abd-delivery-war-room

Status: Parked here for redesign. The canonical orchestration agents do not reference this skill yet.

Purpose

Reduce repeated paste handoffs between orchestrator and team-member threads by keeping state on disk under the engagement root.

Workspace layout (recommended folder name)

Use delivery-war-room/ (new engagements). Older experiments may still use delivery-chamber/; the mechanics are the same.

<workspace>/delivery-war-room/
  INSTRUCTIONS.md       # team member reads first — copy from § INSTRUCTIONS template below
  manifest.md           # ordered slots for the cycle
  slot-01-start.md
  slot-01-finished.md
  slot-02-start.md
  slot-02-finished.md
  …

Two-digit slot numbers (01, 02, …).

Resuming

If the war-room folder, agile-delivery-plan.md, and abd-delivery-lead/progress/delivery-plan-checklist.md exist, a delivery-lead session can read disk and continue from the first unchecked checklist line. Infer slot completion from slot-NN-finished.md—do not ask “is it done?” when the files already say so.

Delivery lead — start of a cycle

1. Create <workspace>/delivery-war-room/.
2. Copy the INSTRUCTIONS template (below) to INSTRUCTIONS.md.
3. Write manifest.md (goal, ordered slots, file naming).
4. Write only slot-01-start.md first (full handoff: team-role, workspace, scope, story-graph-ops, corrections pointer). Do not add slot-02-start.md until slot-01-finished.md exists (unless you override).

Team member — autostart

If delivery-war-room/INSTRUCTIONS.md exists at the workspace root:

1. Read INSTRUCTIONS.md → resolve absolute workspace (parent of delivery-war-room/).
2. Read manifest.md, pick active NN (smallest slot with slot-NN-start.md present and slot-NN-finished.md absent).
3. Read slot-NN-start.md for role and scope, then continue per abd-team-member/AGENT.md from Step 1 (classic bootstrap).

If no slot qualifies, stop until the lead adds a start file.

Team member — when finished

Write slot-NN-finished.md with: timestamp (optional), artifacts touched, stage complete line, and optional ## For delivery lead / ## For operator (thread routing: ping lead thread, then open next team-member chat when disk is ready).

Delivery lead — chaining slots

After validating slot NN, read slot-NN-finished.md, then create slot-(NN+1)-start.md when the plan continues.

Paste blocks (optional)

Replace <ABSOLUTE_WORKSPACE> with the engagement root (folder that contains delivery-war-room/).

A) First abd-delivery-lead chat

workspace: <ABSOLUTE_WORKSPACE>
Use the war room on disk (delivery-war-room/). Follow agents/abd-delivery-lead/AGENT.md from Step 1.

context: <optional>

B) First abd-team-member chat (after INSTRUCTIONS.md, manifest.md, slot-01-start.md exist)

Engagement workspace (Cursor root):
<ABSOLUTE_WORKSPACE>

Follow agents/abd-team-member/AGENT.md.

If ./delivery-war-room/INSTRUCTIONS.md exists, read it first (workspace + active slot + slot-NN-start.md), then Step 1 onward.

Limits

• Cursor cannot spawn chats for you; someone still opens New chat for each agent.
• This skill does not change exit gates in stages/*.md; align any “who accepts” policy in your own engagement notes until agents adopt this again.

INSTRUCTIONS template (delivery-war-room/INSTRUCTIONS.md)

Copy verbatim into each engagement (edit nothing unless you extend the protocol):

# Delivery war room — team member autostart

## 1) Engagement root (`workspace`)

The engagement root is the directory that **contains** this `delivery-war-room` folder. Resolve to an **absolute** path. Use it as `workspace` for all paths, scanners, and `story-graph-ops`.

## 2) Cycle context

Read `delivery-war-room/manifest.md`.

## 3) Active slot (`NN`)

Find the smallest two-digit `NN` such that `slot-NN-start.md` exists and is non-empty, and `slot-NN-finished.md` does not exist. That is the active slot. If none, report no pending work.

## 4) Handoff

Read `delivery-war-room/slot-NN-start.md` for `team-role`, scope, stage, skills, corrections.

Then run `agents/abd-team-member/AGENT.md` from Step 1 with the resolved `workspace` and `team-role`.

## 5) When done

Write `delivery-war-room/slot-NN-finished.md` with artifact paths and stage complete (or blocked).

Historical note

Earlier iterations lived under agents/abd-delivery-lead/delivery-chamber-protocol.md and delivery-chamber/ in engagements. That coupling has been removed from the agents pending a clean redesign.