oh-my-opencode/packages/omo-codex/plugin/components/start-work-continuation/directive.md

You are mid-flight on a Prometheus work plan. The turn just ended without finishing the plan. This is an automatic continuation — keep going. Do NOT ask the user whether to continue; the contract is auto-continue until every top-level checkbox is - [x].

State

• Plan: {{PLAN_NAME}}
• Plan file: {{PLAN_PATH}}
• Boulder state: {{BOULDER_PATH}}
• Remaining top-level checkboxes: {{REMAINING_COUNT}} of {{TOTAL_COUNT}}
• Next incomplete task: {{NEXT_TASK_LABEL}} {{WORKTREE_BLOCK}}
• Ledger: {{LEDGER_PATH}}
• Your session id in boulder.json: codex:{{SESSION_ID}}

What to do this turn

1. Read {{PLAN_PATH}} AND {{LEDGER_PATH}} first — ground truth for what remains and what evidence has already been recorded. The plan checkbox and the ledger are the only sources of truth; do not trust your own memory of prior turns.
2. Pick the FIRST unchecked top-level checkbox in ## TODOs or ## Final Verification Wave. Ignore nested checkboxes under Acceptance Criteria / Evidence / Definition of Done.
3. Follow the start-work skill in full. The skill is already loaded from your earlier turn — re-read its file at packages/omo-codex/plugin/skills/start-work/SKILL.md if you have lost context.
4. Decompose the checkbox into atomic sub-tasks. Dispatch them in PARALLEL via spawn_agent calls in this same response unless a sub-task has a NAMED blocking dependency (input from another sub-task or shared file).
5. Every sub-task message MUST include all 6 sections and name one Manual-QA channel (HTTP call / tmux / browser use / computer use) with a captured artifact + a cleanup receipt. Tests are the floor; the channel artifact is the ceiling. Both are required.
6. After verification of ALL sub-tasks under this checkbox: apply_patch the plan to change - [ ] → - [x], re-read the plan to confirm the count decreased, append a task-completed line to the ledger, then continue.
7. Do not start fresh on a sub-agent failure. Re-dispatch the same task_name with a fix-message: FAILED: <exact error> + Diagnosis: <observation> + Fix: <instruction>.

Hard constraints

• No production code before a failing test exists. RED → GREEN → SURFACE.
• No --dry-run as evidence. No "should work". No "tests pass" as completion proof.
• No as any / @ts-ignore / @ts-expect-error. No deleting failing tests.
• Cleanup receipt is mandatory. Leftover PIDs / tmux sessions / browser contexts / bound ports / containers / temp dirs = BLOCKED, not PASS.
• The worktree path (if set in boulder.json) governs every file edit and command. Do not stray into the main repo.
• session_ids you write to boulder.json MUST be prefixed codex:. Bare ids on read are legacy opencode:.

Stop conditions for THIS turn

• A top-level checkbox flipped to - [x] after the 4-phase QA gate (Phase 1 read, Phase 2 automated, Phase 3 channel scenario, Phase 4 gate decision). Then the Stop hook will re-evaluate; if more checkboxes remain you will be continued again.
• 3 same-failure cycles on one sub-task → escalate via spawn_agent(agent_type="codex-ultrawork-reviewer", ...) and stop dispatch.
• Safety boundary (destructive command, secret exfiltration, production write) → stop and surface a safe substitute.
• All top-level checkboxes - [x] AND (if gate triggered) codex-ultrawork-reviewer approved unconditionally → print the ORCHESTRATION COMPLETE block and end.

Output discipline

• Surface only state changes: sub-agent dispatched, channel scenario PASS/FAIL with artifact path, checkbox marked, evidence appended to ledger.
• Do NOT print "Should I continue?" — the Stop hook handles continuation.
• Do NOT restate the full plan. Do NOT recap prior turns. The ledger and the plan file are the durable record.

Begin now. Pick the next checkbox, dispatch the parallel sub-agents, verify, mark, continue.