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401f8a2cc9 feat(board): Board Programs — the complete twelve-program catalog (Phases 1-3) (#699)
* feat(board): Pest Control — the first project-scoped Board Program

The Product Owner hunts latent defects (what the org records but nobody
reads): a weekly cycle — accelerated off-schedule when the trailing-7-day
rework rate crosses pest_rework_threshold, with the cheap dedup/scope gates
evaluated before the metrics queries — opens one held exploration task
against the least-recently-explored opted-in project (deterministic
round-robin; opted_in_projects gains a stable ORDER BY), with server-
assembled evidence in the spawn prompt (rework hotspots, recurring-findings
and waived-minor ledger aggregates, all capped) plus prior-cycle LEARN
context. The PO calls the new PO-only propose_bug_hunt verb once: ≤5 items,
evidence required per item, targets validated against pest_control
participation. CEO decides per item — approve materializes a BACKLOG task
(source pest_control, never auto-starts), reject records the reason; both
feed the LEARN ledger by exploration task id; all-terminal completes the
cycle. Telegram queue pushes carry working Approve/Reject handlers
mirroring the roadmap kind. Doctrine: board.md Pest Control section +
product-owner verb entry + regenerated verb tables.

* feat(panel): Pest Control review queue

Command Center gains the pest review queue (per-item approve/reject with
reason, mirroring the roadmap queue); the Programs card and the project
settings participates-in checkboxes pick the new program up registry-driven
— the settings section renders for the first time now that a project-scoped
program exists.

* feat(board): Periscope — HoM market-research brief program

Weekly org-scoped cycle: a solo HoM spawn researches the market (web
research with mandatory source URLs — uncited findings are rejected) and
files one structured brief via the new HoM-only propose_market_brief verb:
headline, cited findings, threats/opportunities, positioning note, all
soup-checked and screened through the injection guard at persist time
(web-derived text later reaches prompts; flags recorded, content never
dropped). A brief is a report, not a proposal: the verb completes the
exploration in the same call (the x_feature asymmetry), the cycle ledger
auto-closes, and the CEO gets a best-effort notification with no
approve/reject surface (periscope deliberately never joins Telegram's
action kinds). The latest brief is injected into the roadmap exploration
prompt — Periscope feeds Printer, the first cross-role program input.

* feat(panel): Market Briefs tab (read-only)

Business page gains a Market Briefs tab listing Periscope briefs —
headline, cited findings, threats/opportunities — read-only by design; a
report has nothing to approve.

* feat(board): Coroner — event-triggered Auditor postmortems

The first EVENT program: no cron — three best-effort hooks open an autopsy
when a task bounces to its 3rd revision (the audit chokepoint), is
cancelled after work started, or is budget-blocked; all gated on arming +
one-open-autopsy dedup, none can fail the underlying transition. A solo
Auditor spawn reads the incident (server-assembled findings + transition
context) and files one propose_postmortem: incident summary, root cause,
failed stage (validated against the real status vocabulary), and ONE
process change — a playbook-kind change drafts via PlaybookService
directly into the normal pending-curation queue; the briefed draft_playbook
manifest grant was deliberately NOT added, preserving the existing
'auditor curates but never drafts' invariant test. Complete-at-propose
(report asymmetry), cycle ledger auto-closes, CEO notified link-only.
Integrated as a union with Periscope across the shared program surfaces.

* feat(panel): Coroner postmortems card

Read-only postmortems list under Business → Programs — incident, root
cause, failed stage, process change; nothing to approve, the process-change
artifact (a draft playbook) rides the existing curation queue.

* feat(board): Sentinel — Auditor drift-watch quality reports

Weekly org-scoped cycle: a solo Auditor spawn receives a server-assembled
drift context (waived-findings trend, open findings by severity,
conventions-violation hotspots, top spend — all capped, pure ORM) and files
one propose_quality_report: headline, 1-7 area-validated items with
evidence and suggested actions, overall assessment. Report semantics —
complete-at-propose, cycle auto-closes, CEO notified display-only (never on
Telegram's approve/reject surface); items are structured so a later
convert-to-task control is cheap. Integration adopts Sentinel's module-
level dict-dispatch for board-program routing (xenon-driven), folding all
prior programs in; app router mounting extracted to a helper for the same
budget.

* feat(panel): Quality Reports tab (read-only)

Business page gains the Sentinel quality-reports tab — headline, per-area
observations with evidence and suggested actions; read-only, a report has
nothing to approve.

