The lead currently leaves teams alive after the task list drains because
none of the prompt surfaces tell it WHEN to close or HOW. omx-style
'self-closing' behavior was missing for four reasons (diagnosed via
prompt-engineering A/B/C: wrong / misframed / missing):
1. builtin team-mode skill 'Lifecycle' (B+C): 'phase ends / shape
outgrown' is qualitative, so the model maps it to 'wait for user'.
Step 6 jumped to team_delete without the request/approve pair the
tool contract requires. Replaced with a 'Closure Contract' (a
computable predicate over team_task_list + team_status) and an
explicit 'Closure Sequence' (request -> approve -> delete, with
force=true reserved for unrecoverable paths only).
2. TEAM_MESSAGE keyword injection (C): spent 100%% of its one-shot
budget on routing ('do not substitute delegate_task'), 0%% on
closure. Added the same closure rule in compressed form. Kept the
'NEVER substitute with delegate_task' literal that
keyword-detector/index.test.ts depends on.
3. team-mode-status-injector body (C): the only per-session injection
for team mode had no closure obligation. Replaced the optional
'load the team-mode skill ... otherwise use the team_* tools'
sentence with a 'Closure invariant' clause that ties the check to
every team_task_update.
4. member-guidance Wrap-up (A+B): step 3 said 'so the lead can decide
whether to request shutdown', but team_shutdown_request is
lead-only - members cannot initiate it. Step ordering also placed
the completion message before team_task_update, so the lead's
closable check would see stale data. Reordered to
task_update -> check task_list for new work -> if nothing left,
send a single 'closure-ready' message and idle. Test assertion
updated to match the new accurate contract.
Also: stripped Korean alternation from TEAM_PATTERN per directive
('절대로 코드 내에 한국어 적지 마라'). Pattern is now
/\\bteam[\\s_-]?mode\\b/i. Removed 4 Korean test cases
(2 positive triggers + 2 false-positive guards) that the pattern no
longer needs to defend, and updated the keyword-detector AGENTS.md
row.
Net: -71 lines across prompt surfaces. The Closure Contract is the
only addition; everything else tightened.
Tests: 428/428 pass across src/features/team-mode/,
src/features/builtin-skills/, src/hooks/keyword-detector/,
src/hooks/team-mode-status-injector/, src/hooks/team-mailbox-injector/,
src/hooks/team-tool-gating/, src/hooks/team-session-events/.
LSP: no errors introduced (one pre-existing error in
keyword-detector/index.test.ts confirmed pre-existing on dev).
Detects user invocations of team-mode work across English and Korean
('team mode', '팀 모드', '팀으로') and injects a concise English directive
instructing the LLM to orchestrate via team_* tools (team_create ->
team_task_create + team_send_message), forbidding delegate_task
substitution and fallbacks.
The Korean variants use a Hangul-syllable negative lookbehind (가-힣) so
that '스팀으로 게임 켜줘' does not falsely match '팀으로' and '스팀모드' does
not falsely match '팀모드'.
Follows the existing folder pattern (mode/default.ts + mode/index.ts)
shared by ultrawork/, search/, and analyze/. The hook orchestration in
hook.ts handles the new keyword type generically through the shared
KEYWORD_DETECTORS array, so existing guards (non-OMO agent skip,
non-main session filter, system-reminder strip, code-block strip) all
apply automatically.
Adds 7 regression tests covering English/Korean trigger forms, the
Hangul-prefix false-positive guard, the bare-'team' negative case, and
non-main-session filtering.
YeonGyu-Kim