| name | straymark-followups |
| description | Maintain the follow-ups backlog registry — the canonical answer to "what's pending?". Session-start glance, pre-commit drift --apply, post-Charter-close triage and operator-gated promote. Thin wrapper over the straymark followups CLI; never edits CLI-owned counters by hand. |
StrayMark Follow-ups Registry Skill
Maintain the central follow-ups registry (.straymark/follow-ups-backlog.md) — the first-class artifact that aggregates §Follow-ups and R<N> (new, not in Charter) entries across AILOGs (first-class since fw-4.21.0 / cli-3.19.0). The agent is the registry's primary maintainer; this skill drives the three directives of AGENT-RULES.md §13 by delegating every mutation to the CLI (straymark followups list/status/drift/promote). The skill contains no extraction or counting logic of its own — parsing, schema validation, counter recomputation, and FU → TDE elevation all live in the CLI.
See .straymark/00-governance/FOLLOW-UPS-BACKLOG-PATTERN.md and STRAYMARK.md §16 for the pattern; AGENT-RULES.md §13 for the shipped directives this skill wraps.
When to use this skill
Trigger on any of:
- Session start, or the operator asks "what's pending?" / "what follow-ups do we have?".
- You created or modified an AILOG containing
## Follow-ups or R<N> (new, not in Charter) entries and are about to commit.
- A Charter just closed and the registry entries it resolved need triage.
- The operator asks to promote a follow-up to a TDE document.
If the project does not maintain the registry (the per-AILOG §Follow-ups convention alone is enough below ~20 AILOGs — see the pattern doc), this skill does not apply.
Instructions
1. Session start — answer from the registry
The registry is the canonical source for "what's pending". Answer from it; do not re-scan AILOGs.
straymark followups status
straymark followups list
straymark followups list --severity blocking
straymark followups status FU-NNN
Fall back to an AILOG scan only when the registry does not exist, or when straymark followups drift reports unextracted AILOGs.
2. Pre-commit — registry rides the same commit as the AILOG
Created or modified any AILOG with ## Follow-ups or R<N> (new, not in Charter) entries? Sync before committing:
straymark followups drift
straymark followups drift --apply
so the registry extension rides the same commit as the AILOG. Bullets whose AILOG text already carries a closure marker (closed in-Charter, fixed in batch N, a backtick-wrapped commit hash) are extracted as suspected-closed automatically — do not delete them; the operator confirms at the next triage.
3. Post-Charter close — triage what the Charter resolved
Review the registry entries the just-closed Charter resolved:
straymark followups list --status suspected-closed
straymark followups recount
straymark followups promote FU-NNN
- Mark resolved entries
closed (with the closing Charter id in Notes) or superseded.
- Confirm or reopen any
suspected-closed entries that the Charter's AILOGs produced.
- After flipping statuses by hand, run
straymark followups recount so the CLI-owned counters ride the same commit as the triage.
- For un-resolved entries that meet the TDE criteria of
AGENT-RULES.md §3 (heritage, transversal, dedicated Charter, human prioritization), propose promotion via straymark followups promote FU-NNN — promotion itself is operator-approved, per the autonomy limits of §3.
4. Report result
Surface the CLI output verbatim (counters, alerts, created TDE paths). Example after a pre-commit sync:
✓ Extracted 4 entries from 1 AILOG(s) into `## Bucket: ready`.
! 1 extracted as suspected-closed (closure marker in source AILOG) — confirm at the next triage.
Counters recomputed: 3 open / 1 suspected-closed / 0 promoted (total 4).
StrayMark: registry synced — commit it together with the AILOG.
What this skill does NOT do
- It does not edit the frontmatter counters (
total_open, total_promoted, total_suspected_closed, …). They are CLI-owned: straymark followups recount (or any write command) recomputes them. Hand-editing them is a §13 violation.
- It does not promote without the operator.
straymark followups promote is proposed, never auto-run — prioritization and assignment stay human (AGENT-RULES.md §3).
- It does not delete
suspected-closed entries. The operator confirms (→ closed) or reopens them at the next triage.
- It does not re-scan AILOGs to answer "what's pending?" when the registry exists — the registry is canonical;
drift tells you when it is not trustworthy.
- It does not replace the per-AILOG
§Follow-ups section. That stays the write-time capture point; the registry aggregates it via drift --apply.
Terminal compatibility: If the terminal does not support box-drawing characters (Unicode), use plain-text formatting with dashes and pipes instead (e.g., +--+ instead of ╔══╗).