@turri-dev/cli 0.1.19 → 0.1.20

package/dist/chat-commands.js

@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ function closeChat(ctx, session, which) {
     const chat = chatNamed(session, which);
     if (typeof chat === "string")
         return ctx.ui.notify(chat, "warning");
-    if (session.chats().length === 1)
+    // The sentinel is not the person's: the last chat of theirs is not closed.
+    if (chat.role === undefined && session.chats().filter((other) => other.role === undefined).length === 1)
         return ctx.ui.notify("This is the only chat - /quit leaves turri.", "info");
     later(ctx, session, () => session.close(chat.id));
 }

package/dist/chat-records.d.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ export interface ChatRecord {
     title: string;
     /** pi's session file: the chat's conversation. */
     sessionFile: string;
+    /** `sentinel` for the session's sentinel. */
+    role?: "sentinel";
 }
 export interface RunRecord {
     run: string;

package/dist/chat-terminal.d.ts

@@ -20,4 +20,5 @@ export interface CtrlCScreen {
 export declare function pressCtrlC(screen: CtrlCScreen, lastStop: number, now?: number): "stopped" | "ignored" | "cleared" | "left";
 export declare function driveTerminal(core: TurriCore, options?: {
     restore?: RunRecord;
+    skipFirst?: boolean;
 }): void;

package/dist/chat-terminal.js

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ export function driveTerminal(core, options = {}) {
         if (restore !== undefined) {
             const saved = restore;
             restore = undefined;
-            void core.restore(saved, { skipFirst: true });
+            void core.restore(saved, { skipFirst: options.skipFirst !== false });
         }
     };
     /**

