The AI workforce engine's driver. One tick moves every ready task one step:
a turn, a gate, or a platform merge. The AI never runs git.
- scheduler.py: tick() over TURN_STAGES/MERGE_STAGES; selection caps
(per-org 3, global 8); optimistic advance so two workers cannot both win;
worktree created for code pipelines, released on completion/cancel/failure
(kept during error_review); budget pause before any turn is spent; merge
conflict back-off; transient-failure retries then the manager's error turn.
- gates.py: diff guard (empty/.git/CI/symlink/oversize), no-progress hash,
tests in the sandbox, green gate that only trusts a green tests row or an
explicit waiver. Every verdict is a gate_results row + a task.gate event.
Fixed forbidden_paths: lstrip("./") stripped all leading dots, hiding
.git and .github from the guard.
- container_engine.build_scheduler + worker drives the engine tick.
- ManagerOutcome.error_kind; TaskSpendRepository.spend_for_task.
- New settings engine_max_concurrent_turns, engine_max_turns_per_org,
engine_tests_timeout_seconds, engine_max_merge_conflicts,
engine_max_task_credits (+ .env.example).
- tests: test_engine_gates.py (13), test_engine_flow.py (11).
Checks: pytest 746 passed/1 skipped, ruff clean, mypy clean (160 files).
Phase 3 of the AI-workforce engine (TODO-agent-2):
- engine/manager.py: ManagerTurns.chat (CREATE_TASK/PAUSE/RESUME/CANCEL,
HIRE/UPDATE_EMPLOYEE/FIRE, KNOWLEDGE), triage (ASSIGN/REJECT/ASK_USER),
final_review (COMPLETE/REVISE +cycle), error_review (RESOLVE_ERROR/CANCEL),
bootstrap_team; post_user_message now delegates to it.
- One billing path: call_model/BillingScope in runner.py is the single model
entry point (fixes the agybot chat-billing bug).
- Team changes capped at 3/turn, employee cap, last manager cannot be fired,
hires pick a granted model of the requested tier strictly.
- container_engine.py wires the real WorkforceBootstrapPort.
- Fixes: REVISE is a body tag (prompt and parser now agree); ASSIGN
employee="" means pick-for-me; the runner's protocol-error retry is capped by
engine_max_protocol_retries (was unbounded until the turn timeout).
- 20 new manager tests + regression tests; report in
docs/plan/reports/agent-2-phase-3.md.
Phase 2 of TODO-agent-2: one employee, one turn, real tools in the sandbox.
- engine/prompt.py: the stable, cache-friendly prefix in the plan's order
(rules → role protocol → toolkit → app profile → memory), a task brief
capped at 1200 chars, role-specific stage context (spec for the developer,
the diff only for the reviewer, test output for the tester) and a hard
prompt cap that drops the oldest tool results first.
- engine/tools.py: READ/WRITE/EDIT/LIST_DIR/SEARCH/RUN executed inside the
sandbox through SandboxProviderPort, rooted at the worktree's sandbox path.
Path escapes, .. and .git are refused; git push/remote/config are refused
with "the platform does git"; RUN clamps its timeout (120s default, 600s
max) and keeps the tail of its output; every execution writes a tool_calls
row so the approvals UI shows real work.
- engine/runner.py: the loop — model call, parse tags, execute tool tags,
feed results back — until a terminal tag, the tool cap, the turn timeout or
a cancellation. The employee's model is checked against ModelGrantPort
before the first call (ungranted → error_kind=auth, no spend), errors are
classified transient vs fatal, and every model call writes usage events
through the one shared record_model_usage path (extracted from
WorkforceService so manager chat counts too). Writes engine_turns, run_steps
and tool_calls.
- engine/events.py: RunFeed batches run.log (≤1 event / 500 ms / stream, ≤200
lines) and emits run.tool and task.gate through the generic envelope.
- tests: engine_fakes.py (ScriptedModel, FakeSandbox, FakeGrants,
RecordingMemory) plus 54 new tests in test_engine_runner,
test_engine_prompt and test_engine_tools.
Suite: 648 passed, ruff clean, mypy clean.
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