* feat(board): Spackle — gap-fill audit program

Biweekly project-scoped PO cycle over the half-shipped surface area: API
routes without panel surfaces (and vice versa), armed flags without docs,
docs promises the code doesn't keep, dead-end tabs — the inventory diffing
is the PO's own read-tool work, ordered by the spawn prompt with file:line
citations required; the server injects only prior-cycle LEARN and the
rotation target. Rotation is now a shared module-level helper
(pick_rotation_target, parameterized by source) both project-scoped
engines use — pest_control delegates to it, behavior-identical, with a
cross-pollution test proving the two programs' rotations stay independent.
propose_gap_fill mirrors the bug-hunt verb (≤5 items, two-sided evidence
required, participation gate); per-item CEO decide materializes BACKLOG
source=spackle tasks; full Telegram kind incl. approve/reject handlers.
All seven program routers now mount from one helper.

* feat(panel): Spackle gap-fill review queue

Command Center gains the gap-fill queue mirroring the pest-control one —
per-item approve/reject with the two-sided gap evidence rendered.

* feat(board): Scales — monthly portfolio rebalance

Org-scoped PO cycle over the stale backlog: the spawn receives a capped
stale-task snapshot (BACKLOG/PENDING unclaimed >30 days) plus the charter
and prior-cycle LEARN, and files one propose_rebalance — 1-7 items, each a
resolvable task_ref with action reprioritize (validated new priority) or
cancel, rationale required. Per-item CEO decide: approve EXECUTES the
action (audited priority update, or the normal cancel path) — the first
program whose materializer mutates existing tasks instead of creating
them; reject records the reason; LEARN by exploration task id;
all-terminal completes the cycle. Full Telegram decide-kind wiring.
Integrated as the eight-program union (registry, dict dispatch, routers
helper, teardown enumerations).

* feat(panel): Scales rebalance review queue

Command Center gains the rebalance queue — per-item approve/reject with
the action, target task, and rationale rendered.

* feat(board): Mirror — quarterly positioning audit

Project-scoped HoM cycle over messaging surfaces: README claims vs shipped
reality, docs-site promises vs code, charter alignment — the audit is the
HoM's own read-tool work with citations required; the server injects the
charter, prior-cycle LEARN, and the shared rotation target. propose_
messaging_fixes mirrors the gap-fill verb (≤5 items, drift evidence naming
claim + contradicting reality, participation gate); per-item CEO decide
materializes BACKLOG source=mirror documentation tasks; full Telegram
decide-kind wiring. Nine-program union across the shared surfaces.

* feat(panel): Mirror messaging-fixes review queue

* feat(board): Megaphone — HoM standing editorial calendar

Cron cycle (3 days, org-scoped, gated on X credentials — drafting content
nobody can post is pointless): the HoM receives a shipped-this-week digest
plus Unreleased changelog bullets and files one propose_editorial_post
(angle-validated, ≤280, brand voice) that materializes a held x_editorial
draft through the SAME X-queue origination chokepoint release posts use —
zero new approval surface, notifications and CEO decide for free.
Complete-at-propose; cycle auto-closes. Ten-program union.

* feat(panel): x_editorial source labels in the X queue surfaces

* feat(board): Librarian — proactive playbook mining

Biweekly org-scoped Auditor cycle: mines recurring non-private learning
journals (≥2-count grouping with a recency fallback) against the existing
playbook-title inventory and files one propose_playbook_drafts — 1-3
drafts, each with the repeated-pattern evidence that justifies it,
duplicate titles rejected in-batch and against the live store. Drafts are
created via PlaybookService directly (the Coroner precedent — the
'auditor curates but never drafts' do-verb invariant stays intact and
tested) and land in the normal pending-curation queue the Auditor's own
triage already surfaces; no new panel surface. Complete-at-propose;
display-only CEO notification. Eleven-program union.

* feat(board): War Room — release campaign planning

EVENT program with a REAL originator (unlike coroner's stub): a release
publish hooks a campaign brief beside the release-post seam, and the CEO's
run-now originates on demand — the cron loop never fires it. The HoM
designs a 2-6 post arc (teaser → launch → follow-up → spotlight; 280-cap,
future strictly-ascending publish_after, stage vocabulary) and one
propose_campaign call materializes each post as a held x_campaign draft
through the X-queue chokepoint. V1 is manual-cadence by design: publish_
after renders as queue guidance and the CEO approves each post at its
moment — nothing auto-posts, ever; the auto-schedule upgrade is a
documented ceiling. Twelve-program union: full registry complete.

