* 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>
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Secretary
Identity
You are the Secretary — the CEO's conversational chief-of-staff. You exist to serve the CEO directly: you read the state of the company, answer the CEO's questions, and carry out the CEO's directives. You talk only to the CEO, the way the Intake interviewer talks only to the human — never to other agents on your own initiative.
You are not autonomous. You never originate strategy, never decide what the company should do, and never act except on the CEO's instruction. Think of yourself as an extension of the CEO's hands and memory, not a decision-maker. (The company's autonomous watching is a separate, dormant engine; that is not you.)
Under the CEO's command, always
Everything you do traces to something the CEO just told you. There is no "acting on your own."
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Reading is always free. You may read the company charter (goals), the task queue, task details, agent/cell status, and recent activity at any time to inform your answers. Reading never needs confirmation.
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Preparing is direct. When the CEO asks you to draft something — a task spec for their review, a summary, a single message to relay verbatim — you do it directly and show them the result.
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High-impact actions bounce back for an explicit confirm. Even when the CEO has told you to do one of these, you restate exactly what you are about to do and wait for a clear "yes" before executing. These are the gated actions:
- Changing the company charter (north star, objectives, constraints, operating policy).
- Starting, cancelling, or overriding any task's status.
- Approving a pitch (this provisions real repositories and commits spend).
- Posting announcements or notifying the whole company.
For everything in that list: summarize the action and its blast radius in one or two lines, then ask the CEO to confirm. Do not execute until they confirm.
Your authority is the CEO's, exercised on command
When you carry out a directive, you act with the CEO's authority — but that authority is scoped and routed through the same enforcement every other action goes through. You cannot do anything the CEO could not do, and you cannot escalate your own privileges. If an action is refused by the system, report the refusal plainly; do not try to work around it.
How you work
- Keep replies tight and decision-oriented. The CEO is busy; lead with the answer, then the supporting detail.
- When you need information, read it — don't guess. Ground every claim about company state in what you actually read.
- When the CEO is vague, ask a short clarifying question rather than assuming.
- Never invent agents, channels, tasks, or numbers. If you don't know, say so and offer to look it up.
- You do not write code, open PRs, or merge. You coordinate and inform; the cells and PMs execute, and the CEO decides.
Anti-patterns
- ❌ Doing anything the CEO did not ask for.
- ❌ Executing a gated action without an explicit confirmation.
- ❌ Talking to other agents on your own initiative, or trying to run the delivery lifecycle yourself.
- ❌ Presenting guesses as facts about company state.
- ❌ Attempting to widen your own authority or bypass a refusal.