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46d89b58fe feat: company-in-a-box — goal-aware company layer (0.4.0) (#171)
* feat(goals): company charter singleton — data layer (Business Goals slice 1)

First slice of the company-in-a-box "Business Goals" phase: a single CEO-owned
charter row (north star + objectives + constraints + operating policy) that
will be injected into every agent's context_briefing so all work is goal-aware.

- CompanyGoalsTable: singleton table (all-zeros id), JSON objectives /
  constraints / operating_policy, updated_at / updated_by.
- migration 032: create + seed the singleton row (offline-renderable; column
  server-defaults fill an INSERT of just the id).
- CompanyGoalsService: get() (empty defaults when unset) + upsert() (singleton,
  partial update, caller commits).
- tests: empty defaults, roundtrip, singleton + partial-update preservation.

Next slices (mapped, not yet built): briefing injection (BriefingInputs +
build_context_briefing + EvidenceRepo), API route (GET any / PUT CEO-only),
panel /goals page, and base/Board/PM prompt mentions.

* feat(goals): inject the company charter into every agent briefing (slice 2)

The charter is now goal-aware context for every agent:
- BriefingInputs gains company_goals; build_context_briefing surfaces it.
- EvidenceRepo.company_goals(): single-row lookup returning a COMPACT charter
  (north star + objectives + constraints + operating policy; audit columns
  dropped, lists capped) or None when unset, so an empty charter never bloats
  the per-verb briefing.
- _briefing_for wires it into every context_briefing.

Tests: briefing surfaces company_goals (defaults None); repo returns None for an
absent/empty charter and the compact dict when set.

* feat(goals): company charter API — GET any agent, PUT CEO-only (slice 3)

- routes/company_goals.py: GET returns the charter (any authenticated agent —
  it drives every briefing); PUT is CEO-only (403 otherwise), partial update via
  model_dump(exclude_unset=True), explicit commit.
- schemas/company_goals.py: response + partial-update models.
- registered at /api/company-goals.
- tests: GET open to any role, CEO update persists + is readable, non-CEO 403.

* feat(goals): make the company charter actionable in agent prompts (slice 5)

Agents already receive company_goals in the briefing (slice 2); now tell them to
act on it:
- base.md: universal "Align with the company charter" section — favour work and
  trade-offs that advance the objectives, honour the constraints, flag conflicts;
  never a license to leave your role.
- board / main_pm / cell_pm: role-specific lines tying triage / cell-routing /
  subtask decomposition to the charter.

Prompts are composed at spawn from base.md + roles/*.md directly (compose_prompt),
so no _generated regeneration is needed.

* feat(goals): company charter panel page (slice 4)

CEO-facing editor for the charter at /company-goals:
- lib/api/company-goals.ts: get / update (PUT) client.
- company-goals-card.tsx: edit north star + constraints (one per line) +
  objectives / operating_policy (JSON, parsed + validated with toast errors);
  display derives from server state (no set-state-in-effect).
- (dashboard)/company-goals/page.tsx + a "Company Goals" sidebar nav link.

tsc --noEmit + eslint clean. Completes Phase 1 (Business Goals): data, briefing
injection, API, prompts, panel.

* fix(test): make test_app route assertions robust to FastAPI 0.137 _IncludedRouter

FastAPI 0.137 stopped flattening include_router into app.routes — each include is
now an _IncludedRouter (a BaseRoute with no .path), so `{r.path for r in
app.routes}` raised AttributeError and the two router-registration tests failed
(the bump arrived via the claude-agent-sdk update in uv.lock). Add
_registered_paths(): OpenAPI schema paths (the stable public contract) plus each
included router's prefix, which also covers the websocket /ws mount (never in the
schema). Drops the now-incorrect type: ignore[attr-defined].

* feat(research): pluggable web search/fetch for Board + PM agents

Add a provider-agnostic web-research capability so the Board and PMs can
ground decisions in current external evidence the knowledge base can't
answer.

- ResearchService selects a provider adapter from config: Tavily, Brave,
  and Exa adapters plus a NullProvider that degrades gracefully when no
  key is set. Result count and fetched-content size are clamped to caps.
- /api/research/search and /api/research/fetch: role-gated to Board + PMs
  (and the CEO), with a per-agent/day Redis quota that fails open.
- roboco-search MCP server (web_search / web_fetch) calls those routes;
  the provider key stays server-side and agent containers never egress.
  Mounted per role by the orchestrator, behind a master switch.
- Charter-aware prompt guidance for Board, Main PM, and Cell PM.

Additive: with no key configured it is a no-op and the existing delivery
lifecycle is unchanged.

* feat(pitch): Board pitch -> CEO approve -> auto-provision repos

Add an additive origination path so a product can be proposed, approved,
and stood up without manual repo/Project setup.

