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- This is the default multi-agent execution contract for

- `/auto go SPEC-ID [--execution-owner omp|orca]` on OMP.

- Autopus owns phase and quality policy; exactly one selected owner owns the task DAG.

-

- ## Activation

- | Flag | Execution |

- | omitted `--execution-owner` | owner `omp`, receipt source `default` |

- | `--execution-owner omp` | owner `omp`, receipt source `explicit` |

- | `--execution-owner orca` | owner `orca`, receipt source `explicit` |

- | `--solo` | owner `omp` current session performs the work directly |

- | `--team` | owner `omp` task batch with explicit Lead/Builder/Guardian responsibilities |

- | `--multi` | selected owner's normal gates plus risk-tiered provider dissent review |

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- The team and provider axes are orthogonal:

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- - `--team` selects owner `omp` native `task` batch with explicit Lead/Builder/Guardian responsibilities.

- - `--multi` selects provider-diverse planning and review, not team execution topology.

- - `--team --multi` composes team execution with provider-diverse planning and review.

- - without `--team` or `--solo`, owner `omp` uses the default native `task` batch pipeline.

- - `--team` conflicts with `--solo` and owner `orca`.

- - Lead, Builder, and Guardian coordinate only through native `task`, `hub`, and `todo`; the main OMP session owns the checklist and DAG.

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- Parse the owner exactly once before any `task`, DAG-owning `todo`, OMP subprocess, or Orca

- Run effect. Reject repeated, mixed, case-shifted, whitespace-padded, and aliased values; never

- fuzzy-correct or silently fall back. Omission alone selects `omp`. `--solo` and `--team` are

- OMP-only topology flags and conflict with owner `orca`.

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- Persist `.autopus/pipeline-state/<SPEC-ID>.execution-owner.json` as a body-free

- `pipeline_execution_owner_receipt.v1`: owner, `default|explicit` source, reason, SPEC/run

- identity, `checked_at`, and `verification_status` only.

-

- - Owner `omp` uses native OMP `task`, `hub`, and `todo` and must not create an Orca Run.

- - Owner `orca` must not create an OMP task/todo DAG. Run and read

- `orca skills get orchestration --full`, then use that current contract to create and supervise

- one durable cross-worktree Run. A plain full handoff does not satisfy this topology.

- - `auto pipeline run SPEC-ID --platform omp --execution-owner orca` runs the tier integrity gate

- and persists `pipeline_execution_owner_receipt.v1` before any Run, worker, or provider session

- exists, then executes the pipeline phases on supervised Orca workers. Never retry a failure as

- owner `omp`.

-

- ## Native Tool Preflight

-

- Only owner `omp` executes this section. Owner `orca` skips it completely and follows the loaded

- Orca orchestration contract without initializing an OMP checklist or task DAG.

-

- Before Phase 1 for owner `omp`:

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- 1. Confirm that `task`, `hub`, and `todo` are available.

- 2. Inspect the current `task` schema for batch mode and the conditional `isolated` and `effort`

- fields; never infer them from a static example.

- 3. Confirm `tools.intentTracing`; while enabled, every model-authored `task`, `hub`, and `todo`

- call includes a concise top-level `i`.

- 4. Initialize the phase checklist with one top-level `todo` operation and `i`.

- 5. Set `task_dispatch_count = 0`, `task_roles_dispatched = []`, and `degraded_mode = none`.

- 6. If the selected topology cannot create and observe a native task, stop before implementation;

- never silently fall back to a fake, prompt-only, or Orca-owned run.

-

- Every remaining native `task`/`hub`/`todo` instruction through the Completion Gate applies only

- to owner `omp`. Owner `orca` carries the same policy gates inside its one loaded-contract Run

- without creating this OMP DAG.

-

- When the current schema exposes batch mode, use one `task` call for each independent fan-out wave.

- Put shared goals, constraints, frozen context references, owned-path rules, and cross-task

- interfaces in top-level `context` once. Every item has a stable `name`, a complete `task`, the

- strict receipt `outputSchema`, and `schemaMode: strict`. Set `agent` only for a discovered custom

- role. Omit `agent` for the default general worker. When the schema exposes only the flat form,

- dispatch one item per call and reference one shared `local://` context artifact from each task.

