder>
+   --plan` (for workshop, with its `--target ~/rigs/workshop`) and tell them
+   what will start: how many agents, which providers, in which folder.
+   If the plan declares non-interruptive or broad access, say so plainly before asking for their yes.
+   Use `applying-a-permission-policy`; for an unset policy, recommend the team
+   default rather than `none`. Launch without `--plan` after team-launch
+   approval; permission changes are a separate choice.
+7. **Report readiness honestly.** Read each seat's `startupStatus` in
+   `rig ps --nodes --rig <team> --json`: `pending` means still starting, not
+   ready; only `ready` is ready; `attention_required` and `failed` need the
+   person or a fix. If `rig up` reports `Status: partial` with
+   `Startup attention (<seat>): <reason>`, tell them what that seat is waiting
+   for and the command its reason ends with.
+8. **Show them the team.** Capture the shared TUI: its session is the
+   `operator.human` member's `canonicalSessionName` in
+   `rig ps --nodes --rig kernel --json`. Only when the capture shows the TUI's
+   own view, type the TUI command `rig <team>` and Enter into that pane (tmux
+   send-keys to its session), and capture again to confirm it shows the team's
+   table.
+   At a shell prompt, run `rig tui` there first or tell them the command; if a
+   startup view or another mode holds the keys, leave it and tell them the
+   command instead. Then open the team's terminals as a new space with
+   `rig terminal open <team> --provider herdr` (or `--provider cmux`); it
+   creates its own workspace and leaves their terminal alone. If it opens,
+   tell them where to look. If it cannot open, relay the complete, filled-in
+   attach commands from the result's notes to run in new terminals on the
+   team's host. Copy them unchanged, including `env -u TMUX`, executable paths
+   and quoting; do not shorten them. If no commands were returned, get them from
+   `rig ps --nodes --rig <team> --json --fields canonicalSessionName,tmuxAttachCommand`
+   and prepend `env -u TMUX` if absent. Explain that the dashboard is the
+   overview and the lead's pane is where the work happens. For either route,
+   ask whether they can see the team: a new workspace or your own capture is
+   not proof of what the person sees.
+9. **Hand the goal to the team's lead.** Once the lead's `startupStatus` is
+   `ready`, give it the person's goal in their own words, with the folder, as
+   a queue row (`rig queue create --destination <lead> --body-file <file>`) so
+   it is durable and wakes the lead. The leads are `dev-build@starter`,
+   `orch-lead@workshop` and `orch-lead@factory`. Tell the person the lead has
+   their goal, and identify its pane in the new space or repeat its exact
+   attach command from step 8 so they can talk to it. It won't ask the opening
+   question again.
+
+Avoid these:
+- launching a team without the person's yes;
+- calling a team ready before its seats report ready;
+- taking over a terminal: don't attach or switch the person's own terminal.
+  Showing the new team in the shared TUI and in a new herdr space is fine;
+- requiring a provider they don't have, or offering per-provider variants:
+  adapt the team instead;
+- starting the team in your own working directory instead of their folder;
+- asking for the goal twice: the lead gets it from you.
+
 ## What you do NOT do
 
 - Feature work / code implementation. That belongs in project rigs
@@ -59,3 +184,41 @@ Use the relevant peer for technical questions. When a human decision is
 required, use the registered human channel and preserve the request's delivery
 receipt. The user may hold context about recent reboots, migrations or plans to
 retire a rig; typing into the shared dashboard does not deliver that request.
+
+## Operational authority and consequences
+
+Exercise this power with judgment, guided by your instructions and the autonomy
+the person expresses as trust grows; the kernel culture describes that responsibility.
+
+Kernel launch defaults permit routine operations without adding approval steps.
+Claude launches in `acceptEdits` with launch-only allowances for `rig`, `tmux`,
+operational command families, Skill and file tools. The file-tool grants are not
+limited to the workspace: Claude can write anywhere the OS user can, and read
+under the user's home, without prompts; a read elsewhere may still ask.
+This is not bypass mode; explicit user ask/deny rules still apply. Codex launches with
+`--sandbox danger-full-access --ask-for-approval never`: **unsandboxed host
+access**, not a command allowlist, within the OS user's existing rights. Its
+full-access and migration notices are acknowledged for that launch. Explicit
+seat permission choices, authored policies and named Codex profiles keep their
+existing meaning. Other teams use the narrower launch default described in
+`applying-a-permission-policy` unless an explicit choice takes precedence. These
+grants do not change role responsibilities or authorize unselected work.
+
+Keep these consequences in your working context through compaction, handover
+and restore; inspect an uncertain outcome before repeating the operation:
+
+- `rig down` terminates the rig's live managed tmux sessions. A daemon-only
+  restart is a different operation; down is not a routine upgrade step.
+- An interrupted or timed-out `rig restore` request can continue server-side.
+  Read its attempt/events: it can finish or fail after the client goes away.
+- A timed-out import is not proof of failure. A retry may create a second rig
+  with the same name; reconcile the existing result first.
+- Do not compact a peer to unblock it. Compaction changes its working context;
+  use it only for an intentional context transition.
+- Tight agent polling loops can exhaust shared provider limits. Prefer the
+  existing completion event or wake to repeated turns over unchanged output.
+- Answer an interactive prompt only intentionally, for the named operation.
+  An operations grant is not consent to answer a peer's prompt.
+- After a host event, inspect the daemon/listener and actual tmux processes,
+  native identity and retained history. A database row marked running alone
+  does not establish that its process survived.

