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-# WORKFLOW.md — symphony dispatched against smol-symphony itself.
-#
-# Run with:
-#
-#   npx symphony WORKFLOW.md
-#
-# The per-issue workspace clones from this repo's `.git` directory and the agent
-# has no network credentials. The remote PR flow is configured in-file via
-# `workspace.github_repo` below (dizk/smol-symphony): on a terminal transition
-# the Done-state actions push the per-issue branch and open a PR. `gh` on the
-# host must be authenticated (`gh auth status` clean); the token never enters
-# the VM.
-#
-# For a fully local setup (branch left in the workspace until cleanup, nothing
-# pushed), set `workspace.github_repo: none`. The SYMPHONY_REPO env var still
-# overrides the in-file value when exported.
-#
-# Every section and option is documented in WORKFLOW.template.md.
-
-# Declared workflow states. Drives dispatch eligibility (role: active),
-# terminal cleanup (role: terminal), and the propose_issue landing directory
-# (role: holding). This map is the single source of truth — there are no
-# separate active/terminal lists to keep in sync.
-#
-# Per-state `adapter` / `model` / `max_turns` override the workflow-level
-# `acp.*` and `agent.max_turns` defaults at dispatch time, and `max_concurrent`
-# caps how many agents run at once in this state (the global
-# `agent.max_concurrent_agents` stays the cross-state host ceiling).
-# `allowed_transitions` narrows the targets the agent can pass to
-# `symphony.transition` while operating in this state (omit for "any declared
-# state is reachable").
-states:
-  Todo:
-    role: active
-    adapter: claude
-    # Opus 4.8, 1M-context variant. The plain `claude-opus-4-7` is the 200K
-    # variant — a γ-class refactor dispatch hit two mid-turn compactions before
-    # reaching the edit phase; `[1m]` gives ~30x headroom and removes the stall.
-    # The suffix is Claude Code's model-selection convention, forwarded to the
-    # adapter via ANTHROPIC_MODEL. Review stays on codex (cross-model review).
-    model: claude-opus-4-8[1m]
-    max_turns: 10
-    # Per-state concurrency cap (issue 137): at most one implementer agent at a
-    # time. Lives on the state now, symmetric with max_turns; the global
-    # `agent.max_concurrent_agents` below remains the cross-state host ceiling.
-    max_concurrent: 1
-  Review:
-    # Codex picks up the implementer's branch and approves or rejects. On
-    # approval it transitions the issue to Done with PR-body notes; on
-    # rejection it transitions back to Todo with rework instructions.
-    role: active
-    adapter: codex
-    # codex-acp accepts the model via `-c model="..."` argv (TOML); see
-    # src/agent/adapters.ts. `gpt-5-codex` was historically rejected with the
-    # ChatGPT-account user, so leave `model` unset and let codex-acp pick its
-    # own default code-review model. Operators with an API-key Codex setup can
-    # pin a specific model here once that's known-good.
-    max_turns: 6
-    allowed_transitions: [Todo, Done]
-  Reflect:
-    # Sleep cycle (issue 122). A single recurring "Sleep cycle" issue rests in
-    # Dormant; the operator — or an external cron / `symphony reflect` verb —
-    # arms a cycle by moving it into Reflect. eval_mode binds the read-only
-    # /symphony/issues (all state dirs, including the Done/*.md handoff
-    # transcripts) and /symphony/logs (per-issue JSONL run logs) mounts so the
-    # agent can mine finished work for *recurring* harness friction, distil
-    # lessons, and file improvement proposals via propose_issue (which land in
-    # Triage — the human gate). It reflects on *how symphony runs work*
-    # (WORKFLOW.md prompt branches, per-state model/max_turns/effort/actions,
-    # the gondolin image config, acceptance criteria, timeouts), NOT the product code under
-    # review. After filing it transitions to Dormant and waits to be re-armed.
-    # See the Reflect prompt branch (the `when "Reflect"` case in the body) for
-    # the read → distil → propose loop and the guardrails. Cadence: the operator
-    # / an external cron / a `mv` on disk can still arm a cycle, and the
-    # orchestrator now also auto-arms Dormant → Reflect on idle or after N
-    # terminal transitions (issue 140 — see this state's `arm:` block below).
-    role: active
-    adapter: claude
-    # 1M-context Opus: a reflection turn reads many Done/*.md transcripts plus
-    # the relevant logs/<id>.jsonl, so the large-context variant avoids mid-turn
-    # compaction (same rationale as the Todo state).
-    model: claude-opus-4-8[1m]
-    # Higher than Todo/Review: reading the history, distilling patterns, and
-    # filing one proposal per lesson takes more turns than a single edit/review.
-    max_turns: 20
-    # Bind the read-only /symphony/issues + /symphony/logs mounts for this state.
-    eval_mode: true
-    # The reflector may ONLY go dormant — it cannot route itself into
-    # Todo/Review/Done. A guardrail on this self-modifying loop; filing
-    # improvements happens through propose_issue (→ Triage), which is
-    # independent of allowed_transitions.
