hermes-agent/agent
Teknium1 ae83a54be4 docs(kanban): worker lane contract page + review-required convention
Closes the architectural-pin part of #19931. Most of what that issue
asked for is already implemented (logs under kanban root, env-pinned
workspace, dispatcher routing of unknown assignees, lifecycle
ownership, structured handoff conventions). What was missing:

1. A written contract integrators can point at when adding a new
   worker lane shape, and
2. The "code-changing workers should not auto-promote success to
   done" convention.

This commit ships both as docs+convention layered on existing primitives.
No kernel changes — the kanban_complete / kanban_block / kanban_comment
surfaces already support the review-required pattern; we just hadn't
written it down or made it visible to workers.

Changes:

- `agent/prompt_builder.py::KANBAN_GUIDANCE`: append the review-required
  exception to step 5 of the lifecycle. Workers get the cue
  auto-injected into their system prompt — drop structured metadata
  into a kanban_comment first, then end with
  kanban_block(reason="review-required: <summary>") instead of
  kanban_complete when the work needs review. Total prompt size went
  from ~3000 to ~3275 chars; well under the 4096 budget enforced by
  test_kanban_guidance_size.

- `skills/devops/kanban-worker/SKILL.md`: add a worked example to the
  existing "Good summary + metadata shapes" section between the
  Coding-task and Research-task examples. Same shape as the others
  (kanban_comment with structured handoff JSON, then kanban_block with
  the human-readable reason). Plus a one-line guide on when to use
  kanban_complete vs the review-required pattern.

- `website/docs/user-guide/features/kanban-worker-lanes.md` (new): the
  integrator-facing contract. Covers the hierarchy, the three things
  every lane must provide (assignee, spawn mechanism, lifecycle
  terminator), the env vars the dispatcher injects, the
  review-required convention, the failure modes the kernel handles
  for free, and an explicit "external CLI worker lane" deferred-
  pending-concrete-asker section that links to #19931 and #19924.

- `website/sidebars.ts`: link the new page under user-guide/features.

The "specialist worker lanes for external CLI tools (Codex / Claude
Code / OpenCode)" runner is NOT shipped here. The dispatcher's
spawn_fn parameter already supports plugin-shaped extension; the
per-CLI integration work (auth, sandbox policy, exit-code mapping)
needs a concrete asker. The new docs page tells would-be integrators
the contract any such lane must satisfy.

