workbite 0.1.0 → 0.1.2
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- package/README.md +23 -2
- package/lib/agent.js +210 -0
- package/lib/cli.js +178 -9
- package/lib/install.js +12 -3
- package/lib/mcp.js +501 -0
- package/lib/runtime.js +66 -3
- package/package.json +2 -1
- package/release.json +1 -0
- package/skills/workbite-native/SKILL.md +83 -0
- package/skills/workbite-native/agents/openai.yaml +4 -0
- package/skills/workbite-native/references/commands.md +199 -0
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name: workbite-native
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description: Read and record WorkBite Tasks through the installed `workbite agent` CLI or `workbite mcp` tools - check the bound workspace, list Tasks, read a Task's context, and, when the user asks for it (including a standing request made mid-work), create Tasks, update a Task's detail/status and append observable checkpoints with stable intent IDs. Use for WorkBite / Work Stack task and context requests in a WorkBite install; never route them to a separately installed `workstack`.
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# WorkBite native Tasks
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WorkBite's Task authority is the Work Stack owner that `workbite open` runs for
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one workspace. Reach it only through `workbite agent ...` (CLI) or the
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`workbite mcp` tools. Both bind to an already running, verified owner; they
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never start, install, initialize or adopt anything. If a WorkBite command
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refuses, report it and stop: do not call an unqualified `workstack`, another
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install, the Store files, or raw HTTP instead.
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Exact argv, packets, envelopes and refusals: [references/commands.md](references/commands.md).
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Read it before the first write in a session, and for MCP tool use.
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## Bind: one workspace, path + UUID
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1. Run `workbite agent status` (or the `workbite_status` tool). Its top-level
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`workbite` object names the bound workspace: `workbite.workspace` (absolute
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path) and `workbite.workspace_uid`. Without `--workspace` it binds the
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workspace last opened with `workbite open`; if the user named a workspace,
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pass `--workspace ABS --workspace-uid UUID` instead.
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2. Continue only on exit 0 with `data.ready: true` and `data.actual_workspace_uid`
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equal to `workbite.workspace_uid`. Otherwise report the refusal (the JSON
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`error.code`, or the stderr message when no JSON was printed) and stop;
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opening WorkBite is the user's step.
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3. From then on pass that exact pair, `--workspace ABS --workspace-uid UUID`
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(CLI) or `workspace_uid` (MCP), on every write and also on every read of a
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selected Task (`context`, `operation-status`). Re-run status for a fresh
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pair whenever the session, the user's chosen workspace, or a refusal makes
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it doubtful. A Task ID like `T-0001` exists in every workspace, so it never
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picks the target; the path + UUID do.
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## What the user's request authorizes
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- **Reads** need no special authorization beyond the user's WorkBite request.
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- **Writes** need the user's explicit intent for the outcome: "make Tasks for
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X, Y, Z", "mark T-0003 done", "keep the Task detail updated as you go",
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"log a checkpoint when you finish", or a standing instruction given
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mid-work ("from now on, file a Task for every bug you find"). Once that
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intent exists, perform the writes it covers without asking again per write.
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- Create as many Tasks as the user's intent calls for, each with its own
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intent ID. `follows_task_id` is optional provenance only.
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- Never mark a Task `done` or `dropped` on your own judgement; set status only
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## Writing well
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- **Context in `detail`**: write what a later reader needs (goal, decisions,
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current state, pointers to files or commits). Read `context` first and
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- **Checkpoints are observable facts**: `done`, `next`, `blockers` lists of
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things that happened or are concretely planned. No speculation, no
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- Never put secrets, tokens, credentials, environment dumps, raw Store files
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## Intent IDs and uncertain outcomes
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before sending and kept with its packet, e.g. `wb.create.20261013.login-bug`.
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different packet under a used ID is `idempotency_conflict`.
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- `revision_conflict`: re-read context; re-issue against the current revision
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with a new intent ID only if the change still fits what the user asked and
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intent ID and packet. For `tasks create` / `tasks update`, run
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`operation-status --intent-id ID`: `committed` means done; `unknown` never
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byte-identical packet when the reason is `no_receipt`. For a checkpoint,
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report the uncertainty and do not append another one. Neither the CLI nor
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# workbite agent / workbite mcp reference
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Contents: invocation · binding flags · commands · packets · output and
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exits · refusals and recovery · file input on Windows · MCP tools.
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## Invocation
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`workbite` is the npm launcher's bin. Where it is not on `PATH`, run the same
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entry with Node: `node <path-to-installed-workbite>/bin/workbite.js agent ...`.
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Only the commands below exist under `workbite agent`; anything else (raw RPC,
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legacy apply, delete, migration, provider control) is refused. Each call is
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one request to the native client of the installed bundle, which talks to the
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workspace's running owner; nothing is started, and a refusal starts nothing.
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## Binding flags
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```text
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workbite agent [--workspace ABS --workspace-uid UUID] <command> ...
