## Manager Context (pre-injected) **State:** **Roadmap:** **Manager Data:** Interactive command center for managing a milestone from a single terminal. Shows a dashboard of all phases with visual status, dispatches discuss inline and plan/execute as background agents, and loops back to the dashboard after each action. Enables parallel phase work from one terminal. Read all files referenced by the invoking prompt's execution_context before starting. ## 1. Initialize Bootstrap via manager init: Parse JSON for: `milestone_version`, `milestone_name`, `phase_count`, `completed_count`, `in_progress_count`, `phases`, `recommended_actions`, `all_complete`, `waiting_signal`. **If error:** Display the error message and exit. Display startup banner: ``` ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GSD ► MANAGER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ {milestone_version} - {milestone_name} {phase_count} phases · {completed_count} complete ✓ Discuss → inline ◆ Plan/Execute → background Dashboard auto-refreshes when background work is active. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ``` Proceed to dashboard step. ## 2. Dashboard (Refresh Point) **Every time this step is reached**, re-read state from disk to pick up changes from background agents: Parse the full JSON. Build the dashboard display. Build dashboard from JSON. Symbols: `✓` done, `◆` active, `○` pending, `·` queued. Progress bar: 20-char `█░`. **Status mapping** (disk_status → D P E Status): - `complete` → `✓ ✓ ✓` `✓ Complete` - `partial` → `✓ ✓ ◆` `◆ Executing...` - `planned` → `✓ ✓ ○` `○ Ready to execute` - `discussed` → `✓ ○ ·` `○ Ready to plan` - `researched` → `◆ · ·` `○ Ready to plan` - `empty`/`no_directory` + `is_next_to_discuss` → `○ · ·` `○ Ready to discuss` - `empty`/`no_directory` otherwise → `· · ·` `· Up next` - If `is_active`, replace status icon with `◆` and append `(active)` If any `is_active` phases, show: `◆ Background: {action} Phase {N}, ...` above grid. Use `display_name` (not `name`) for the Phase column - it's pre-truncated to 20 chars with `…` if clipped. Pad all phase names to the same width for alignment. Use `deps_display` from init JSON for the Deps column - shows which phases this phase depends on (e.g. `1,3`) or `-` for none. Example output: ``` ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GSD ► DASHBOARD ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ████████████░░░░░░░░ 60% (3/5 phases) ◆ Background: Planning Phase 4 | # | Phase | Deps | D | P | E | Status | | --- | -------------------- | ---- | --- | --- | --- | -------------------- | | 1 | Foundation | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ Complete | | 2 | API Layer | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ◆ | ◆ Executing (active) | | 3 | Auth System | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ○ | ○ Ready to execute | | 4 | Dashboard UI & Set… | 1,2 | ✓ | ◆ | · | ◆ Planning (active) | | 5 | Notifications | - | ○ | · | · | ○ Ready to discuss | | 6 | Polish & Final Mail… | 1-5 | · | · | · | · Up next | ``` **Recommendations section:** If `all_complete` is true: ``` ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ MILESTONE COMPLETE ║ ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ All {phase_count} phases done. Ready for final steps: → /gsd-verify-work - run acceptance testing → /gsd-complete-milestone - archive and wrap up ``` Ask user via AskUserQuestion: - **question:** "All phases complete. What next?" - **options:** "Verify work" / "Complete milestone" / "Exit manager" Handle responses: - "Verify work": `Skill(skill="gsd-verify-work")` then loop to dashboard. - "Complete milestone": `Skill(skill="gsd-complete-milestone")` then exit. - "Exit manager": Go to exit step. **If NOT all_complete**, build compound options from `recommended_actions`: **Compound option logic:** Group background actions (plan/execute) together, and pair them with the single inline action (discuss) when one exists. The goal is to present the fewest options possible - one option can dispatch multiple background agents plus one inline action. **Building options:** 1. Collect all background actions (execute and plan recommendations) - there can be multiple of each. 2. Collect the inline action (discuss recommendation, if any - there will be at most one since discuss is sequential). 3. Build compound options: **If there are ANY recommended actions (background, inline, or both):** Create ONE primary "Continue" option that dispatches ALL of them together: - Label: `"Continue"` - always this exact word - Below the label, list every action that will happen. Enumerate ALL recommended actions - do not cap or truncate: ``` Continue: → Execute Phase 32 (background) → Plan Phase 34 (background) → Discuss Phase 35 (inline) ``` - This dispatches all background agents first, then runs the inline discuss (if any). - If there is no inline discuss, the dashboard refreshes after spawning background agents. **Important:** The Continue option must include EVERY action from `recommended_actions` - not just 2. If there are 3 actions, list 3. If there are 5, list 5. 4. Always add: - `"Refresh dashboard"` - `"Exit manager"` Display recommendations compactly: ``` ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ▶ Next Steps ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Continue: → Execute Phase 32 (background) → Plan Phase 34 (background) → Discuss Phase 35 (inline) ``` **Auto-refresh:** If background agents are running (`is_active` is true for any phase), set a 60-second auto-refresh cycle. After presenting the action menu, if no user input is received within 60 seconds, automatically refresh the dashboard. This interval is configurable via `manager_refresh_interval` in GSD config (default: 60 seconds, set to 0 to disable). Present via AskUserQuestion: - **question:** "What would you like to do?" - **options:** (compound options as built above + refresh + exit, AskUserQuestion auto-adds "Other") **On "Other" (free text):** Parse intent - if it mentions a phase number and action, dispatch accordingly. If unclear, display available actions and loop to action_menu. Proceed to handle_action step with the selected action. ## 4. Handle Action ### Refresh Dashboard Loop back to dashboard step. ### Exit Manager Go to exit step. ### Compound Action (background + inline) When the user selects a compound option: 1. **Spawn all background agents first** (plan/execute) - dispatch them in parallel using the Plan Phase N / Execute Phase N handlers below. 