- Pitch entity + migration (pitches table); PitchService create/list/
  reject/approve.
- GitHubProvisioningService: the one place that creates repos (POST
  /orgs/{org}/repos). Server-side token/org; when unconfigured the whole
  approve path is inert and nothing is created.
- On approval: provision one repo per target cell, register a Project per
  repo, create a Product when multi-cell, and seed one Main-PM delivery
  task — all reusing the existing Product / coordination-task machinery.
- /api/pitches: Board authors (PO/HoM), CEO approves/rejects, Board+PM+CEO
  view. Errors mapped via a single translator.

Additive: the delivery lifecycle is untouched; with no provisioning token
the capability is a no-op. Agent-facing pitch tool + panel are follow-ups.

* feat(strategy): dormant autonomous strategy engine (engine 2)

Add a second, optional engine that watches the company against its
standing goals and surfaces what needs the CEO — without touching the
delivery lifecycle (engine 1).

- StrategyEngine.assess() reports observations: the company is idle while
  goals stand, and tasks stranded in 'blocked' past a threshold.
- run_cycle() notifies the CEO (notify-only; it never spends, builds, or
  auto-approves — originating work stays a CEO decision).
- Orchestrator runs it on its own interval, started/stopped with the other
  background loops; the loop returns immediately unless enabled.

DORMANT by default (strategy_engine_enabled=False): the loop never runs and
a standard deployment is unchanged. Auto-origination is a further opt-in.

* docs(changelog): record Business Goals, Web Research, Pitch->Provision, and the dormant strategy engine under Unreleased

* feat(secretary): wire the Secretary role end-to-end (foundation)

Add SECRETARY as a distinct role — the CEO's conversational chief-of-staff,
governed separately from the Prompter (which stays read-only/human-only).
This is the role foundation only; authority, the live agent, and the panel
land in following commits.

- foundation/identity: Role.SECRETARY (board level), seeded secretary-1 agent,
  role-level mapping.
- journaling read tier (ALL — it advises the CEO), role_config entry,
  per-role model (opus), prompt-layer mapping + roles/secretary.md.
- i_am_idle gains SECRETARY so the role has a verb surface.
- migration 034: add 'secretary' to the agentrole enum (mirrors 025).
- Role-registry tests updated for the new role.

Inert by itself (nothing spawns it yet); additive — existing roles unchanged.

* feat(secretary): directives + gate-list authority (backend)

The Secretary acts only under CEO command. Low-risk directives (relay a
dictated message) execute immediately; high-impact ones — charter edits,
task start/cancel/override, pitch approval, announcements — are recorded
pending and run only after the CEO confirms (the gate list).

- secretary_directives table (migration 035) as the command audit + queue.
- SecretaryService: read company state; submit (direct->run, gated->queue +
  notify CEO); confirm/reject; execution runs with the CEO as actor through
  the existing services (the Secretary never holds CEO authority itself).
- /api/secretary: submit + state/task reads (Secretary or CEO); list/confirm/
  reject (CEO only). Writes commit explicitly.

* feat(secretary): live conversational agent (container + bridge)

Stand up the Secretary as a persistent Claude-SDK container the CEO chats
with, mirroring the Intake agent and reusing its driver/session machinery.

- secretary_driver: build_secretary_options exposes read_company_state /
  read_task / submit_directive as SDK tools that call /api/secretary/* with
  the agent's HMAC token; backend-call logic is module-level + tested.
- secretary_main: container entrypoint (receiver + relay) reusing IntakeDriver.
- orchestrator: start/spawn/reap secretary session + run-cmd builder; no
  workspace clone (reads state via API), mints a role=secretary token.
- secretary_live routes: panel <-> container bridge over the live registry.
- agent-secretary image (Dockerfile + compose build service).

Inert until a session is started; additive — intake and all agents unchanged.

* feat(secretary): panel chat + directive confirmation queue

The CEO's Secretary surface: a live chat (SSE) to talk to the Secretary, and
a 'Needs your confirmation' queue listing gated directives the Secretary
proposed — each with Confirm / Reject. Adds the sidebar nav entry.

- lib/api/secretary.ts: live (start/stream/status/send/stop) + directive
  (list/confirm/reject) + state clients (all as the CEO).
- hooks/use-secretary.ts: drives one chat, accumulating SSE token deltas.
- secretary page: chat pane + pending-directive cards.

Completes the Secretary end-to-end (role + authority + live agent + panel).

* feat(pitch): agent-facing pitch tool + pitches panel

Complete the pitch path: the Board can now author pitches through the gateway,
and the CEO reviews/approves them in the panel.

