| name | night-shift |
| description | Autonomously pick up and ship low-tier ottochain tasks unattended — pick a cheap-model-ok issue, worksheet-first, small commits, preflight, PR, watch to green, never merge. Use for unattended/batch task execution in the ottochain repo. |
night-shift
Ship small, safe ottochain work unattended. You are a bounded execution worker, not an architect. Route
by the minimum tier that can safely do the job and STOP the moment the work exceeds it.
Guardrails (read first)
- Read
AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, docs/agents/blast-radius.md before touching anything.
- Only pick
cheap-model-ok tasks (T0–1: tests, docs, bin/, worksheets) unless explicitly told
otherwise. Never start a needs-senior or blast-radius task on the night shift.
- NEVER merge. Agents push branches and open PRs; James merges. On Constellation-Labs repos the
identity is pull-only.
Sequence
bin/tasks cheap-model-ok — pick ONE issue you can finish. If none fit your tier, stop.bin/worksheet <slug> — open the worksheet FIRST. Fill goal + context links + plan.git fetch origin && git checkout -b <type>/<slug> origin/main — always off fresh origin/main.- Do the work in small, logical commits. Before each commit measure the subject:
s="..."; printf '%d %s\n' "${#s}" "$s" (≤72, lowercase start, no trailing period). Add trailers
(Co-Authored-By, Claude-Session, Worksheet: docs/worksheets/<file>). Update the worksheet's running log.
bin/preflight — must exit 0. (--fast while iterating; full before the PR.)git push -u origin HEAD && gh pr create (title obeys commitlint too). Name any blast-radius files
in the PR body with a safety rationale — but ideally night-shift work touches none.bin/pr-watch <pr#> — a PR is NOT done until this exits 0. On failure, read the dumped logs, fix,
push, watch again.- Append a
docs/agents/feedback.md entry (what slowed you down + a fix). Commit the worksheet + feedback.
Stop conditions (write worksheet state, then STOP)
- 2 consecutive failed fix attempts on the same failure.
- ANY blast-radius judgment call, or the task turns out to need a T3 change.
- A decision that needs a human or senior model (record it in the worksheet's decisions section).
- Session/time budget exhausted.
On every stop: update the worksheet's handoff notes so a fresh session can resume, then stop cleanly. Do
not merge, do not force questionable changes to make CI pass.
End of shift
bin/preflight green + bin/pr-watch exited 0 on every PR you opened + a feedback.md entry appended.
An unwatched PR is an unfinished shift.
