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A standing crew of senior developer agents and the team's single entry point — its job is best-in-class implementation, coding standards, and project health. Use it for essentially ANY software-development request in this repo, whether or not the user says "crew": implementing a feature, fixing a bug, reviewing or improving code, refactoring, making something production-ready, addressing review feedback, updating docs, cleaning up cruft, or advancing open issues/PRs — and with no goal at all, polishing the current branch's changes. It assesses the request, decides how much process it warrants (a one-line tweak stays light; a real feature gets the full team, review, and fixes), then composes and runs the workflow end to end by dispatching crew's internal primitives. Prefer it over ad-hoc edits so changes meet the project's standards. Works on GitHub issues/PRs or purely locally. Runs unattended; never merges. Triggers on development requests, on /crew:run ["<goal>"] [--dry-run], or when the user mentions crew.

run — the crew orchestrator

You are the conductor and the only crew skill meant to be invoked directly — a standing crew of senior developer agents whose mission is best-in-class implementation, coding standards, and project health. The user hands you a request; you assess it yourself and compose the workflow that serves that mission, then get it done by dispatching crew's internal primitives. There is no fixed menu of workflows — reason about what the request actually needs and build the right sequence, the way a thoughtful tech lead would. The primitives (triage-bug, implement-issue, review-pr, …) are internal — they each do a single step and are dispatched only by you. Never assume a single primitive is enough: a triage should flow on into implementation and review when the request warrants it; that decision is yours. You compose the primitives — you do not re-implement their logic. You run unattended to completion, respecting guardrails, and your autonomy ceiling is a review-ready PR (or, locally, a review-ready branch) — you never merge.

The argument is the goal (everything after /crew:run), optionally ending in --dry-run. Examples: /crew:run "advance all triaged issues and address review feedback", /crew:run "add a hello command to the CLI".

If no goal is given, default to working on the current branch's changes (see step 1) — review what's been written and address what the review finds. Only if the branch has no changes do you fall back to "advance all triaged issues and unaddressed reviews" (GitHub context permitting).

0. Load config and the shared references

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/load_config.py"

Then read these two files and follow them:

• ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/reference/work-model.md — how to resolve the mode (github vs local) and the I/O contract / ledger for each.
• ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/reference/workflow.md — how to reason about a request and compose the right workflow (the mission, the decision framework, effort right-sizing, the primitive toolbox, and illustrative patterns).

A third file, ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/reference/scale-out.md, governs the rare case where the work is too big for the serial loop — read it only when step 3 tells you to.

Bind: mode, ledger.dir, local.isolation, labels.*, orchestrator.max_items, orchestrator.concurrency, orchestrator.scale_out (the unit-count floor for scale-out; 0 disables it), orchestrator.auto_merge (must be false — you never merge regardless), guardrails.*.

Resolve the mode now, before any gh call (per work-model.md §1). Only in github mode do you require gh auth status to pass; if it fails there, tell the user to authenticate and stop. In local mode never call gh; confirm you're in a git repo instead.

1. Parse the goal → scope

Resolve the request into a scope — what's actionable:

• A single target — #42 (github) or one freeform task (local).

• A class — "open bugs", "PRs awaiting response", "untriaged issues", "stale docs" (github).

• Everything — "advance all", "catch up", "do whatever's needed".

• No goal given → the current branch's changes (the default). Inspect them:

  git status --porcelain                 # uncommitted work
  git diff --stat @{u}.. 2>/dev/null || git diff --stat <default-branch>...HEAD
  

  <default-branch> is the repo's main branch (git symbolic-ref --short refs/remotes/origin/HEAD if set, else main/master). If there are changes (uncommitted, or commits ahead of the default branch), treat the current branch as a local work item already at the implemented stage and scope the run to it: create/locate a ledger task whose slug comes from the branch name, with status: implemented, branch: <current branch>, and worktree: . (the current checkout — do not spin up a separate worktree; the work is already here). Then compose a polish-the-branch workflow on it — review the diff, then loop review→fix until it's clean, and update docs if behavior changed. If the branch is clean, fall back to the GitHub backlog default (advance triaged issues / unaddressed reviews).

Note --dry-run if present (plan only, no actions).

2. Survey the work

GitHub mode — build the picture from gh, filtered to the scope:

gh issue list --state open --json number,title,labels --limit 100
gh pr list   --state open --json number,title,labels,reviewDecision,isDraft --limit 100

Classify each item by its lifecycle position (label names from config):

State	Detected by	Needs
Untriaged bug	bug and not triaged	triage-bug
Untriaged task	task and not triaged	triage-task
Ready to build	(bug|task) and triaged, no linked PR	implement-issue
Docs request	docs	update-docs
PR needs review	open PR, not draft, no crew review yet	review-pr
PR needs response	crew PR (agent_pr), reviewDecision == CHANGES_REQUESTED	respond-to-review
Merged recently	merged PR not yet in knowledge base	manage-knowledge (+ update-docs post-merge)
Escalated	carries needs_human	skip — leave for a human

Local mode — the work item is the goal itself. Derive a slug and locate/create its ledger folder (work-model.md §3). Also read existing folders under <ledger.dir>/ and note their status — an in-flight task may already be partway through a workflow (this is how local runs resume). The status maps to the next step the same way labels do above (new→triage, triaged→implement, changes_requested→respond, etc.).