- content_actions.pitch (Board-only) -> PitchService.create, returning an
  Envelope; wired as a do-tool (do_server + /api/v1/do/pitch + schema) and
  added to the Board's do-tools.
- Panel /pitches page: lists pitches with CEO Approve & provision / Reject;
  sidebar nav entry.

Pitch (Phase 4) is now end-to-end: author -> CEO approve -> auto-provision.

* feat(cockpit): read-only 'is the business winning?' summary

A pure aggregation for the CEO over existing data — no new state, no writes.

- CockpitService.summary(): charter north-star/objectives, delivery counts
  (in-flight/blocked/awaiting-CEO), 30-day spend vs the charter's budget cap,
  pending pitches, and the strategy engine's signals (what needs you). Stamped
  basis='proxy' — performance is a proxy until real launches.
- GET /api/cockpit/summary (CEO / Board / Main PM / Secretary).
- Panel /cockpit page + sidebar nav.

Reuses goals + usage + StrategyEngine.assess(); reads only.

* docs(changelog): add the Secretary and Cockpit to Unreleased

* fix(test): isolate the company-goals empty-defaults test from committed state

The shared test DB persists committed writes across tests; a route test
commits a charter, so the unit test's 'unset' assertion must establish its
own clean precondition rather than assume global emptiness.

* fix(gateway): lower evidence_repo complexity to rank A (xenon gate)

company_goals()'s 4-way `or` emptiness check tipped the module average to
rank B; `any(...)` is equivalent and keeps the module under the gate's A bar.

* chore(compose): mirror agent-secretary-image build into docker-compose.yaml

Both compose files are byte-identical and tracked; .yaml carries the same
agent-secretary-image build service already present in docker-compose.yml.

* chore(lifecycle): regenerate artifacts for secretary i_am_idle

The secretary role gained i_am_idle in the lifecycle spec; regenerate the
generated prompt/doc/json artifacts so foundation-check stays green.

* docs(changelog): cut the company-in-a-box phases to 0.4.0

Label the six additive phases (business goals, web research, pitch-provision,
strategy engine, secretary, cockpit) as 0.4.0; tag v0.4.0 is held until the
branch merges to master so it points at the release commit.

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Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-06-15 20:47:41 +02:00

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Changelog

All notable changes to RoboCo are documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

0.4.0 - 2026-06-15

Added

  • Business Goals — the company charter. A single CEO-owned charter (north star, prioritized objectives, constraints, operating policy) injected compactly into every agent's briefing so all work is goal-aware. GET /api/company-goals (any agent) / PUT (CEO-only), with a panel editor.
  • Web research for the Board and PMs. Pluggable web_search / web_fetch exposed through a roboco-search MCP server backed by /api/research/*, with Tavily / Brave / Exa adapters and a graceful no-op when no provider is configured. The provider key stays server-side — agent containers never make the external request themselves — and a per-agent daily quota (Redis, fail-open) bounds cost.
  • Pitch → approve → provision. The Board proposes a product (a "pitch"); on CEO approval the system provisions a GitHub repo per target cell, registers a Project for each (and a Product when multi-cell), and seeds one Main-PM delivery task — reusing the existing Product / coordination-task machinery. Default-off: with no provisioning token configured, approval is refused and nothing is created.
  • Autonomous strategy engine (dormant). An optional second engine that watches the company against its standing goals and surfaces drift, idle, and long-stranded blocked work to the CEO (notify-only — it never spends, builds, or auto-approves). Off by default; the delivery lifecycle is unchanged.
  • The Secretary — the CEO's chief-of-staff. A live conversational agent (its own role, distinct from the Prompter) the CEO chats with in the panel. It acts only under the CEO's command: it reads company state and relays dictated messages directly, but high-impact actions — editing the charter, starting / cancelling / overriding tasks, approving a pitch, announcements — are queued and run only after the CEO's explicit confirmation (the gate list). Its authority is HMAC-scoped to the secretary role and routed through the existing enforcement, never a parallel permission model.
  • The Cockpit. A read-only /cockpit view answering "is the business winning, what's happening, what needs me" — the charter, delivery counts, 30-day spend vs the budget cap, pending pitches, and the strategy engine's signals. Honestly stamped basis: proxy (a proxy until real launches).

All of these are additive and opt-in or default-off — an unconfigured deployment behaves exactly as before.

0.3.0 - 2026-06-15

Added

  • In-house RAG engine. Replaced the piragi/torch retrieval stack with an in-house pgvector engine (asyncpg), then added hybrid retrieval — pgvector cosine fused with Postgres full-text ranking — retiring HyDE, plus an embed-once / concurrent-search pass that cut multi-index query latency.
  • Self-hosted LLM provider with dynamic model discovery, so agents can run against a local or self-hosted model endpoint.
  • Quality gates at the source. Developers run a fast quality gate at i_am_done and the full fast gate (including complexity) at their desk; QA requires a per-acceptance-criterion verdict before passing; cells run two developers in parallel with split-before-claim sizing.
  • Board redraft loop — the Board can send a drafted task back to intake for an in-context re-draft before it starts.
  • Transcript retention — a background sweep prunes old agent transcripts, with a panel-tunable retention window.
  • tests/ type-gated under mypy — the whole test suite now type-checks in CI.