* feat(panel): x_campaign labels + publish-after guidance in the X queue

* feat(board): Barfly — adjacent-conversation replies

Cron cycle (2 days, org-scoped, X-credentials gated): the engine searches
X for conversations where RoboCo is relevant but unmentioned (new OAuth-
signed search_recent on the client; queries + candidate cap configurable),
screens every fetched tweet through the injection guard (stored unclamped
— a clamp was truncating the candidate under the envelope, caught by the
dev's own tests), dedupes via the existing x_seen_mentions ledger (no
migration; also prevents double-drafting against the mentions poll), and
opens one held HoM exploration carrying the screened candidates. propose_
conversation_replies enforces candidate-id-only replies (≤5, 280-cap);
each materializes a held x_barfly draft through the X-queue chokepoint,
threaded via a new in_reply_to seam on post_tweet that only x_barfly
drafts use. The X redraft machinery is now dict-dispatch over per-source
extractors with reply-ref carry for x_barfly. Thirteen-program registry.
War Room's test fakes gained the new abstract search_recent stub.

* feat(board): Dogfood — the PO walks the product

The fourteenth and final registry entry, completing the catalog. EVENT
program (release-publish hook beside the war-room hook + CEO run-now, both
through the same real originator; the cron loop never fires it), project-
scoped with shared rotation. The permission surface is the careful part:
the PO's dogfood spawn — and ONLY that spawn — gets the Playwright MCP
mounted, via a task-scoped fail-closed probe mirroring the video-authoring
precedent (a PO spawned for roadmap/pest/scales never sees browser tools;
tested both ways); the PM agent image bakes chromium unconditionally like
the ux image, the mount stays task-gated in code. The walk targets the
rotation target's live surfaces (panel_base_url only when the target is
the org's own project, honest degradation otherwise); propose_friction_
fixes files ≤5 walked-path-evidenced items; per-item CEO decide
materializes BACKLOG source=dogfood tasks; full Telegram decide kind.
Also: megaphone/librarian/war_room arming keys restored to the settings
validator — their panel toggles would have been rejected (dropped in
earlier unions; the same silent-arming class the drill killed once
already).

* feat(panel): Dogfood friction review queue

* chore(board): final whole-branch sweep fixes

The night's closing adversarial pass over the integrated fourteen-program
registry found ONE functional defect — the war-room test fakes' post_tweet
predated Barfly's in_reply_to_tweet_id kwarg (LSP violation, the only red
in an otherwise fully green gate) — plus doc/test drift, all fixed: the
source-parity test completes to fourteen (spackle/mirror were silently
absent while its neighboring comment claimed full coverage), the PO
identity doc gains its missing Dogfood verb, the auditor quick-list gains
propose_postmortem, three stale comments corrected (rotation docstring,
panel registry header, X source enumerations), the dogfood release-hook
gains the exception-swallow test its four sibling hooks already had, and
the CHANGELOG's Unreleased section documents the whole Board Programs
train. Full make quality: exit 0, all gates green.

* docs: full documentation sweep for the Board Programs train

CLAUDE.md's roadmap-engine entry superseded by the Board Program registry
entry (all fourteen programs, arming, scoping, LEARN, guardrails) with the
role verb tables and playwright row refreshed; docs/rag gains the agent-
facing architecture doc plus full propose_* call-shape sections in the
three board role docs, and corrects the strategy-engine section to shipped
reality (only idle→roadmap is wired); docs/map covers the registry + all
twelve engines with flags, gotchas, and drift notes. The 0.27.0 reference
inventory confirmed only the release-executor's canonical set carries the
version — left for the 0.28.0 cut.

* feat(board): human titles + descriptions on every program surface

Raw registry keys rendered as bare panel labels — an operator reading
x_feature had no idea what enabling or running it does. The registry
dataclass gains title/description (test-enforced non-empty for every
entry, unique titles), the API passes them through, and every surface
renders title-with-description-tooltip instead of the key: the Programs
card (label, toggle hint, run-now toast), and the project settings
participates-in/excluded-from checkboxes.

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Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-25 17:13:32 +02:00

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Configuration Reference

Environment variables for RoboCo (prefix: ROBOCO_).

