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2. I notice that the Admistrator prompt indicates that it can push tags (per §8 of orchestration.md). I disagree with this now. I do not want the Administrator to write anything to the repository.
3. Per 2 above, I therefore would like you to re-consider §8 of orchestration.md to minimize the amount of branches and tags that are used in the communications. I do not want to impose unnecessary restrictions on the communication protocol between agents, since the git repository is the primary and authoritative communication method, and we have now a lighter weight method that uses 'git ls-remote *' and a plan to scale up with SSH-keys. However, I would like to review the existing plan in this regard so as to minimize detrius that needs to be cleaned-up after action of the agents. In my ideal, following a fully successful operation, for every issue entered in issue.md, there should be a branch and PR *or* a branch and an {slug}-escalate tag. The agents should be designed so that proper operation of the machinery removes all active tags.
4. Please also design a script that I can run after a dry-run effort to identify any tags that are left with a {dry-run-prefix} in the repository and an (optional) parameter to remove them in the repository.
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● All five v2.1 tasks complete; five new commits on top of the v2 work.
v2.1 summary (this turn)
Five commits added on lr_reduction-new_workflow-repairs (tasking submodule):
1. 26e6173 — plan: orchestration.md v2.1 — Administrator read-only + triage cleanup + /effort fix. Drops init-check-* and admin-status-* from the §3 ref namespace (Administrator no longer pushes them); adds end-state contract to §3
(per-issue: feature + PR or feature + escalate tag; no transient refs remain); §6 Developer state machine adds git push --delete triage/{slug}[-v{N}] after merge into analysis; §6.4 Administrator state machine made strictly
READ-ONLY with explicit "no push, no delete, no fetch (cheap ls-remote only)" denial; §8 push allowlist rewritten — Developer's allowlist extended with the triage delete, init-check-* moved to a "v1-fallback only" sub-section,
Administrator gets an explicit "no push allowlist" denial block; §9.5 model/effort table replaces every default cell with valid CLI options (medium for Sonnet-procedural, xhigh for Opus-spec-driven, max for Analyst); §9.5 also adds
an "Effort levels" paragraph documenting the valid CLI set; §9.1-§9.3 / §9.6 pre-prompts fix /effort default; removed a duplicate trailing block from §8 leftover from v1.
2. 98ec73e — plan: Administrator-prompt.md v2.1 — read-only on repository. Header declares the read-only contract; pre-prompt /effort default → /effort medium; Phase 1 made explicitly READ-ONLY with a per-section walkthrough of
which initialization.md sections are covered (§1, §2.1-§2.4, §3-§11) and §2.5 user-confirmation gate (Administrator asks the user to confirm write capability has been verified separately, STOPs if not); Phase 2 dropped the optional
admin-status push at start; push allowlist rewritten to "(v2.1: NONE)"; exit checklist dropped the optional admin-status delete (nothing to delete since nothing was pushed).
3. fdf3749 — prompts/initialization: v2.1 — Developer triage cleanup, /effort medium, §2.5 split. Developer-prompt.md adds step 6 (push --delete triage post-merge with explicit-exit check + local branch delete) and renumbers
/clear+ScheduleWakeup to step 7; Initialization-prompt.md fixes /effort default → medium and reorders §0 banner so "write-capability verification (v2.1 canonical path)" is the #1 use-case for the v1 fallback; initialization.md §0
banner documents the v2.1 split (read-only checks → Administrator phase 1; §2.5 → user-manual or v1 fallback).
4. 410b2b6 — plan: scripts/ — add cleanup-dry-run-refs.sh. New mode-700 script in tasking/plan/scripts/; lists by default, deletes with --apply; reads REMOTE (default agentic) and PREFIX (default dry-run-<today-UTC>) from env;
strips ^{} peel and dedups by ref-name (so annotated tags don't double-count); covers both remote refs (via git push --delete) and local refs (via git update-ref -d); --help works; bad arg returns exit 1; ls-remote failure returns
exit 2. Tested against the live agentic remote with PREFIX=dry-run-2026-04-28 — found 14 distinct refs from the 2026-04-28 dry-run residue (the review/dry-run-gamma-escalate annotated tag is correctly counted once after dedup).
5. 25c7369 — plan: redesign §17 — v2.1 addendum (reviewer feedback). Six subsections recording the v2.1 design change (Administrator read-only, triage cleanup, /effort fix, cleanup script, v2.1 commit log, open items). Also updated
§10.0 status table with a v2.1 row pointing at this commit set.
Validation: /effort default is now absent from every prompt body; all four /effort invocations across the role prompts use valid CLI options (max for Analyst; xhigh for Developer/Integrator; medium for Administrator and v1
Initialization fallback). orchestration.md has no remaining live default references in role assignments. The cleanup script ran cleanly against your live remote and reported the expected 14 refs.
No push performed (push stays user-initiated). No edits to lr_reduction. No parent-repo gitlink bumps. No dry-run executed (Phase 4 is a separate session).
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### Prompt 2.2
In light of initialization.md, §2.5 and orchestration-v2-redesign.md, §17.1 - I wonder if my knee-jerk reaction and statement "I do not want the Administrator to write anything to the repository." was ill-conceived. It seems the exception is overly cumbersome. Would a cleaner resolution be to allow the Administrator to write to the repository during its Phase 1? Then in Phase 2 remove that authorization? I don't want to create overly complicated systems. I also have a question on the use of {admin-state-dir} and agent-statusline.sh: Please confirm that the various sessions and roles are not instructed to write to the same file concurrently. As I undertstand each session writes to {admin-state-dir}/agent-state-{role}.md and the Administrator session reads those file(s) to understand what sessions are active on any given machine. If a role is not active on a machine, the Administrator should expect the git repository to contain artifacts of that {role}. Would you give me a detailed expression of the way that the respository (and local filesystem) is used to communicate between the agents and the Administrator(s)? A communication-paths.md would be a nice place to summarize that. Thank you!
