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Inner Unit Handover

Interpreted Inner Work Units

Moving Gantry's nested task pipeline from compiled control flow into pattern data

Gantry milestones

4 milestones 20 tasks 42 agents

9 plan 22 execute 26 review

198k peak context

130k median execute

Moving Gantry's nested task pipeline from compiled control flow into pattern data

4h 16m total 8m 41s per task

10m 45s plan 2h 3m execute 46m 2s review

181 edits 1.4k commands

codex harness

This run finished the handover that made Gantry's inner task unit a real interpreted pattern path. It started by making the state contract explicit, then built a production child world, switched build and design callers onto the interpreted route, and hardened resume and projection so the result could survive restarts and still render coherently.

The current tree shows both survival and later consolidation. The original shipped gated task set file from the run has since been replaced by included sprint material, but the language surface, interpreter hooks, production dispatch ideas, projection logic, and follow-up docs still describe the same conversion: nested work is driven by resolved pattern data rather than an opaque compiled task executor.

How this walkthrough is structured

Feature

What did the run build and ship?

Gantry now exposes inner-unit state as pattern data, runs shared sprint work through interpreted child patterns, and projects nested child journals through the current run-view stack.

Build

How did Gantry structure the work?

The work was cut from contract to production dispatch to resume proof, with review-driven replans landing where child-world scope and projection compatibility exposed gaps in the original boundary.

Milestone 1

Language Contract

3 tasks 10 agents 39m 22s wall time 186k peak context

The visible result is still present in the pattern language and documentation. Inner-unit state contracts, channel reads, completion effects, and idempotent no-op completion are described and tested as part of pattern data. The original gated task set file has been retired, but the current sprint pattern carries the contract in the shipped material that milestone now includes.

This milestone kept the first cut entirely at the language and isolated interpreter layer. That made the work suitable for fresh agents because production dispatch, child worktrees, and resume were still out of scope. The top ledger still marks the milestone green but records a scope caveat: review-scope retry behavior had not yet been bounded enough for later production work to rely on it.

State Contract

2 agents 5m 57s wall time 95k peak context

The language still accepts an inner-unit state block with completion settings and declared channels. Current tests cover malformed contracts, completion block validation, channel vocabularies, and composition rules around included material. The original lines have been edited since, but the contract surface remains a live parser feature.

This sprint was asked to name the state channels that had previously been implicit in final messages and compiled code. Its done line was about accepting complete declarations and rejecting malformed ones, so a fresh agent could stay inside parser and schema behavior. The sprint stayed green, giving later work a declared contract rather than a guessed convention.

Executable Semantics

2 agents 17m 38s wall time 186k peak context

The interpreter still has explicit inner-unit operations for committing a task, recording a no-op, preparing retries, stopping blocked work, and reading declared channels. Its tests exercise those operations against a fake world, which is exactly the isolation this sprint promised. Later refactors changed file placement, but the semantics remain in the interpreter rather than in prose only.

This sprint moved the new contract from loadable syntax into interpreter decisions. The brief scoped it to isolated tests, so the agent could prove retry notes, blocked states, green no-op completion, and completion predicates without building the production world yet. Its boundary stayed green and published an executable contract for the shipped pattern to consume.

Gated Pattern Contract

2 agents 5m 34s wall time 140k peak context

The exact bundled gated task set file no longer exists in the live tree, because the shared sprint pipeline now supplies that material through inclusion. The behavior it described is still visible in the current sprint pattern: review scope, retry notes, blocked stops, protected agents, confinement, no-op completion, and commit-plus-ledger completion are declared together. Documentation also now frames those inner-unit effects as engine-owned bookkeeping behind pattern data.

This sprint made the shipped gated work unit honest about the inner-unit behaviors it expected. The brief demanded mutation-sensitive evidence that changing declared control flow changed isolated behavior, which kept the agent focused on contract exercise rather than production plumbing. It finished green, but the milestone review still found that recovery bounding was not complete enough.

