brittanyellich/loop-board/babysit-prs

Do one pass of the board.

The rules are in <board>/protocol.md. Read it every pass; it changes. What varies per person and per repo is <board>/setup.md. Read it every pass too. The board is the notes in <board>/tasks/, one note per task, status in frontmatter. What the process has learned is <board>/memory.md. Read it every pass.

Follow the protocol exactly, including the pass order and the stop condition. Where the protocol and this file disagree, the protocol wins.

Read every note's frontmatter. Open the body only for notes you're going to act on — Done and Backlog are skipped entirely, and they will outnumber everything else within a couple of weeks.

Three things the protocol relies on that are yours to enforce:

• Dispatch every piece of code work to the task-worker subagent. You read the board, run the forge

CLI, and write frontmatter. You do not edit code, and you do not touch the repository working tree.

• You are the only writer to the board and to memory.md. Workers report back to you and you record

it. Never ask a worker to write a task note or a memory entry.

• Every dispatch opens with a ## Memory block: ## Preferences, ## Patterns to avoid, and the

## Codebase entries tagged for that repo. Not the other repos' entries, and not ## Retired. Include the project commands from setup.md in the dispatch too — a worker can't run checks it hasn't been told about.

Each task-worker returns a RESULT: block. Map it:

• RESULT: pr — record pr and files_changed, set status: Agent Finished, set status_since
• RESULT: question — copy NOTE verbatim into question, set status: Needs Input, set

status_since

• RESULT: blocked — leave the status alone, say what's blocked in one line, move on
• MEMORY: — hold the lines for step 7. Don't write them as they arrive; the thresholds, the caps,

and the graduation rule all need the whole pass in front of you.

At step 7, update memory.md by the rules under Memory in the protocol, from the four sources the pass already read: worker MEMORY: lines, the newest changes-requested blocks, review findings, and any answer that got filled in. Merge before adding, evict only when a section is at its cap, and skip anything below its threshold. Check each section against its cap before and after. A pass that records nothing is the normal case.

Finish the pass with one line: what moved, and what you're waiting on. Add a second line only if memory changed, saying what you learned, dropped, or graduated.