-    allowed_transitions: [Dormant]
-    # Auto-arm trigger (issue 140; replaces the former top-level auto-arm block).
-    # This active state arms itself: the orchestrator moves `arm.issue` out of
-    # its `arm.from` holding state (Dormant) into Reflect automatically —
-    # `on_idle` when the orchestrator is idle and >=1 issue reached a terminal
-    # state since the last run, and `after_terminal` as a backstop once that many
-    # issues have reached a terminal state since the last run. The
-    # terminal-transition counter resets to 0 the moment the issue is armed.
-    # GUARDRAILS (carried over from issue 122): auto-arming ONLY moves the issue
-    # into Reflect — the proposals it files still land in Triage and still require
-    # human approve/discard, so this does not bypass the human gate. Requires a
-    # single `sleep-cycle` issue resting in Dormant.
-    arm:
-      issue: sleep-cycle
-      from: Dormant
-      on_idle: true
-      after_terminal: 10
-  Done:
-    role: terminal
-    # PR autopilot routing (issue 38; moved onto the state in issue 139). Done
-    # is the merge state: a MERGEABLE Done-state PR has GitHub auto-merge armed
-    # with `squash` (matches the repo's `NN: title (#PR)` history); a
-    # CONFLICTING one is routed back to `on_conflict.route_to` (Todo) for the
-    # dispatched agent to rebase. The host-global on/off switch + poll TTL live
-    # in the top-level `pr:` block below; the merge/close/route targets are
-    # derived by scanning states for this `pr:` field (no named-string sibling
-    # block). While the engine is enabled, transitions into Done no longer fire
-    # the standard terminal workspace cleanup — the pr resource owns the
-    # workspace until its PR merges or closes.
-    pr:
-      auto_merge: squash
-      on_conflict:
-        route_to: Todo
-    # Issue 36 (reconciler v2 / typed action DAG): the legacy `after_run`
-    # shell that pushed the branch and opened a PR is replaced by two typed
-    # actions. The host pre-stages SYMPHONY_PR_TITLE / SYMPHONY_PR_BODY_FILE /
-    # SYMPHONY_BRANCH (the same values the old shell read); the action
-    # executor exposes them as $pr_title / $pr_body_file / $branch /
-    # $base_branch / $repo in the fixed template namespace
-    # (src/actions/types.ts → ActionContext). The `if: $repo` predicate
-    # matches the old `[ -n "${SYMPHONY_REPO:-}" ] || exit 0` short-circuit
-    # so the local-only mode is still a no-op. Per-action retry/snapshot
-    # plumbing replaces the opaque shell-exit-code surface; on rate-limit
-    # the create_pr_if_missing action shows "retrying in 60s" on the
-    # dashboard instead of a silent failure.
-    actions:
-      - kind: push_branch
-        name: push-branch
-        remote: origin
-        ref: $branch
-        if: $repo
-      - kind: create_pr_if_missing
-        name: open-pr
-        base: $base_branch
-        head: $branch
-        title_from: $pr_title
-        body_from: $pr_body_file
-        if: $repo
-  Cancelled:
-    role: terminal
-    # Cancelled means the work was abandoned; no patch, no PR. The workspace is
-    # cleaned up after the run unwinds and the commits are discarded with it.
-    # PR autopilot close state (issue 139): when the engine is enabled, an open
-    # PR for a Cancelled issue is closed without merge and its remote branch is
-    # best-effort-deleted. Unlike the merge state, the close path needs no
-    # workspace, so standard terminal cleanup still runs on transition in.
-    pr:
-      close: true
-  Triage:
-    # Landing directory for `symphony.propose_issue`. Never dispatched; the
-    # operator approves or discards from the dashboard. Declared FIRST among
-    # holding states so it stays the `propose_issue` landing + triage target
-    # (both resolve the first declared holding state).
-    role: holding
-  Dormant:
-    # Resting place for the recurring "Sleep cycle" issue (issue 122) between
-    # reflection runs. Holding → never dispatched. A reflection cycle re-arms by
-    # moving the issue from Dormant back into Reflect: the orchestrator's
-    # `states.Reflect.arm` auto-arm (issue 140) does this on idle / after N
-    # terminal transitions, and an external cron, a `symphony reflect` verb, or
-    # `mv` on disk still work too. NOTE: the dashboard currently
-    # renders triage approve/discard buttons on every holding row and the
-    # tracker resolves a move by issue id regardless of source directory, so
-    # clicking those buttons on a Dormant issue would mis-route it — re-arm via
-    # cron/CLI/filesystem, not the dashboard buttons. A follow-up restricts
-    # those buttons to the triage-landing state.
-    role: holding
-
-tracker:
-  kind: local
-  # Operator-scoped tracker root (outside the repo). State transitions and
-  # propose_issue writes don't dirty the codebase's git status. Symphony
-  # auto-mkdirs every declared state directory under this root on startup.