Milestone 2

Gated Task World

6 tasks 18 agents 1h 32m wall time 161k peak context

Most of this milestone's direct implementation later moved or was deleted as the run system consolidated around generic pattern files. The surviving capability is still recognizable: production callers can execute nested pattern work through child-scoped services, while tests and docs record the conversion's parity gaps and follow-up repairs. The live tree no longer presents this as a separate gated task file, but as part of the shared pattern and interpreter runtime.

This milestone crossed from isolated interpretation into a production child world. The cut was intentionally incremental: settle recovery first, add child-scoped state, then wire effects, durability, resume, and a full runner proof. The run facts show stress on child scope and resume parity, and the milestone ledger records that mutating-stage safety was still not fully enforced at this boundary.

Review Scope Recovery

2 agents 7m 20s wall time 79k peak context

The current sprint pattern still routes review retry through the same recovery counter used by other non-terminal paths. Its rules stop blocked reviews separately and spend retry budget before handover, matching the settled behavior this sprint was asked to establish. Later pattern inclusion changed where the text lives, but the recovery ladder remains data in the shipped pattern.

This sprint took the caveat left by the language milestone and made it the first production-world dependency. The agent only had to align green-review retry, current-task replan, and red-gate recovery under one bounded policy. It stayed green, which let the remaining production work treat review-scope recovery as active data rather than a warning in the ledger.

Child-Scoped World

5 agents 31m 38s wall time 161k peak context 1 replan

The original production files for this sprint were later removed, but the current interpreter and pattern runtime still describe child sub-pattern execution as re-pointed orchestration, ledger, and preamble state. Tests around sub-pattern invocation and child path propagation keep that boundary visible. Its contribution is therefore partly folded into the generic pattern runtime rather than isolated in one surviving module.

This was the first hard production boundary: a child unit had to read and write through its own orchestration context without confusing the parent run. Review forced a replan here, so the run learned that the initial child-world cut was not enough. The retry kept the sprint focused on state resolution and current-task replan dispatch rather than pulling in every later effect.

Agent Gate Effects

1 agents 22m 44s wall time 91k peak context

The current sprint pattern declares agent stages, gate branches, degradation defaults, produced verdict files, and retry notes as data. Production execution has since been reshaped, but the observable route still lets a pattern step ask the world for agent and gate effects while the interpreter owns branching. The older dedicated build-pattern implementation is gone, so this sprint's code is now visible through the shared pattern machinery.

This sprint wired the effect-heavy stages after the child boundary existed. The brief split planning, execute, repair, review, investigation, and gate behavior into interpreter-visible effects so production would not treat a task as one opaque operation. It completed green, leaning on the reworked child scope from the previous sprint.

Durable Completion

1 agents 1m 43s wall time 60k peak context

Durable completion is still a current contract: task completion is tied to engine-owned bookkeeping, not an agent editing the ledger by hand. The sprint pattern's commit and no-op blocks express that distinction, while the docs explain that bookkeeping operations remain specialized engine authority. Because this unit had no own commit, its contribution cannot be isolated beyond confirming the existing behavior at that point in the run.

The brief for this sprint was broad, but the ledger shows the unit was already satisfied and recorded without a commit. That is useful evidence in this run: the preceding child-world and effect work had already covered enough of the durable completion path for the gate to pass. The milestone review still found a safety gap around mutating stages, so this row is a boundary where completion evidence existed before confinement evidence was complete.

Resume Parity

4 agents 12m 31s wall time 107k peak context

Resume behavior is still documented as durable state in the interpreter and projection stack. Current code restores counters according to declared survival semantics and reads ledger truth for completed work, while later follow-up work tightened parity after this conversion. The old test file touched here has since been deleted, so the exact assertions are not isolated, but the resumed interpreted path remains part of the current design.

This sprint carried operational parity: resume position, setup skipping, recovery counters, dirty-state grounding, and event visibility. Review asked for a retry, which says the first pass did not fully satisfy the production behavior expected by existing readers. The successful rerun kept the scope on resume and observability rather than expanding into final dispatch proof.

Runner Proof

1 agents 5m 16s wall time 46k peak context

The old proof tests were later replaced, but the live docs still identify the interpreted gated task conversion as completed and followed by parity repair. Current pattern tests prove sub-pattern resolution, child execution, and frozen closure behavior in the generic path. The feature that stands is not this exact test file, but the production route it helped establish.

