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Claude 8541b4b7c0 Agents can hand work to agents: dispatch_agent
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).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HcbDevyMcJWE6qPA56C7mZ
2026-08-19 22:46:06 +00:00

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# Handler configuration — copy to .env and fill in. Never commit real secrets.
# Database. SQLite fallback (single-node) or Postgres (centralized, default for real deploys).
# SQLite: sqlite:////absolute/path/to/handler.db
# Postgres: postgresql+psycopg://user:pass@host:5432/handler
DATABASE_URL=sqlite:////var/lib/handler/handler.db
# Legacy/machine bearer token gating every API route. Human operators now sign in with
# email + password (user accounts — first sign-up becomes the admin); this token remains
# for scripts/CI and as a break-glass credential. Optional once accounts exist.
AUTH_TOKEN=change-me-to-a-long-random-string
# ---- User accounts (email + password sign-in for the dashboard/API) ----
# Browser session lifetime and one-shot link validity. Defaults shown.
# SESSION_TTL_DAYS=30
# RESET_TOKEN_TTL_HOURS=2
# INVITE_TOKEN_TTL_HOURS=168
# Outbound email for invite + password-reset links. Leave SMTP_HOST unset to run without
# email: invite/reset links are then shown to the admin in the dashboard instead of
# mailed, and self-serve "forgot password" tells users to ask an admin.
# SMTP_HOST=smtp.example.com
# SMTP_PORT=587
# SMTP_USERNAME=
# SMTP_PASSWORD=
# SMTP_FROM=handler@example.com
# SMTP_STARTTLS=true # STARTTLS on port 587 (the common setup)
# SMTP_SSL=false # implicit TLS on port 465 instead
# Base URL the emailed links point at, e.g. https://handler.example.com. Falls back to
# each request's own origin when unset (right for the same-origin bundled UI).
# PUBLIC_BASE_URL=
# Optional higher-trust token gating PUT /shared/context/:key.
# Falls back to AUTH_TOKEN if unset.
# SHARED_CONTEXT_WRITE_TOKEN=
# Optional admin token gating the web control surface: enqueuing control commands
# (spawn/kill/resume/approve/reject/forge-init/poll-ci), project CRUD, forge-host CRUD,
# and credential-pointer edits. Falls back to AUTH_TOKEN if unset. Give operators this
# token in the dashboard to unlock management actions.
# ADMIN_TOKEN=
# Optional generic webhook target for the Notification hook (ntfy, Pushover, Slack, ...).
# Fully bring-your-own; the Notification hook is a no-op when unset.
# WEBHOOK_URL=https://ntfy.sh/my-topic
# Symmetric key for the encrypted secret store: git-server tokens and SSH private keys
# are Fernet-encrypted with it before they reach the database. Set the SAME value on the
# API (encrypts on write) and the control container (decrypts at clone/spawn). Generate:
# python -c "from cryptography.fernet import Fernet; print(Fernet.generate_key().decode())"
# Unset => storing tokens/SSH keys on git servers is refused with a clear error.
# HANDLER_SECRET_KEY=
# Base directory under which per-project roots and agent worktrees live (isolation).
PROJECTS_ROOT=/var/lib/handler/projects
# Web search provider for the agents' web_search tool (pi harness). Resolution order:
# SearXNG instance -> Brave Search API -> unset = DuckDuckGo HTML fallback (zero-config,
# rate-limited). web_fetch needs no provider.
# SEARXNG_URL=http://searxng.lan:8080
# BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY=
# Binary overrides (defaults shown). Point at fakes in tests/CI.
# CLAUDE_BIN=claude
# PI_BIN=pi
# MISE_BIN=mise
# TMUX_BIN=tmux
# FORGE_BIN=forge
# GIT_BIN=git
# Phase 2 (forge integration). Pin the forge version your base image installs; spawn
# verifies the injected forge matches and warns on drift. Leave unset to skip the check.
# FORGE_VERSION=1.2.3
# Branches a direct `git push` may not reach without a standing approval (comma-separated).
# Closes the "merge locally, push to main" path around the forge-merge approval gate.
# PROTECTED_BRANCHES=main,master
# Agent-initiated dispatch (the `dispatch_agent` tool): an agent handing work to a fresh
# agent in its own project, so a pipeline advances on a result instead of on a timer.
# Both caps bound a confused or looping agent, not a healthy one — a handoff is one call.
# MAX_DISPATCH_PER_RUN=3
# MAX_DISPATCH_DEPTH=3
# Phase 3 (web UI). Serve the bundled UI from "/" and "/static". Set false for a
# headless, API-only deployment. Applied at process start (restart to change).
# UI_ENABLED=true
# Extra origins allowed to call the API cross-origin (comma-separated). Only needed if
# you host the UI on a DIFFERENT origin than the API; the shipped UI is same-origin and
# needs none. Empty => no CORS middleware.
# CORS_ORIGINS=https://handler.example.ts.net
# Per-project credentials are NOT set here — they live on each project's `credential_ref`
# as a POINTER (env:VAR / file:/path / cmd:...), resolved and injected only at spawn.
# The database never stores the raw token. Example, when registering a project:
# credential_ref = "env:LEEWORKS_TOKEN" (then export LEEWORKS_TOKEN where the control
# layer runs; it's injected as FORGE_TOKEN +
# the host-specific var, e.g. GITHUB_TOKEN)