-  root: ~/.symphony/trackers/smol-symphony
-
-# PR autopilot engine toggle (issue 38, simplified by issue 101; routing moved
-# onto states in issue 139). This is the slim host-global half only — the
-# on/off switch and the per-PR `gh pr view` cache TTL. The merge/close/route
-# targets and the auto-merge strategy now live ON the states they describe:
-# `states.Done.pr` (merge state — auto_merge + on_conflict.route_to) and
-# `states.Cancelled.pr` (close state — close: true), above. The reconciler
-# derives those by scanning states; there is no named-string sibling block.
-#
-# Enabled 2026-05-25 so MERGEABLE Done-state PRs have GitHub auto-merge armed
-# and CONFLICTING ones are routed back to Todo for the dispatched agent to
-# rebase (the host runs `git fetch origin <base>` before each dispatch so
-# `origin/<base>` is current, and the Todo prompt's first step is
-# `git rebase origin/<base>`). There is no autopilot-side rebase machinery and
-# no consecutive-failure circuit breaker.
-#
-# PREREQUISITE: `gh pr merge --auto` requires at least one branch-protection
-# rule on `main`, or arming auto-merge errors. Ensure one exists in the repo's
-# GitHub settings. To disable, set `enabled: false` (the resource is then never
-# constructed and Done-state behavior reverts to the actions-block PR-create +
-# operator merge).
-pr:
-  enabled: true
-  poll_interval_ms: 30000
-
-polling:
-  interval_ms: 5000
-
-# The canonical clone + base-branch checkout + `agent/<id>` branch cut +
-# origin/identity setup is owned by the orchestrator's TypeScript
-# `setupWorkspaceDir` action (issue 34 / reconciler stage 3) — there is no
-# shell `hooks:` surface. The per-issue workspace arrives at the dispatched
-# agent with:
-#
-#   • a hardlinked `git clone --local` of the source repo on the base branch
-#     (`workspace.base_branch`, or the SYMPHONY_BASE_BRANCH env override,
-#     default `main`) at the source repo's current local base SHA
-#   • all network remotes stripped (in-VM `git push`/`git fetch` fail closed)
-#   • when `workspace.github_repo` (or the SYMPHONY_REPO env override) is set:
-#     `origin` restored to the canonical HTTPS URL so the host's Done-state
-#     `push_branch` action can push (`gh auth setup-git` runs best-effort on the
-#     host so the push has credentials; the token never enters the VM)
-#   • `user.name = symphony-agent` / `user.email = agent@symphony.local`
-#   • `agent/<id>` checked out
-#
-# The source repo's local `<base>` is the single source of truth for the
-# workspace's base ref. To pick up a new base, update the source repo
-# (`git pull` / `git fetch && git checkout <base>`) before the next dispatch;
-# symphony does not implicitly fetch from `origin/<base>` at setup time.
-#
-# Need extra per-VM tooling on top of that? Bake it into the agent image
-# (`images/agents/`), or run arbitrary guest commands from a state's `actions:`
-# via `run_in_vm`. The post-attempt push + PR-create handoff is the Done
-# state's `actions:` block above.
-workspace:
-  root: ./.symphony/workspaces
-  # PR/push target for the dogfood (symphony-on-symphony) setup: the Done-state
-  # actions push the per-issue branch + open a PR against this repo. Set to
-  # `none` for local-only (branch left in the workspace). The SYMPHONY_REPO env
-  # var still overrides this if exported.
-  github_repo: dizk/smol-symphony
-  # Branch the per-issue workspace clones from + targets as the PR base. The
-  # SYMPHONY_BASE_BRANCH env var still overrides this if exported.
-  base_branch: main
-
-# Per-issue JSONL run logs plus an orchestrator-side `symphony.log` mirror.
-# One JSONL file per issue, appended across attempts and process restarts;
-# captures every ACP JSON-RPC frame to/from the VM, raw adapter stderr,
-# typed-action output, and orchestrator lifecycle events — intended for
-# later evaluation by another agent. The sibling `symphony.log` captures the
-# orchestrator's structured log (dispatch, actions, reconciler, shutdown) in the
-# same `key=value` format so a post-hoc review has both surfaces in one
-# directory. While the file sink is active the console shows only the startup
-# banner; `tail -f symphony.log` follows the detail, and `--verbose` mirrors it
-# back to the console. See WORKFLOW.template.md for the full schema.
-logs:
-  root: ./.symphony/logs
-
-agent:
-  # SERIALIZED to 1 (2026-05-27) to stop the FC/IS burn-down conflict storm:
-  # every burn-down PR edits the same policy files (package.json --max-warnings
-  # ratchet, .dependency-cruiser.cjs, eslint.config.js), so any two in flight
-  # conflict by construction. Serial dispatch makes each PR rebase on the prior
-  # merge. Revert to 2 once the arch-burndown queue drains.