package/dist/chats.d.ts

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import { type RunRecord } from "./chat-records.ts";
 import { type ChatUi } from "./chat-ui.ts";
 import type { AskUserIO } from "./ask.ts";
 import type { Job, JobRegistry } from "./regenerate/jobs.ts";
+import type { ToolDefinition } from "@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent";
+import { type ChatRole, type Conclusion, type Notice, type NoticeAnswer, type NoticeInput } from "./notice.ts";
 /**
  * The chats of a turri session.
  *
@@ -18,6 +20,10 @@ import type { Job, JobRegistry } from "./regenerate/jobs.ts";
  *
  * Where the chats live is a driver's: the terminal's (chat-terminal.ts) swaps which one pi's screen shows; a host's
  * (`createTurri`) makes a session for each and shows them in its own windows.
+ *
+ * With the project's sentinel on (sentinel.ts), every finished pulse goes to the sentinel - a chat of the session's own,
+ * opened in the background with the first, and again after it is closed - and the chat the person looks at shows only
+ * that it landed. What the sentinel finds wrong it puts to the person as a notice, in the chat they look at.
  */
 /** The most chats a session has open at once. */
 export declare const MAX_CHATS = 9;
@@ -31,6 +37,8 @@ export interface ChatInfo {
     status: ChatStatus;
     /** On the screen now - the terminal's, or the window the host said it shows (`focus`). */
     shown: boolean;
+    /** `sentinel` for the session's sentinel; none for a chat of the person's. */
+    role?: ChatRole;
 }
 /** What turri tells and asks a host that runs its conversation itself. */
 export interface TurriHost {
@@ -51,11 +59,44 @@ export interface TurriHost {
      * work: what it returns is what is sent. For a host that needs to change anything else.
      */
     systemPrompt?(prompt: string): string;
+    /** The sentinel is done with a pulse - told to the chat it names, whose agent says so. */
+    onConcluded?(conclusion: Conclusion & {
+        chat: string;
+    }): void;
+    /** What the sentinel puts to the person: the host draws it in the chat it names, and answers it with `answer`. */
+    onNotice?(notice: Notice): void;
+    /** A notice is over - answered, dismissed, or superseded by a newer one about its module: the host takes its card down. */
+    onNoticeOver?(notice: Notice): void;
+    /** The sentinel's own tools beside turri's: a host's browser, say. */
+    sentinel?: {
+        tools?: ToolDefinition[];
+    };
 }
 /** What a chat's extension does for its chat when the session asks. */
 export interface ChatInstance {
-    /** A pulse it asked for ended: said in the chat, and its agent told. */
+    /** A pulse it asked for ended: said in the chat, and its agent told, to react to it. */
     announce(job: Job): void;
+    /**
+     * A pulse ended, with the sentinel on: said in the chat - and, with `tell`, its agent told it landed and what the
+     * sentinel does with it, to tell the person and do nothing more.
+     */
+    landed(job: Job, options?: {
+        tell?: boolean;
+    }): void;
+    /** The sentinel's: a pulse ended - its agent told, at once, or after what it does now; `replace`, what it does now stopped. */
+    brief(job: Job, context: {
+        asked?: string;
+        focused?: string;
+        replace: boolean;
+    }): Promise<void>;
+    /** A notice put in the chat: drawn, and - in the terminal - put to the person once the chat is idle. */
+    notice(notice: Notice): void;
+    /** A notice is over: its dialog closed, if it is open. */
+    noticeOver(notice: Notice): void;
+    /** The sentinel is done with a pulse: said in the chat, and its agent told, to tell the person and do nothing more. */
+    concluded(conclusion: Conclusion): void;
+    /** The person answered a notice with something to do: the chat's agent started on it. */
+    act(task: string): void;
     /** The jobs changed: what it draws of them is drawn again. */
     jobsChanged(): void;
     /** How hard the chat's model thinks now: sub-agents started from it think as hard. */
@@ -69,6 +110,8 @@ export interface ChatLink {
     readonly scope: ChatScope;
     /** The host's dialogs, for this chat's questions - undefined in the terminal. */
     readonly dialogs: AskUserIO | undefined;
+    /** `sentinel` for the session's sentinel. */
+    readonly role: ChatRole | undefined;
     /** Its pi session, once it has one. */
     session(): AgentSession | undefined;
     /** The extension built for the chat - again, when pi rebuilds it - and what it does for it. */
@@ -89,6 +132,7 @@ export interface ChatDriver {
 export interface ChatState {
     id: string;
     scope: ChatScope;
+    role?: ChatRole;
     /** Its title as recorded, until it says one of its own. */
     recordedTitle?: string;
     session?: AgentSession;
@@ -119,11 +163,12 @@ export interface TurriCore {
     decline(id: string): "declined" | "none" | "missing";
     /** The chat shown now. */
     shown(): string | undefined;
-    /** Open a chat - fresh, or the saved one `sessionFile` is - shown at once unless `hidden`. */
+    /** Open a chat - fresh, or the saved one `sessionFile` is - shown at once unless `hidden`; the sentinel with `role`. */
     open(options?: {
         sessionFile?: string;
         hidden?: boolean;
         title?: string;
+        role?: ChatRole;
     }): Promise<ChatInfo>;
     close(id: string): Promise<void>;
     /** Show the chat - in the terminal, put it on the screen; for a host, the one its person looks at now. */
@@ -147,8 +192,18 @@ export interface TurriCore {
     adopt(session: AgentSession, services: unknown): ChatState;
     /** For a driver: `chat` is on the screen now. */
     showing(chat: ChatState): void;
-    /** For the extension: a pulse ended - told to the chat that asked for it. */
+    /** For the extension: a pulse ended - told to the chat that asked for it, or, with the sentinel on, to the sentinel. */
     jobFinished(job: Job): void;
+    /** Whether finished pulses go to the sentinel now: it is on, and there is somewhere to open it. */
+    sentinelOn(): boolean;
+    /** A notice put to the person, in the chat they look at - the sentinel's, or turri's own. Undefined: no chat to put it in. */
+    notice(input: NoticeInput): Notice | undefined;
+    /** The sentinel done with a pulse: told to the chat the person looks at. Undefined: no chat to tell. */
+    concluded(conclusion: Conclusion): string | undefined;
+    /** The notices put to the person and not yet answered. */
+    notices(): Notice[];
+    /** A notice answered: what it asked done in the chat it is in, or dismissed. */
+    answer(id: string, answer: NoticeAnswer): "done" | "dismissed" | "missing" | "over";
     /** For the extension: the jobs changed - every chat draws them again. */
     jobsChanged(): void;
     /** The chat whose work this is, else the one shown: its instance. */
@@ -169,6 +224,8 @@ export interface CoreOptions {
     persist?: boolean;
     /** The host's dialogs, a chat's own. */
     dialogs?: (chat: string) => AskUserIO | undefined;
+    /** Whether the project wants a sentinel - read as each pulse finishes. Unset: none. */
+    sentinel?: () => boolean;
 }
 /** A chat's session, as stopping what it does reaches it. */
 export type Stoppable = Pick<AgentSession, "isStreaming" | "isCompacting" | "isRetrying" | "isBashRunning" | "abort" | "abortBash">;

