pipeline

name	pipeline
category	planning
status	active
core	true
description	Configurable orchestrator that sequences planning/execution/review stages as ordered WorkBuddy skill invocations with a task-list state and resume support. Use to run a repeatable multi-stage workflow (interview → plan → execute → review → QA). Triggers: 'run the pipeline', 'autopilot pipeline', 'sequence stages', 'stage orchestrator'.
agent_created	true
triggers	["run the pipeline","autopilot pipeline","sequence stages","stage orchestrator"]

Ported from oh-my-codex pipeline. OMX runtime conventions ($macro invocation, omx CLI, .omx/ state directory) are replaced with WorkBuddy idioms (Skill tool, Agent tool, task list, .workbuddy/memory).

Pipeline Skill

pipeline sequences stages through a uniform flow: each stage is an ordered skill invocation (or Agent delegation), with progress tracked in the task list and durable artifacts in .omw/.

Default Autopilot Pipeline

The default Autopilot pipeline sequences:

deep-interview -> plan (consensus) -> ultragoal (+ team if needed) -> code-review -> ultraqa

team is conditional: invoke it only inside an active Ultragoal story when independent lanes or broad verification justify parallel execution. Explicit legacy Ralph pipelines remain available as custom stages, but Ralph is not the advertised default loop.

Configuration

Pipeline parameters are configurable per run:

Parameter	Default	Description
maxRalphIterations	10	Quality-gate retry ceiling; legacy option name retained for compatibility
workerCount	2	Number of parallel Agent workers for a team stage
agentType	executor	Role framing for team workers (expressed as the Agent prompt role)

Stage Interface

Every stage implements the same shape:

• name: stage identifier.
• run(ctx): perform the stage, accumulating artifacts from prior stages.
• canSkip?(ctx): return true only when its required durable artifacts already exist and are approved in order.

Stages receive a StageContext (accumulated artifacts from prior stages) and return a StageResult (status, artifacts, duration).

Built-in Stages

• deep-interview: Requirements clarification and ambiguity gate. Invoke the deep-interview skill.
• plan (consensus): Consensus planning (Planner + Architect + Critic). Invoke the plan skill with consensus. Skips only when both prd-*.md and test-spec-*.md planning artifacts already exist and durable consensus evidence records Architect approval followed by Critic approval. Plan/test-spec files alone are not consensus evidence. If either review is missing, blocked, out of order, or non-approving, stay in plan and fail with an explicit blocker/max-iteration outcome rather than progressing to execution. Carry any deep-interview-*.md spec paths forward for traceability.
• ultragoal: Durable goal-mode execution; record ledgers under .omw/ultragoal/. Launch team only from inside an Ultragoal story when parallel lanes are warranted.
• code-review: Merge-readiness review gate. Invoke the code-review skill.
• ultraqa: Adversarial QA gate after a clean review; docs-only/trivially non-runtime changes may record an explicit skip reason.
• team-exec and ralph-verify: Legacy/custom pipeline adapters retained for explicit non-default pipelines.

State Management

Track pipeline state in the task list (one task per stage) rather than a hidden state file. The built-in WorkBuddy status display shows progress automatically. Resume is supported from the last incomplete stage.

• On start: create tasks for each stage; mark the first as in_progress.
• On stage transitions: TaskUpdate the current stage to completed and the next to in_progress.
• On completion: mark all stages completed; append a short summary note to .workbuddy/memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md.

If a durable record is needed across sessions, write the pipeline state to .omw/pipeline/<slug>.md (active stage, per-stage status, artifact paths).

Relationship to Other Skills

• deep-interview / plan / ultragoal / code-review / ultraqa: the default pipeline delegates to these skills in order.
• team: optional parallel execution engine inside an Ultragoal story when lanes are needed.
• ralph: available only for explicit legacy/custom pipelines.