-  max_concurrent_agents: 1
-  max_turns: 6
-  max_retry_backoff_ms: 120000
-
-acp:
-  # Selecting "claude" is enough: symphony probes ~/.claude/.credentials.json
-  # on the host at startup and auto-generates a launch command for the in-VM
-  # agent. There is no `command` escape hatch under the TCP bridge transport —
-  # the launch shape is fixed; fork scripts/vm-agent.mjs if you need to customize
-  # what the agent spawns.
-  adapter: claude
-  # Credentials never enter the VM (issue 113; codex generalized in 116). The
-  # guest holds only a token-shaped placeholder; the host substitutes the real
-  # upstream credential into the outbound request at Gondolin egress (TLS-MITM):
-  # for claude, the Anthropic OAuth access token; for codex (the Review state's
-  # adapter), the OpenAI credential read from ~/.codex/auth.json (access token or
-  # OPENAI_API_KEY, never the refresh token). Every credential-bearing var is
-  # stripped from the forwarded VM boot env, so no real credential lands in the VM.
-  # Reasoning effort forwarded to claude-agent-acp via a staged settings.json
-  # (`{"effortLevel": "xhigh"}`) copied into /root/.claude/settings.json before the
-  # adapter starts. xhigh is the second-highest tier under Opus 4.7 (max is the top
-  # but is meaningfully slower); operators on a Haiku-backed model must drop this
-  # because Haiku rejects xhigh at adapter startup. Valid set is `low|medium|high|xhigh|max`,
-  # model-gated by claude-agent-acp's `supportedEffortLevels`.
-  effort: xhigh
-  shell: bash
-  # Hard cap on a single session/prompt regardless of activity. Raised from 30min to
-  # 60min (the code default) because a heavy refactor turn at effort=xhigh can run a
-  # single uninterrupted turn past 30min — issue 103's healthy attempt was killed
-  # mid-edit at the old 1800000 cap with turns_completed:0. Distinct from
-  # stall_timeout_ms below (which only trips on NO activity).
-  prompt_timeout_ms: 3600000
-  read_timeout_ms: 30000
-  # ACP TCP bridge. Symphony binds a listener on `bridge.bind_host:bind_port`; the in-VM
-  # agent (`/opt/symphony/vm-agent.mjs`) dials `bridge.reach_host:bind_port` on startup
-  # and authenticates with a per-dispatch bearer token. This replaced the earlier
-  # in-VM-exec stdio path so symphony is not coupled to any particular sandbox's quirks.
-  bridge:
-    bind_host: 0.0.0.0
-    bind_port: 8788
-    reach_host: 127.0.0.1
-  # Time between any ACP event from the adapter before symphony kills the attempt as stalled.
-  # Raised from the 5-minute default because Opus 4.7 at effort=xhigh can take many minutes to
-  # produce its first thought chunk on a heavy prompt. If a real wedge happens, attempts will
-  # die at this longer threshold; if the agent is just thinking, we let it finish.
-  stall_timeout_ms: 1800000
-
-gondolin:
-  # Per-issue microVM (Gondolin substrate). `image` is the agent rootfs the VM
-  # boots, built ONCE with `npm run build:image` (see images/agents/) — not baked
-  # per issue. The value is a Gondolin image selector: the content-addressed build
-  # id printed by the build (pinned below for reproducibility), a `name:tag` ref
-  # like `symphony-agents:latest`, or a path to an exported asset directory.
-  image: cb875342-03ef-56e0-9306-dde8628aa17d
-  cpus: 2
-  mem_mib: 4096
-  # No runtime bind-mounts. The in-VM launcher (/opt/symphony/vm-agent.mjs) is
-  # baked into the image, so it needs no per-dispatch mount. Keeping `volumes`
-  # empty leaves room for an eval_mode state's two read-only mounts (/symphony/issues
-  # + /symphony/logs) on top of the auto-mounted workspace. Credentials never
-  # mount: the host substitutes the real token at Gondolin egress; the tracker is
-  # reached via the symphony MCP server (or the eval_mode mount).
-  volumes: []
-  # forward_env is a generic passthrough into the VM boot env, but the runner
-  # strips EVERY credential-bearing var before boot (the guest holds only a
-  # placeholder Gondolin substitutes at egress) — so listing OPENAI_API_KEY here
-  # does NOT plant the real key in a VM.
-  forward_env:
-    - OPENAI_API_KEY
-    - ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
-
-egress:
-  # General dev-tooling firewall for the in-VM agent. Gondolin denies guest egress
-  # by default; the agent can always reach its own inference host (handled by the
-  # credential layer), and these hosts are additionally opened so gates can run
-  # (`npm install`, git-based deps, release binaries). SECURITY: nothing here ever
-  # gets a real token substituted — listing a host grants plain network egress
-  # only. The real upstream token is substituted solely on each adapter's inference
-  # host (see src/agent/credential-secrets.ts).