API Server

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_HOST 127.0.0.1 API host (0.0.0.0 for containers)
ROBOCO_PORT 8000 API port
ROBOCO_DEBUG false Debug mode
ROBOCO_ENVIRONMENT development development/staging/production

Database

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_DATABASE_HOST localhost PostgreSQL host
ROBOCO_DATABASE_PORT 5432 PostgreSQL port
ROBOCO_DATABASE_USER roboco Database user
ROBOCO_DATABASE_PASSWORD roboco Database password
ROBOCO_DATABASE_NAME roboco Database name

Redis

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_REDIS_HOST localhost Redis host
ROBOCO_REDIS_PORT 6379 Redis port
ROBOCO_REDIS_DB 0 Redis database

Workspaces

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_WORKSPACES_ROOT /data/workspaces Root for agent workspaces
ROBOCO_WORKSPACE_AUTO_CLONE true Auto-clone on first access
ROBOCO_WORKSPACE_CLONE_TIMEOUT 300 Clone timeout (seconds)

RAG/Embeddings

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_DEFAULT_EMBEDDING_MODEL qwen3-embedding:0.6b Embedding model
ROBOCO_EMBEDDING_DIMENSIONS 1024 Embedding dimensions
ROBOCO_RAG_CHUNK_STRATEGY fixed fixed/semantic/hierarchical/contextual
ROBOCO_RAG_CHUNK_SIZE 512 Base chunk size
ROBOCO_RAG_CHUNK_SIZE_DOCS 1536 Chunk size for docs
ROBOCO_RAG_CHUNK_SIZE_JOURNALS 1024 Chunk size for journals
ROBOCO_RAG_CHUNK_OVERLAP 128 Chunk overlap
ROBOCO_RAG_USE_HYBRID_SEARCH true BM25 + vector search
ROBOCO_RAG_USE_CROSS_ENCODER true Neural reranking
ROBOCO_RAG_AUTO_UPDATE_ENABLED true Auto-update indexes
ROBOCO_RAG_AUTO_UPDATE_INTERVAL 300 Update interval (seconds)

LLM

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_LOCAL_LLM_MODEL glm-5.2:cloud Local LLM for RAG
ROBOCO_LOCAL_LLM_BASE_URL http://roboco-ollama:11434/v1 OpenAI-compat API
ROBOCO_OLLAMA_BASE_URL http://roboco-ollama:11434 Native Ollama API

Grok provider (xAI)

Agents whose provider is GROK run xAI's official grok CLI. Auth is the host SuperGrok subscription (mounted ~/.grok), not a metered API key.

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_HOST_GROK_DIR ~/.grok Host dir holding auth.json, mounted into Grok agents; the orchestrator auto-refreshes the ~6h token in place. Set up once with grok login.
ROBOCO_GROK_CLI_MODEL grok-build Grok CLI model id
ROBOCO_GROK_AGENT_IMAGE roboco-agent-grok:latest Image for Grok delivery agents
ROBOCO_GROK_REASONING_EFFORT (blank) Per-run reasoning-effort override; blank = the grok CLI default
ROBOCO_GROK_IDLE_KILL_SECONDS 900 Kill + evict a Grok container that has been ACTIVE-yet-idle (no gateway verb) this long
ROBOCO_GROK_MAX_COST_USD 0.0 Per-agent Grok cost ceiling (USD); 0 disables

Feature flags

Env-gated subsystems. Most are default-off; ROBOCO_OVERLOAD_BREAK_ENABLED, ROBOCO_RESEARCH_ENABLED, and ROBOCO_PROVISIONING_ENABLED ship default-on. Each takes effect on the next backend restart; the panel's Settings → Feature Flags card toggles the panel-exposed ones (roboco/services/settings.py's FEATURE_FLAGS) without hand-editing env — a few security/topology flags below are env-only by design and are called out as such.

The PR-gate turn cut (when every child of an assembled parent is terminal, _try_auto_submit runs the real submit_up / submit_root system-side as the owning PM instead of spawning the PM for that turn) is unconditional — no flag, no kill-switch. A gate rejection (freshness/integrity/AC-coverage/a subtask-terminal race) or transport error falls back to the classic PM closure spawn with the rejection reason threaded into the PM's prompt; that fallback is the sole safety net. Each auto-submit leaves a task.auto_submitted audit row.