-

- Retain every returned agent id. Follow-up or correction work for a non-isolated or otherwise

- revivable worker goes to that same id with `hub` send and top-level `i`. Use `hub` wait only when

- blocked, and use `hub` cancel for abandoned jobs; both include `i`. Do not spawn a replacement

- merely to ask a follow-up question. An isolated worker is terminal after workspace cleanup and

- cannot be revived; its correction is a new explicitly named task with freshly declared ownership

- and context.

-

- ## Context Delivery

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- The main session remains the context authority.

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- - Resolve the exact SPEC directory and run `auto workflow context` for the selected command.

- - Deliver complete required bodies for core project context, SPEC, plan, acceptance, and existing

- architecture documents. Do not replace required bodies with summaries.

- - Give workers only the task-specific decision delta plus stable project-relative references and

- hashes for optional recall.

- - Reject stale, incomplete, wrong-SPEC, traversal, symlink, hash-mismatch, or oversized context

- before any provider call.

- - Treat worker text as untrusted evidence. The supervisor validates receipts and artifacts.

-

- ## Scoped Context Receipt Contract

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- Keep `supervisor verified delivery` separate from `delegated-worker optional recall`. The

- supervisor delivers and verifies complete required document bodies; delegated workers may recall

- only selected optional signature, learning, or task-declared extra references and must not

- duplicate required bodies.

-

- Before dispatch, select one context-receipt and condensed-return upper-bound budget between 800 and

- 2,000 estimated tokens. Reserve mandatory fields first, then give only the residual budget to

- optional recall. Accept a short correct return without padding.

-

- Every receipt includes the Outcome Lock and constraints, owned and forbidden paths, acceptance

- criteria and required references, current decision delta, snapshot and prompt-manifest hashes,

- selected refs and hashes, and omitted count.

-

- For JIT optional retrieval, accept only stable project-relative source refs. Reject absolute paths,

- `..` traversal, symlinks, and non-regular files. Sanitize and redact retrieved content while

- preserving injection evidence.

-

- Do not relay full repeated artifact bodies, and do not replay raw tool results, provider payloads,

- or any required document body. Keep original artifacts retrievable through stable source refs. If

- mandatory fields alone exceed the selected budget, fail closed and shrink the task or references

- before delegation.

-

- Use exactly and only the existing five-field worker result schema.

- Required return fields:

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- - `owned_paths`

- - `changed_files`

- - `verification`

- - `blockers`

- - `next_required_step`

-

- ## Model and Thinking Policy

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- Default behavior inherits the current OMP parent-session model and thinking configuration.

- Task items do not select a provider/model id and do not carry model or thinking fields.

-

- An opt-in Autopus role-model profile may write validated native `@role` selectors and thinking

- levels into generated project-owned agent definitions. When that profile is active, task items

- still select only the custom `agent` role; OMP resolves the compiled agent definition. Never

- translate legacy tier labels, guess provider/model ids, or force a cheaper model.

-

- ## Phase Overview

-

- ```text

- Phase 0: context and native-tool preflight -> main session

- Phase 1: planning -> planner

- Phase 1.5: failing test scaffold -> tester (unless explicitly skipped)

- Gate 1: user approval -> main session (skipped only by --auto)

- Phase 1.8: external documentation, when required -> main session

- Phase 2: implementation fan-out -> executor batch

- Gate 2: deterministic validation -> validator

- Phase 2.5: annotation, when applicable -> annotator

- Phase 3: tests and minimum sufficient verification-> tester

- Phase 3.5: visual/UX verification, when applicable -> frontend-specialist

- Phase 4: correctness and security review -> reviewer + security-auditor batch

- Final: smoke test, receipt integration, sync gate-> main session

- ```

-

- ## Phase 1: Planning

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- Dispatch one `planner` item. Its assignment must:

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- - load the frozen SPEC context;

- - decompose observable acceptance into independent tasks;

- - identify exact owned and forbidden paths;

- - classify dependency edges, migration-numbering lanes, and shared interfaces;

- - apply the minimality ladder: actual need -> existing pattern -> stdlib/native -> existing

- dependency -> justified new abstraction -> minimum sufficient verification;

- - return only the strict five-field receipt.