package/dist/chats.js

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { adoptRun, forgetChat, recordRun } from "./chat-records.js";
 import { createChatUi } from "./chat-ui.js";
 import { debugMode } from "./config.js";
 import { record } from "./regenerate/ledger.js";
+import { newNotice, noticeTask, SENTINEL, wentWrong } from "./notice.js";
 /**
  * The chats of a turri session.
  *
@@ -19,6 +20,10 @@ import { record } from "./regenerate/ledger.js";
  *
  * Where the chats live is a driver's: the terminal's (chat-terminal.ts) swaps which one pi's screen shows; a host's
  * (`createTurri`) makes a session for each and shows them in its own windows.
+ *
+ * With the project's sentinel on (sentinel.ts), every finished pulse goes to the sentinel - a chat of the session's own,
+ * opened in the background with the first, and again after it is closed - and the chat the person looks at shows only
+ * that it landed. What the sentinel finds wrong it puts to the person as a notice, in the chat they look at.
  */
 /** The most chats a session has open at once. */
 export const MAX_CHATS = 9;
@@ -81,6 +86,10 @@ export function createChats(options) {
     /** Chats are opened one at a time: each one's extension is built while it is the one attaching. */
     let opening = Promise.resolve();
     let notices = [];
+    /** What the sentinel put to the person, and turri itself, this session: open until answered or superseded. */
+    const open = [];
+    /** The pulse the sentinel is on now, while its agent works: a newer one of the same module replaces a check of one that went well. */
+    let sentinelOnJob;
     const run = { run: randomUUID().slice(0, 8), pid: process.pid, started: new Date().toISOString(), chats: [] };
     const changed = () => {
         for (const listener of listeners) {
@@ -93,24 +102,44 @@ export function createChats(options) {
         }
     };
     /** A chat nothing was said in yet is a new chat: its number is beside it already, in the strip and the picker. */
-    const titleFor = (chat) => titleOf(chat.session) ?? chat.recordedTitle ?? NEW_CHAT_TITLE;
+    const titleFor = (chat) => (chat.role === SENTINEL ? SENTINEL : (titleOf(chat.session) ?? chat.recordedTitle ?? NEW_CHAT_TITLE));
+    const sentinelChat = () => chats.find((chat) => chat.role === SENTINEL);
+    /** The person's chats: all but the sentinel. */
+    const people = () => chats.filter((chat) => chat.role !== SENTINEL);
+    const wantsSentinel = () => {
+        try {
+            return options.sentinel?.() === true;
+        }
+        catch {
+            return false;
+        }
+    };
+    /** The chat the person looks at, for what is put to them - never the sentinel: when it is shown, `fallback`, else their first. */
+    const personFacing = (fallback) => {
+        const shown = chats.find((chat) => chat.id === shownId);
+        if (shown !== undefined && shown.role !== SENTINEL && shown.instance !== undefined)
+            return shown;
+        return fallback?.instance !== undefined && fallback.role !== SENTINEL ? fallback : people().find((chat) => chat.instance !== undefined);
+    };
     const statusOf = (chat) => (chat.ui?.waiting() ?? 0) > 0 ? "question" : chat.working ? "working" : chat.unread ? "unread" : "idle";
     /** What the session keeps of its chats on disk: those with something said in them, in order. */
     const persist = () => {
         if (options.persist !== true)
             return;
-        run.chats = chats.flatMap((chat) => {
+        // The sentinel last: `--continue` opens the first as pi's own chat, and that is the person's.
+        run.chats = [...people(), ...chats.filter((chat) => chat.role === SENTINEL)].flatMap((chat) => {
             const file = chat.session?.sessionFile;
-            return file !== undefined && existsSync(file) ? [{ id: chat.id, title: titleFor(chat), sessionFile: file }] : [];
+            return file !== undefined && existsSync(file) ? [{ id: chat.id, title: titleFor(chat), sessionFile: file, ...(chat.role !== undefined ? { role: chat.role } : {}) }] : [];
         });
         recordRun(cwd, run, { keep: debugMode(cwd) });
     };
-    const newChat = (title) => {
+    const newChat = (title, role) => {
         const id = randomUUID().slice(0, 8);
         const chat = {
             id,
             scope: { id, stack: process.env.TURRI_STACK?.trim() || undefined, asking: new Set() },