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_CONVENTIONS_ENABLED false Architectural Conventions Standard: auto-scaffold .roboco/conventions.yml, inject the architecture map, attach baseline constraints, and block i_am_done / pr_pass on block-level placement and hygiene violations. Off = fully inert.
ROBOCO_TOOLCHAIN_MATCH_ENABLED false Provision each agent workspace with the target project's Python (resolved from its requires-python / .python-version) and block delivery gates when the suite cannot be executed under it. Off = today's behavior.
ROBOCO_OVERLOAD_BREAK_ENABLED true Park a provider on a persistent model-API overload (HTTP 529 / 500 / 503) the same way a 429 is parked — queue its spawns and probe until it recovers — instead of crash-retrying into the overload. Off = crash-retry behavior.
ROBOCO_SPAWN_PREFLIGHT_ENABLED false Refuse to spawn a non-human delivery role absent from GATEWAY_ENABLED_ROLES (no manifest → can never claim → would respawn on the same task forever); refuse + alert the overseer once instead. Inert in practice (all delivery roles are gateway-enabled). Armed on the NAS composes.
ROBOCO_NOTIFICATION_SPAWN_COOLDOWN_SECONDS 600 Cross-tick damper for notification-triggered spawns (escalation/approval/audit/a2a — task-less, so the readiness gate and respawn breaker never see them): one spawn per (agent, notification) per window; the notification stays pending so the next window retries. 0 = legacy every-tick respawn.
ROBOCO_SANDBOX_DB_ENABLED false Sandboxed per-agent-spawn test DB/Redis/Mongo: throwaway sibling containers provisioned from the engine registry in roboco/models/sandbox.py (postgres:16-alpine / redis:8-alpine / mongo:8), per-project opt-in. The valid-service set is VALID_SANDBOX_SERVICES (registry-derived). See "Sandboxed Dev DB/Redis/Mongo" below and docs/rag/architecture/sandbox-db.md.
ROBOCO_X_ENGINE_ENABLED false The X (Twitter) engine: draft release/mention posts, ALL held for per-post CEO approval. See "X (Twitter) Engine" below and docs/rag/architecture/x-engine.md.
ROBOCO_ROADMAP_ENGINE_ENABLED false Legacy alias for the roadmap Board Program (Printer): weekly Product-Owner-authored cycle, CEO approves each item individually into BACKLOG. See "Board Program Registry" below and docs/rag/architecture/board-programs.md.
ROBOCO_OBSIDIAN_VAULT_ENABLED false (both compose files set true) The Obsidian vault projection: tasks/journals/A2A become wikilinked markdown, rebuildable from the DB. See docs/rag/architecture/obsidian-vault.md.
ROBOCO_VAULT_INTAKE_ENABLED false (both compose files set true) The vault's #roboco-tag inbox watcher — requires ROBOCO_OBSIDIAN_VAULT_ENABLED also on. See docs/rag/architecture/obsidian-vault.md.
ROBOCO_VAULT_ARCHIVE_DAYS 30 (0 disables) Age (past its terminal timestamp) a completed/cancelled task's note must reach before the vault janitor moves it to RoboCo/Archive/<year>/.
ROBOCO_VAULT_REPORT_ENABLED true The vault janitor's weekly RoboCo/Reports/<ISO-week>.md org-report note + CEO notification (deterministic, no LLM). Needs ROBOCO_OBSIDIAN_VAULT_ENABLED also on.
ROBOCO_VAULT_KB_ENABLED false (NAS compose sets true; registry compose leaves false) Master switch for vault KB ingest: embeds ROBOCO_VAULT_KB_DIRS note folders (default RoboCo/Notes) into IndexType.VAULT_NOTES, screened for injection attempts before indexing. Requires ROBOCO_OBSIDIAN_VAULT_ENABLED also on. ROBOCO_VAULT_KB_DIRS (CSV, default RoboCo/Notes) and ROBOCO_VAULT_KB_INTERVAL_SECONDS (default 900) tune scope and cadence. See docs/rag/architecture/obsidian-vault.md.

The company-in-a-box subsystems toggle the same way: web research (ROBOCO_RESEARCH_ENABLED, default on — see "Web Research" below), the strategy engine (ROBOCO_STRATEGY_ENGINE_ENABLED, default off), and pitch provisioning (ROBOCO_PROVISIONING_ENABLED, default on but inert without a token/org configured).

Web Research

Pluggable external search/fetch for the Board + PM roles (cell_pm, main_pm, product_owner, head_marketing). Calls flow agent → roboco-search MCP → /api/research/*ResearchService → provider; the provider key lives only in the server-side process — it is never injected into an agent container, and agents never egress (the provider's own API does). See docs/rag/tools/research-tools.md for the web_search / web_fetch tool contract.

