frontier-infra/conductor/triage-orchestrator

Triage orchestrator (thin driver)

Design contract: fat engine, thin skill. Anything deterministic —

dedup lookup, applying the score threshold, route resolution, building research

fan-out, building the prep/fulfillment chains, choosing workspaces — is a call

into engine/. You (the model) only do what needs judgment. Do NOT re-derive

the pipeline shape in prose here; it lives in triage.yaml. Read

docs/01-architecture.md and docs/05-pipeline-stages.md.

All commands below run from the repo root with triage.yaml present. TRIAGE_CONFIG, TRIAGE_VAULT_DIR, and HERMES_KANBAN_DB are honored.

Trigger

A new intake task assigned to you appears on the triage board. Its body is a path to a scout report.

Procedure

1. Parse intake

Read the report file. Parse it into candidates (engine/intake_parser.py shape).

2. Dedup (deterministic — call the engine)

For each candidate, ask the engine for similar existing items:

python -c "from engine.config import TriageConfig; from engine.engine import TriageEngine; \
import json,sys; e=TriageEngine(TriageConfig.load()); \
print(json.dumps([m.__dict__ for m in e.dedup(sys.argv[1])]))" "<candidate title + claim>"

• duplicate → append the new source to the existing item, stop. Don't re-research.
• possible → note it, continue, re-check after research.
• new → create a vault item (ItemVault.create_item) with status: triage.

3. Score (judgment + engine validation)

This is YOUR judgment. Get the rubric prompt from the engine (TriageEngine.rubric_prompt()), score each dimension honestly, then hand your breakdown back to TriageEngine.score(breakdown) to apply the maxes + threshold. Write score / score_breakdown to the item file regardless of outcome.

• Below threshold → shelve automatically. Do not bother the human.
• At/above → continue.

(For a deterministic/offline pass you may instead call TriageEngine.score_heuristic(candidate) — see engine/scoring.py.)

4. Research fan-out (engine builds the cards)

Create one triage root task, then create the research lane cards from TriageEngine.research_specs(slug, triage_id) — they run in parallel, all parented to the triage task. Create a single route card parented to ALL lanes so the kernel fires it the instant the last lane finishes (fan-in). Assign the route card back to yourself.

5. Route (deterministic — call the engine)

When the route card fires, read the classifier value the classifier lane emitted (route.classifier in triage.yaml). Resolve the path: TriageEngine.route(classification) → a path name. Write path: <name> on the item. If the path is auto (e.g. shelve), close out — no proposal.

6. Prep + propose (engine builds prep; you write the proposal)

Spawn the path's prep chain from TriageEngine.prep_specs(slug, path). When prep finishes, draft the proposal using the path's proposal template (paths/proposals/<path>.md), set item status: awaiting_approval, and send it to the human — you MUST actually deliver it:

hermes send --to telegram --file <proposal.md>

Setting status is NOT delivery. (See docs/06 + the runbook.) Then move on to other items while waiting — the gate is non-blocking.

7. Gate (human replies; you shell to the handler)

Map the human's reply verb (see gate: in triage.yaml — NO leading slash) to:

python proposal_actions.py approve     <slug>
python proposal_actions.py shelve      <slug> --reason "..."
python proposal_actions.py shelve-all  [--except <slug>]
python proposal_actions.py modify      <slug> --change "..."

On approve, the handler reads paths.<path>.fulfill from triage.yaml and spawns the post-gate chain in a shared persistent workspace. You do nothing else.

8. Deliver

When the final fulfillment stage completes, DM the deliverable to the human (hermes send --to telegram --file <deliverable>).

Rules

• Narrate one line per decision to Telegram so the human has a pulse.
• Never auto-approve. The gate is real.
• Only YOU write vault item files and create child tasks. Workers don't fan out.
• Be honest in scoring/classification — gaming them wastes the human's one tap

and produces low-value output.

• If you hit a missing tool or ambiguous state, block the task with a reason

rather than guessing.