open-investigation-round

name	open-investigation-round
description	Moderator-controlled council-state skill that opens one follow-up investigation round on the shared board, preserves the source round as history, carries forward unresolved state, and materializes the next round task scaffold for governed or agent-led continuation.

Eco Open Investigation Round

Core Goal

• Act as one explicit council-state mutation under moderator control.
• Open one follow-up round without overwriting prior round state.
• Preserve the source round as historical context.
• Carry forward active hypotheses and unresolved follow-up work into the new round.
• Materialize round_tasks_<round_id>.json so the next round can immediately continue through prepare-round or agent-led investigation.
• Carry optional coordination hints such as round_mode, primary_focus_refs, target_challenge_id, context_packet_id, and round_brief_id without turning them into hard constraints.

Triggering Conditions

• The current round is evidence-insufficient and the moderator decides to continue in a new round.
• The board still has active hypotheses, open challenges, or unfinished tasks that should survive into a follow-up round.
• A run needs an explicit round transition object rather than continuing to mutate the prior round forever.

Read/Write Contract

• Reads board state from the shared deliberation plane first and exports run_dir/board/investigation_board.json for compatibility.
• Reads run_dir/investigation/round_tasks_<source_round_id>.json when present.
• Reads run_dir/investigation/next_actions_<source_round_id>.json when present.
• Reads run_dir/mission.json when present.
• Writes run_dir/investigation/round_tasks_<round_id>.json.
• Writes run_dir/runtime/round_transition_<round_id>.json.
• The skill consumes an approved moderator transition request. Runtime operator approval is procedural authorization; it does not make runtime the council organizer.

Required Input

• run_dir
• run_id
• round_id
• source_round_id
• Optional:
  • board_path
  • source_task_path
  • source_next_actions_path
  • output_path
  • author_role
  • transition_note
  • action_limit
  • round_mode
  • primary_focus_refs
  • target_challenge_id
  • context_packet_id
  • round_brief_id

Output Contract

• status
• summary
• receipt_id
• batch_id
• artifact_refs
• canonical_ids
• warnings
• board_handoff

Scripts

• scripts/open_investigation_round.py