straymark-followups

name	straymark-followups
description	Maintain the follow-ups backlog registry — the canonical answer to "what's pending?". Session-start glance, pre-commit drift --apply, post-Charter-close triage (note / set-status), ex-ante creation at Charter declaration (new), and operator-gated promote. Thin wrapper over the straymark followups CLI; never edits CLI-owned counters by hand.
allowed-tools	Read, Glob, Bash(git diff *, git log *, git status *, ls *, straymark followups *)

StrayMark Follow-ups Registry Skill

Maintain the central follow-ups registry (.straymark/follow-ups-backlog.md) — the first-class artifact that aggregates §Follow-ups and R<N> (new, not in Charter) entries across AILOGs (first-class since fw-4.21.0 / cli-3.19.0). The agent is the registry's primary maintainer; this skill drives the three directives of AGENT-RULES.md §13 by delegating every mutation to the CLI (straymark followups list/status/drift/note/set-status/new/promote). The skill contains no extraction or counting logic of its own — parsing, schema validation, counter recomputation, and FU → TDE elevation all live in the CLI.

See .straymark/00-governance/FOLLOW-UPS-BACKLOG-PATTERN.md and STRAYMARK.md §16 for the pattern; AGENT-RULES.md §13 for the shipped directives this skill wraps.

When to use this skill

Trigger on any of:

• Session start, or the operator asks "what's pending?" / "what follow-ups do we have?".
• You created or modified an AILOG containing ## Follow-ups or R<N> (new, not in Charter) entries and are about to commit.
• A Charter just closed and the registry entries it resolved need triage.
• The operator asks to promote a follow-up to a TDE document.

If the project does not maintain the registry (the per-AILOG §Follow-ups convention alone is enough below ~20 AILOGs — see the pattern doc), this skill does not apply.

Instructions

1. Session start — answer from the registry

The registry is the canonical source for "what's pending". Answer from it; do not re-scan AILOGs.

straymark followups status                      # registry pulse: counters recomputed on the fly,
                                                # per-bucket breakdown, blocking / suspected-closed alerts
straymark followups list                        # full entry table
straymark followups list --severity blocking    # focus on blockers
straymark followups status FU-NNN               # one entry's full field detail

Fall back to an AILOG scan only when the registry does not exist, or when straymark followups drift reports unextracted AILOGs.

2. Pre-commit — registry rides the same commit as the AILOG

Created or modified any AILOG with ## Follow-ups or R<N> (new, not in Charter) entries? Sync before committing:

straymark followups drift            # detect unextracted AILOGs (exit 1 on drift)
straymark followups drift --apply    # extract into `## Bucket: ready`, auto-number FU-NNN ids,
                                     # recompute counters, upgrade v0 registries to v1 in place

so the registry extension rides the same commit as the AILOG. Bullets whose AILOG text already carries a closure marker (closed in-Charter, fixed in batch N, a backtick-wrapped commit hash) are extracted as suspected-closed automatically — do not delete them; the operator confirms at the next triage.

3. Post-Charter close — triage what the Charter resolved

Review the registry entries the just-closed Charter resolved:

straymark followups list --status suspected-closed   # entries awaiting confirm-or-reopen
straymark followups set-status FU-NNN closed         # status + counters in one step (cli-3.39.0+)
straymark followups note FU-NNN "<text>" --source CHARTER-NN   # dated annotation (cli-3.39.0+)
straymark followups recount                          # reconcile counters after a BULK hand-triage session (cli-3.20.0+)
straymark followups promote FU-NNN                   # FU → TDE elevation (operator-approved)

• Mark resolved entries closed (or superseded) with straymark followups set-status — it recomputes the counters in the same step, so there is no recount to forget. Record why with straymark followups note FU-NNN "..." --source CHARTER-NN.
• Confirm or reopen any suspected-closed entries that the Charter's AILOGs produced.
• Never hand-edit an entry. A hand-edit can malform it and break list/status/drift; the verbs write through the same validated helpers and refuse to touch a registry with parse warnings. recount remains for a bulk session where statuses were flipped by hand anyway.
• For un-resolved entries that meet the TDE criteria of AGENT-RULES.md §3 (heritage, transversal, dedicated Charter, human prioritization), propose promotion via straymark followups promote FU-NNN — promotion itself is operator-approved, per the autonomy limits of §3.

3b. Charter declaration — register an ex-ante deferral (cli-3.39.0+)

Declaring a Charter and deferring something out of scope? Register it so the gap is deferred, not silenced — before any AILOG exists:

straymark followups new --title "<what was deferred>" \
  --origin "CHARTER-NN §Scope" --cost S --trigger "<observable condition>" \
  --premise "<the assumption this rests on>"

The command prints the assigned FU-NNN. Cite that id in the Charter body — never a guessed id: the entry now exists, so a later drift --apply cannot hand the same number to a different entry.

4. Report result

Surface the CLI output verbatim (counters, alerts, created TDE paths). Example after a pre-commit sync:

✓ Extracted 4 entries from 1 AILOG(s) into `## Bucket: ready`.
  ! 1 extracted as suspected-closed (closure marker in source AILOG) — confirm at the next triage.
  Counters recomputed: 3 open / 1 suspected-closed / 0 promoted (total 4).

StrayMark: registry synced — commit it together with the AILOG.

What this skill does NOT do

• It does not edit the frontmatter counters (total_open, total_promoted, total_suspected_closed, …). They are CLI-owned: straymark followups recount (or any write command) recomputes them. Hand-editing them is a §13 violation.
• It does not hand-edit entries. note / set-status / new (cli-3.39.0+) are the write path; hand-editing a CLI-parsed registry is what those verbs exist to replace.
• It does not promote without the operator. straymark followups promote is proposed, never auto-run — prioritization and assignment stay human (AGENT-RULES.md §3).
• It does not delete suspected-closed entries. The operator confirms (→ closed) or reopens them at the next triage.
• It does not re-scan AILOGs to answer "what's pending?" when the registry exists — the registry is canonical; drift tells you when it is not trustworthy.
• It does not replace the per-AILOG §Follow-ups section. That stays the write-time capture point; the registry aggregates it via drift --apply.

Terminal compatibility: If the terminal does not support box-drawing characters (Unicode), use plain-text formatting with dashes and pipes instead (e.g., +--+ instead of ╔══╗).