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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@ -286,3 +286,58 @@ def test_run_slash_reassign_with_reclaim_flag(kanban_home):
assert "Reassigned" in out, out
out2 = kc.run_slash(f"show {tid}")
assert "newbie" in out2
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# /kanban specify — slash surface (same entry point CLI + gateway use)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def test_run_slash_specify_end_to_end(kanban_home, monkeypatch):
"""The /kanban specify slash command routes through run_slash, which
both the interactive CLI and every gateway platform use. This test
covers both surfaces."""
from unittest.mock import MagicMock
# Create a triage task via the same slash surface.
create_out = kc.run_slash("create 'rough idea' --triage")
import re
m = re.search(r"(t_[a-f0-9]+)", create_out)
assert m, f"no task id in: {create_out!r}"
tid = m.group(1)
# Mock the auxiliary client so we don't hit a real provider.
resp = MagicMock()
resp.choices = [MagicMock()]
resp.choices[0].message.content = (
'{"title": "Spec: rough idea", "body": "**Goal**\\nShip it."}'
)
fake_client = MagicMock()
fake_client.chat.completions.create = MagicMock(return_value=resp)
monkeypatch.setattr(
"agent.auxiliary_client.get_text_auxiliary_client",
lambda *a, **kw: (fake_client, "test-model"),
)
# Specify via slash.
out = kc.run_slash(f"specify {tid}")
assert "Specified" in out
assert tid in out
# Task is promoted and retitled.
with kb.connect() as conn:
task = kb.get_task(conn, tid)
assert task.status in {"todo", "ready"}
assert task.title == "Spec: rough idea"
def test_run_slash_specify_help_is_reachable(kanban_home):
"""`--help` on a subcommand is handled by argparse itself — it prints
to the process stdout and raises SystemExit before run_slash's output
redirection is installed, so the returned string is the usage-error
sentinel. All we're asserting here is that the subcommand is
registered (no "unknown action" error) the shape of the help text
is covered by the direct argparse tests in test_kanban_specify.py."""
out = kc.run_slash("specify --help")
# Either the usage-error sentinel (stdout swallowed by argparse) or
# a real help rendering — both mean the subcommand exists.
assert "usage error" in out.lower() or "specify" in out.lower()