-  allowed_hosts:
-    - registry.npmjs.org             # npm install
-    - github.com                     # git-based deps / release pages
-    - codeload.github.com            # GitHub tarball fetch
-    - objects.githubusercontent.com  # release-binary downloads
-
-server:
-  port: 8787
-  # Bound to all interfaces because access is gated by tailscale, not by the
-  # HTTP server itself. The endpoint has no auth; only expose it inside a
-  # trusted network boundary.
-  host: 0.0.0.0
-
-mcp:
-  # Gondolin maps a synthetic guest host to the host's loopback (`tcp.hosts`), so
-  # 127.0.0.1 from inside the VM hits the host's listener. Override only if
-  # your VMM has a different host alias.
-  host: 127.0.0.1
----
-You are working on **smol-symphony**, a TypeScript orchestrator that dispatches
-coding agents into per-issue Gondolin microVMs and talks to them over the Agent
-Client Protocol (ACP). Your workspace is a fresh clone of this repo.
-
-Issue: **{{ issue.identifier }} — {{ issue.title }}**
-State: {{ issue.state }}
-{% if issue.priority -%}Priority: {{ issue.priority }}{%- endif %}
-{% if issue.labels.size > 0 -%}Labels: {% for l in issue.labels %}{{ l }}{% unless forloop.last %}, {% endunless %}{% endfor %}{%- endif %}
-
-{% if issue.description -%}
-Description:
-
-{{ issue.description }}
-{%- endif %}
-
-Orientation:
-
-- This is the smol-symphony codebase. Start by reading `README.md` and
-  `PRODUCT.md` if you haven't seen them. `SPEC.md` is the long-form design
-  spec. `CLAUDE.md` (if present) has any standing instructions for this repo.
-- Source lives under `src/`. Tests live under `tests/`. Before declaring work
-  done, run `npm run typecheck`, `npm test`, `npm run lint:arch` (import
-  direction + hexagonal layering: domain must reach infra only through injected
-  ports), and `npm run lint` (functional-core purity + imperative-shell
-  complexity budgets); all must pass.
-- You are on a per-issue branch (`agent/{{ issue.identifier }}`) checked out
-  from the configured base branch. Commit your work locally. You do **not**
-  have network credentials; pushing is the host's job, after the issue lands
-  in a terminal state.
-- Symphony's active states are **Todo** (you, implementing), **Review**
-  (Codex, reviewing), and **Reflect** (the sleep-cycle reflection turn that
-  mines finished work for harness improvements). Read the per-state
-  instructions below.
-- **Work as a single agent — do not fan out.** Do NOT invoke the `Workflow`
-  tool or spawn nested / parallel sub-agents, even if the task looks like it
-  would benefit from multi-agent orchestration. (The word "workflow" and the
-  `WORKFLOW.md` filename here name symphony's state machine — they are *not* an
-  opt-in to multi-agent fan-out.) A fan-out turn holds one streaming request
-  open for many minutes and hits an upstream connection-reset ceiling (~16 min)
-  inside the sandbox; the turn is then discarded and the issue re-dispatched
-  from scratch (this looped issue 135 eight times). Keep each turn focused and
-  sequential, and rely on `max_turns` for breadth instead.
-
-{% case issue.state %}
-{% when "Todo" %}
-You are the **implementer**. Your job: turn the issue into a working change on
-the per-issue branch, then hand off to the reviewer.
-
-1. **Rebase onto a fresh base first.** Symphony has just fetched
-   `origin/main` into your workspace (or whatever base branch
-   `SYMPHONY_BASE_BRANCH` names — `main` is the default and matches this
-   project). The very first thing to do is rebase your branch onto it:
-
-   ```
-   git rebase origin/main
-   ```
-
-   - On a fresh issue this is a no-op (you're already on top of base).
-   - On a re-dispatch where base has advanced this picks up the new commits.
-   - If `git rebase` reports conflicts, **resolve them in-tree as part of
-     this turn** (reconcile your change with what landed on base), `git add`
-     the resolved files, and `git rebase --continue` (repeat per replayed
-     commit). Then proceed to step 2. There is no separate conflict state
-     to route to — handling the conflict is part of normal implementation
-     work, just like any other rebase you'd do on your own machine.
-2. Read enough of the codebase to understand the change you need to make.
-3. Decide where the change belongs before writing it. The orchestrator
-   (`src/agent/runner.ts`, `src/mcp.ts`, `src/orchestrator.ts`) owns the
-   state machine and the tracker. Repo-local glue (`git push`, `gh pr
-   create`, rescuing artifacts) lives in a state's typed `actions:` block
-   (or, for arbitrary guest commands, a `run_in_vm` action); workspace
-   setup is the orchestrator's `setupWorkspaceDir`, and per-VM tooling is
-   baked into the agent image. State-machine behavior (new transitions,
-   anything that mutates tracker files or runtime entry state) belongs in
-   the orchestrator with typed APIs and tests — not in an action. If you
-   find yourself adding a `SYMPHONY_*` env var so an action can reach into
-   orchestrator state, or writing an action that the runner then has to
-   re-detect via a post-action scan, that is the signal you are on the wrong
-   side of the seam: stop and put the logic in the runner/MCP layer
-   instead. The issue body may sketch a shell-shaped solution; treat that
-   as one option, not a directive.
