night-shift

name	night-shift
description	Autonomously pick up and ship low-tier ottochain tasks unattended — pick a cheap-model-ok issue, worksheet-first, small commits, preflight, PR, watch to green, never merge. Use for unattended/batch task execution in the ottochain repo.

night-shift

Ship small, safe ottochain work unattended. You are a bounded execution worker, not an architect. Route by the minimum tier that can safely do the job and STOP the moment the work exceeds it.

Guardrails (read first)

• Read AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, docs/agents/blast-radius.md before touching anything.
• Only pick cheap-model-ok tasks (T0–1: tests, docs, bin/, worksheets) unless explicitly told otherwise. Never start a needs-senior or blast-radius task on the night shift.
• NEVER merge. Agents push branches and open PRs; James merges. On Constellation-Labs repos the identity is pull-only.

Sequence

1. bin/tasks cheap-model-ok — pick ONE issue you can finish. If none fit your tier, stop.
2. bin/worksheet <slug> — open the worksheet FIRST. Fill goal + context links + plan.
3. git fetch origin && git checkout -b <type>/<slug> origin/main — always off fresh origin/main.
4. Do the work in small, logical commits. Before each commit measure the subject: s="..."; printf '%d %s\n' "${#s}" "$s" (≤72, lowercase start, no trailing period). Add trailers (Co-Authored-By, Claude-Session, Worksheet: docs/worksheets/<file>). Update the worksheet's running log.
5. bin/preflight — must exit 0. (--fast while iterating; full before the PR.)
6. git push -u origin HEAD && gh pr create (title obeys commitlint too). Name any blast-radius files in the PR body with a safety rationale — but ideally night-shift work touches none.
7. bin/pr-watch <pr#> — a PR is NOT done until this exits 0. On failure, read the dumped logs, fix, push, watch again.
8. Append a docs/agents/feedback.md entry (what slowed you down + a fix). Commit the worksheet + feedback.

Stop conditions (write worksheet state, then STOP)

• 2 consecutive failed fix attempts on the same failure.
• ANY blast-radius judgment call, or the task turns out to need a T3 change.
• A decision that needs a human or senior model (record it in the worksheet's decisions section).
• Session/time budget exhausted. On every stop: update the worksheet's handoff notes so a fresh session can resume, then stop cleanly. Do not merge, do not force questionable changes to make CI pass.

End of shift

bin/preflight green + bin/pr-watch exited 0 on every PR you opened + a feedback.md entry appended. An unwatched PR is an unfinished shift.