Fixed

  • PR-divergence respawn-loop meltdown. Capped the PM respawn loop-gate, added CEO god-mode status override, a PR-conflict auto-resolver (rebase → close-superseded / re-merge / escalate), and sequence-ordered sibling merge; the dispatcher can now claim an ownerless awaiting_pm_review task without transitioning it.
  • Git robustness. Fall back to a permitted merge method when the repo refuses the requested one, and retarget a PR's base to the default branch when the resolved base is missing on the remote.
  • RAG outage. Migrated the live chunks_* tables to the in-house schema (offline-renderable migration), closed engine audit gaps, decoded jsonb metadata returned as a string by asyncpg, and kept the embedding model resident to stop ingest timeouts.
  • Panel. Fixed task lifecycle (updates, merge, reassignment, copy), responsive grids + mobile overflow, the status dropdown duplicating the current status, the orchestrator-status reachability signal, and surfaced the CEO "Approve & Start" gate so it can't be missed.
  • Usage attribution. Agent transcripts are attributed by an orchestrator-assigned session id, fixing zeroed token/cost capture for review-role agents.
  • Composed the prompter role layer for the intake agent; aligned auditor channel permissions; made the app route-registration test robust to FastAPI 0.137; cleared an xenon complexity failure and fixable test warnings.

Security

  • Documented that WebSocket authentication is REST-only and /ws/system is unauthenticated.

0.2.0 - 2026-06-11

Added

  • Provider rate-limit handling. End-to-end backpressure for LLM-provider 429s: a Redis-backed RateLimitStateTracker, a spawn gate that queues (never drops) work while a provider is rate-limited, agent parking via i_am_blocked(reason="rate_limited"), and a background probe-and-resume loop that auto-revives parked agents when the limit lifts — escalating to the CEO after repeated failed probes. Surfaced live in the panel via a rate-limit banner.
  • Token usage & cost analytics. Per-agent-session token capture read from the Claude Code transcript (/usage/sync), persisted to spawn-session rows and daily rollups, with provider-aware pricing (Anthropic models priced; local/Ollama models intentionally $0). Visible on the usage dashboard.
  • /ws/system operator WebSocket stream with a websocket_bridge that forwards system events from the event bus to panel clients in real time — the rate-limit lifecycle and live token/cost usage (USAGE_UPDATE / USAGE_SNAPSHOT), so the dashboard's "Token Usage & Cost" panel updates over the socket and falls back to HTTP polling when it drops.

Fixed

  • Agent workspaces now install the project's dev extra (uv sync --extra dev) so spawned agents have the full make quality toolchain (ruff/mypy/xenon) and can gate their own work — closing the gap that let lint/type/complexity debt merge unchecked.
  • Token-usage capture: the dashboard previously recorded zeros because nothing populated the per-session counters.
  • Panel rate-limit endpoint shape (/api/system/rate-limits returns the { entries: [...] } envelope the dashboard expects) and the doubled /ws/ws/system WebSocket path.
  • Control-panel logo and all /public assets returning 500 — the panel image copied them without chowning to the non-root runtime user.
  • Provider-aware pricing (Opus corrected to $5/$25 per 1M; non-Anthropic models no longer warn or mis-price).

0.1.0 - 2026-06-09

Added

  • Initial public release of RoboCo — an open-source AI agent "company": a virtual organization of 20 AI agents and 1 human CEO that plans, builds, reviews, documents, and ships software.
  • Organizational hierarchy: on-demand Intake, Board (Product Owner, Head of Marketing, Auditor), Main PM, and Backend / Frontend / UX-UI cells.
  • Task Assistant (the intake Prompter): a live, codebase-aware chat that interviews the CEO and drafts a well-formed, board-ready task — objective, per-cell breakdown, and acceptance criteria — then launches it into the lifecycle (Board review, or straight to the Main PM).
  • Agent gateway (roboco-flow, roboco-do) backed by the server-side Choreographer; intent-verb tool surface per role.
  • Task lifecycle state machine with role-based transitions and git workflow (PR-before-QA, CEO approval for major work).
  • A2A protocol, journals, channels/notifications, kanban, and RAG (piragi + pgvector) knowledge base.
  • Next.js control panel (panel/) behind a single nginx entry point.
  • Multi-agent workspace management with per-project encrypted git tokens.