             ...(title !== undefined ? { recordedTitle: title } : {}),
+            ...(role !== undefined ? { role } : {}),
             working: false,
             unread: false,
         };
@@ -131,6 +160,8 @@ export function createChats(options) {
             }
             else if (event.type === "agent_end") {
                 chat.working = false;
+                if (chat.role === SENTINEL)
+                    sentinelOnJob = undefined;
                 if (shownId !== chat.id)
                     chat.unread = true;
                 persist();
@@ -153,7 +184,7 @@ export function createChats(options) {
         get terminal() {
             return driver?.terminal === true;
         },
-        chats: () => chats.map((chat) => ({ id: chat.id, title: titleFor(chat), status: statusOf(chat), shown: chat.id === shownId })),
+        chats: () => chats.map((chat) => ({ id: chat.id, title: titleFor(chat), status: statusOf(chat), shown: chat.id === shownId, ...(chat.role !== undefined ? { role: chat.role } : {}) })),
         session: (id) => chats.find((chat) => chat.id === id)?.session,
         decline(id) {
             const chat = chats.find((candidate) => candidate.id === id);
@@ -171,12 +202,16 @@ export function createChats(options) {
             if (driver === undefined)
                 throw new Error("This turri has one chat: there is nowhere to open another.");
             const done = opening.then(async () => {
-                const already = asked.sessionFile !== undefined ? chats.find((chat) => chat.session?.sessionFile === asked.sessionFile) : undefined;
+                const already = asked.sessionFile !== undefined ? chats.find((chat) => chat.session?.sessionFile === asked.sessionFile) : asked.role === SENTINEL ? sentinelChat() : undefined;
                 if (already !== undefined)
                     return already;
-                if (chats.length >= MAX_CHATS)
-                    throw new Error(`${MAX_CHATS} chats are open, the most there can be: close one first.`);
-                const chat = newChat(asked.title);
+                // The sentinel has a slot of its own: with it on, the person's chats are one fewer.
+                const room = asked.role === SENTINEL ? MAX_CHATS - people().length : (wantsSentinel() ? MAX_CHATS - 1 : MAX_CHATS) - people().length;
+                if (room <= 0) {
+                    const most = wantsSentinel() ? MAX_CHATS - 1 : MAX_CHATS;
+                    throw new Error(`${most} chats are open, the most there can be${wantsSentinel() ? " beside the sentinel" : ""}: close one first.`);
+                }
+                const chat = newChat(asked.title, asked.role);
                 attaching = chat;
                 try {
                     await driver.create(chat, asked.sessionFile);
@@ -189,7 +224,7 @@ export function createChats(options) {
                     attaching = undefined;
                 }
                 follow(chat);
-                inChat(chat.scope, () => record({ kind: "chat.opened", reopened: asked.sessionFile !== undefined }, { project: cwd }));
+                inChat(chat.scope, () => record({ kind: "chat.opened", reopened: asked.sessionFile !== undefined, ...(chat.role !== undefined ? { role: chat.role } : {}) }, { project: cwd }));
                 persist();
                 changed();
                 return chat;
@@ -206,7 +241,8 @@ export function createChats(options) {
                 return;
             const chat = chats[index];
             if (shownId === id) {
-                const next = chats[index + 1] ?? chats[index - 1];
+                const others = chats.filter((other) => other !== chat);
+                const next = others.find((other, at) => other.role !== SENTINEL && at >= index) ?? [...others].reverse().find((other) => other.role !== SENTINEL) ?? others[0];
                 if (next !== undefined)
                     await core.show(next.id);
                 else
@@ -287,6 +323,7 @@ export function createChats(options) {
                 id: chat.id,
                 scope: chat.scope,
                 dialogs: chat.dialogs,
+                role: chat.role,
                 session: () => chat.session,
                 live: (instance) => {
                     chat.instance = instance;
@@ -304,7 +341,12 @@ export function createChats(options) {
             }
             return chat;
         },
+        sentinelOn: () => driver !== undefined && wantsSentinel(),
         jobFinished(job) {
