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High-level reality check when the swarm feels busy but directionally off. Use when lots of code is landing but the real goal still feels far away.
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Deep review โ random exploration + cross-agent review, alternating. Finds integration bugs that self-review misses. Run every 30โ60 min during active implementation.
Overview of Forge's Agentic Coding Flywheel methodology. Use to route between plan, bead, and code space. See FLYWHEEL.md at the repo root.
End-of-session ritual. Close finished beads, file new ones for remaining work, run verify, commit in logical groupings, push. Work is not complete until git push succeeds.
Start a new Flywheel planning round. Produce initial markdown plan, route to competing frontier models, synthesize hybrid, refine 4โ5ร. Use before any coding begins on a new feature.
Translate a polished markdown plan into self-contained beads in .beads/beads.jsonl. Every bead must be executable without reopening the plan. Use after the plan has converged.
Polishing pass over all open beads. Run 4โ6 times. "Check your beads N times, implement once." Use after plan-to-beads and between refinement rounds.
| name | reality-check |
| description | High-level reality check when the swarm feels busy but directionally off. Use when lots of code is landing but the real goal still feels far away. |
Strategic drift: busy agents, growing commit count, feature still feels far. This prompt breaks the spell of local productivity.
Use the verbatim prompt at .flywheel/prompts/reality-check.md.
| Answer | Action |
|---|---|
| "Yes, completing all open beads closes the gap." | Keep going. This was a false alarm. |
| "Close, but these specific things are missingโฆ" | Revise existing beads or add new ones for each gap. Polish, resume. |
| "No, we'd still be far." โ structural issue | Stop the swarm. Back to /plan or /plan-synthesize. |
| "Yes but the plan itself targets the wrong outcome." | Stop. Revisit intent in plan space. |
At natural milestones (epic closed, ~25% of beads done, ~50% done), and any time you feel the urge to ask "wait, are we actually shipping what we set out to?"
Busy agents are not the goal. A bead graph that converges on the real outcome is the goal.
