https-github.com-kunchenguid-firstmate

Enter away-mode supervision. Use when the user invokes /afk (e.g. "/afk", "/afk back in an hour", "going afk"). Sets a durable away-mode flag so the sub-supervisor daemon can self-handle routine wakes and escalate captain-relevant events plus bounded declared-external-wait rechecks as batched digests, cutting supervision token cost during walk-away stretches. Exit is automatic; any real (unmarked) message returns to full per-wake responsiveness.

Generate a "pick up where I left off" status report from firstmate's live fleet state. Use when the captain invokes /bearings or asks for a bearings report, morning brief, status report, catch-up, "where did I leave off", or "what's in the works". Reads bounded local fleet state cheaply, optionally checks open PRs when requested, composes a scannable dated report to data/status-report-<YYYY-MM-DD>.md, and surfaces a concise version in chat; it is read-mostly and must not tear down, merge, or mutate task state as a side effect of producing the brief.

Agent-only reference for changing firstmate's shared, tracked material per AGENTS.md section 1. Use before editing any of that material, whether working as firstmate directly or as a crewmate briefed on a firstmate-repo task. Covers the knowledge-placement decision tree, the one-owner rule for contracts, the inline-stub pattern for content moved into a skill, AGENTS.md size discipline, trigger hygiene for new skills, and repo style rules (one sentence per line, plain dash, no agent co-author, shellcheck-clean bin scripts, colocated tests, and backend-verification evidence).

Agent-only handling playbook for session-start bootstrap diagnostics. Use whenever the session-start digest's bootstrap section prints any diagnostic or capability line - MISSING, NEEDS_GH_AUTH, TANGLE, CREW_HARNESS_OVERRIDE, CREW_DISPATCH, FLEET_SYNC, SECONDMATE_SYNC, SECONDMATE_LIVENESS, TASKS_AXI, NUDGE_SECONDMATES, or FMX - or when a standalone bin/fm-bootstrap.sh run prints one. A silent bootstrap section means all good and needs no skill load.

Agent-only reference for persistent secondmate setup and retirement. Use when creating, seeding, validating, launching, recovering, handing backlog to, pushing inherited config into, or retiring a secondmate home, or when editing data/secondmates.md. Covers home leases, transactional seeding, project clone restrictions, secondmate harness pins, inherited config push, idle charter, handoff helper, and teardown safety.

Agent-only reference for firstmate harness operations. Use before spawning or recovering a crewmate or secondmate, handling a trust dialog, sending a harness-specific skill invocation, interrupting or exiting an agent, resuming an exited agent, or verifying a new harness adapter. Contains verified facts for claude, codex, opencode, pi, and grok.

Agent-only playbook for handling X mode mentions and follow-ups. Use on an "x-mention <request_id>" check wake to read the stashed mention, classify it, act autonomously on eligible requests, reply or dismiss, and link spawned work. Also use on an "x-mode-error ..." check wake to report the X-mode configuration blocker instead of answering a mention. Also use on milestone and terminal wakes for an X-mode-linked task before posting completion follow-ups, ending terminal outcomes with --final. Loaded only when X mode is enabled.

Agent-only playbook for coordinating visible Codex Desktop threads alongside Firstmate without pretending they are a selectable shell backend. Use before creating, reading, steering, archiving, debugging, or reviewing a Codex App visible thread for Firstmate work, and before responding to requests to make Codex App native to Firstmate.

Sweep the current session for uncaptured durable knowledge and file it to disk before a context reset. Use when the captain invokes /stow (e.g. "/stow", "stow what you've learned"), before a session reset or context compaction, or periodically to keep operational memory current.

Agent-only playbook for stuck firstmate direct reports. Use after a stale wake, looping pane, repeated confusion, an answered-by-brief question, an unresponsive crewmate, or a failed steer. Escalates from peek, to one-line steer, to harness-specific interrupt, to relaunch with progress, to failed status.

Self-update a running firstmate and its secondmates to the latest from origin. Use when the captain invokes /updatefirstmate (e.g. "/updatefirstmate", "update firstmate", "pull the latest firstmate"). Fast-forwards this firstmate repo's default branch and every secondmate home from origin (fast-forward only, never forced, never disruptive), then re-reads AGENTS.md and nudges each updated secondmate to do the same, so the whole tree runs the latest bin/ and instructions.

Agent-only operator checklist for Firstmate's Orca runtime backend. Use when switching to Orca, spawning or supervising Orca-backed work, smoke-testing Orca backend behavior, debugging Orca task state, or reconciling Orca-backed task metadata.