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- `--workspace` (absolute path) and `--workspace-uid` (the workspace's UUID)
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are given together or not at all.
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- Without them, a read binds the workspace saved by the last successful
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`workbite open`. Writes (`tasks create`, `tasks update`, `checkpoint`)
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(`capabilities`, the first `status`, `tasks list`); once `status` has
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named the workspace, pass the pair on `context` and `operation-status` too.
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- The binding is checked before every call: the workspace descriptor must
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still carry that UUID and its owner must be the same ready, authenticated
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## Commands
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| Command | Writes | Form |
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| capabilities | no | `workbite agent capabilities` |
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| status | no | `workbite agent [binding] status` |
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| tasks list | no | `workbite agent [binding] tasks list [--status S] [--limit N] [--offset N]` |
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| context | no | `workbite agent --workspace ABS --workspace-uid UUID context --task T-0001 [--view V]` |
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| tasks create | yes | `workbite agent --workspace ABS --workspace-uid UUID tasks create --intent-id ID (--input-file FILE \| --stdin)` |
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| tasks update | yes | `workbite agent --workspace ABS --workspace-uid UUID tasks update --intent-id ID (--input-file FILE \| --stdin)` |
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| checkpoint | yes | `workbite agent --workspace ABS --workspace-uid UUID checkpoint --intent-id ID (--input-file FILE \| --stdin)` |
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| operation-status | no | `workbite agent --workspace ABS --workspace-uid UUID operation-status --intent-id ID` |
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- `capabilities` lists what the installed native client actually supports;
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a command it does not list is refused, never emulated.
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- `status`: the native answer plus a top-level `workbite` object
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(`schema: "workbite.agent.binding.v1"`, `workspace`, `workspace_uid`,
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`endpoint`, `state`). Take the pair from `workbite.workspace` and
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`workbite.workspace_uid`, and continue only with exit 0, `data.ready: true`
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and `data.actual_workspace_uid` equal to `workbite.workspace_uid`. It never
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- `tasks list`: `--status` `active` (default: open + started), `all`, `open`,
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`started`, `done`, `dropped`; `--limit` 1–100 (default 20); `--offset` ≥ 0.
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Rows are `id`, `title`, `status`, `priority`, `revision`; order is backlog
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order. Page with `data.next_offset` (`null` on the last page).
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- `context --task ID`: the Task (`id`, `uid`, `title`, `detail`, `status`,
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`title` is required and non-empty; `detail` and `follows_task_id` are
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otherwise the selection saved at startup. A later `workbite open` of another
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173
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+
workspace does not move a running server; restart it to rebind.
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174
|
+
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175
|
+
Arguments are flat (no nested packet); `workspace_uid` must equal the
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176
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+
server's bound UUID wherever it is given, and is required on writes. Unknown
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177
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+
or mistyped arguments are refused before anything runs.
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178
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+
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179
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+
| Tool | Writes | Arguments (required **bold**) |
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|
180
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+
|---|---|---|
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181
|
+
| `workbite_status` | no | `workspace_uid` |
|
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182
|
+
| `workbite_tasks_list` | no | `workspace_uid`, `status`, `limit`, `offset` |
|
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183
|
+
| `workbite_context` | no | `workspace_uid`, **`task_id`**, `view`, `fingerprint`, `if_fingerprint` |
|
|
184
|
+
| `workbite_tasks_create` | yes | **`workspace_uid`**, **`intent_id`**, **`title`**, `detail`, `follows_task_id` |
|
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185
|
+
| `workbite_tasks_update` | yes | **`workspace_uid`**, **`intent_id`**, **`task_id`**, **`expected_revision`**, **`changes`** (`{detail?, status?}`) |
|
|
186
|
+
| `workbite_checkpoint` | yes | **`workspace_uid`**, **`intent_id`**, **`task_id`**, **`date`**, **`done`**, **`next`**, **`blockers`** |
|
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187
|
+
| `workbite_operation_status` | no | `workspace_uid`, **`intent_id`** |
|
|
188
|
+
|
|
189
|
+
- Pass `workspace_uid` on reads of a selected Task too, so a server bound
|
|
190
|
+
elsewhere refuses instead of answering for another workspace.
|
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191
|
+
- `workbite_status` adds a `workbite` object (`workspace`, `workspace_uid`).
|
|
192
|
+
- Results carry the envelope as `structuredContent` (from protocol
|
|
193
|
+
`2025-06-18`) and as text. A refusal is `isError: true`; adapter refusals
|
|
194
|
+
use contract `workbite.mcp.v1` with codes such as `invalid_arguments`,
|
|
195
|
+
`workspace_mismatch`, `binding_unavailable`, `not_sent` and
|
|
196
|
+
`commit_unknown` (with `meta.commit_state: "unknown"` and the `intent_id`
|
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197
|
+
for `workbite_operation_status`). Calls run one at a time and are never
|
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198
|
+
retried.
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199
|
+
- No tool runs shells, raw RPC, deletes or policy changes.
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