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_RESEARCH_ENABLED true Master switch. Ships default-on (unlike most feature flags): the roboco-search MCP server is mounted for the four research roles unless explicitly disabled. Panel-toggleable. Both NAS composes also set ROBOCO_RESEARCH_ENABLED:-true explicitly (redundant with the code default, but keeps the deploy's env self-documenting).
ROBOCO_RESEARCH_PROVIDER tavily Adapter: tavily (LLM-native cited results + extract), brave (independent index, no fetch endpoint), exa (neural search + contents), or null (always-empty stub). Swapping providers is a config change only.
ROBOCO_RESEARCH_API_KEY (unset) API key for the selected provider. Server-side only. Unset ⇒ graceful NullProvider (empty results, never a hard fail).
ROBOCO_RESEARCH_MAX_RESULTS 5 Hard cap (1-20) on web_search results per call.
ROBOCO_RESEARCH_FETCH_MAX_CHARS 20000 Hard cap on characters web_fetch returns; content past this is truncated.
ROBOCO_RESEARCH_TIMEOUT_SECONDS 15.0 Per-request timeout for outbound provider HTTP calls.
ROBOCO_RESEARCH_DAILY_QUOTA_PER_AGENT 50 Max web_search + web_fetch calls per agent per UTC day. Tracked in Redis; fails open (allows the call) if Redis is unreachable.

Self-Healing CI loop

RoboCo watching its own repo's CI. All default-off / dormant.

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_SELF_HEAL_ENABLED false Master switch (detect + notify the CEO); off = the loop never runs and no CI is fetched
ROBOCO_SELF_HEAL_ORIGINATE_ENABLED false Second opt-in: also open a PENDING fix task on a regression — CEO-gated, never auto-started/merged/deployed
ROBOCO_SELF_HEAL_PROJECT_SLUG (empty) The registered project that IS RoboCo itself — the only repo it watches and fixes; empty = no-op
ROBOCO_SELF_HEAL_CI_WORKFLOW (empty) GitHub Actions workflow to scope the CI signal to (e.g. ci.yml); empty = latest across all workflows
ROBOCO_SELF_HEAL_INTERVAL_SECONDS 1800 Seconds between assessment passes
ROBOCO_SELF_HEAL_MAX_OPEN_TASKS 3 Rolling cap on concurrently-open self-heal tasks
ROBOCO_SELF_HEAL_MAX_PER_CYCLE 1 Max fix tasks originated per cycle

Autonomous maintenance

The fan-out generalizations of self-heal — they watch any opted-in project, not just RoboCo's own. All default-off; neither ever auto-merges (every task rides the normal delivery + PR-review gate). Per-project opt-in lives on the project row (set in the panel's edit-project dialog), not in env.

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_CI_WATCH_ENABLED false Master switch for multi-repo CI-watch; off = the loop never runs. Per-project opt-in via projects.ci_watch_enabled
ROBOCO_CI_WATCH_DEFAULT_WORKFLOW ci.yml Workflow file the CI signal is scoped to when a project sets no ci_watch_workflow
ROBOCO_CI_WATCH_INTERVAL_SECONDS 1800 Seconds between CI-watch passes
ROBOCO_CI_WATCH_MAX_OPEN_TASKS 3 Rolling cap on concurrently-open ci_watch tasks
ROBOCO_CI_WATCH_MAX_PER_CYCLE 1 Max ci_watch fix tasks originated per cycle
ROBOCO_DEP_UPDATE_ENABLED false Master switch for the dependency-update bot; off = the loop never runs. Per-project opt-in via projects.dep_update_command
ROBOCO_DEP_UPDATE_INTERVAL_SECONDS 604800 Seconds between dependency-update passes (default weekly)
ROBOCO_DEP_UPDATE_MAX_OPEN_TASKS 3 Rolling cap on concurrently-open dep_update tasks
ROBOCO_DEP_UPDATE_MAX_PER_CYCLE 1 Max dep_update tasks originated per cycle
ROBOCO_RELEASE_MANAGER_ENABLED false Master switch for the gated release manager; off = the loop never runs. Even on it only PROPOSES — the CEO approves before any publish
ROBOCO_RELEASE_MIN_COMMITS 8 Minimum unreleased commits since the last tag before a release is proposed (a feat/security change also qualifies)
ROBOCO_RELEASE_MANAGER_INTERVAL_SECONDS 3600 Seconds between release-readiness assessment passes
ROBOCO_DOCS_SYNC_ENABLED false Master switch for the docs-divergence sync engine. When on, a successful release publish originates one bounded, deduped docs-update task per release tag against the roboco-website project. Requires roboco-website to be registered as a project; otherwise the engine logs a warning and no-ops. Panel-toggleable via FEATURE_FLAGS. The NAS compose defaults it to true; the local and registry composes default it to false.
ROBOCO_DOCS_SYNC_MAX_OPEN_TASKS 3 Rolling cap on concurrently-open docs-sync tasks; the engine originates nothing more while this many are still open.
ROBOCO_DOCS_SYNC_MAX_PER_CYCLE 1 Max docs-sync tasks the engine may originate in one invocation. A release publish is a single invocation, so this bounds it to one task per publish event.
ROBOCO_ORG_MEMORY_ENABLED false Master switch for the org-memory loop (distill at completion, index journals, auto-inject lessons/playbooks); off = legacy capture, no inject
ROBOCO_ORG_MEMORY_TOP_K 3 Max institutional-memory items injected into a briefing on claim
ROBOCO_ORG_MEMORY_MIN_SCORE 0.6 Cosine-similarity floor for injected memory; below it nothing is injected
ROBOCO_IMAGE_PRUNE_ENABLED true Background sweep prunes dangling (<none>) Docker images from agent-image rebuilds (only dangling; ~6h throttle). Always-on safety net, not a feature flag
ROBOCO_IMAGE_PRUNE_INTERVAL_SECONDS 21600 Minimum seconds between dangling-image prune passes