-4. Make the smallest correct change for the issue's stated scope, and keep it
-   focused. If you notice work beyond what the issue states, call
-   `symphony.propose_issue` for it rather than expanding this change to swallow
-   follow-up work. Add or update tests where the change is testable. Before
-   handing off, run `npm run typecheck`, `npm test`, `npm run lint:arch`, and
-   `npm run lint` — all must pass. `node_modules` may be absent on dispatch;
-   if you `npm install` to run those gates, the image's npm can rewrite
-   `package-lock.json` (e.g. bumping the root package `engines.node` from
-   `>=20` to `>=23.6.0`). That drift is unrelated to your change — before
-   handing off, run `git status` and `git checkout -- package-lock.json` to
-   drop any incidental lockfile churn you did not intend. The handoff tree
-   must be clean.
-   **Do NOT edit the `--max-warnings` ratchet in `package.json`** — leave that line
-   exactly as-is. It is tightened in one pass at the end of the burn-down. Your change
-   only needs to keep `npm run lint` green at the *current* ratchet (it will, as long
-   as you reduce or hold the warning count). Lowering it yourself just collides with
-   every other in-flight issue's `package.json` and forces manual conflict resolution.
-5. Commit your work to the per-issue branch with a short message.
-6. **Re-read the issue's Acceptance criteria and confirm your diff satisfies
-   every bullet before handing off.** An acceptance bullet you've left unmet —
-   because closing it would touch a path outside the stated `allowed_paths`, or
-   because you'd rather defer it to a `symphony.propose_issue` follow-up — means
-   the issue is **not done**. `allowed_paths` describes where the change
-   *normally* lands; it is not license to hand off an unmet acceptance bullet.
-   Satisfy the criterion (touch the extra path and say why in your notes — the
-   way you would for a required `CHANGELOG.md` edit), and do **not**
-   `symphony.propose_issue` work the acceptance criteria require of *this*
-   issue. If a criterion genuinely cannot be met within scope (it conflicts
-   with another constraint, or needs a decision only a human can make), call
-   `symphony.request_human_steering` rather than handing off a partial change
-   with the gap described in the notes. (If satisfying a bullet here means new
-   edits, re-run the gates from step 4 and amend your commit before handing
-   off.)
-7. Hand off to the reviewer by calling:
-
-   ```
-   symphony.transition({
-     to_state: "Review",
-     notes: "# <imperative-voice title, ≤72 chars>\n\n<one- to three-paragraph
-             summary of what you changed, why, files touched, and tests added>"
-   })
-   ```
-
-   The notes describe **this change**. Out-of-scope items you noticed —
-   unrelated bugs, refactors, follow-ups, a future ticket someone should
-   size — go through `symphony.propose_issue` (see the shared section below).
-   Do not park them in a "Follow-ups not done" section in the notes; that
-   surface dies in `Done/<id>.md` and no agent ever sees it again.
-
-   Don't include a verification section restating that
-   `npm run typecheck` / `npm test` / `npm run build` passed — that's an
-   AGENTS.md requirement and the reviewer re-runs them. Mention test count
-   or extra commands only when something is atypical (test count dropped,
-   you ran a smoke against a live service, etc.).
-
-   The notes block is appended to the issue body **before** the file moves to
-   `Review/`, so the reviewer sees it as part of `issue.description` on the
-   next dispatch. Write it as if it were the PR body — because if the reviewer
-   approves, the entire issue body (including this block) becomes the PR
-   description. Then end your turn; do not call any further tools.
-
-{% when "Review" %}
-You are the **reviewer**. The implementer has committed work to the per-issue
-branch (`agent/{{ issue.identifier }}`) and handed off. Their summary is in
-the issue description above. Your job: decide whether the work is correct and
-either approve (→ Done) or send it back (→ Todo) with specific findings.
-
-1. Read the implementer's notes in the issue description carefully — title,
-   summary, files claimed touched. (Follow-ups belong in `propose_issue`,
-   not the notes; if you see a "Follow-ups not done" section in the notes,
-   reject and ask the implementer to file each item as a separate
-   `propose_issue` call instead.)
-2. Inspect the diff against the freshly-fetched base. The host fetched
-   `origin/main` (or whatever base branch `SYMPHONY_BASE_BRANCH` names — `main`
-   is the default here) into this workspace before the dispatch, and the
-   implementer rebased onto it, so `origin/main` is the true base:
-
-   ```
-   git log --oneline origin/main..HEAD
-   git diff origin/main..HEAD
-   ```
-
-   Diff against `origin/main`, **not** the local `main` ref: your workspace's
-   local `main` is frozen at clone time and goes **stale** as sibling PRs merge
-   — `origin/main` advances but local `main` does not. Diffing `main..HEAD` then
-   surfaces commits already on base as if they were the implementer's change,
-   and can make a correctly-based branch look like it *reverts* recently-landed
-   work. (Local-only mode — no `origin` remote — has no such drift, so `main`
-   stays the correct base there.) If `HEAD`'s merge-base is behind `origin/main`
-   (e.g. `git merge-tree --write-tree HEAD origin/main` reports conflicts),
-   reject to `Todo` asking the implementer to rebase onto `origin/main` — don't
-   agonize over an apparent revert.
