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.
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