## What
Gut **context poison** — agent-facing docs that route a working agent at
DEAD mechanisms. This poisoned a live fleet-operating session (the bo
driver building the go-dark supervisor) into proposing `ao rpi` as a
continuity-loop worker. Found via a 5-way parallel poison fan-out.
**Scope: operational-surgical** (Bo's explicit call). Gut the
agent-facing *operational* guidance + *factual* errors; **LEAVE** the
README/`docs/3.0.md` product narrative (Gas-City-as-reference-substrate
is coherent, ADR-backed product design — a different altitude from Bo's
live fleet).
## Changes (10 files, surgical)
**Tier A — operational guidance (the poison that bit me):**
- `CLAUDE.md` Session Constraints: "route multi-phase work through `ao
rpi`" → the live substrate (NTM + MCP Agent Mail + `continuity-loop`);
`gc` reframed as optional-out-of-session, **not** the live substrate.
Kept the accurate "bridge REMOVED" + "load-bearing legacy" lines.
- `AGENTS.md`: dropped the deleted "scheduling daemon" (ADR-0009).
- `AGENTS-RUNTIME.md`: `ao rpi serve --help` → the real `ao` command
surface.
**Tier B — hookless-factual** (3.0 installs no hooks by default):
hookless banners on `ARCHITECTURE.md` + `reference.md` (surgical vs.
rewriting diagram internals); corrected SessionStart-hook prose in
`context-packet.md` + `vs-claude-flow.md`.
**Tier C — retired `/dream` shown as live:** marked retired in
`evolve`/`harvest`/`using-agentops` (compounding moved to Gas City).
`curate` **intentionally left** — its `--mode=dream` is the forward
replacement, not poison.
## Guardrails
- Does **not** claim `ao rpi` was deleted — the command still compiles
(`loop`/`phased`/`serve` exist); only its role as the *live workflow* is
corrected.
- registry.json unaffected (skill **bodies** only; `generate-registry.sh
--check` = OK).
## Evidence
`bash scripts/generate-registry.sh --check` → OK. Diff is 20 insertions
/ 16 deletions across 10 files.
Bounded-context: BC1-Corpus (agent-facing context docs)
Evidence: this PR diff + the parallel fan-out inventory
Closes: ag-sjz8
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## Docs site — boshu2.github.io/agentops
- Replace Jekyll minima with MkDocs Material (slate dark palette default)
- Landing hero scoped to .landing-hero (no gradient bleed on inner pages)
- Section landings (getting-started, architecture, reference, contracts, levels) with narrative ledes
- Generate skill catalog + per-skill pages from skills/*/SKILL.md at build
- Generate CLI reference from cli/docs/ at build (fails build on missing source)
- Fix every internal link via one-shot migration (scripts/migrations/2026-04-19-fix-docs-links.py)
- Wire mkdocs build --strict into pre-push gate (Check 25a)
- Replace .github/workflows/pages.yml with .github/workflows/docs.yml (actions/deploy-pages)
- README + docs/CONTRIBUTING updated with docs-build toolchain on-ramp
- tests/docs/validate-links.sh patched to understand mkdocs-generated paths
## RPI orchestrator strict-delegation contract
- Strict sub-skill delegation is now the default for /rpi, /discovery, /validation. No --full flag — always on.
- Canonical contract in skills/shared/references/strict-delegation-contract.md (plus Codex mirror)
- Forged learning with detection phrases + corrective actions (ao-inject-ready)
- Rename --no-lifecycle -> --no-scaffold in /discovery (Claude + Codex) with deprecation alias through v2.40.0
- Harden inline-work hotspots with orchestrator-owned markers in /crank STEPS 3a.3, 6.5, 8.7 + Inline Work Policy footer
- Flag consistency: --auto and --interactive scopes documented; --complexity syntax formalized
- CHANGELOG [Unreleased] documents + scaffolds; runtime hook enforcement explicitly deferred
## fix(hooks): go-test-precommit skips when no Go files staged
- Previously ran go vet + go build unconditionally, blocking non-Go commits when Go toolchain was missing or at a different version
- Now checks staged diff and exits cleanly if no *.go or go.{mod,sum,work} files are staged
- Applied to both hooks/ (source) and cli/embedded/hooks/ (synced)
Provenance: full RPI lifecycle with strict delegation at every phase boundary (Phase 1 Skill(discovery) -> Phase 2 Skill(crank) -> Phase 3 Skill(validation) -> Skill(vibe), Skill(post-mortem), Skill(retro)).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a Windows PowerShell installer for ao, documents the Windows install path, fixes Windows-specific ao/runtime test issues, and removes the CI ripgrep dependency from the Codex override coverage validator.
- CHANGELOG.md: comprehensive v2.18.0 section
- AGENTS.md, README.md, docs/: sync doc updates for new commands/features
- skills/converter: enhance Codex conversion script
- tests/hooks/test-hooks.sh: add test cases for new hook features
Agent Mail was an experimental coordination layer for tmux-based
distributed workers. Local mode (native teams) covers all production
use cases. Removing to simplify the codebase before evolving remote
dispatch via bushido.
Deleted: inbox skill, agent-mail-protocol, 3 distributed-mode
reference docs, 2 test files. Edited 15 files to remove references.