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Use when inspecting or debugging Multica runtimes, daemon task claiming, agent not running, workdir/session reuse, or repository checkout. Covers runtime online/offline state, daemon heartbeat/claim chain, task-scoped repo checkout, project repo context, local_directory caveats, and safe diagnostic commands.
Use when a user provides a skill URL, slug, or clear intent to import/install a specific skill into the current Multica workspace. Teaches the workspace import API/CLI path (POST /api/skills/import), the supported URL source families, --on-conflict fail|overwrite|rename|skip behavior and structured import results, additive agent binding vs replace-all, and the reserved SKILL.md supporting-file rule. Do not use it to decide which skill the user needs, and never treat an external local installer like npx skills add as the final Multica install.
Use when an issue comment needs to @mention someone — link to a person, trigger another agent, hand work to a squad, or broadcast with @all. Documents the verified mention contract: how a mention link is built from a real UUID, the four mention types and exactly what each one enqueues (agent → a run for that agent, squad → a run for the squad leader, member and issue → a rendered link with NO run), the @all broadcast and how it suppresses the assignee's auto-trigger, and the silent no-op cases (a name where a UUID belongs, a bad/unknown UUID, an already-pending task, an archived agent, a private agent you cannot access). WHETHER to mention — loop avoidance, staying silent on acknowledgements — lives in the runtime brief's Mentions section, not here. This skill is the backend contract only, traced to server/internal/util/mention.go and server/internal/handler/comment.go.
Use when creating, inspecting, updating, assigning, mentioning, or debugging Multica squads. Explains what squads are, squad/member fields, CLI commands, leader routing, issue assignment, comments, mentions, autopilot behavior, leader briefing, side effects, and product-gap handling.
Use when creating, updating, inspecting, triggering, or debugging Multica autopilots. Covers the full chain: schedule/webhook/manual trigger, create_issue vs run_only execution, agent/squad leader admission, runs, created issues/tasks, webhook URL rotation, and side-effect boundaries.
Use when creating, inspecting, or debugging a Multica agent through the `multica agent` CLI or `POST /api/agents` — what each field is, its persisted shape, whether it is metadata-only or consumed by the daemon at claim time, which inputs are validated/rejected, how custom_env secrets are gated, and how skill binding behaves. Not for assigning issues to existing agents or for runtime task prompts.
Use when creating, inspecting, updating, or debugging Multica projects and project resources. Covers durable project context, github_repo and local_directory resources, how resources affect future agent task context, when to bind repos, and when not to mutate resources.
| name | multica-runtimes-and-repos |
| description | Use when inspecting or debugging Multica runtimes, daemon task claiming, agent not running, workdir/session reuse, or repository checkout. Covers runtime online/offline state, daemon heartbeat/claim chain, task-scoped repo checkout, project repo context, local_directory caveats, and safe diagnostic commands. |
| user-invocable | false |
| allowed-tools | Bash(multica *) |
For "agent did not run" or "repo checkout failed", read the chain before changing anything:
multica agent get <agent-id> --output json
multica runtime list --output json
multica repo checkout <repo-url>
Runtime and repo commands affect active agent execution. Do not restart daemons, update runtimes, or check out arbitrary repos just to test.
A runtime is the execution target behind an agent. A daemon owns local runtime processes and claims queued tasks from the server.
The chain is:
agent_task_queue row;multica repo checkout talks to the local daemon, not directly to GitHub.multica runtime list --output json
multica runtime usage <runtime-id> --output json
multica runtime activity <runtime-id> --output json
multica runtime update <runtime-id> --target-version <version> --output json
multica repo checkout <url>
multica repo checkout <url> --ref <branch-or-sha>
runtime update is a write. repo checkout creates a git worktree in the task working directory.
repo checkout requires MULTICA_DAEMON_PORT; it is intended to run inside a daemon task. If absent, you are not in the normal agent checkout path.
Check in this order:
multica runtime list --output json.last_seen_at is the visible clue.The runtime brief lists repos available to this task. Treat that list as the authority for agent checkout unless the user explicitly asks to bind a new project resource.
Workspace repos and project resources are not the same thing:
github_repo project resources are durable project context and can affect future tasks;local_directory resources point at a path owned by a daemon and carry local-machine assumptions.Do not add a project resource just because repo checkout failed. First determine whether the user asked for durable project context or just a task checkout.
More source-backed details: references/runtimes-and-repos-source-map.md.