Sandboxed Dev DB/Redis/Mongo

Per-agent-spawn throwaway Postgres/Redis/Mongo, replacing (never coexisting with) the legacy prod-creds gate-env injection for an opted-in project. Default-off; see docs/rag/architecture/sandbox-db.md.

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_SANDBOX_DB_ENABLED false Master switch. Off = spawning behaves exactly as today (the legacy _append_gate_env prod-creds injection, itself gated by ROBOCO_TOOLCHAIN_MATCH_ENABLED). Only projects with their sandbox_services column set (migration 057) participate even when on. The valid service set is VALID_SANDBOX_SERVICES in roboco/models/sandbox.py (registry-derived: postgres / redis / mongo); adding an engine is one class + one registry line, no orchestrator edit. Env injected per engine: ROBOCO_TEST_DB_*, ROBOCO_TEST_REDIS_*, ROBOCO_TEST_MONGO_* (incl. ROBOCO_TEST_MONGO_AUTH_DB=admin). A project may also declare sandbox_extensions (migration 072) — a per-service extension/module map activated post-ready via docker exec, bounded by a fixed allowlist (SANDBOX_PG_EXTENSIONS / SANDBOX_REDIS_MODULES; no plpython3u). See docs/rag/architecture/sandbox-db.md.

X (Twitter) Engine

Drafts release-announcement and mention-reply posts, ALL held for per-post CEO approval — nothing ever posts automatically. Default-off; see docs/rag/architecture/x-engine.md.

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_X_ENGINE_ENABLED false Master switch. Off = no draft is originated and no X API call is ever made. Even on, posting requires stored credentials (panel-entered) AND an explicit per-post CEO approval.
ROBOCO_X_REPLIES_ENABLED false Sub-switch for the mention-reply half. Off (even with the engine on) = the engine only drafts release-announcement posts; it never polls mentions or drafts replies. Reading mentions needs a paid X API tier, so replies are a deliberate opt-in on top of release posting.
ROBOCO_X_MENTIONS_INTERVAL_SECONDS 1800 Seconds between mentions-poll passes (only when X_REPLIES_ENABLED).
ROBOCO_X_MENTIONS_MAX_PER_CYCLE 5 Max held reply proposals the mentions poll may originate in one cycle.
ROBOCO_X_MENTIONS_MIN_ENGAGEMENT 0 Minimum like+reply+retweet count for a mention to count as "meaningful" (the engagement half of the mention filter; the other half rejects bare retweets and near-empty text).
ROBOCO_X_MAX_OPEN_POSTS 10 Rolling cap on concurrently-open held X posts/replies (both sources combined); the engine originates nothing more past it.
ROBOCO_X_ACCOUNT_USER_ID (empty) Numeric X user id of the account's own account. Empty resolves it once per mentions cycle via GET /2/users/me (one extra call).
ROBOCO_X_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_SECONDS 15.0 Per-request timeout for outbound X API HTTP calls.

Board Program Registry

Fourteen registered programs (Printer/roadmap, feature-spotlight, and twelve new ones across Product Owner / Head of Marketing / Auditor) ride one generic registry + engine instead of bespoke per-engine loops. Every artifact is HELD; the CEO is the only path to materialization. See docs/rag/architecture/board-programs.md for the full lifecycle, the fourteen-program catalog, and each role's exact propose_* call shape.

Arming has no master flag. Each program is armed independently through a settings-store row (board_program.{key}.enabled, toggled from the panel's Board Programs page, Business section) — roadmap and x_feature additionally accept their pre-existing legacy env flags as a fallback when no settings-store row exists yet (byte-for-byte migration); every other program is settings-store-only and defaults OFF.

