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Session-start — consume/derive orientation, poll mail since last signoff, re-derive carryforward gates, present next-steps for operator ruling
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Based on SOC occupation classification
End-of-session — update memory, write journal entry, clean up
Post-merge workflow — extract lessons and compile rules (manual sequence, wrap is retired)
Drive the local pre-push review loop to settle — absorb findings locally before any external bot pass
Unified PR review triage — fetch, normalize, and batch-action bot comments
Compiled architectural rules and lessons from the Totem knowledge base. Load this when reviewing code for pattern violations or architectural drift.
Pre-work ritual — spec, search, and (when needed) a 1-page implementation design doc before touching code
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| description | Session-start — consume/derive orientation, poll mail since last signoff, re-derive carryforward gates, present next-steps for operator ruling |
Session-start bring-up. Read-only — no mutations, no dispatches, no board edits until the operator rules on next steps (Proposal 295 d2: read-only orient + grounded next-work). Solo — no agent fleet (feedback_session_start_derive_cheaply: cheap derivation IS the validation dogfood).
Consume the injected orientation. On Claude Code seats the SessionStart hook already injects the latest journal + carryforward, inbound mail, branch/ticket-matched context, and a bounded session-orientation slice (parked/freeze state, open PRs, board↔issue coherence drift, and an open-issue-count pointer) — do not re-run what it injected. Everything else the bring-up needs (the full board in-flight set, corpus freshness, doctrine currency) is derived on demand via totem orient. On a hook-less seat (other vendors, cold starts), derive it all: totem orient.
Poll mail since last signoff. totem mail — shows unread cross-repo mail addressed to this repo's agent(s) (ADR-106 §3). Unread = inbound − handled: consumption is tracked by processed/ marks (feedback_check_outbox_before_replying), so the CLI path needs no cutoff stamp. Read every hit before proceeding — new mail can reprioritize everything below. (Fallback — a seat that must stamp-poll instead derives the cutoff from the newest journal's CONTENT date, the filename stamp or frontmatter, never file mtime, which git resets on clone/worktree and silently reports "inbox clean" over waiting mail; mmnto-ai/totem-strategy#813.)
Re-derive the carryforward gates — don't trust the journal's framing (Tenet 20 read-side twin). For each carryforward item in the latest journal, freshly derive its gate state (the PR it waits on, the issue, the date, the release train) via gh / git reads. Cross-repo gates resolve through the frozen cohort roster — totem / strategy / status / lc → mmnto-ai/{totem, totem-strategy, totem-status, liquid-city} (mmnto-ai/totem-strategy#611 gates any change). An item whose gate fired leads the next-steps list; an item still gated is reported as waiting, not worked.
Surface owed-now sensors. Anything the injected/derived orientation flags as owed (corpus ⚠ stale, strategy-doctrine ⚠ publish owed, board drift) goes on the list as a candidate — sensors report, they don't gate (Tenet 13).
Present and stop. One message: state summary (inbox, gate states, owed-now items) + ranked next-steps with a recommendation. Then wait for the operator's ruling — signon ends at the judgment handoff; mutations belong to the ruled work, not the bring-up.