+            if (core.sentinelOn()) {
+                sentinelFinished(job);
+                return;
+            }
             const asked = chats.find((chat) => chat.id === job.chat);
             const chat = asked?.instance !== undefined ? asked : (core.shownChat() ?? chats[0]);
             if (chat === undefined)
@@ -332,6 +374,77 @@ export function createChats(options) {
                 }
             }
         },
+        notice(input) {
+            const asked = chats.find((chat) => chat.id === (input.job !== undefined ? jobs.get(input.job)?.chat : undefined));
+            const target = personFacing(asked);
+            if (target === undefined)
+                return undefined;
+            // One notice open a module: a newer one makes the older one's call to action stale.
+            if (input.module !== undefined) {
+                for (const older of open.filter((notice) => notice.state === "open" && notice.module === input.module))
+                    over(older, "superseded");
+            }
+            const notice = newNotice(input, target.id);
+            open.push(notice);
+            if (target.id !== shownId)
+                target.unread = true;
+            inChat(target.scope, () => record({ kind: "notice.put", notice: notice.id, severity: notice.severity, ...(notice.module !== undefined ? { module: notice.module } : {}) }, { project: cwd }));
+            try {
+                target.instance?.notice(notice);
+            }
+            catch {
+                /* a chat let go as it was put: the host still hears it */
+            }
+            try {
+                host.onNotice?.(notice);
+            }
+            catch {
+                /* a host that throws must not lose the notice */
+            }
+            changed();
+            return notice;
+        },
+        notices: () => open.filter((notice) => notice.state === "open"),
+        concluded(conclusion) {
+            const job = jobs.get(conclusion.job);
+            const target = personFacing(chats.find((chat) => chat.id === job?.chat));
+            if (target === undefined)
+                return undefined;
+            const module = conclusion.module ?? job?.module;
+            const pulse = conclusion.pulse ?? job?.pulse;
+            const told = { ...conclusion, ...(module !== undefined ? { module } : {}), ...(pulse !== undefined ? { pulse } : {}) };
+            if (target.id !== shownId)
+                target.unread = true;
+            inChat(target.scope, () => record({ kind: "sentinel.concluded", verdict: told.verdict, ...(module !== undefined ? { module } : {}) }, { project: cwd, job: told.job }));
+            try {
+                target.instance?.concluded(told);
+            }
+            catch {
+                /* a chat let go as it was told: the host still hears it */
+            }
+            try {
+                host.onConcluded?.({ ...told, chat: target.id });
+            }
+            catch {
+                /* a host that throws must not lose it */
+            }
+            changed();
+            return target.id;
+        },
+        answer(id, answer) {
+            const notice = open.find((candidate) => candidate.id === id);
+            if (notice === undefined)
+                return "missing";
+            if (notice.state !== "open")
+                return "over";
+            const task = noticeTask(notice, answer);
+            over(notice, "dismiss" in answer ? "dismissed" : "steer" in answer ? "steered" : "accepted");
+            if (task === undefined)
+                return "dismissed";
+            const chat = chats.find((candidate) => candidate.id === notice.chat) ?? personFacing();
+            chat?.instance?.act(task);
+            return "done";
+        },
         instanceInScope() {
             const scoped = currentChat();
             return (chats.find((chat) => chat.id === scoped?.id) ?? core.shownChat() ?? chats[0])?.instance;
@@ -341,15 +454,16 @@ export function createChats(options) {
         },
         async restore(saved, asked = {}) {
             adoptRun(cwd, saved.run);
-            const [first, ...rest] = saved.chats;
+            // The first of the person's chats is the one pi reopened itself (pi-launch.ts): the sentinel is never it.
+            const first = saved.chats.find((kept) => kept.role === undefined);
             if (first !== undefined && asked.skipFirst === true) {