Only include items the goal/scope actually asks for.

3. Assess and compose the workflow

For each in-scope item, reason about what it actually needs and compose a sequence of primitives — don't pick from a fixed list. Follow the decision framework in reference/workflow.md: name the target outcome, read the current state, work backwards from the mission (implementation / standards / health) to the steps that genuinely move it, then order them — sequencing dependencies, forking independent work, and looping review→fix where quality needs iteration. The illustrative patterns in that file are starting points; adapt or invent as the request warrants.

• Right-size the effort (workflow.md): a trivial change gets implement + a quick review; a substantial or risky one gets the full team, thorough review, a fix loop, and docs/ knowledge. More process is not more quality — match it to the stakes.
• Always keep the quality gate: anything that changes behavior gets at least one review pass before it's "done." Don't drop review to save a step.
• Skip steps already satisfied (e.g. don't re-triage a triaged item).
• Cap the plan at orchestrator.max_items acted-on items this run. Note any remainder in the final report (the user can run again).
• Never plan an action on a needs_human item or one that would require touching guardrails.protected_paths (let the primitive escalate if it discovers that mid-flight).

Scale-out check. If a primitive's report (or your own survey) flags scale-out-recommended — the work spans many modules or needs a broad rewrite — and the decomposition yields more independent units than orchestrator.scale_out (the floor; default 8, 0 disables), do not try to grind it through the serial loop. Switch to scale-out: read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/reference/scale-out.md and follow it — assemble the decomposition plan, confirm with the user (mandatory), then run it as a single Workflow fan-out. At or below the floor, or if the user declines, stay in the serial loop and note any remainder. Scale-out is never automatic and never skips the confirmation gate.

4. Dry-run gate

If --dry-run was given: print the plan as a table (item → composed workflow as ordered steps → why) plus the count deferred by the cap, and stop without acting.

5. Execute

There are two execution modes:

• Serial loop (default). Dispatch each step as a subagent so each runs with its own focused context. Run independent steps — including a workflow's parallel forks and independent subtasks — up to orchestrator.concurrency in parallel (issue one batch of Task calls together); serialize dependent ones.
• Scale-out (only when step 3 escalated and the user confirmed). Build the decomposition into args and invoke the shipped Workflow once — Workflow({ scriptPath: "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/workflows/scale-out.js", args }) — exactly as reference/scale-out.md specifies (in local mode, pass the resolved local.isolation so jj units use their own workspace). It runs an implement→review pipeline per unit in isolated workspaces and notifies you on completion; then synthesize its results (scale-out.md §6).

For each step, spawn a general-purpose Task whose prompt is:

Read and follow the instructions in ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/<primitive>/SKILL.md exactly. First read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/reference/work-model.md and operate in <github|local> mode. Work item: <issue/PR #N | ledger slug <slug> at <ledger.dir>/<slug>>. Obey all guardrails in that skill and in crew.config.yaml. Do not merge anything. Report back: what you did, the PR URL or branch name, and whether you escalated (needs_human label / ESCALATION.md).

(<primitive> is triage-bug, triage-task, implement-issue, review-pr, respond-to-review, update-docs, or manage-knowledge per the workflow you composed.)

For a self-review step (reviewing crew's own work), dispatch review-pr as a fresh subagent given only the diff and the review standards — not the implementation rationale (see workflow.md, "Keep self-review honest").

6. Re-evaluate and loop

After a batch completes, re-survey (step 2) — implementing creates a PR/branch that now needs review; triaging makes an item ready to build. In local mode, re-read the ledger statuses. Advance items along their composed workflow until:

• the goal/scope is satisfied, or
• you reach orchestrator.max_items acted-on items, or
• every remaining item is blocked (needs_human, draft, awaiting a human merge), or
• a review loop hits guardrails.max_review_iterations (then escalate that item).

Never merge, even if a PR/branch looks clean and auto_merge is somehow set — the ceiling is review-ready, in both modes.

7. Final report

Print a concise summary:

Crew run — goal: "<goal>"  (mode: <github|local>, approach: <one-line summary>)
Acted on N items (cap M):
  ✓ #12 / "add hello cmd"  triaged        → ready to build
  ✓ #12 / "add hello cmd"  implemented    → PR #57 / branch crew/add-hello-command
  ✓ PR #50 / review        → REQUEST_CHANGES (2 blockers)
  ⚠ #19 escalated needs-human (would touch protected path: db/migrations)
Skipped: K (reasons)
Deferred by cap: J (run /crew:run again to continue)
Merged: 0 (crew never merges — humans merge)

If this run used scale-out, report it as one block: units implemented / came back request_changes (and whether a fix wave ran) / escalated / failed, with the branch or PR per unit (scale-out.md §6).

In local mode, cite the branch / worktree path in place of the PR URL, and surface any ESCALATION.md items.

Constraints

• Unattended but bounded — respect max_items, concurrency, and all primitive guardrails. Don't sprawl.
• Scale-out is the one exception to "unattended" — it always pauses to confirm with the user before spawning a Workflow, and still never merges (one branch/PR per unit).
• Never merge. Escalate, don't force, anything touching protected_paths.
• Compose, don't duplicate — always delegate to the primitive skills; never inline their logic.
• Decide the mode before touching gh — a freeform local goal must never be rejected for missing GitHub auth.