2. **Then run the inline discuss:** ``` Skill(skill="gsd-discuss-phase", args="{PHASE_NUM}") ``` After discuss completes, loop back to dashboard step (background agents continue running). ### Discuss Phase N Discussion is interactive - needs user input. Run inline: ``` Skill(skill="gsd-discuss-phase", args="{PHASE_NUM}") ``` After discuss completes, loop back to dashboard step. ### Plan Phase N Planning runs autonomously. Spawn a background agent: ``` Task( description="Plan phase {N}: {phase_name}", run_in_background=true, prompt="You are running the GSD plan-phase workflow for phase {N} of the project. Working directory: {cwd} Phase: {N} - {phase_name} Goal: {goal} Steps: 1. Read the plan-phase workflow: cat .pi/gsd/workflows/plan-phase.md 2. Run: pi-gsd-tools init plan-phase {N} 3. Follow the workflow steps to produce PLAN.md files for this phase. 4. If research is enabled in config, run the research step first. 5. Spawn a gsd-planner subagent via Task() to create the plans. 6. If plan-checker is enabled, spawn a gsd-plan-checker subagent to verify. 7. Commit plan files when complete. Important: You are running in the background. Do NOT use AskUserQuestion - make autonomous decisions based on project context. If you hit a blocker, write it to STATE.md as a blocker and stop. Do NOT silently work around permission or file access errors - let them fail so the manager can surface them with resolution hints." ) ``` Display: ``` ◆ Spawning planner for Phase {N}: {phase_name}... ``` Loop back to dashboard step. ### Execute Phase N Execution runs autonomously. Spawn a background agent: ``` Task( description="Execute phase {N}: {phase_name}", run_in_background=true, prompt="You are running the GSD execute-phase workflow for phase {N} of the project. Working directory: {cwd} Phase: {N} - {phase_name} Goal: {goal} Steps: 1. Read the execute-phase workflow: cat .pi/gsd/workflows/execute-phase.md 2. Run: pi-gsd-tools init execute-phase {N} 3. Follow the workflow steps: discover plans, analyze dependencies, group into waves. 4. For each wave, spawn gsd-executor subagents via Task() to execute plans in parallel. 5. After all waves complete, spawn a gsd-verifier subagent if verifier is enabled. 6. Update ROADMAP.md and STATE.md with progress. 7. Commit all changes. Important: You are running in the background. Do NOT use AskUserQuestion - make autonomous decisions. Use --no-verify on git commits. If you hit a permission error, file lock, or any access issue, do NOT work around it - let it fail and write the error to STATE.md as a blocker so the manager can surface it with resolution guidance." ) ``` Display: ``` ◆ Spawning executor for Phase {N}: {phase_name}... ``` Loop back to dashboard step. ## 5. Background Agent Completion When notified that a background agent completed: 1. Read the result message from the agent. 2. Display a brief notification: ``` ✓ {description} {brief summary from agent result} ``` 3. Loop back to dashboard step. **If the agent reported an error or blocker:** Classify the error: **Permission / tool access error** (e.g. tool not allowed, permission denied, sandbox restriction): - Parse the error to identify which tool or command was blocked. - Display the error clearly, then offer to fix it: - **question:** "Phase {N} failed - permission denied for `{tool_or_command}`. Want me to add it to settings.local.json so it's allowed?" - **options:** "Add permission and retry" / "Run this phase inline instead" / "Skip and continue" - "Add permission and retry": Use `Skill(skill="update-config")` to add the permission to `settings.local.json`, then re-spawn the background agent. Loop to dashboard. - "Run this phase inline instead": Dispatch the same action (plan/execute) inline via `Skill()` instead of a background Task. Loop to dashboard after. - "Skip and continue": Loop to dashboard (phase stays in current state). **Other errors** (git lock, file conflict, logic error, etc.): - Display the error, then offer options via AskUserQuestion: - **question:** "Background agent for Phase {N} encountered an issue: {error}. What next?" - **options:** "Retry" / "Run inline instead" / "Skip and continue" / "View details" - "Retry": Re-spawn the same background agent. Loop to dashboard. - "Run inline instead": Dispatch the action inline via `Skill()`. Loop to dashboard after. - "Skip and continue": Loop to dashboard (phase stays in current state). - "View details": Read STATE.md blockers section, display, then re-present options. ## 6. Exit Display final status with progress bar: ``` ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GSD ► SESSION END ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ {milestone_version} - {milestone_name} {PROGRESS_BAR} {progress_pct}% ({completed_count}/{phase_count} phases) Resume anytime: /gsd-manager ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ``` **Note:** Any background agents still running will continue to completion. Their results will be visible on next `/gsd-manager` or `/gsd-progress` invocation. - [ ] Dashboard displays all phases with correct status indicators (D/P/E/V columns) - [ ] Progress bar shows accurate completion percentage - [ ] Dependency resolution: blocked phases show which deps are missing - [ ] Recommendations prioritize: execute > plan > discuss - [ ] Discuss phases run inline via Skill() - interactive questions work - [ ] Plan phases spawn background Task agents - return to dashboard immediately - [ ] Execute phases spawn background Task agents - return to dashboard immediately - [ ] Dashboard refreshes pick up changes from background agents via disk state - [ ] Background agent completion triggers notification and dashboard refresh - [ ] Background agent errors present retry/skip options - [ ] All-complete state offers verify-work and complete-milestone - [ ] Exit shows final status with resume instructions - [ ] "Other" free-text input parsed for phase number and action - [ ] Manager loop continues until user exits or milestone completes