                 const chat = chats[0];
                 if (chat !== undefined)
                     chat.recordedTitle ??= first.title;
             }
-            for (const kept of asked.skipFirst === true ? rest : saved.chats) {
+            for (const kept of asked.skipFirst === true ? saved.chats.filter((other) => other !== first) : saved.chats) {
                 try {
-                    await core.open({ sessionFile: kept.sessionFile, hidden: true, title: kept.title });
+                    await core.open({ sessionFile: kept.sessionFile, hidden: true, title: kept.title, ...(kept.role !== undefined ? { role: kept.role } : {}) });
                 }
                 catch (error) {
                     core.notify(`The chat "${kept.title}" could not be reopened: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}`, "warning");
@@ -358,6 +472,79 @@ export function createChats(options) {
             persist();
         },
     };
+    /** A notice ended - answered, dismissed, superseded: its dialog closed, and the host told. */
+    function over(notice, state) {
+        notice.state = state;
+        const chat = chats.find((candidate) => candidate.id === notice.chat);
+        try {
+            chat?.instance?.noticeOver(notice);
+        }
+        catch {
+            /* a chat let go has no dialog to close */
+        }
+        try {
+            host.onNoticeOver?.(notice);
+        }
+        catch {
+            /* a host that throws must not keep the notice open */
+        }
+        if (chat !== undefined)
+            inChat(chat.scope, () => record({ kind: "notice.over", notice: notice.id, state }, { project: cwd }));
+    }
+    /**
+     * A pulse ended, with the sentinel on: the chat the person looks at says so - its agent told of one that landed, to
+     * tell the person it landed and what the sentinel does with it, and nothing more; of one that went wrong, not, the
+     * sentinel's notice being what it hears of it - and the sentinel is told, opened in the background when it is not open. A newer pulse of a module replaces a check of the
+     * module's last pulse that went well; one that went wrong is looked into to its end.
+     */
+    function sentinelFinished(job) {
+        const asked = chats.find((chat) => chat.id === job.chat && chat.role !== SENTINEL);
+        const where = personFacing(asked);
+        if (where !== undefined) {
+            if (where.id !== shownId)
+                where.unread = true;
+            try {
+                where.instance?.landed(job, { tell: !wentWrong(job) });
+            }
+            catch {
+                /* a chat let go as the pulse ended: the sentinel still hears of it */
+            }
+        }
+        changed();
+        void (async () => {
+            let sentinel = sentinelChat();
+            if (sentinel === undefined) {
+                try {
+                    await core.open({ hidden: true, role: SENTINEL });
+                    sentinel = sentinelChat();
+                }
+                catch (error) {
+                    // No room for it, or nowhere to open it: the pulse is told as it is without one.
+                    core.notify(`The sentinel could not be opened: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}`, "warning");
+                    (asked ?? where)?.instance?.announce(job);
+                    return;
+                }
+            }
+            if (sentinel?.instance === undefined)
+                return;
+            const busy = sentinel.session?.isStreaming === true;
+            const replace = busy && sentinelOnJob !== undefined && !sentinelOnJob.wrong && sentinelOnJob.module !== undefined && sentinelOnJob.module === job.module;
+            sentinelOnJob = { module: job.module, wrong: wentWrong(job) };
+            if (sentinel.id !== shownId)
+                sentinel.unread = true;
+            try {
+                await sentinel.instance.brief(job, {
+                    ...(asked !== undefined ? { asked: titleFor(asked) } : {}),
+                    ...(where !== undefined ? { focused: titleFor(where) } : {}),
+                    replace,
+                });
+            }
+            catch (error) {
+                core.notify(`The sentinel could not be told of ${job.id}: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}`, "warning");
+            }
+            changed();
+        })();
+    }
     return core;
 }
 /**

