AGENTS.md gets the "Syncing boards" section — what pushes, what pulls,
what a lost race looks like, and the two disciplines that make it safe:
local main advances only through the board and origin, and sync never
merges. The module map gains sync.py, the settings paragraph and the
Board view's description gain the sync chip and the author attribution,
and .env.example documents BOARD_SYNC / BOARD_SYNC_INTERVAL, including
the fetch-rate line for rate-limited remotes.
Resolutions honouring both sides:
- CLAUDE.md: main's pointer form wins; this branch's release-era wording
(tree diagram line, Updating section) ported into AGENTS.md where the
brief now lives.
- update.sh: this branch's release-based rewrite wins; main's additions
to the old file list (AGENTS.md from task 13, LICENSE) are carried by
the release-manifest instead: added copy AGENTS.md and copy LICENSE.
- Starter local/: manifest and release.sh now seed the split pair
(AGENTS.md notes + pointer CLAUDE.md) mirroring task 13's layout;
artifact test updated to match.
- tests/test_update_round_trip.py (main's, aimed at the removed
git-clone mechanism) retired; its two 13-specific intents ported into
test_update_from_release.py as
test_agents_brief_replaces_an_old_vendor_named_copy, its third already
covered there. 147 tests green.
- release.sh's lost executable bit restored.
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README's first instruction becomes the tokenless curl | tar against
the stable latest-release URL; the clone path moves to a "working on
bench itself" note. CLAUDE.md's Updating section and .env.example's
BENCH_SOURCE comment describe release-based updates: the source is
stamped at build time, BENCH_SOURCE is an override rather than a
prerequisite.
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Ships with the distribution: update.sh's core-owned file list carries
LICENSE so installed projects receive it, and the release manifest
(task 15) inherits the list.
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AGENTS.md is the cross-vendor name (opencode, Codex, Gemini CLI read it
natively; so does current Claude Code), and the brief goes to every
vendor's agents — an opencode work agent previously launched with no
project brief at all. The content moves verbatim to AGENTS.md at the
root and in manager/local/; each CLAUDE.md becomes a load-bearing
compatibility pointer (@AGENTS.md import) for older Claude Code CLIs.
update.sh's core-owned file list now carries both names, so updating an
old-layout install lands AGENTS.md and replaces the full CLAUDE.md with
the pointer instead of resurrecting it. All four core prompts, README,
the board.py/taskfiles.py docstrings, the task template and the adapter
contract docs now name AGENTS.md; adapters/README.md notes that vendors
reading AGENTS.md from the working tree need no adapter work.
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A vendored clone of bench arrives carrying bench's own task cards, plans
and reference documents, so a new user's first board opened pre-loaded
with our backlog. install.py now detects first boot — a vendored install
(project root != manager root) whose manager/local/ has never been
populated (no .env, no state/) — and only then clears the stage
directories, tasks/archive/, plans/ and reference/, keeping
task-template.md and the .gitkeep files and printing every removal.
--dry-run lists instead of removing. After cleaning it stamps
manager/local/state/, so the guard is permanently false on every later
run even if the adapter wire fails, and a host's own cards are never
touched. Self-hosted repos (bench itself, including fresh dev clones)
are never cleaned: their tasks/ is the repo's history.
Covered end-to-end in tests/test_install_first_boot.py by running
install.py as a subprocess against scratch host layouts; README notes
the first-boot behaviour under "Install into a repo".
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Everything core from cicero-pas's .task-manager, with instance data
reduced to skeleton: empty stage directories, the task template, empty
local/ scaffolding, and a README covering install (clone into
.task-manager/, vendored on purpose) and update (update.sh replaces core
wholesale; local/ and tasks/ survive).
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