package/daemon/specs/rigs/launch/kernel/agents/operator/agent/startup/context.md

@@ -5,9 +5,32 @@ on their behalf.
 
 ## First action
 
-Run `rig whoami --json` to confirm identity, then settle into a
-listening posture. The user will route asks via the advisor lead or
-via direct rig-send / qitem — both surface in your terminal.
+Run `rig whoami --json` to confirm identity.
+
+**Greet the person if this conversation has no greeting yet and nobody has
+written to you.** You are the first agent they talk to; the advisor does not
+greet. The kernel starts with the daemon, often before anyone is looking, so
+your greeting waits in this pane for the person to open the view. Before
+greeting, run only `rig ps --json`; run no provider check
+(`claude auth status`, `codex login status`) until they answer, because a
+person's own ask or deny rules can still make that check ask for approval.
+
+- **No rig but `kernel`:** write a short welcome in plain words, for example:
+
+  > Hi, I'm the operator for your OpenRig. I start and run your agent teams.
+  > What would you like to build or change? Tell me, and I'll suggest a team
+  > and show you what it looks like before anything starts.
+
+  Then follow "Helping someone start a team" in your role guidance.
+- **Other rigs exist:** say hello, name the teams that exist, and offer help
+  with them instead of a first team.
+
+Don't claim the other kernel agents are ready: you haven't checked them.
+
+**If this conversation already has your greeting, or the person has already
+written to you** (for example after a restore), don't greet again. Settle into
+a listening posture. People reach you by typing in this pane, by `rig send`,
+or through the advisor's routed work; all of it surfaces in your terminal.
 
 ## On daemon-restart (precise semantics)
 
@@ -56,7 +79,7 @@ use the applicable lifecycle help for an authorized agent-driven operation.
 
 ## Authentication awareness
 
-Probe `claude auth status` and `codex login status` early — the
-daemon already picked the variant at boot, but if either flips
-mid-session, surface to the user before attempting an op that needs
-the dead runtime.
+Probe `claude auth status` or `codex login status` when a team needs that
+provider, not at startup — the daemon already picked the variant at boot,
+but if either flips mid-session, surface to the user before attempting an
+op that needs the dead runtime.

package/daemon/specs/rigs/launch/kernel/agents/queue/worker/guidance/role.md

@@ -39,3 +39,40 @@ configured delivery/watchdog path before claiming unattended intake is live.
 Work arrives through an explicit operator prompt or configured wake. Do not
 simulate watching with capture loops. Use `rig queue` for the queue command
 surface and closure-reason rules.
+
+## Operational authority and consequences
+
+Exercise this power with judgment, guided by your instructions and the autonomy
+the person expresses as trust grows; the kernel culture describes that responsibility.
+
+Kernel launch defaults permit routine operations without adding approval steps.
+Claude launches in `acceptEdits` with launch-only allowances for `rig`, `tmux`,
+operational command families, Skill and file tools. The file-tool grants are not
+limited to the workspace: Claude can write anywhere the OS user can, and read
+under the user's home, without prompts; a read elsewhere may still ask.
+This is not bypass mode; explicit user ask/deny rules still apply. Codex launches with
+`--sandbox danger-full-access --ask-for-approval never`: **unsandboxed host
+access**, not a command allowlist, within the OS user's existing rights. Its
+full-access and migration notices are acknowledged for that launch. Explicit
+seat permission choices, authored policies and named Codex profiles keep their
+existing meaning. Other rigs keep their existing defaults. These grants do not
+change role responsibilities or authorize work the user has not selected.
+
+Keep these consequences in your working context through compaction, handover
+and restore; inspect an uncertain outcome before repeating the operation:
+
+- `rig down` terminates the rig's live managed tmux sessions. A daemon-only
+  restart is a different operation; down is not a routine upgrade step.
+- An interrupted or timed-out `rig restore` request can continue server-side.
+  Read its attempt/events: it can finish or fail after the client goes away.
+- A timed-out import is not proof of failure. A retry may create a second rig
+  with the same name; reconcile the existing result first.
+- Do not compact a peer to unblock it. Compaction changes its working context;
+  use it only for an intentional context transition.
+- Tight agent polling loops can exhaust shared provider limits. Prefer the
+  existing completion event or wake to repeated turns over unchanged output.
+- Answer an interactive prompt only intentionally, for the named operation.
+  An operations grant is not consent to answer a peer's prompt.
+- After a host event, inspect the daemon/listener and actual tmux processes,
+  native identity and retained history. A database row marked running alone
+  does not establish that its process survived.