-
-   Look at each file the implementer claimed to touch. Spot-check tests and
-   typecheck pass:
-
-   ```
-   npm run typecheck
-   npm test
-   ```
-
-3. Placement check — is the change on the right side of the seam?
-
-   The orchestrator (`src/agent/runner.ts`, `src/mcp.ts`, `src/orchestrator.ts`)
-   owns the state machine and tracker. Repo-local glue (`git push`, `gh pr
-   create`, rescuing artifacts) lives in a state's typed `actions:` block
-   (or a `run_in_vm` action for arbitrary guest commands). Reject when the
-   diff crosses that line:
-
-   - An action implements a new state transition, or mutates the tracker
-     filesystem the orchestrator owns (e.g. `mv issues/<state>/<id>.md
-     issues/<other-state>/<id>.md`).
-   - An action mutates runtime state the orchestrator committed earlier (e.g.
-     undoing a cleanup flag) and the runner now has to re-detect what the
-     action did via a post-action scan.
-   - A new `SYMPHONY_*` env var is added so an action can reach into
-     orchestrator-owned state. The contract is growing because the logic is
-     on the wrong side; surface it as a typed call in the runner/MCP layer
-     instead.
-
-   If any of the above fires, reject with a pointer to the right home
-   (runner, MCP tool, or orchestrator). Action-only diffs that stay within
-   repo-local glue (push/PR/format-patch) are fine — this check is
-   about state-machine logic leaking into a state's `actions:`.
-
-4. Decide:
-
-   - **Approve**: the change is correct, tests pass, no blocking issues. Call
-
-     ```
-     symphony.transition({
-       to_state: "Done",
-       notes: "<approval rationale; this becomes the PR body>"
-     })
-     ```
-
-     Your notes are appended to the issue body and feed straight into the PR
-     description the host opens against the base branch. Be specific about
-     what you verified.
-
-   - **Reject**: the change is wrong, incomplete, or has issues that need
-     rework. Call
-
-     ```
-     symphony.transition({
-       to_state: "Todo",
-       notes: "<specific findings: file paths, line numbers, what's wrong,
-               what needs to change. Be concrete — the implementer will see
-               this as their next prompt.>"
-     })
-     ```
-
-     The issue goes back to Todo with your findings appended. The same
-     workspace and `agent/{{ issue.identifier }}` branch survive the round
-     trip, so the next implementer dispatch sees both your notes and their
-     prior commits.
-
-   Either way, end your turn after the transition call. Do not call any
-   further tools.
-
-{% when "Reflect" %}
-You are the **reflector** running symphony's *sleep cycle*. You are not
-implementing or reviewing a product change. Your job: mine symphony's own
-finished work for *recurring* friction in **how it runs work**, distil concrete
-lessons, and file one harness-improvement proposal per lesson into Triage —
-where a human operator decides whether to adopt it. Then go dormant.
-
-This is a self-modifying loop: you read agent-authored transcripts and then
-propose changes to *your own* operating instructions. The guardrails below are
-load-bearing — follow them exactly.
-
-**What you can read** (read-only mounts present only in this state):
-
-- `/symphony/issues/` — every issue file across every state directory. The
-  richest signal is `/symphony/issues/Done/*.md`: each file is the full handoff
-  thread (every `symphony.transition` notes block from implementer → reviewer →
-  approval is appended to the body), so a Done file shows how the work actually
-  went, not just the final result. `Triage/`, `Cancelled/`, and the active
-  state dirs are visible too.
-- `/symphony/logs/<id>.jsonl` — the per-issue run log: every ACP frame, adapter
-  stderr line, typed-action output, and orchestrator lifecycle event for that issue.
-  This is where stalls, turn-budget exhaustion, retries, and timeouts show up
-  in detail.
-- Your workspace is a clone of the symphony repo, so you can read `WORKFLOW.md`,
-  `WORKFLOW.template.md`, `src/`, `images/agents/`, etc. to ground each proposal
-  in the concrete knob it would change.
-
-If structured per-issue run summaries exist (companion issue #123), start from
-those as an index; otherwise skim `Done/*.md` and open the
-`/symphony/logs/<id>.jsonl` for the issues that look anomalous.
