A schedule is a time trigger, and only the first step of a pipeline is really
waiting on time — every later step waits on the previous step's result. Modeling
"watch a source -> write a spec -> implement it" as three schedules made each fire
blind: on a quiet day the coding agent still spawned, paid a full model run to find
there was nothing to do, and left an empty run in Activity.
So an agent can start the next step itself. `dispatch_agent` (a tool on the bundled
MCP server, and on the pi bridge through the same --call seam) enqueues an ordinary
spawn command in the agent's own project, tagged requested_by=agent:<id> — so a
handoff is visible in Activity with no new surface to build.
- Project-scoped by construction: project_id is read from the spawn environment and
never from the tool arguments.
- Bounded rather than gated: MAX_DISPATCH_PER_RUN counts the command rows the agent
already wrote; MAX_DISPATCH_DEPTH rides in the spawn payload and is recovered by
spawn._dispatch_depth, so a chain keeps its place across a resume and a cycle
terminates instead of fanning out.
- New scout and planner roles, with built-in skills (handler-scout, handler-planner,
handler-dispatch) carrying the judgment code can't: dedupe against a memory-note
watermark, treat "nothing new" as a complete run, and write a task the receiving
cold-start agent can act on.
- A scout ending on a clean tree skips the test gate and records the new
tests_status='skipped' (migration 0017, additive CHECK widening). The gate promises
`done` means tests passed for the work that shipped; nothing shipped.
Rejected a `condition` field on schedules: "is this paper new and does it matter
here?" is a semantic judgment, so it belongs to a model, not a scheduler column. The
scout is the condition; dispatch is how it reports true — one mechanism that covers
future pipelines too.
426 tests (14 new for dispatch, 3 for the gate exemption).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HcbDevyMcJWE6qPA56C7mZ
schedules.model_id (migration 0013) pins every fired run of a recurring spawn
to a registered model backend, exactly like a hand-spawned agent: the worker
copies it into each firing's spawn payload, the launched agent records the pin,
and resumes stay on the same backend. The Schedules form gets the same Model
dropdown as the spawn form (Claude subscription by default), with a badge in
the schedules table. Create/update routes fail fast on a missing or disabled
backend so a stale selection bounces immediately instead of every firing
failing asynchronously in Activity; a backend deleted later still fails each
firing visibly rather than silently falling back to the subscription.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DzDofD7gP63WpeLG8vEdZu
Git servers (forge_hosts) become full credential owners:
- an encrypted forge token (Fernet, HANDLER_SECRET_KEY) stored per server and
never returned by the API (has_token flag only); used automatically by every
project on that host and addressable as db:host:<hostname> — the reserved
db: credential scheme is now live
- a per-server ed25519 SSH deploy key: generated server-side, public half
shown in the dashboard to paste into the forge, private half encrypted at
rest and materialized 0600 only in the control container (GIT_SSH_COMMAND /
core.sshCommand)
Project registration gets a git-server mode: pick a registered server, type
owner/name, and the API derives the remote (ssh when the server has a deploy
key, https otherwise), computes root_dir under PROJECTS_ROOT, and enqueues a
new 'sync' command the worker executes (clone, or ff-only pull). Spawn always
pulls first, so runs start from the remote's latest state; POST /projects/:p/sync
and 'handler sync' re-pull on demand.
Schedules: recurring agent spawns (prefix, prompt, interval, role). The worker
fires due schedules as ordinary queued spawn commands with timestamped agent
names, so runs are fresh stateless agents and appear in the Activity audit
trail; missed intervals collapse into one catch-up run.
Dashboard: Git Servers pane shows the SSH public key (copy button) and takes a
write-only token; Repositories gains the server-first add form and a Pull now
button; new Schedules pane. Rebuilt static export. Also restores the missing
frontend/lib (api client + format helpers) the components import.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XY1tEhQZXHZ5wci7dLc7rM
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