package/dist/config-edit.js

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ const SECONDS = ["0", "60", "120", "180", "300"];
 const ROLE_ABOUT = {
     default: "every role not named",
     chat: "the conversation - as harness-model, which it wins over",
+    sentinel: "the sentinel: checks every finished pulse and tests the release",
     chooser: "chooses what gets conformance tests under turri regenerate",
     planner: "cuts the work into pulses",
     diagnosis: "looks into a pulse that failed for good",
@@ -65,6 +66,7 @@ export function settings(rules = []) {
         { key: "mutation-testing", about: "whether the coding agent and the reviewer can put a bug in the code for one test run (can_it_fail)", kind: "boolean", unset: "true", effect: "next-pulse" },
         { key: "allow-to-stop-jobs", about: "whether turri stops a running pulse the ***plain has moved on from", kind: "boolean", unset: "true", effect: "now" },
         { key: "release-after-pulse", about: "whether every pulse that lands code releases it", kind: "boolean", unset: "false", effect: "next-landing" },
+        { key: "sentinel", about: "whether a chat of its own checks every finished pulse, tests the release, and tells you what is wrong", kind: "boolean", unset: "true", effect: "next-landing" },
         { key: "unittests-script", about: "the unit testing script, by path from the project root", kind: "path", unset: "the one run_unittests*.sh found", effect: "next-test-run" },
         { key: "conformance-tests-script", about: "the conformance testing script, by path from the project root", kind: "path", unset: "the one run_conformance_tests*.sh found", effect: "next-test-run" },
         { key: "prepare-environment-script", about: "run on the build before every conformance testing script run, by path from the project root - optional", kind: "path", unset: "the one prepare_environment*.sh found, else none", effect: "next-test-run" },

package/dist/config.d.ts

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
  * mutation-testing: false                                   # give the coding agent and the reviewer can_it_fail (default: true)
  * allow-to-stop-jobs: false                                 # stop a running job the spec moved on from (default: true)
  * release-after-pulse: true                                 # release what each pulse lands, as its last stage, before the next pulse (default: false)
+ * sentinel: false                                           # a chat of its own every finished pulse goes to, which tests the release and tells you what is wrong (default: true)
  * rules-off: [integrations]                                 # ***plain rules to leave out of the prompts, by name (default: none)
  * unittests-script: test_scripts/run_unittests.sh           # the testing scripts - see test-scripts.ts
  * conformance-tests-script: test_scripts/run_conformance_tests.sh
@@ -127,7 +128,7 @@ export interface ModelChoice {
  * The code fixer of a conformance run and the repair agent are coding agents; the unit-test and conformance arbiters
  * are both `arbiter`.
  */
-export declare const AGENT_ROLES: readonly ["chat", "chooser", "planner", "diagnosis", "release", "coding", "conformance", "explorer", "reviewer", "test-reviewer", "judge", "arbiter", "debugger"];
+export declare const AGENT_ROLES: readonly ["chat", "sentinel", "chooser", "planner", "diagnosis", "release", "coding", "conformance", "explorer", "reviewer", "test-reviewer", "judge", "arbiter", "debugger"];
 export type AgentRole = (typeof AGENT_ROLES)[number];
 /**
  * How hard each role thinks when nothing names a level - not the config's `models:`, nor a `:level` on the model it is
@@ -225,6 +226,11 @@ export interface ProjectConfig {
      * looking for the project's release guidance as the chat does, and doing what it says. Unset: false.
      */
     releaseAfterPulse?: boolean;
+    /**
+     * Whether the session has a sentinel: a chat of its own that every finished pulse goes to - checked, a release tested,
+     * and what is wrong put to the person - instead of the chat that asked for it (docs/sentinel.md). Unset: true.
+     */
+    sentinel?: boolean;
     /** Path from the root to the unit testing script. */
     unittestsScript?: string;
     /** Path from the root to the conformance testing script. */
@@ -300,6 +306,7 @@ export declare const CONFIG_KEYS: {
     readonly mutationTesting: "mutation-testing";
     readonly allowToStopJobs: "allow-to-stop-jobs";
     readonly releaseAfterPulse: "release-after-pulse";
+    readonly sentinel: "sentinel";
     readonly unittestsScript: "unittests-script";
     readonly conformanceTestsScript: "conformance-tests-script";
     readonly prepareEnvironmentScript: "prepare-environment-script";

