2026-agent-harness

Weekly initiative health check: sync DASHBOARD.md with ideas.md, approval queue, and links; flag row vs artifact drift; verify rules/ and agents/ references; check outputs/ placement; optional one-line wiki summary on the top-tier initiative log.

Add a new initiative to the repo. Creates the initiative folder structure, registers it in DASHBOARD.md, creates ideas.md with the General project, and initializes the wiki. Use when the user wants to add a new top-level area of focus.

Mark an idea as finished, move lifecycle artifacts and outputs/ to repo archive/, update history/done-history.md with links to deliverables, tracker, and wiki. Use when the user says an idea is complete, done, shipped, or finished, or asks to close an idea successfully.

Kill an idea, record it in history/dropped-history.md, move lifecycle artifacts to repo archive/ when present, update tracker and wiki. Use when the user drops, kills, or abandons an idea, or says no-go.

Import one or more project folders from an older version of this system into a current initiative. Verifies folder structure, reconciles ideas.md, registers missing projects and ideas, repairs broken links, and updates the dashboard. Use when the user wants to bring in projects from a previous or external copy of the knowledge system.

Select the next highest priority idea from repo files, execute the next lifecycle phase for that idea, and put the result in review.

Remove an initiative from the repo. If it has active ideas or projects, offers options before proceeding. Removes the initiative folder, its DASHBOARD.md row, and cleans up any approval queue entries. Use when the user wants to retire or delete a top-level area of focus.

Remove a project from an initiative. If ideas exist, offers three options for each: archive the idea folder, move it to another project, or delete it. Cleans up ideas.md, the project folder on disk, the tracker, and the wiki log. Use when the user wants to remove, retire, close, or dissolve a project.

Captures a new idea under the correct initiative and project. Creates the project and folder layout when missing. Updates ideas.md and optional project brief documents. Use when the user wants to add, log, or capture an idea, a backlog item, or a new project bucket, or when they mention a new initiative idea.

Add a named project bucket to an initiative. Creates the Active Projects row, the Project section in ideas.md, the folder under the initiative root, and a 00-how-to-use.md orientation file. Use when the user wants to create a new project, add a project bucket, or group ideas under a named project.

Ingest source documents into an initiative wiki: discover newest sources first, read and synthesize, create or update wiki pages, move staging files, and refresh index.md and log.md. Use when the user wants wiki ingest, raw folder processing, sources pulled into the knowledge base, or says to run the update skill for wiki sources.

Mark a named idea as approved at an approval gate and move it to the next lifecycle phase. Use when the user approves an idea, says to mark an idea approved, asks to move an idea to the next stage, or asks to clear it from the approval queue in DASHBOARD.md.

First-run setup for a new instance of this system. Interviews the user to populate USER.md, configures initiatives (replacing or keeping the defaults), and confirms the DASHBOARD.md priority stack. Use when a user is setting up the repo for the first time.