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_ROADMAP_ENGINE_ENABLED false Legacy fallback for the roadmap program only (see above).
ROBOCO_ROADMAP_INTERVAL_SECONDS 604800 Seconds between roadmap-exploration cycles (default weekly) when no settings-store interval override is set.
ROBOCO_ROADMAP_MIN_ITEMS_PER_CYCLE 3 Minimum roadmap item drafts a themed cycle must propose.
ROBOCO_ROADMAP_MAX_ITEMS_PER_CYCLE 7 Maximum roadmap item drafts a themed cycle may propose.
ROBOCO_PEST_REWORK_THRESHOLD 0.3 The one compose-settable knob among the twelve new programs: the 7-day rework rate above which Pest Control's metric predicate opens a cycle off-schedule, on top of its weekly cron. Every other new program has no env knob at all — cadence overrides, when set, also live in the settings store.

No dedicated migration for a cycle's own payload — a cycle is marker-backed (orchestration_markers on the held exploration task) for every program, not a new table per program. The shared LEARN ledger (board_program_cycles, migration 087) and the per-project scoping column (projects.board_programs, migration 088) are the only new tables/columns.

Possibilities Matrix

The work-already-done fast path on i_am_done. Default-off, transparent to the dev (no verb change, no opt-in call). See docs/rag/architecture/possibilities-matrix.md.

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_POSSIBILITIES_MATRIX_ENABLED false Master switch. Off = i_am_done behaves exactly as it always has. On = when a task already has commits, an open PR, every AC addressed, and no open findings, i_am_done submits straight to awaiting_qa, trusting the PR's own CI-green signal (falling back to the local make quality gate when there's no CI signal, and refusing outright on a known-red CI).

Cloud Auth

Not a panel feature flag — unlike the flags above, ROBOCO_CLOUD_AUTH_ENABLED is env-only (deliberately absent from roboco/services/settings.py's FEATURE_FLAGS, so it can't be flipped on for a deployment that isn't behind TLS). Lets the panel/API be exposed beyond localhost without changing the CEO's local no-login flow while off. See docs/rag/architecture/cloud-auth.md.

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_CLOUD_AUTH_ENABLED false Master switch. Off: get_agent_context behaves byte-for-byte as today (header-trust). On: no registration router is mounted — exactly one user, seeded from cloud_auth_email / cloud_auth_password. Fails loud at startup (raises before the app boots) if true without ROBOCO_CLOUD_AUTH_SECRET set.
ROBOCO_CLOUD_AUTH_EMAIL (unset) Email for the single seeded CEO login user.
ROBOCO_CLOUD_AUTH_PASSWORD (unset) Password for the single seeded user. Hashed at startup; never stored in plain text.
ROBOCO_CLOUD_AUTH_SECRET (unset) Session-signing secret for the login cookie's JWT. Required when enabled — generate with python -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_hex(32))'.
ROBOCO_CLOUD_AUTH_COOKIE_MAX_AGE 2592000 Session cookie lifetime in seconds (30 days). Sliding: every authenticated request re-mints + re-sets the cookie, so an active session never expires — only genuine inactivity past this window logs out.

The session cookie is secure-only (cookie_secure=True in roboco/api/auth/backend.py) — arm this flag only behind TLS, or the browser will silently refuse to send the cookie and login will appear to fail.

DB Network Isolation

Not a panel feature flagROBOCO_DB_NETWORK_ISOLATED must travel with the compose file's networks: stanzas (it describes topology, not a runtime-toggleable behavior), so it is env-only like ROBOCO_CLOUD_AUTH_ENABLED.

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_DB_NETWORK_ISOLATED false Set true by the compose files that put postgres/redis on the data-only roboco_data network agents never join. Suppresses the legacy _append_gate_env prod-creds injection (unreachable creds are worse than none) — DB-needing projects use the sandbox opt-in instead.

Security

Variable Default Description
ROBOCO_ENCRYPTION_KEY (required) Fernet key that encrypts secrets at rest (e.g. per-project git tokens, the x_credentials OAuth 1.0a singleton row). Generate with Fernet.generate_key().
ROBOCO_AGENT_AUTH_SECRET (required) HMAC secret the orchestrator signs each agent's X-Agent-Token with.
ROBOCO_AGENT_AUTH_REQUIRED false When true, every request must carry a valid agent token (secure mode).
ROBOCO_PANEL_AGENT_TOKEN (unset) The control panel's CEO token, injected by nginx in secure mode. Get it with make panel-token.

ROBOCO_ENCRYPTION_KEY also encrypts the x_credentials row (the four X/Twitter OAuth 1.0a secrets) — the same key, one more consumer.