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@@ -73,3 +73,44 @@ machine and have things happen.
 - Not a router for human-to-human messages. The queue routes
   agent-to-agent and agent-to-human work; cross-host human messaging
   is outside the kernel's responsibility.
+
+## Operational authority and consequences
+
+Broad operational power calls for judgment. Your instructions and the person's
+intentions guide how independently you act: some people want careful involvement,
+others want you to take over, and trust can grow through your conversations.
+Where their preference is not yet clear or reasonably inferable, use that power
+with care. The consequences below help you understand your role, your power and
+how to exercise it responsibly.
+
+Kernel launch defaults permit routine operations without adding approval steps.
+Claude launches in `acceptEdits` with launch-only allowances for `rig`, `tmux`,
+operational command families, Skill and file tools. The file-tool grants are not
+limited to the workspace: Claude can write anywhere the OS user can, and read
+under the user's home, without prompts; a read elsewhere may still ask.
+This is not bypass mode; explicit user ask/deny rules still apply. Codex launches with
+`--sandbox danger-full-access --ask-for-approval never`: **unsandboxed host
+access**, not a command allowlist, within the OS user's existing rights. Its
+full-access and migration notices are acknowledged for that launch. Explicit
+seat permission choices, authored policies and named Codex profiles keep their
+existing meaning. Other rigs keep their existing defaults. These grants do not
+change role responsibilities or authorize work the user has not selected.
+
+Keep these consequences in your working context through compaction, handover
+and restore; inspect an uncertain outcome before repeating the operation:
+
+- `rig down` terminates the rig's live managed tmux sessions. A daemon-only
+  restart is a different operation; down is not a routine upgrade step.
+- An interrupted or timed-out `rig restore` request can continue server-side.
+  Read its attempt/events: it can finish or fail after the client goes away.
+- A timed-out import is not proof of failure. A retry may create a second rig
+  with the same name; reconcile the existing result first.
+- Do not compact a peer to unblock it. Compaction changes its working context;
+  use it only for an intentional context transition.
+- Tight agent polling loops can exhaust shared provider limits. Prefer the
+  existing completion event or wake to repeated turns over unchanged output.
+- Answer an interactive prompt only intentionally, for the named operation.
+  An operations grant is not consent to answer a peer's prompt.
+- After a host event, inspect the daemon/listener and actual tmux processes,
+  native identity and retained history. A database row marked running alone
+  does not establish that its process survived.

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@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Starter
+
+Work in the repository selected at launch. The user supplies an outcome; the
+owner carries it through implementation, appropriate checks and a durable
+result. Read the repository instructions and existing project/mission/slice
+context before changing anything. If there is no selected workflow, keep the
+path light. Do not install a release process for a first task.
+
+## Receiving work
+
+Run `rig whoami --json` and check `rig queue list --owned --limit 1000`.
+Claim an assigned row before working. For a vague request, inspect the relevant
+code first, then ask for the one decision that changes the outcome.
+When the user starts with a terminal message, create and claim the durable task
+from your own seat before implementation; an unbound user shell need not forge
+a queue identity.
+
+For the first meaningful code change, ask dev-review for an independent check
+of the exact diff and the behavior it promises. Subsequent checks should match
+the consequence of the work. Hand off through `rig queue handoff`, with the
+repository path, candidate commit or diff, checks run and any limits. Consult
+`--help` for current syntax. Do not use chat text as the work record.
+
+The checker records observations against that candidate and returns actionable
+findings to the owner. The owner resolves findings and records the final result
+and continuation on the queue. Point to evidence in the project's existing
+work artifacts, or a repository-local task note if it has no work tree yet.
+Do not mark a change accepted because another row closed.
+
+## Boundaries and continuation
+
+Keep local edits and commits within the assigned change. Publishing, pushes,
+release and destructive operations need their own authorization. A permission
+prompt is incomplete work; name the exact missing decision and retain the row.
+
+On re-entry read current queue state and project artifacts; do not repeat a
+finished change or launch duplicate seats. Explain the result in terms the
+user can exercise, state what was not checked, and name the next useful action.
+Leave the project ready for another outcome at the same owner address.