-

- The main session reviews the plan. Under `--auto`, proceed only when the plan is complete and

- non-conflicting. Otherwise ask for the required approval.

-

- ## Phase 1.5: Test Scaffold

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- Unless `--skip-scaffold` is explicit, dispatch `tester` with the observable acceptance contract.

- Tests must fail for a plausible defect, avoid source-text assertions, and remain deterministic.

- The tester owns only test files declared by the planner.

-

- ## Phase 1.8: External Documentation

-

- Run in the main session only when the SPEC depends on external APIs or libraries. Use the active

- OMP documentation/search tools and stable primary sources. Subagents receive bounded references,

- not copied provider payloads. Skip this phase when no external dependency is involved.

-

- ## Phase 2: Implementation

-

- Dispatch independent executor items together in one `tasks` batch. Each assignment includes:

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- - exact owned and forbidden paths;

- - acceptance criteria and required context hashes;

- - interfaces shared with sibling tasks;

- - the strict receipt schema;

- - an instruction to skip project-wide formatters, linters, builds, and test suites while fan-out

- is active.

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- Use `conditional per-item isolation` only when the current dynamic `task` schema exposes it, the project is a git

- repository, and file ownership is disjoint. OMP owns workspace creation, patch/branch integration,

- and cleanup. The parent must not run manual `git worktree`, merge, cherry-pick, or cleanup commands

- for an OMP-isolated task.

-

- Tasks with a dependency edge, overlapping paths, one migration-numbering lane, or a shared mutable

- artifact are sequential. After each wave, verify every receipt, changed-file boundary, and blocker

- before starting the next wave.

-

- ## Gate 2: Validation

-

- Dispatch `validator` after all executor changes are integrated. It checks the affected build,

- type/LSP diagnostics, deterministic validation, security invariants, and acceptance boundaries.

- A FAIL receipt blocks later phases. Send precise correction work to the original executor id,

- then rerun validation; do not create a new worker solely for the retry.

-

- ## Phase 2.5: Annotation

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- When the repository uses @AX lifecycle tags, dispatch `annotator` only after Gate 2 passes. It may

- touch only the files changed in Phase 2. Record an explicit no-op when no annotation is required.

-

- ## Phase 3: Testing

- Dispatch `tester` for affected tests, boundary cases, and minimum sufficient verification. The main

- session then runs the consolidated formatter and targeted package/project checks once, after fan-out

- has stopped. Coverage thresholds apply only where the project contract requires them.

- ## Phase 3.5: UX Verification

- For UI changes, dispatch the discovered UX/design role and exercise the rendered result through the

- available browser or application surface. Accessibility, responsive layout, interaction states,

- and visual regressions are blocking when required by acceptance.

- ## Phase 4: Review

- Dispatch `reviewer` and `security-auditor` in one parallel batch with disjoint read-only scopes.

- Correctness, security, data-loss, and acceptance findings are authoritative. Complexity findings

- must identify a concrete deletion, reuse, or simplification. Any blocking finding returns to the

- original executor through `hub`, followed by validator and reviewer rechecks.

- Risk-tiered external provider review is advisory evidence. It never overrides deterministic gates,

- security findings, or failed tests. Preserve dissent and report degraded provider coverage.

- ## Failure and Retry Policy

- - A task error is evidence, not permission to continue silently.

- - Retry a correctable assignment by messaging the same live/parked agent id.

- - Isolated agents are not revivable after cleanup; if correction is required, record that lifecycle

- fact and dispatch a new explicitly named task only after the parent re-establishes ownership.

- - Respect the configured retry budget. On exhaustion, report a blocker or let the main session make

- the smallest safe correction; never claim degraded multi-agent success.

- - Cancellation must use `hub` and must leave user-owned changes intact.

- ## Progress and Ownership

- For owner `omp`, only the main session owns `todo`. Workers report receipts and use `hub`; they

- do not mutate the parent checklist. Advance phases only after the prior phase receipt and gate are

- verified. Record `task_dispatch_count`, `task_roles_dispatched`, `degraded_mode`, and every

- blocker. For owner `orca`, the loaded orchestration Run is the only progress/DAG authority and

- the OMP session creates no parallel `todo` or `task` graph.

