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Structured crewmate and scout launches now activate Caveman and Ponytail at full from the installed skill files under ~/.agents/skills.

  • Claude receives one task-scoped prompt file containing both skill bodies.
  • Pi and pi-signed receive one --skill argument per available skill directory.
  • OMP uses its verified prompt flag when the installed CLI exposes it. OMP skill delivery remains fixture-tested, not live-verified.
  • Codex, Grok, Kimi, Cursor, Muse, and OpenCode receive the resolved skill paths in the delivered brief because their verified launch interfaces do not load these skill files directly.
  • Missing skill files produce one SKILLS: diagnostic and do not block launch.
  • Raw launches and secondmates remain unchanged.

Ship and scout briefs now point to the two active skills, their off switches, and the rule that brief-required tests override Ponytail's test guidance.

Live verification

I ran both throwaway scouts from the feature worktree on 2026-09-04. These launches happened before validation set NO_MISTAKES_GATE, which correctly blocks fleet launches inside the pipeline.

Claude

Run at 2026-09-04 16:11 UTC:

FM_HOME="$PWD" bin/fm-spawn.sh worker-skills-live-claude /Users/evanagee/Sites/firstmate --scout --harness claude --backend tmux

The launch reported harness=claude and started Claude Code 2.1.260 with model claude-fable-5-1, shown in the pane as Fable 5.1 with high effort. The worker answered from both injected skill bodies:

Caveman: Respond terse like smart caveman. All technical substance stay. Only fluff die.
Ponytail: You are a lazy senior developer. Lazy means efficient, not careless.

Pi

Run at 2026-09-04 16:12 UTC:

FM_HOME="$PWD" bin/fm-spawn.sh worker-skills-live-pi /Users/evanagee/Sites/firstmate --scout --harness pi --backend tmux

The launch reported harness=pi and started Pi 0.84.3 with provider Phala, model z-ai/glm-5.3, and medium thinking. The live pane identified both active rules after launch with the Caveman and Ponytail skill directories:

Caveman: Caveman keeps chat terse; commits, PRs, issues, and docs stay normal prose.
Ponytail: Ponytail means building the simplest thing that works without dropping required validation, error handling, security, accessibility, or tests.

Validation

  • The final no-mistakes run completed Review, Test, Documentation, Lint, Push, PR, and CI on 779cefacc5bce8767acd29e70448db112e870a61.
  • All GitHub checks passed, including every portable behavior shard, Herdr behavior tests, ShellCheck, the macOS Bash compatibility check, repository invariants, and CodeRabbit.
  • CodeRabbit's actionable findings were fixed: transient PR-body API failures retry and fail clearly after exhaustion; secondmate and task-temp test setup failures propagate; task-temp metadata failures name the path; the heredoc guard was restored; and the test fixture uses 0755 without weakening its permission or symlink assertions.
  • The real Claude and Pi launches above are the accepted live proof. The pipeline did not repeat them because its fleet-launch safety gate was active.

Issue #100 tracks the broader cross-home collision and pre-allocation cleanup work for the existing /tmp/fm-<task-id> convention.

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Updates from git push no-mistakes

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The pull request adds worker-skill delivery for supported harnesses, task temporary directory hardening, brief updates, expanded tests, and runtime pull request body retrieval for the no-mistakes workflow.

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Worker skill delivery and workflow consistency

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime pull request body verification
.github/workflows/no-mistakes-required.yml, CONTRIBUTING.md
The workflow reads the current pull request body through the GitHub API with retries. Documentation describes the updated check behavior.
Worker brief skill instructions
bin/fm-brief.sh, tests/fm-brief.test.sh, .agents/skills/harness-adapters/SKILL.md, docs/configuration.md
Ship and scout briefs include session-skill instructions. Tests verify the section and exclude it from secondmate charters. Documentation identifies the fm-spawn.sh header as the delivery owner.
Per-harness skill injection
bin/fm-spawn.sh, bin/fm-omp-capabilities.sh
fm-spawn.sh resolves skills and delivers them through Claude, Pi, OMP, or fallback brief mechanisms. Task temporary directories receive ownership, symlink, and mode checks.
Harness and failure-path validation
tests/fm-spawn-dispatch-profile.test.sh, tests/fm-kimi-harness.test.sh, tests/fm-omp-harness.test.sh, tests/fm-remote-job.test.sh
Tests cover skill flags, generated prompts and briefs, missing skills, task temporary failures, raw launches, secondmates, Kimi pointers, OMP modes, and Linux worker startup.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 522c2

The production changes appear mergeable, with only a bounded shared-runner risk from a briefly world-writable test fixture.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Worker as Worker launch
  participant Spawn as fm-spawn.sh
  participant Skills as ~/.agents/skills
  participant OMP as fm-omp-capabilities.sh
  participant Harness as Harness process
  Worker->>Spawn: Start crewmate or scout launch
  Spawn->>Skills: Resolve caveman and ponytail skill files
  Spawn->>OMP: Query OMP worker-skill mode when required
  Spawn->>Harness: Pass skill flags or task-temp brief
  Harness-->>Worker: Start with worker skills
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In @.github/workflows/no-mistakes-required.yml:
- Line 39: Update the retry loop around the gh api invocation that assigns
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In `@tests/fm-brief.test.sh`:
- Around line 738-739: Update the secondmate charter setup and exclusion
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- Around line 14-24: Update the macos-stock-bash job configuration to execute
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@EvanAgee EvanAgee changed the title feat(bin): activate caveman and ponytail for crews and scouts feat(bin): enable caveman and ponytail for worker launches Sep 4, 2026

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@EvanAgee EvanAgee changed the title feat(bin): enable caveman and ponytail for worker launches feat: activate caveman and ponytail for worker launches Sep 4, 2026
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Resolved the Bash 3.2 review thread with the smaller accepted-contract fix. This PR does not add the full fm-brief.test.sh suite to the macos-stock-bash job. The test header now describes the coverage that actually runs, the always-on structural heredoc guard is restored, and the existing changed-file bash -n sweep continues to parse fm-brief.sh under Bash 3.2. Adding the full runtime suite would expand CI beyond this brief and was explicitly declined.

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