📖About & Usage

About

The Intake Planner Sweep is a scheduled maintenance droid that keeps the dispatch queue healthy. When initiative planning produces step‑less shells—blueprints for work that haven’t yet been broken into actionable steps—those shells can’t be picked up by dispatchers. Sweep checks every 5 minutes whether the dispatch window is running low on work, and if so, calls a synchronous planner that takes one eligible shell and decomposes it into concrete Layer‑1 steps, making it ready for dispatch. This prevents stalls and ensures the pipeline stays fed.

Under the hood, it’s a cron‑driven Python sweep that runs as a flock‑singleton to avoid overlaps. Within a 15‑minute global debounce and a per‑shell 2‑hour backoff, it asks the planning module to zero in on the next step‑less planned shell and then invokes the Author (ia_s1 --decompose-shell) synchronously to produce the steps. All outcomes are logged to per‑initiative files and to the audit trail, and it writes only through the Carol Initiatives service, never spawning detached children.

Owned by Elrond, this is not a one‑off helper; it’s a standard piece of automation that 187 agents, from Albus through Scriber, run identically. Sweep is pure software—it makes no Claude calls at all, relying instead on deterministic planning code to do its job.

👤Owner

📚Recent initiatives

Initiatives that touched this droid — a short summary each; open one for the full story.