feat(kanban): add specify — auxiliary LLM fleshes out triage tasks (#21435)

* feat(kanban): add `specify` — auxiliary LLM fleshes out triage tasks

The Triage column shipped with a placeholder 'a specifier will flesh
out the spec', but the specifier itself was never built. This wires
it up as a dedicated CLI verb.

`hermes kanban specify <id>` calls the auxiliary LLM (configured under
`auxiliary.triage_specifier`) to expand a rough one-liner into a
concrete spec — tightened title plus a body with Goal / Approach /
Acceptance criteria / Out-of-scope sections — then atomically flips
`status: triage -> todo` and recomputes ready so parent-free tasks
go straight to the dispatcher on the same tick.

Surface:

  hermes kanban specify <task_id>               # single task
  hermes kanban specify --all [--tenant T]      # sweep triage column
  hermes kanban specify ... --author NAME       # audit-comment author
  hermes kanban specify ... --json              # one JSON line per task

Design choices:

  - Parent gating is preserved. specify_triage_task flips to 'todo',
    then recompute_ready promotes to 'ready' only when parents are
    done — same rule as a normal parent-gated todo.
  - No daemon, no background watcher. Every invocation is explicit —
    keeps cost predictable and doesn't fight the dispatcher loop.
  - Response parse is lenient: strict JSON preferred, markdown-fence
    tolerated, raw-body fallback on malformed JSON so the LLM can't
    strand a task in triage.
  - All failure modes (no aux client, API error, task moved out of
    triage mid-call) return SpecifyOutcome(ok=False, reason=...) so
    --all continues past individual failures.

Changes:

  hermes_cli/kanban_db.py    + specify_triage_task()
  hermes_cli/kanban_specify.py  NEW (~220 LOC — prompt, parse, call)
  hermes_cli/kanban.py       + specify subcommand + _cmd_specify
  hermes_cli/config.py       + auxiliary.triage_specifier task slot
  website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md  specify + config notes
  website/docs/reference/cli-commands.md      CLI reference entry
  tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_specify_db.py    NEW (10 tests)
  tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_specify.py       NEW (20 tests)

Validation: 30/30 targeted tests pass. E2E: triage task -> specify ->
ends in 'ready' with events [created, specified, promoted] and the
audit comment recorded under the configured author.

* feat(kanban): wire specifier into dashboard and gateway slash

Follow-ups to the initial PR #21435 — closes the two gaps I'd left as
post-merge: dashboard button and first-class gateway surface.

Dashboard (plugins/kanban/dashboard/)
  - POST /tasks/:id/specify  NEW endpoint. Thin wrapper around
    kanban_specify.specify_task(). Returns the CLI outcome shape
    ({ok, task_id, reason, new_title}); ok=false with a human reason
    is a 200, not a 4xx, so the UI can render it inline without
    treating 'no aux client configured' as a crash.
  - Runs sync in FastAPI's threadpool because the LLM call can take
    tens of seconds on reasoning models.
  - Pins HERMES_KANBAN_BOARD around the specify call so the module's
    argless kb.connect() lands on the right board.
  - dist/index.js: doSpecify callback threaded through the drawer →
    TaskDetail → StatusActions prop chain.  Specify button appears
    ONLY when task.status === 'triage' (elsewhere the backend would
    reject anyway — hide the button to keep the action row clean).
    Busy state (Specifying…) + inline success/error banner under the
    button using the response.reason text.
  - dist/style.css: tiny hermes-kanban-msg-ok / -err classes using
    existing --color vars so themes reskin cleanly.

Gateway slash (/kanban specify)
  - Already works via the existing run_slash → build_parser →
    kanban_command pipeline. No code change needed — slash commands
    inherit the argparse tree automatically. Added coverage:
    test_run_slash_specify_end_to_end (create --triage, specify, verify
    promotion + retitle) and test_run_slash_specify_help_is_reachable.

Tests
  - tests/plugins/test_kanban_dashboard_plugin.py: 3 new tests for the
    REST endpoint — happy path, non-triage rejection as ok=false 200,
    missing aux client as ok=false 200.
  - tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_cli.py: 2 new slash-surface tests.

Docs
  - website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban.md: dashboard action row
    description mentions  Specify + all three surfaces. REST table
    gains /tasks/:id/specify. Slash examples include /kanban specify.

Validation: 340/340 targeted tests pass. E2E via TestClient: create a
triage task over REST → POST /specify with mocked aux client → task
moves to 'ready' column on /board with new title and body applied.
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@ -2503,6 +2503,91 @@ def unblock_task(conn: sqlite3.Connection, task_id: str) -> bool:
return True
def specify_triage_task(
conn: sqlite3.Connection,
task_id: str,
*,
title: Optional[str] = None,
body: Optional[str] = None,
author: Optional[str] = None,
) -> bool:
"""Flesh out a triage task and promote it to ``todo``.
Atomically updates ``title`` / ``body`` (when provided) and transitions
``status: triage -> todo`` in a single write txn. Returns False when
the task is missing or not in the ``triage`` column callers should
surface that as "nothing to specify" rather than an error.
``todo`` (not ``ready``) is the correct landing column: ``recompute_ready``
promotes parent-free / parent-done todos to ``ready`` on the next
dispatcher tick, which keeps the normal parent-gating behaviour intact
for specified tasks that happen to have open parents.
``author`` is recorded on an audit comment only when at least one of
``title`` / ``body`` actually changed avoids noisy comment spam for
status-only promotions.
"""
if title is not None and not title.strip():
raise ValueError("title cannot be blank")
with write_txn(conn):
existing = conn.execute(
"SELECT title, body FROM tasks WHERE id = ? AND status = 'triage'",
(task_id,),
).fetchone()
if existing is None:
return False
sets: list[str] = ["status = 'todo'"]
params: list[Any] = []
changed_fields: list[str] = []
if title is not None and title.strip() != (existing["title"] or ""):
sets.append("title = ?")
params.append(title.strip())
changed_fields.append("title")
if body is not None and (body or "") != (existing["body"] or ""):
sets.append("body = ?")
params.append(body)
changed_fields.append("body")
params.append(task_id)
cur = conn.execute(
f"UPDATE tasks SET {', '.join(sets)} "
f"WHERE id = ? AND status = 'triage'",
tuple(params),
)
if cur.rowcount != 1:
return False
if changed_fields and author and author.strip():
# Inline INSERT (rather than ``add_comment``) because we're
# already inside this function's write_txn — nested BEGIN
# IMMEDIATE would raise OperationalError. We also skip the
# 'commented' event that ``add_comment`` emits, since the
# 'specified' event below already records the change.
conn.execute(
"INSERT INTO task_comments (task_id, author, body, created_at) "
"VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)",
(
task_id,
author.strip(),
"Specified — updated "
+ ", ".join(changed_fields)
+ " and promoted to todo.",
int(time.time()),
),
)
_append_event(
conn,
task_id,
"specified",
{"changed_fields": changed_fields} if changed_fields else None,
)
# Outside the write_txn above, so we don't nest BEGIN IMMEDIATE — the
# ready-promotion pass opens its own IMMEDIATE txn. This runs the same
# logic the dispatcher would on its next tick, so a specified task
# with no open parents flips straight to 'ready' here instead of
# idling in 'todo' until the next sweep.
recompute_ready(conn)
return True
def archive_task(conn: sqlite3.Connection, task_id: str) -> bool:
with write_txn(conn):
cur = conn.execute(