Refs #19931
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transports fix(xai): omit reasoning.effort for grok models that reject it (#23435) 2026-05-10 15:21:30 -07:00
__init__.py Refactor Terminal and AIAgent cleanup 2026-02-21 22:31:43 -08:00
account_usage.py feat(account-usage): add per-provider account limits module 2026-04-21 01:56:35 -07:00
anthropic_adapter.py feat(computer-use): cua-driver backend, universal any-model schema 2026-05-08 11:07:38 -07:00
auxiliary_client.py feat(vision): vision_analyze returns pixels to vision-capable models, not aux text (#22955) 2026-05-09 21:06:19 -07:00
bedrock_adapter.py fix(bedrock): preserve reasoningContent across converse normalization 2026-05-07 05:17:16 -07:00
codex_responses_adapter.py feat(vision): vision_analyze returns pixels to vision-capable models, not aux text (#22955) 2026-05-09 21:06:19 -07:00
context_compressor.py fix(context_compressor): treat streaming premature-close as transient error 2026-05-09 17:52:51 -07:00
context_engine.py fix(compress): don't reach into ContextCompressor privates from /compress (#15039) 2026-04-24 02:55:43 -07:00
context_references.py fix(agent): fall back when rg is blocked for @folder references 2026-04-20 01:56:41 -07:00
copilot_acp_client.py feat(cross-platform): psutil for PID/process management + Windows footgun checker 2026-05-08 14:27:40 -07:00
credential_pool.py fix(auth): shorten credential 401 cooldown 2026-05-07 06:15:33 -07:00
credential_sources.py feat(minimax-oauth): full integration with peer OAuth providers 2026-04-29 09:53:42 -07:00
curator.py feat(curator): hint at hermes curator pin in the rename block (#23212) 2026-05-10 06:44:53 -07:00
curator_backup.py fix(curator): authoritative absorbed_into on delete + restore cron skill links on rollback (#18671) (#18731) 2026-05-02 01:29:57 -07:00
display.py feat(computer-use): background focus-safe backend — set_value, structured windows, MIME detection 2026-05-08 11:07:38 -07:00
error_classifier.py fix(error_classifier): classify generic-typed timeout messages as transient (carve-out of #22664) 2026-05-09 17:54:07 -07:00
file_safety.py fix(security): apply file safety to copilot acp fs 2026-04-21 01:31:58 -07:00
gemini_cloudcode_adapter.py chore: remove unused imports and dead locals (ruff F401, F841) (#17010) 2026-04-28 06:46:45 -07:00
gemini_native_adapter.py fix(gemini): extract usageMetadata from streaming chunks for token tracking 2026-05-04 02:33:30 -07:00
gemini_schema.py chore: remove unused imports and dead locals (ruff F401, F841) (#17010) 2026-04-28 06:46:45 -07:00
google_code_assist.py chore: remove unused imports and dead locals (ruff F401, F841) (#17010) 2026-04-28 06:46:45 -07:00
google_oauth.py fix(google_oauth): close TOCTOU window when saving credentials 2026-05-04 03:16:19 -07:00
i18n.py feat(i18n): localize all gateway commands + web dashboard, add 8 new locales (16 total) (#22914) 2026-05-10 07:14:14 -07:00
image_gen_provider.py feat(plugins): pluggable image_gen backends + OpenAI provider (#13799) 2026-04-21 21:30:10 -07:00
image_gen_registry.py feat(plugins): pluggable image_gen backends + OpenAI provider (#13799) 2026-04-21 21:30:10 -07:00
image_routing.py fix(image-routing): sniff magic bytes for image MIME, ignore misleading suffix 2026-05-07 05:58:11 -07:00
insights.py Merge branch 'main' into feat/dashboard-skill-analytics 2026-04-20 05:25:49 -07:00
lmstudio_reasoning.py feat(agent): add lmstudio integration 2026-04-28 12:27:36 -07:00
manual_compression_feedback.py fix(compression): include system prompt + tool schemas in token estimates (#18265) 2026-04-30 23:03:54 -07:00
memory_manager.py fix: salvage batch — compaction guidance, memory authority, cache eviction after compression 2026-05-05 22:33:45 -07:00
memory_provider.py docs(agent): remove stale BuiltinMemoryProvider references from memory module docstrings 2026-05-05 13:33:49 -07:00
model_metadata.py fix(xai): omit reasoning.effort for grok models that reject it (#23435) 2026-05-10 15:21:30 -07:00
models_dev.py perf(models_dev): cache-first lookup, skip network when disk cache is fresh (#22808) 2026-05-09 13:32:38 -07:00
moonshot_schema.py fix(moonshot): also strip nullable/enum after anyOf collapse 2026-04-30 23:14:31 -07:00
nous_rate_guard.py codebase: add encoding='utf-8' to all bare open() calls (PLW1514) 2026-05-08 14:27:40 -07:00
onboarding.py docs(onboarding): lead OpenClaw residue banner with migrate, warn that cleanup breaks OpenClaw (#17507) 2026-04-29 08:08:36 -07:00
plugin_llm.py feat(plugins): run any LLM call from inside a plugin via ctx.llm (#23194) 2026-05-10 07:09:28 -07:00
prompt_builder.py docs(kanban): worker lane contract page + review-required convention 2026-05-10 18:15:52 -07:00
prompt_caching.py fix(prompt-caching): skip top-level cache_control on role:tool for OpenRouter 2026-03-21 16:54:43 -07:00
rate_limit_tracker.py refactor: remove dead code — 1,784 lines across 77 files (#9180) 2026-04-13 16:32:04 -07:00
redact.py feat(security): enable secret redaction by default (#17691, #20785) (#21193) 2026-05-07 05:10:33 -07:00
retry_utils.py feat(agent): add jittered retry backoff 2026-04-08 00:41:36 -07:00
shell_hooks.py codebase: add encoding='utf-8' to all bare open() calls (PLW1514) 2026-05-08 14:27:40 -07:00
skill_commands.py fix(skills): rescan skill_commands cache when platform scope changes (#18739) 2026-05-02 01:36:53 -07:00
skill_preprocessing.py fix(skills): apply inline shell in skill_view 2026-04-24 15:15:07 -07:00
skill_utils.py perf(cli): cut ~19s from 'hermes' cold start (skills cache + lazy Feishu + no Nous HTTP) (#22138) 2026-05-08 16:39:32 -07:00
subdirectory_hints.py fix(agent): catch PermissionError in subdirectory hint discovery 2026-04-09 03:10:30 -07:00
think_scrubber.py fix(agent): stateful streaming scrubber for reasoning-block leaks (#17924) (#20184) 2026-05-05 04:33:38 -07:00
title_generator.py fix: improve telegram topic mode setup 2026-05-04 12:07:17 -07:00
tool_guardrails.py fix(guardrails): preserve display _detect_tool_failure semantics 2026-04-30 20:43:15 -07:00
trajectory.py Refactor Terminal and AIAgent cleanup 2026-02-21 22:31:43 -08:00
usage_pricing.py fix(analytics): prevent silent token loss and add Claude 4.5–4.7 pricing (#21455) 2026-05-07 13:24:31 -07:00