leos-agent 7.0.0 → 10.2.0

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  1. package/README.md +544 -28
  2. package/commands/handoff.md +11 -0
  3. package/commands/handon.md +10 -0
  4. package/commands/review-pr.md +9 -0
  5. package/commands-claude/watch-review.md +9 -0
  6. package/index.js +12 -0
  7. package/package.json +29 -14
  8. package/payload/codex-agents/leo-executor.toml +36 -0
  9. package/payload/codex-agents/leo-runner.toml +28 -0
  10. package/rules/preferences.md +97 -0
  11. package/scripts/check.py +244 -0
  12. package/scripts/ghreview.py +17 -3
  13. package/scripts/handoff.py +183 -0
  14. package/scripts/leo-install.py +509 -0
  15. package/scripts/measure_context.py +113 -0
  16. package/scripts/publish-npm.py +138 -0
  17. package/scripts/watch_review.py +169 -0
  18. package/skills/doctor/SKILL.md +73 -115
  19. package/skills/doctor/agents/openai.yaml +5 -0
  20. package/skills/handoff/SKILL.md +99 -0
  21. package/skills/handoff/agents/openai.yaml +5 -0
  22. package/skills/handon/SKILL.md +61 -0
  23. package/skills/install/SKILL.md +79 -0
  24. package/skills/install/agents/openai.yaml +5 -0
  25. package/skills/review-pr/SKILL.md +59 -318
  26. package/skills/review-pr/reference/lenses.md +67 -0
  27. package/skills/review-pr/reference/procedure.md +348 -0
  28. package/skills-claude/attach-pr/SKILL.md +178 -0
  29. package/skills-claude/watch-review/SKILL.md +91 -0
  30. package/adapters/cursor/agents/executor.md +0 -17
  31. package/adapters/cursor/agents/expert.md +0 -70
  32. package/adapters/cursor/agents/explore.md +0 -16
  33. package/adapters/cursor/agents/implementer.md +0 -18
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  36. package/adapters/cursor/agents/review-lens.md +0 -22
  37. package/adapters/cursor/agents/reviewer.md +0 -34
  38. package/adapters/opencode/agents.json +0 -105
  39. package/adapters/opencode/plugin.js +0 -576
  40. package/config/MCP_PINS.md +0 -17
  41. package/config/models.json +0 -676
  42. package/hooks/bash-guard.py +0 -583
  43. package/hooks/cursor-guard.py +0 -84
  44. package/hooks/hooks-cursor.json +0 -11
  45. package/hooks/hooks.json +0 -20
  46. package/hooks/session-start.py +0 -148
  47. package/roles/executor.md +0 -15
  48. package/roles/expert.md +0 -67
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  50. package/roles/implementer.md +0 -16
  51. package/roles/investigator.md +0 -15
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  53. package/roles/review-lens.md +0 -20
  54. package/roles/reviewer.md +0 -31
  55. package/scripts/doctor.py +0 -520
  56. package/scripts/jsonc_bridge.cjs +0 -23
  57. package/scripts/memory.py +0 -744
  58. package/scripts/render_adapters.py +0 -508
  59. package/scripts/setup.py +0 -1753
  60. package/settings.json +0 -7
  61. package/skills/.gitkeep +0 -0
  62. package/skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md +0 -111
  63. package/skills/debugging/SKILL.md +0 -100
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  65. package/skills/executing-plans/SKILL.md +0 -117
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  67. package/skills/freshness/SKILL.md +0 -131
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  69. package/skills/resolve-ticket/SKILL.md +0 -275
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  71. package/skills/setup/agents/openai.yaml +0 -5
  72. package/skills/test-first/SKILL.md +0 -92
  73. package/skills/using-leo/SKILL.md +0 -101
  74. package/skills/using-leo/references/claude-mapping.md +0 -33
  75. package/skills/using-leo/references/codex-mapping.md +0 -33
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  78. package/skills/using-leo/references/opencode-mapping.md +0 -39
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  82. package/skills/watch-review/agents/openai.yaml +0 -5
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- ---
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- name: verification
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- description: >
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- Fresh-evidence gate before claiming done, fixed, or passing. Applies to
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- the main loop, implementer, executor, and anyone reporting completion:
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- a completion claim needs a proving command run in the current turn, whose
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- output was actually read — never a prior run, a "should pass now," or a
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- subagent's self-report relayed as fact. Use when making or relaying a
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- completion claim. Do not use for in-progress updates or to replace review.
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- when_to_use: >
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- Before writing any completion claim — "tests pass," "build is green,"
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- "bug fixed," "agent finished the task." Also applies when relaying a
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- subagent's own "done"/"success" report up the chain. NOT for routine
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- in-progress status updates that make no completion claim, and NOT a
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- substitute for the review phase itself — this gates the evidence behind
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- it, execute-then-review still owns the verdict.
