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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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# Escalation Chain Reference
Complete escalation mapping for all agents.
## Chain Overview
```
Cell Members → Cell PM → Main PM → Product Owner → CEO
```
## Full Mapping
| Agent | Escalates To |
|-------|--------------|
| `be-dev-1` | `be-pm` |
| `be-dev-2` | `be-pm` |
| `be-qa` | `be-pm` |
| `be-doc` | `be-pm` |
| `fe-dev-1` | `fe-pm` |
| `fe-dev-2` | `fe-pm` |
| `fe-qa` | `fe-pm` |
| `fe-doc` | `fe-pm` |
| `ux-dev-1` | `ux-pm` |
| `ux-dev-2` | `ux-pm` |
| `ux-qa` | `ux-pm` |
| `ux-doc` | `ux-pm` |
| `be-pm` | `main-pm` |
| `fe-pm` | `main-pm` |
| `ux-pm` | `main-pm` |
| `main-pm` | `product-owner` |
| `product-owner` | `ceo` |
| `head-marketing` | `ceo` |
| `auditor` | `ceo` |
## Cell PM for Team
| Team | Cell PM |
|------|---------|
| `backend` | `be-pm` |
| `frontend` | `fe-pm` |
| `ux_ui` | `ux-pm` |
## Escalation Tool
```python
escalate_up(task_id="uuid-here", reason="Need clarification on requirements")
```
Auto-routes to your escalation target. You CANNOT choose a different target. `escalate_up` is a PM verb (Cell PM / Main PM); cell members (devs, QA, documenters) signal blockers with `i_am_blocked(task_id, reason)`, which their Cell PM resolves.
## CEO Escalation (Main PM / Board Only)
```python
escalate_to_ceo(task_id="uuid-here", reason="Major feature ready for approval")
```
Requirements:
- Task in `awaiting_pm_review`
- PR exists
- Only Main PM, Product Owner, or Head of Marketing can call this (Cell PMs cannot — they `escalate_up` to Main PM first)
## Cannot Skip Levels
System enforces chain:
- Developer CANNOT escalate directly to Main PM
- Cell PM CANNOT escalate directly to CEO
- Each level must acknowledge and decide