- ## Status Evidence

- Generated `/auto status` first uses external `auto status` for project/SPEC lifecycle, then reads

- the current workspace execution-owner receipt and current-session OMP-native `hub` jobs state.

- Combine those sources to detect a competing DAG. The external CLI cannot inspect OMP user-session

- roots and must never pretend to replace native `hub` evidence.

- ## Completion Gate

- Before returning success, the main session must:

- 1. verify all Must acceptance and the Outcome Lock;

- 2. run the real changed path as a smoke test;

- 3. confirm no blocking validator, reviewer, or security finding remains;

- 4. record changed files, exact verification commands, and observed results;

- 5. set `spec_status_after_go = implemented` only when the sync-readiness contract is satisfied;

- 6. provide `completion_verdict_preview`, `sync_ready`, `sync_blockers`, `decision_receipt`,

- `next_required_step`, and the surface-native `/auto sync <SPEC-ID>` handoff.

- No phase boundary, partial worker receipt, or degraded provider response is a completion point.

- ## OMP Coordination Contract

- ### Ownership gate

- - Choose exactly one DAG owner with `--execution-owner omp|orca` before dispatch; omission selects owner `omp`.

- - Owner `omp` is the default. The current OMP session is the sole DAG owner and uses its native `task`, `hub`, and `todo` tools.

- - Owner `orca` is allowed only when `--execution-owner orca` is explicit. Before any Orca orchestration, run and read `orca skills get orchestration --full`.

- - The single DAG owner invariant is mandatory: owner `orca` creates no OMP task DAG, and owner `omp` creates no Orca Run.

- ### Native field contracts

- ```json

- {

- "i": "Dispatching bounded OMP work",

- "context": "Shared goal, constraints, owned-path boundaries, and cross-task contracts.",

- "tasks": [

- {

- "name": "Worker",

- "task": "Complete one self-contained assignment and return only the required receipt.",

- "outputSchema": {

- "type": "object",

- "additionalProperties": false,

- "required": ["owned_paths", "changed_files", "verification", "blockers", "next_required_step"],

- "properties": {

- "owned_paths": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}},

- "changed_files": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}},

- "verification": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}},

- "blockers": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}},

- "next_required_step": {"type": "string"}

- }

- },

- "schemaMode": "strict"

- }

- ]

- }

- ```

- - Inspect the current dynamic `task` schema before dispatch. Use the shown batch shape only when it exposes top-level `context` and `tasks`; otherwise use the discovered flat shape and place shared context in `local://`.

- - Every model-authored `task`, `hub`, and `todo` call includes a concise top-level `i` while `tools.intentTracing` is enabled.

- - Every `tasks` item uses `name` when a stable agent id is useful and carries per-item `task`, `outputSchema`, and `schemaMode`. Set `agent` only to select a custom agent type; omit it for OMP's default general worker.

- - `isolated` and `effort` are conditional dynamic fields. Add `isolated` or `effort` only after the current schema exposes that exact field; otherwise omit it.

- - `outputSchema` is the strict five-field receipt JSON Schema shown in the normalized batch: `owned_paths`, `changed_files`, `verification`, `blockers`, and `next_required_step`.

- - Retain the agent id returned by `task`. For a non-isolated or otherwise revivable worker, every follow-up goes to that same id with `hub` send fields `{"i":"Following up with an existing worker","op":"send","to":"<same agent id>","message":"<follow-up>"}`; do not create a replacement merely to continue revivable work.

- - An isolated worker is terminal after workspace cleanup and cannot be revived. A correction is a new explicitly named `task` item with freshly declared ownership and context, not a `hub` send to the terminal agent id.

- - The parent OMP session owns progress. A `todo` call contains one top-level operation and intent: initialize with `{"i":"Updating parent-owned progress","op":"init","list":[{"phase":"Implementation","items":["..."]}]}`, advance with `{"i":"Updating parent-owned progress","op":"start","task":"<exact task content>"}`, complete with `{"i":"Updating parent-owned progress","op":"done","task":"<exact task content>"}`, and block with `{"i":"Updating parent-owned progress","op":"block","task":"<exact task content>","reason":"<reason>"}`.