The athena_council tool now waits for all council members to complete and
returns their collected results as markdown, eliminating the need for
Athena to repeatedly call background_output per member (which created
excessive UI noise).
- Add result-collector.ts that polls task status and fetches session content
- Update tool to accept BackgroundOutputClient and return formatted markdown
- Update Athena prompt to remove background_output polling steps
- Rewrite tests for new blocking behavior and markdown output format
Council member tasks were launched via BackgroundManager but lacked the
ctx.metadata() call that links background sessions to the tool call in
the OpenCode TUI. Users couldn't click to inspect individual member outputs.
- Add session-waiter.ts to poll for session creation on launched tasks
- Call ctx.metadata() for each council member with sessionId linkage
- Matches the pattern used by delegate-task/background-task.ts
Ultraworked with [Sisyphus](https://github.com/code-yeongyu/oh-my-opencode)
Co-authored-by: Sisyphus <clio-agent@sisyphuslabs.ai>
LaunchInput.temperature and LaunchInput.permission were accepted and
passed through the council orchestrator but never forwarded to the
actual promptAsync API call (SDK doesn't support per-request temperature
or permission). Remove the dead fields, the unused AthenaConfig
interface, and update tests/docs/schema accordingly.
Remove 9 files (913 lines) from the code-driven synthesis pipeline that
was superseded by the agent-driven approach in phases 6-8.
Phases 3/5 built: collectCouncilResults → formatForSynthesis →
buildSynthesisPrompt → formatFindingsForUser → buildDelegationPrompt.
Phases 6-8 replaced with: launch → background_output → Athena
synthesizes in conversation → switch_agent. The old pipeline was
never wired into runtime and all consumers were other dead code.
Also simplifies executeCouncil to return CouncilLaunchResult (task IDs
+ failures) instead of reading stale task status via collectCouncilResults.
Deleted: council-result-collector, synthesis-types, synthesis-prompt,
synthesis-formatter, findings-presenter, delegation-prompts (+ 4 tests).
Cleaned: CouncilMemberStatus, AgreementLevel, CouncilMemberResponse,
CouncilExecutionResult types from types.ts.
- Forward temperature and permission through council-launcher to background manager
- Add LaunchInput.temperature and LaunchInput.permission to background-agent types
- Extract session guard with 5-minute timeout to prevent stale council locks
- Make council optional in AthenaOverrideConfigSchema for partial user overrides
- Support member lookup by both name and model ID in filterCouncilMembers
- Add provider/model-id format validation to CouncilMemberSchema
- Fix findings-presenter group header to show finding count instead of first finding's reporter count
- add optional members arg support to athena_council tool
- filter selected members case-insensitively with clear unknown-member errors
- add tests for default-all and member selection behavior
Council members launched as agent='athena' got Athena's system prompt saying
'ALWAYS call athena_council first', plus the tool wasn't denied for bg athena
tasks. Each council member spawned 4 more → exponential explosion (47+ tasks).
Three fixes:
1. Deny athena_council in ATHENA_RESTRICTIONS (agent-tool-restrictions.ts)
- Only affects background athena tasks (task-starter.ts)
- Primary Athena (user-selected) still has access via permission field
2. Session-level dedup guard prevents re-calling while council is running
- If Athena retries during long wait, returns 'already running'
3. Increase wait timeout from 2min to 10min (council members need time
for real code analysis with Read/Grep/LSP)
ismeth