Imported from nullhack/temple8 (AGENTS.md). Install upstream with npx skills add nullhack/temple8. Copyright stays with the author.

AGENTS.md

A Python project with the staged-contract workflow wired in (flow set, agents/skills/knowledge, CI, tooling). Drive the pipeline one state at a time through flowr.

Binding constraints

1. flowr is the single router. Every state change runs through flowr — no improvised routing, no skipping, no pre-empting a later state's work. One state's work is exactly its output artifacts; the next begins only when the orchestrator transitions.
2. The orchestrator dispatches; the dispatched agent does the work. The orchestrator MUST invoke the state's dispatch_to agent — it never authors the work. The handoff gives the agent: skills paths, input artifacts, output artifacts (write only here), and the evidence keys to assert. The agent produces the artifacts and asserts evidence; it does not transition.
3. The state's contract is binding. Read every input artifact before starting — missing means stop, not assume. Write only to output artifacts.
4. Assert only verified evidence; CI is the backstop. On a guarded transition flowr fires only on the dispatched agent's asserted evidence (--evidence k=v); assert nothing you did not check — CI catches the lie (ruff / pyright / mypy.stubtest / pytest). Unguarded transitions (discovery, explore) carry no flowr gate — the orchestrator verifies the output artifacts and the stakeholder's approval IS the gate.
5. Branch discipline. Match the state's git branch: discovery/explore/plan/deliver run on dev; build runs on feature/<session_id>, cut from dev at build entry. The contract surface is committed to dev at plan; the feature branch carries only the source implementation. Squash-merge feature/<session_id> → dev only under the whole-suite gates, then delete the branch. No dangling branches.
6. Every requirement traced. Each interview finding maps to a test or an explicit deferral; an untraced requirement is a gap the simulate gate rejects.
7. Only the orchestrator transitions. Producing artifacts is not finishing — the orchestrator's verified flowr transition is. A dispatched agent never runs flowr transition / flowr session, never assumes the next state, never declares the flow done.
8. Todo-first. The first action on entering a state is to create its one-state todo (the loop below). No todo = no work. Only the orchestrator holds the todo; regenerate it after every transition.

Driving a state

Two hats. AGENTS.md addresses the orchestrator — the agent holding the flowr session that drives state to state. A dispatched agent (invoked via a state's dispatch_to) does one state's work and returns. Its operating contract is ordered and mandatory:

• (0) Load the named skill via the skill tool — the skill is the procedure; do not improvise.
• (1) Execute the skill's Load step — resolve every [[wikilink]] and Read each cited knowledge file before any other step. The skill and its knowledge citations ARE the method; skipping them collapses the work to the agent's native lens.
• (2) Follow the skill's steps in order — read every input artifact, write only to output artifacts, assert only verified evidence.
• (3) Never transition, skip, or hold the todo — produce, return, stop (7).

If you were invoked to do a state's work, you are the dispatched agent.

One state at a time. The orchestrator keeps one todo per state — the todo is this loop:

0. Create the todo — todowrite the phases below before any other action (8).

1. Read — flowr check --session <id>; parse dispatch_to, skills, input artifacts, output artifacts, git branch, conditions.

2. Verify inputs — every input artifact exists on disk. Missing = stop (3).

3. Dispatch — invoke dispatch_to with a handoff whose first instruction is to load the skill and follow it. Use this template verbatim, filling the slots from check:

   Load the skill <skills[0]> via the skill tool and follow its steps in order, beginning with its Load step — resolve every [[wikilink]] and Read each cited knowledge file before working. Inputs (read all): <input artifacts>. Outputs (write only here): <output artifacts>. Evidence keys to assert (guarded only): <conditions keys>. Boundary: do only this state's work; do not transition, skip, or hold the todo — the orchestrator moves the flow (2, 7).

   It returns the output artifacts and asserted evidence.

4. Verify outputs + evidence — the output artifacts were produced; if the transition is guarded, its conditions evidence is real (4).

5. Transition — flowr transition <trigger> --session <id> --evidence k=v …, then regenerate the todo from the next state's check.

Routing is one flow with five subflows: pipeline-flow → discovery → explore → plan → build → deliver → shipped. Escalations re-enter the target subflow at its first state (no position memory): build → plan on a contract gap; plan/explore → discover on insufficient elicitation. Gate evidence keys + the full session/subflow mechanics: [[workflow/flowr-operations]].

Parsimony

Fewest, quietest commands — suppress verbose flags, scope to the target (read the .pyi before the .py). No narration: command + output is the conversation, not a running commentary. Cite precisely (file:line), never vague. Do not repeat yourself — each fact stated once, in its canonical home (the flow, the knowledge, the test, the ADR), and cited elsewhere. Scrub AI markers (delve, tapestry, rather than, plays a crucial role) from authored prose per [[writing/ai-language-markers]]. Maximise signal; minimise tokens.

Workflow

Tests are the source of truth. The pipeline authors a staged contract surface, then builds it: discover elicits requirements (interview funnel → glossary); explore grounds external reality (vcrpy cassettes — the authoritative external contract); plan writes tests up front (*_test.pyi → *_test.py @pytest.mark.pending → source .pyi → simulate); build implements each source .py from its fixed .pyi one contract per cycle (red → green → refactor → review → ship); deliver squash-merges the feature branch to dev (then deletes it), optionally publishes on approval, and refresh closes the cycle: regenerates docs/state.md from the current tests, summarizes the carry-over cache files to ~1000 words so the next cycle starts compact, and closes the docstring lifecycle (regenerate the public source surface then strip all .py — source and test — docstring-free for the next cycle). Rework enters the backlog from two trigger sources: build-escalation findings in the journal, and discovery findings in the interview that flag a modification to an existing block; both surface as @pytest.mark.pending at plan so select-build-target pulls them. An empty backlog is done. flowr's gates collect EVIDENCE the agent asserts; CI is the enforcement backstop (ruff / pyright / mypy.stubtest / pytest). When prose and a test disagree, the test wins.

Authoring detail (staged contracts, evidence vs enforcement, the docstring/lint lifecycle, separation-of-concerns, secrets/config) lives in the knowledge layer — discover it, do not restate it here.

Project layout

Committed (the source of truth):

Gitignored (local working state, regenerated on demand):

Agents, skills & knowledge

Under .opencode/ (loaded on demand, not every session):

Discover rather than enumerate:

ls .opencode/agents/
ls .opencode/skills/
find .opencode/knowledge -name '*.md'

The flow binds each state to its dispatched agent (dispatch_to), procedure (skills), and artifacts (input artifacts / output artifacts); agents, skills, and knowledge stay single-concern and free of routing. Wikilinks cite knowledge on demand: [[domain/concept]] resolves to .opencode/knowledge/{domain}/{concept}.md, and a #section fragment selects depth. Authoring conventions live in the methodology/ domain.

Project commands

Tasks are defined in pyproject.toml under [tool.taskipy.tasks]. Package-dependent commands (task run, task test, task stubtest, …) target the package named in [tool.setuptools] packages.