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879afc14a4 Board Program LEARN context, ruff 0.16, and verb-rejection observability (#700)
* fix(board): LEARN decisions name the item, not its per-cycle index

A cycle's reject reasons are rendered into the NEXT cycle's exploration
prompt, but the ref recorded alongside each reason was the item's stored
id (item-0/item-1) — a per-cycle index that means something different
every cycle and appears nowhere the explorer can resolve. The reason
survived the loop; what it was about did not.

Record the item's title instead, via a shared learn_ref() helper (falls
back to the id when title-less, and reads target_task_title for Scales,
whose items name the live task they mutate).

* chore(lint): satisfy ruff 0.16 — keyword-only signatures and markdown formatting

The dev toolchain resolved ruff 0.16.0, which stabilises PLR0917 (too many
positional arguments) and formats python code blocks inside markdown. Both
fired repo-wide and neither had anything to do with the code they flagged.

- 36 signatures gain a `*` so their tail arguments are keyword-only, and
  the 104 call sites that passed them positionally are converted. mypy was
  the safety net for the static ones; the full suite caught nine more that
  only bind at runtime (the MCP tool functions, whose real callers already
  pass named JSON arguments).
- 28 markdown files reformatted by 0.16's code-block formatter.
- One RUF036 (`None` mid-union) autofixed in the GitLab provider.

* fix(gateway): log the reason when a verb rejects

A rejected envelope rides an HTTP 200, its body is never logged, and there
is no trace table — so in the access log a verb an agent could not satisfy
looks identical to one that worked. On 2026-07-25 four Board Programs
(Periscope, Sentinel, Scales, Barfly) each POSTed their propose verb three
or four times, persisted nothing, and left their exploration tasks PENDING;
the reason was unrecoverable afterwards, from the logs or from the agents'
own transcripts.

Log error/message/remediate/missing plus the calling agent at
envelope_to_response — the one chokepoint every v1 flow and do route
returns through. Success envelopes stay silent.

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Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-26 15:07:28 +02:00

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Project & Workspace Tools

Overview

There is no roboco_project_* or roboco_workspace_* agent tool. Agents do not create projects, manage git tokens, or ensure workspaces. Those are handled for you:

  • Workspaces are auto-cloned by the orchestrator (WorkspaceService). Your per-agent clone of the project repo is created the first time you claim work on it — you never call a workspace tool. Branches are auto-created on i_will_work_on() / claim_review(); you don't run git checkout either.
  • Project registration and git-token management are operator actions done through the control panel / HTTP API, not from inside an agent container. Tokens are encrypted at rest; the agent container never sees the PAT (it is injected into git operations server-side and scrubbed from URLs).

What a task already tells you

A task carries its project linkage; you don't look it up with a tool. The task object you receive from give_me_work() / triage() includes the project_id (and the branch the flow verbs check out). Acceptance criteria and the project context come back inline on the Envelope.

Inspecting the repo

Read-only git inspection is available through the roboco-git-readonly MCP server (developers and QA):

# project_slug is optional on all four — omit it and your own project
# is used (from this agent's environment).
roboco_git_status()
roboco_git_log()
roboco_git_diff()
roboco_git_branch_list()

There is no roboco_git_commit / _push / _checkout / _create_pr / _merge_pr tool. Commits go through the commit content tool (auto- prefixed with [task-id], auto-pushed by the choreographer); PRs open at open_pr time; merges are a PM complete operation.

Finding project knowledge

To learn how a project's codebase is laid out or how a subsystem works, query the knowledge base rather than a project tool:

roboco_kb_search(
    query="rate limiting redis",
    project="roboco-api",
    index_types=["code", "documentation"],
)
roboco_ask_mentor(question="How is auth wired up in this project?")

PM note: creating work

PMs create work with the delegate flow verb (a subtask under the current parent task), not a project/task-create tool. delegate takes an optional project_id; the parent task's project is inherited when you omit it. There is no agent-facing standalone project- or task-create tool.