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- ---
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- # verification
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-
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- Core rule: no completion claim without a proving command run fresh, this
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- turn, with output actually read. A claim resting on memory, a prior run, or
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- someone else's word is not verification — it is a guess wearing the shape
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- of one.
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-
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- ## When it fires
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-
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- Any sentence of the form "X passes," "X is fixed," "X works now," "agent Y
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- finished." That sentence is a claim. A claim needs proof, and proof has an
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- expiration: the moment code changes again, prior proof is stale.
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- Does not fire for: status updates that don't assert completion ("still
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- running," "found the bug, fixing now"), or work that genuinely has no
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- runtime surface (docs/comment-only diffs — see the execute-then-review
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- exemptions).
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- ## The discipline
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- 1. **Name the command that would falsify the claim.** Not "does it look
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- right" — the specific test/build/repro that fails if the claim is false.
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- If no such command exists, the claim isn't verifiable yet; say so instead
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- of asserting it.
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- 2. **Run it fresh, this turn.** A green run from three edits ago proves
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- nothing about the code as it stands now.
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- 3. **Read the exit status and failure counts.** Not the last line of
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- scrollback, not a summary a subagent wrote — the actual output.
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- 4. **Only then claim, and state the evidence** — the command and what it
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- returned, not just "verified."
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- Skipping step 1 is how "should be fine" sneaks in. Skipping step 2 is how a
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- stale green run gets relayed as current. Skipping step 3 is how a nonzero
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- ## Claim → proof
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- | Claim | Falsifying command |
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- | Tests pass | the actual test command, run now, exit code + failure count read |
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- | Build is green | the build command, run now, read for errors/warnings |
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- | Bug is fixed | the reproducer that showed the bug — now green, run fresh |
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- | Agent reports done | its diff and output, inspected directly — its "success" is a claim, not evidence |
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- | This library call is correct | the installed package or current docs, read this session — see leo:freshness |
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- | A UI change looks right | a render produced after the edit, looked at — see leo:visual-verification |
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- ## Subagent reports are claims, not evidence
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- A subagent saying "success," "all tests pass," or "implemented as
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- requested" is exactly as unverified as your own untested assertion would be
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- — it is one more claim to check against artifacts. Inspect the diff it
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- produced. Run the check it says it ran. If it reports a test command, that
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- command's output belongs in your evidence, not its summary of the output.
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- Relaying a subagent's self-report upward without this check just moves the
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- gap in provenance one level up the chain.
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- ## Done is the three-line report
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- Writing code is not done. Done is the execute-then-review report:
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- - **what changed** — the diff, in one line
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- - **review verdict** — clean per the execute-then-review policy, not
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- Verification is the evidence behind lines two and three. A report with line
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- one but not two and three is a status update, not a completion claim — label
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- - "I read the code and it looks correct" — reading is not running.
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- ## Works with
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- - The execute-then-review policy (injected leo:using-leo) — that gate is the
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- - reviewer — its verdict is itself a claim to relay accurately, not to
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- - End-to-end exercise — when the falsifying command is "does the real flow
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- - leo:freshness — this gate proves the code you wrote runs; that one governs
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- whether the third-party API you wrote it against actually exists. A green
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- test against a mocked dependency clears this skill and not that one.
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- description: >
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- claim. Use when a person can see the changed result. Do not use for
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- # visual-verification
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- A pixel claim needs a pixel. Reporting that a visible change works, having
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- # Worktrees
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- - Created via `EnterWorktree` → belongs to its `ExitWorktree`, not to raw
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- - "I'm already in the worktree, `git worktree remove .` should work" —
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- Core rule: a plan is done when a Sonnet implementer can execute it without
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- design fork ("could go with polling or webhooks here") that the plan
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- author is resolving on the fly, stop — that's not plan-writing, that's
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- design happening inside a document meant to record decisions already
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- made. Route to leo:brainstorming to settle the approach, then come back
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- and write the plan. A plan for an unchosen design is waste: the
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- ## Self-talk to catch
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- - "The implementer will know what I mean" — no placeholder survives
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- contact with a different model on a different day; write the literal
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- - "This step is basically step 3 again" — then step 3's text belongs
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- here too, verbatim or adapted; "similar to step 3" is a placeholder.
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- - "I'll figure out the base ref when review starts" — the header needs it
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- now, or implementer and reviewer silently diff against different trees.
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- - "It's obviously going to be small, I don't need to size the step" —
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- size it anyway; "obviously small" is exactly the case where a bundled
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- - "I'm not 100% sure webhooks vs. polling, I'll note it as a decision
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- point in the plan" — a decision point in a plan is a design fork that
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- belongs in leo:brainstorming, not a step for the implementer to guess
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- - leo:brainstorming — resolve the approach before a plan gets written for it.
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- - leo:executing-plans — consumes a plan that passes this bar; if it can't
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- find exact files/commands or hits a placeholder, the plan should have
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- failed this checklist.
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- - reviewer — judges the diff the plan produced, using the same base ref
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- the plan recorded.