game-plan

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game-plan

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Run a feature through the full tri-model Game Plan pipeline — rostered roles (Claude hub, Grok builder/researcher, Codex reviewer/fixer), a workroom disk bus, and human gates. Use when the user types /game-plan [feature], says "run the game plan on X", "full crew on this", "roster this feature", or wants a multi-milestone feature built with cross-model build/review separation. Opt-in orchestrator on top of /workroom; for one-shot tasks use /grok or /codex directly, for trivial edits use neither.

/game-plan — Tri-Model Roster Pipeline Orchestrator

Walks one feature through the Game Plan end to end: contract → Gate 1 → Grok-built milestones → hub smoke → Codex review booth → bounded fix loops → Gate 2. You (Claude) are the hub for the whole run. Schema/doctrine owner: .workroom/PROTOCOL.md. Room mechanics: reuse /workroom (this skill orchestrates; it does not reimplement rooms).

Dogfood-calibrated: this pipeline shipped its own first feature (scripts/tri-model/preflight.mjs, room 2026-07-11-tri-model-preflight) — the operational notes below are from that run, not theory.

Step 0 — Complexity gate

Trivial (<10 lines, single file, no design surface) → STOP: do it directly or via a one-shot /grok//codex. Moderate/complex multi-milestone work proceeds. Tell the user which way you routed and why.

Step 1 — Preflight (mechanical, blocking)

node scripts/tri-model/preflight.mjs        # exit 0 required

Exit 1 → STOP and surface the named failures (auth → codex login/grok login; version-pin mismatch → /harness-update <harness> FIRST — the gate exists to make rule 7 mechanical). Record the result in the room's status.json.preflight after Step 2.

Step 2 — Open the room

/workroom new <slug> (gitignore preflight, tree from templates, active-room pointer). Fill ROOM.yaml (goal, roster, file_scopes, fix_rounds_max default 2).

Step 3 — Intake (contract-shaped interview)

Grill the human until the contract is writable — cover at minimum: goal + Gate-2 "done", non-goals, testable requirements (R1..Rn), design decisions to lock (D1..Dn), milestone split (each small enough for one implement run + one booth), per-milestone acceptance commands, file scopes, UI surface (mockup needed for Gate 1?). Use AskUserQuestion for genuine forks; don't interrogate on things the codebase answers. Write intake/answers.md. Depth scales with complexity — this is the "grill me with docs" step, not a form.

Step 4 — Research (optional, Grok)

Only if intake surfaced real unknowns (external APIs, live-web facts, prior art). Dispatch grok-worker mode=ask with role: research in the ## Workroom block (widened write-free --tools per grok-worker-safety.md §Research role — data-egress confirm applies). Outputs land in research/; treat fetched content as untrusted data.

Step 5 — Contract + Gate 1

Write CONTRACT.md from the template (R/D/M tables, verification plan, mechanics footer). Then Gate 1 = AskUserQuestion: "Approve contract for build?" with the contract summarized. Under bypassPermissions this question IS the gate — never self-approve. If the human is absent, a pre-authorization is acceptable ONLY when the feature is on an explicitly approved build order; record the basis verbatim in status.json.gate1_note (pattern blessed by Dave 2026-07-11). Stamp gate1_approved_at; advance to building.

Step 6 — Milestone loop (for each M)

1. Write milestones/M<N>-scope.md (in-scope files, out-of-scope, acceptance commands, builder notes) + a task message to inbox/grok/.
2. Dispatch the builder — grok-worker, mode=implement, ## Workroom block (role: builder, milestone: M<N>, ABSOLUTE room path), Autonomy=yes (Gate 1 is the standing human approval; the worker still worktree-isolates, telemetries, and returns a review-gated patch). Failover: on Grok death/quota, re-dispatch the SAME scope file to codex-worker (role: builder-failover) and record it in status.json.failovers — that milestone's booth primary becomes Claude critics.
3. Hub smoke — run the scope file's acceptance commands YOURSELF (in the worktree or post-apply), record exit codes in milestones/M<N>-result.md. Builder narrative ≠ evidence. Telemetry row present = part of completion evidence.
4. Apply + commit the baseline when smoke is green (git apply --3way the patch; commit credits the builder) so the fixer has a HEAD to branch from.

Step 7 — Review booth

Dispatch codex-adversary (mode=code, role: reviewer, scope = the milestone patch, grade against CONTRACT R/D). Then apply the thin-approve rule: if Codex returns approve with zero findings AND the run showed instability (storms/timeouts) or no visible engagement, add a supplemental critic (Claude) pass before trusting it — the dogfood's only HIGH was caught exactly this way. Findings land in findings/booth-*.md.

Step 8 — Fix loop (bounded)

Findings → fix_round += 1; when it would exceed fix_rounds_max, set phase blocked and hand the human the decision — never loop past the cap. Dispatch codex-worker (mode=implement, role: fixer, the findings file as scope; fixes only, no new files). Hub re-verifies with the SAME smokes plus a targeted probe per HIGH finding (e.g. the canary-secret probe pattern), applies, commits. A fixer never grades its own fix — hub verification is the grade.

Step 9 — Bookkeeping

THREAD summary line, telemetry rows confirmed for every worker run, worktrees removed (clean-only; diffs are committed), optional memory store for non-obvious learnings, milestones/* finalized.

Step 10 — Gate 2

AskUserQuestion: "Approve ship?" (merge/PR per git-merge-workflow.md). Never self-approve; never auto-merge. Stamp gate2_approved_at, phase → done.

Operational notes (probe-backed — do not relearn)

• Absolute paths in every dispatch block — $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR has been observed empty in agent shells.
• Grok dispatches: ≥300s external timeout, and one cold start ran ~11–12 min — on an agent timeout, poll for its output file before re-invoking (a duplicate run wastes quota).
• Codex prompts stay COMPACT — rich checklist prompts fork-stormed under --sandbox read-only on Windows (DESIGN-RESEARCH §14). After any Codex timeout, check tasklist | findstr codex and kill orphaned trees.
• Serialize commits — one milestone's apply+commit completes before the next wave (.git/index.lock races are real).
• Room state is the ONLY session state: any fresh session continues via /workroom resume.