| name | houmao-agent-loop-lite |
| description | Manual invocation only; use when explicitly requested as `houmao-agent-loop-lite` or through a named lite loop operation to author or operate pro-shaped Markdown/direct-SQL loop packages with typed Markdown templates, generated skills, and direct SQLite state, without JSON schemas, Jinja2, generated harnesses, or generated docs layers. |
Houmao Agent Loop Lite
Activation
- Use this Houmao skill only after the user explicitly selects
houmao-agent-loop-lite or names a supported lite loop operation.
- If the user asks for help, answer from
## Help before routing to an operation.
- If invoked without another operation or prompt, treat it as
init, ask for <loop-dir>, and do not create files until the user provides it.
- Do not auto-route generic loop requests here when the user did not explicitly select lite.
- Use
houmao-agent-loop-pro for schema-rich topology contracts, JSON schemas, Jinja2 renderers, generated harnesses, generated docs, or stronger graph validation.
Help
When the user asks $houmao-agent-loop-lite help, help for houmao-agent-loop-lite, usage for houmao-agent-loop-lite, available functionality for houmao-agent-loop-lite, or what this skill can do, answer from this section before choosing an operation, requiring <loop-dir>, reading routed pages, generating artifacts, validating artifacts, launching agents, or asking missing-input questions. This is read-only help: do not run commands, mutate files, send mail, change gateway state, or alter managed-agent lifecycle state. If the user asks a concrete task such as "help me create a lite loop", route to the matching workflow instead of stopping at generic help.
Purpose: author and operate lightweight generated loops with the same routed lifecycle shape as pro, while using Markdown contracts, typed Markdown templates, generated skills, and direct SQLite state.
Available functionality:
- Scaffold, clarify, fast-forward, update, and validate lite
intention/ and execplan/ material.
- Generate process Markdown, contract Markdown, generated skills, agent bindings, final metadata, and scaffold-owned README files.
- Enforce typed Markdown templates with
Loop-Template-Type, Loop-Template-Version, and literal <placeholder ...> tokens.
- Use direct SQLite state under
runs/<run-id>/state.sqlite3 when durable state is needed.
- Prepare agents, prepare workspaces when needed, validate readiness, launch agents, start runs, inspect status, pause, resume, recover, and stop.
- Keep lite generated artifacts free of JSON schemas, Jinja2 renderers, generated harness commands, and generated docs layers.
Common starting prompts:
$houmao-agent-loop-lite help
$houmao-agent-loop-lite init <loop-dir>
$houmao-agent-loop-lite execplan-fast-forward <loop-dir>
$houmao-agent-loop-lite validate-loop <loop-dir>
Related skills and boundaries:
houmao-agent-loop-pro: schema-rich topology-heavy loop packages.
houmao-agent-definition, houmao-utils-workspace-mgr, houmao-agent-instance, houmao-agent-email-comms, houmao-agent-gateway, houmao-agent-messaging, and houmao-agent-inspect: maintained platform operations.
houmao-adv-usage-pattern: elemental mailbox or gateway compositions outside generated loop packages.
Required Root
- Require one user-selected
<loop-dir> before creating or changing files.
- Treat
<loop-dir>/intention/ as editable source material.
- Treat
<loop-dir>/execplan/ as generated operational material.
- Treat
<loop-dir>/runs/ as durable runtime artifacts.
- Use
execplan/specs/, execplan/skills/, and execplan/agents/.
- Do not generate
execplan/harness/ or execplan/docs/.
<loop-dir>/
intention/
execplan/
specs/
skills/
agents/
runs/
Runtime References
Read only the routed page selected below and its Read First references.
Operations
Meta:
help: explain this skill's purpose, operations, common prompts, and boundaries.
Authoring:
init: scaffold editable intention material and project context.
create-intention: create basic editable intention material without project-context detection.
clarify-intent: clarify editable loop intent.
clarify-execplan: clarify generated Markdown/direct-SQL implementation choices.
execplan-fast-forward: generate all lite execplan artifacts in one pass.
execplan-specs-process: generate the process-first Markdown model.
execplan-specs-contract: derive Markdown contracts for objective, organization, communication, state, workspace, run, and participants.
execplan-skills: generate shared, receiver, sender, tick, role, and operator skills as needed.
execplan-agent-bindings: generate concrete Houmao agent bindings.
execplan-finalize: generate support README files, manifest metadata, omissions, and consistency notes.
validate-execplan: validate generated lite package shape.
update-execplan: update generated material after intention changes.
Execution:
prepare-agents: prepare profiles, generated skill bindings, and prepared agent facts.
prepare-workspace: prepare or verify workspaces when the lite execplan requires them.
validate-loop: validate pre-launch readiness.
launch-agents: launch prepared agents without beginning loop work.
start: initialize or select one run and send the first trigger.
status: inspect one lite loop without mutation.
pause: pause normal scheduling or wakeup posture.
resume: resume a paused lite loop.
recover: recover after interruption or inconsistent runtime posture.
stop: stop one lite loop.
Aliases:
clarify maps to clarify-intent unless the prompt clearly targets generated execplan material.
generate-skills maps to execplan-skills.
validate maps to validate-execplan unless the prompt clearly asks for pre-launch readiness; use validate-loop for readiness.
Routing
Choose exactly one page.
Authoring pages:
Execution pages:
Constraints
- Keep
SKILL.md as a router; put detailed workflow guidance in routed pages or references.
- Do not create JSON schemas, Jinja2 renderers, generated harness commands, or generated docs as lite outputs.
- Do not use TOML registries as the normal lite contract authority.
- Do not duplicate maintained Houmao platform-operation contracts.
- Route workspace planning, creation, validation, or summaries through
houmao-utils-workspace-mgr.
- Do not tell agents to sleep, poll, tail logs, or wait in-chat for future mail or ticks.
- Keep generated Markdown concise, explicit, and readable.