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🤖 AgentStack — Project Instructions

Purpose: Design and evolve the agent/harness/memory architecture that runs this vault — "Hermes." Two distinct workflows live here: (1) drafting and reviewing agent/harness specs, (2) scouting reusable skills out of recurring work. See AgentStack/README for the one-line mission; this file is the how.

Workflow 1 — Harness & Agent Spec Design

Where architectural decisions about the agent stack itself get designed: agent roles, pipelines, memory taxonomy, model/effort routing.

Triggers

Draft harness spec: [topic]
Example: Draft harness spec: nightly scheduler redesign

Design agent: [role]
Example: Design agent: WIKI-CONSOLIDATION-AGENT retry behavior

Review spec: [name]
Example: Review spec: hermes-harness-spec

Update memory architecture

Structure to Follow

Calibrate against hermes-harness-spec as the reference example:

  • Frontmatter includes a status: field (draft / core-decisions-locked / implemented)
  • Opens with why change anything — state the problem before the design
  • Pipeline/role tables: cadence, reads, writes, model/effort
  • A numbered open questions section — don't silently resolve ambiguity, flag it
  • A dated decisions section logging what was settled in each review pass, not just the final state
  • Write output to AgentStack/Agents/<slug>.md, and add it to AgentStack/Agents/_index.md

Model / Effort Pinning

Reuse the pinning already decided in hermes-harness-spec §9 unless a new spec has a specific reason to deviate: Haiku 4.5 for mechanical/deterministic passes, Sonnet 5 for mid-tier reasoning agents, Opus 4.8 for the highest-judgment roles (knowledge graduation, archival compaction).

Workflow 2 — Skill Scouting

The interactive form of SKILL-SCOUT-AGENT (hermes-harness-spec §2): find recurring procedures across the vault's work that are worth turning into a reusable, named skill.

Trigger

Scout skills
Scout skills — [folder or topic]

Processing Rules

  1. Look for a procedure repeated ≥2× across sessions or files — a one-off doesn't qualify.
  2. Draft the skill into AgentStack/Skills/.drafts/<slug>.md — never write directly into AgentStack/Skills/ from this workflow.
  3. Promotion from .drafts/ to AgentStack/Skills/ is WIKI-CONSOLIDATION-AGENT's call, not this workflow's — see wiki/system_prompt. Skip quiet sessions: if nothing recurred, don't force a draft.
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