Deterministic (no LLM) checkup surfaced in the room: host vitals (load/temp/mem
for boltzmann+noether) + active-job liveness (grinder runs via bracketed pgrep;
agent claude sessions filtered to *_lurker cwds so the primary session is not
mis-flagged) + age-based stall flag (>25min). Verdict: BUSY & HEALTHY / IDLE /
NEEDS-A-LOOK. bullpen-doctor --once prints it; --serve doctor is the room worker
(bp doctor). Registered in dispatcher (health/busy/stalled/checkup keywords).
Complements @triage (post-failure) — the doctor watches DURING the run, so the
herd can answer busy-or-dead itself instead of a human SSHing in.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EWpfhDgYNA21tETDP9ueBE
- @callboy gains write_file(name, content): jailed to /var/lib/bullpen/hands/,
returned as a fetchable "sic hertz cat" handle + /bullpen stash index (never
the raw content). Small content only — big verbatim text should not round-trip
the 4B. Mechanical allowlist still enforced (fetch_url + write_file).
- bin/bp: REPL shorthand for room-ask (@/# optional, --from default, researcher
auto-bumps timeout; no-arg = roster).
- bin/bullpen-gc + timer: daily retention, artifacts >14d / hands >7d, scoped to
the two scratch dirs (never room.jsonl/COUNTER).
- @dispatcher roster: callboy re-described as tool-hands + write/save-file keywords
so the new capability is discoverable; dropped librarian s collision-prone
"notes" keyword (matched filenames like notes.md).
- Docs/skill/README updated; bp shorthand + tool-hands noted across surfaces.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EWpfhDgYNA21tETDP9ueBE
Reads a request and names the right worker + the exact room-ask to run;
never answers or forwards it, so a misroute costs one wasted hop. Keyword
match first (no LLM slot burned), one LLM tie-break through the gated proxy
only on ambiguity, full roster on weak signal. Strong debate markers route
to @architect/@skeptic and win over an incidental worker-keyword hit. Roster
manifest in the script is the single source of truth. Docs + skill updated
with a start-here-if-unsure pointer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EWpfhDgYNA21tETDP9ueBE
bullpen_participant harness: a chatty agent holds the stick when the latest chat is
addressed to it, replies (persona LLM), and hands the floor on. Talking-stick enforced:
parse-fail/unknown/offline -> yield to human; >=TURN_CAP consecutive agent turns -> forced
yield (storm-guard). Two example conversants (architect/skeptic) verified debating a real
design question with clean stick-passing + default-to-human. Wired only when you want the
society to converse; on-demand visit/ask/leave needs none of this.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
First multi-step worker: web_search (Brave) -> fetch top 3 (degater) -> synthesize a
cited digest (dspark, big context) -> stash to /bullpen. Honest about source gaps (won't
fabricate a metric the sources don't give). dspark-only (3 full pages overflow the 4B).
Verified live on the SSD->RAM homelab cost/perf question.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@coder: reactive worker on the shared harness; dspark (via gated proxy) generates Lua,
writes to a sandbox, runs it as 'nobody' with a timeout, returns code+output. Verified a
full 3-way chain: pipi (dspark, research-constrained) -> @callboy (fetch lua-users CsvUtils)
-> @coder (write+run csvtest.lua) -> pipi saves ~/csvtest.lua & reports. dspark never
self-implemented; the no-Lua-knowledge constraint forced delegation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Proves the worker pattern generalizes: @callboy writes knowledge, @librarian reads it
back. Reactive-only, reply-to-asker, coexists with @callboy (each responds only to its
own @nick). Search = apropos (curated fleet namespaces) + stash recall of /bullpen.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Self-made multi-agent chatroom. Append-only JSONL room on lmcp; reactive thin worker
with a mechanically-enforced tool allowlist; human window via room_tail. Engine = a
small local tool-model. Verified end-to-end (ask->ack->fetch_url reply incl. artifact
spill; non-tool ask -> graceful decline).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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