package/dist/config.js

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import { projectDirOf } from "./regenerate/paths.js";
  * mutation-testing: false                                   # give the coding agent and the reviewer can_it_fail (default: true)
  * allow-to-stop-jobs: false                                 # stop a running job the spec moved on from (default: true)
  * release-after-pulse: true                                 # release what each pulse lands, as its last stage, before the next pulse (default: false)
+ * sentinel: false                                           # a chat of its own every finished pulse goes to, which tests the release and tells you what is wrong (default: true)
  * rules-off: [integrations]                                 # ***plain rules to leave out of the prompts, by name (default: none)
  * unittests-script: test_scripts/run_unittests.sh           # the testing scripts - see test-scripts.ts
  * conformance-tests-script: test_scripts/run_conformance_tests.sh
@@ -215,7 +216,7 @@ export const THINKING_LEVELS = ["off", "minimal", "low", "medium", "high", "xhig
  * The code fixer of a conformance run and the repair agent are coding agents; the unit-test and conformance arbiters
  * are both `arbiter`.
  */
-export const AGENT_ROLES = ["chat", "chooser", "planner", "diagnosis", "release", "coding", "conformance", "explorer", "reviewer", "test-reviewer", "judge", "arbiter", "debugger"];
+export const AGENT_ROLES = ["chat", "sentinel", "chooser", "planner", "diagnosis", "release", "coding", "conformance", "explorer", "reviewer", "test-reviewer", "judge", "arbiter", "debugger"];
 /**
  * How hard each role thinks when nothing names a level - not the config's `models:`, nor a `:level` on the model it is
  * given. The agents that do the work - write the code and the tests, explore, release - think little: they work from a
@@ -239,7 +240,7 @@ export const ROLE_THINKING = {
 /** The roles on the conversation's side: without their own entry they take the chat's model, not `default`. */
 // The release is not: it follows steps - a script, a start command - and runs on the coding model, thinking low. Nor
 // is the diagnosis: a post-mortem of a job that failed, read by the person - it runs on the coding model, thinking medium.
-const CHAT_SIDE = ["chat", "chooser", "planner"];
+const CHAT_SIDE = ["chat", "sentinel", "chooser", "planner"];
 function isThinkingLevel(value) {
     return typeof value === "string" && THINKING_LEVELS.includes(value);
 }
@@ -382,6 +383,7 @@ export const CONFIG_KEYS = {
     mutationTesting: "mutation-testing",
     allowToStopJobs: "allow-to-stop-jobs",
     releaseAfterPulse: "release-after-pulse",
+    sentinel: "sentinel",
     unittestsScript: "unittests-script",
     conformanceTestsScript: "conformance-tests-script",
     prepareEnvironmentScript: "prepare-environment-script",
@@ -559,6 +561,7 @@ function readConfigFile(path) {
         mutationTesting: typeof raw[CONFIG_KEYS.mutationTesting] === "boolean" ? raw[CONFIG_KEYS.mutationTesting] : undefined,
         allowToStopJobs: typeof raw[CONFIG_KEYS.allowToStopJobs] === "boolean" ? raw[CONFIG_KEYS.allowToStopJobs] : undefined,
         releaseAfterPulse: typeof raw[CONFIG_KEYS.releaseAfterPulse] === "boolean" ? raw[CONFIG_KEYS.releaseAfterPulse] : undefined,
+        sentinel: typeof raw[CONFIG_KEYS.sentinel] === "boolean" ? raw[CONFIG_KEYS.sentinel] : undefined,
         unittestsScript: text(raw[CONFIG_KEYS.unittestsScript]),
         conformanceTestsScript: text(raw[CONFIG_KEYS.conformanceTestsScript]),
         prepareEnvironmentScript: text(raw[CONFIG_KEYS.prepareEnvironmentScript]),