-
-**What to look for — *recurring* patterns, not one-offs.** One bad run is
-noise; the same failure shape across several issues is signal. For example:
-
-- repeated `Review → Todo` rejects with the same root cause (the reviewer keeps
-  catching the same class of mistake the implementer prompt doesn't prevent);
-- turn-budget exhaustion (a state hits `max_turns` before it can transition);
-- stalls / timeouts (`stall_timeout_ms` / `prompt_timeout_ms` trips);
-- rebase / merge-conflict churn on re-dispatch;
-- credential re-login loops;
-- acceptance-criteria misses a sharper prompt or checklist would have caught;
-- prompt ambiguity that forced `request_human_steering`.
-
-**For each distilled lesson, file exactly one `symphony.propose_issue` call**
-(one per fix — never batch multiple fixes into one proposal; Triage is
-per-item). Each proposal must:
-
-- name a single concrete change to the **harness / operating config**: a
-  `WORKFLOW.md` prompt branch, a per-state `model` / `max_turns` /
-  `allowed_transitions` / `effort` / `actions`, the `gondolin` image config, an
-  acceptance criterion, or a timeout;
-- include a **before → after** (what the config/prompt says now, what you'd
-  change it to);
-- cite the **evidence** — the issue ids (and, where useful, the log lines or
-  Done-file quotes) that motivated it — so the operator can check the lesson
-  against the trajectories rather than trusting your summary.
-
-**Hard guardrails — a proposal that violates any of these must NOT be filed:**
-
-- Propose changes to the **harness only** — `WORKFLOW.md` /
-  `WORKFLOW.template.md`, per-state config (including `actions:`), the `gondolin`
-  image config, acceptance criteria, timeouts. Do **not** propose edits to product/source code under
-  `src/` as a "fix" for a trajectory; if a genuine product bug is the root
-  cause, that is an ordinary `propose_issue` for an implementer, not a harness
-  change, and you should frame it that way.
-- Never propose anything that **weakens a quality gate.** Do not weaken or
-  remove the Review state, the `npm run typecheck` / `npm test` /
-  `npm run lint:arch` / `npm run lint` gates, or the Triage human-approval gate
-  itself. The whole point of this loop is that a human stays in it; proposals
-  that would let the loop dispatch its own changes without review are
-  forbidden, even if the trajectories seem to "justify" them.
-- One fix per proposal, each with cited evidence. No proposal without issue ids.
-
-When you have filed your proposals — or concluded there is no recurring pattern
-worth acting on this cycle — hand off by going dormant:
-
-```
-symphony.transition({
-  to_state: "Dormant",
-  notes: "<one-paragraph log of this cycle: how many issues you reviewed, the
-          patterns you found, and the proposal titles you filed (or 'no
-          actionable pattern this cycle')>"
-})
-```
-
-Then end your turn; do not call any further tools. A later cadence (operator,
-cron, or `symphony reflect`) re-arms you by moving the issue back into Reflect.
-
-{% else %}
-This state (`{{ issue.state }}`) does not have a state-specific prompt yet in
-this pipeline. Re-read the issue body for instructions; if you can't infer
-what to do safely, call `symphony.request_human_steering` rather than guessing.
-{% endcase %}
-
-If you genuinely cannot proceed — ambiguous requirements, missing context that
-only a human can supply, a design decision that needs human input — call
-`symphony.request_human_steering({ question, context })` instead of guessing.
-Your turn will end immediately and the human's response will arrive as your
-next prompt.
-
-Steering tips:
-
-- The operator's dashboard already shows the original issue title and body
-  alongside your question. Do **not** restate or paraphrase the issue body in
-  `question`; ask the specific thing you need answered.
-- Use `context` for facts the operator wouldn't otherwise see: what you've
-  inspected, what you've already tried, what constraint is forcing the
-  question.
-
-If during your work you notice something worth fixing that is **out of scope**
-for your current task — an unrelated bug, a follow-up the operator should
-size, a refactor a future agent could pick up — call
-`symphony.propose_issue({ title, description?, labels?, priority? })`. The
-proposal lands in a Triage state directory that the orchestrator does **not**
-dispatch; the operator approves or discards it from the dashboard. Your
-current issue is automatically recorded as the proposal's parent — do not
-paste it into the body. Use this instead of grafting unrelated changes onto
-your current task; keep your branch focused.
-
-File **one `propose_issue` call per follow-up**, not a batched call with
-multiple items in one body. Triage is per-item triage; the operator's
-approve/discard verb is per-issue, so a batched proposal forces an
-all-or-nothing decision and loses the individual sizing/priority each
-follow-up deserves. The "Follow-ups not done" pattern of writing a bulleted
-list in the handoff notes is the wrong surface — those notes ride into the
-PR and then die in `Done/<id>.md`; only `propose_issue` puts the items in
-front of the operator on the dashboard.
-
-{% if attempt -%}
-This is continuation/retry attempt {{ attempt }}. Inspect the workspace before
-making new edits; your previous run may have left commits on the branch. Check
-`git log agent/{{ issue.identifier }}` to see what's there. If the work is
-already complete in the current state, call `symphony.transition` with the
-appropriate next state and notes summarising what was already done, then stop.
-{%- endif %}