| name | agent |
| description | Governed autonomous OODA loop for cognitive agents. Use when starting, stepping, monitoring, or stopping agent sessions with human checkpoints and safety gates.
|
Agent — Cognitive OODA Loop
Manage autonomous agent sessions with observe-orient-decide-act-reflect cycles.
Recommended Workflow
Standard (Human-in-the-Loop)
agent_start goal="..." — create mandate, run OBSERVE- Review observation, then
agent_step — run ORIENT → DECIDE → ACT
- Review result, repeat
agent_step or agent_stop
Autonomous Mode
agent_start goal="..." autonomous=true — start with auto-cycling- Agent runs OODA cycles with 8 safety gates (mandate term, goal drift, budget, risk, etc.)
agent_status — check progress at any timeagent_stop — terminate when done or if paused
Capabilities
External LLM Invocation (via llm_call adapter chain)
The agent's OODA phases invoke llm_call (from the llm_client dependency)
which spawns external LLMs as subprocesses via adapter classes:
| Adapter | Subprocess command | Use case |
|---|
ClaudeCodeAdapter | claude -p --output-format json | Sub-author (4.6), persona reviewers |
CodexAdapter | codex exec --sandbox read-only | Codex review |
CursorAdapter | agent -p | Cursor review |
AnthropicAdapter | Direct API (no subprocess) | Anthropic API calls |
OpenaiAdapter | Direct API | OpenAI API calls |
The agent CAN orchestrate multi-LLM review, invoke sub-author processes,
and leverage cross-provider reviewers — all from within the governed OODA
loop with blockchain recording of each step.
File Operations (via external_tools SkillSet)
SafeFileWrite and SafeFileEdit are available via invoke_tool, enabling
the agent to write design drafts to docs/drafts/ or other project paths.
MCP Tool Access
All KairosChain MCP tools (context_save, multi_llm_review, chain_record,
knowledge_get, etc.) are available via invoke_tool in the Act phase.
Sub-Agents
/kairos-chain:agent-monitor
Post-session review agent. Invokes agent_status, autonomos_status, and chain_history
to summarize session progress and flag anomalies. Read-only — cannot modify state.
Available Tools