This sprint was the milestone's acceptance proof: representative gated task executions had to pass through the production world with resolved pattern data. A fresh agent could hold it because the prior sprints had already supplied recovery, child scope, effects, durability, and resume. It stayed green, though the milestone review still carried forward the mutating-stage safety caveat.

Milestone 3

Interpreted Switch

5 tasks 12 agents 1h wall time 158k peak context

The current tree presents the switch as pattern-driven build and design drivers rather than the old compiled inner-task files. Build, milestone, and design patterns invoke shared child material, while docs describe the default build as decomposing into interpreted milestone work. Later refactors removed many original Rust files, but the production route no longer depends on the obsolete compiled inner-unit executor.

This milestone switched production callers onto the interpreted child route after the production world existed. The work was cut as safeguards first, dispatch proof next, design proof after build proof, and legacy retirement last. Unlike the prior milestone, the unit ledger stayed green without recorded recovery, showing that the switch-over was small enough for separate agents once the prerequisites were in place.

Bounded Recovery

2 agents 6m 38s wall time 84k peak context

The shipped sprint and milestone patterns still express recovery through channel values and counters. Blocked review stops are fenced from retry routing, while retry preparation records the note and resets project state. The original gated task set edits are gone, but the bounded ladder is preserved in current pattern data.

This sprint reopened recovery at production level before wider caller dispatch could rely on it. The brief made blocked reviews terminal and required retry and current-task replan outcomes to spend the same budget as red gates. The sprint stayed green, giving the following safety and dispatch work a bounded failure model.

Mutating Stage Guards

2 agents 8m 48s wall time 116k peak context

The current sprint pattern declares protected paths and confinement on mutating agent stages, and the docs describe those safeguards as pattern-level modifiers wrapped around dispatch. Some original production tests were removed, but the safety terms still exist in shipped pattern data. Later conformance work expanded the same guarantees beyond this run's files.

This sprint closed the safety gap the prior milestone review had left open. It was scoped around protected briefs, protected run artifacts, confinement, and clean baselines across repeated attempts. The run facts show no recovery here, so the mutating-stage boundary held once it was made the explicit unit.

Build Dispatch Proof

1 agents 8m 34s wall time 91k peak context

Current docs say the default build decomposes a plan into milestones and runs each through the interpreted milestone sub-pattern. The pattern runtime still freezes and invokes resolved child patterns, and tests cover sub-pattern substitution and child world behavior. The old build-pattern file is absent, but the dispatch identity requirement survives as a property of the generic pattern runner.

This sprint was the central switch for build and goal-through-build. The brief demanded dispatch identity, not just an interface call, so changing the child pattern body had to affect production behavior. It stayed green because recovery and mutating-stage safety had already been separated into prerequisites.

Design Dispatch Proof

2 agents 10m 52s wall time 131k peak context

The current design pattern is visibly a pair of sub-pattern invocations through milestone work, with pass-specific prompt prefixes and relaxed baselines. That is the feature this sprint was aiming at: design no longer owns child-stage behavior directly. The original design driver files were later removed, so the standing evidence is the pattern definition and the projection tests that understand pass-local children.

This sprint extended the child dispatch contract to design and redesign, where pass-specific prompts and baselines made the boundary different from build. The narrower scope let a fresh agent prove those callers without reopening the default build route. It stayed green and fed the final retirement sprint.

Retire Legacy Route

1 agents 12m 12s wall time 63k peak context

The compiled child-unit route touched by this sprint is no longer present under the old file names. Documentation now describes interpreted patterns as the current driver surface, and historical audit files explicitly mark the old diagnosis as superseded by the handover. The surviving feature is the absence of the shadow route for current callers, not a single retained function.

The final switch-over sprint removed or fenced the old route after build, goal, design, and redesign had proofs. Its brief was a cleanup with teeth: current production callers could not silently select compiled inner control flow. It stayed green, closing the milestone without another replan.

Milestone 4

Resume Hardening

6 tasks 22 agents 1h 15m wall time 198k peak context

The live tree still carries this milestone most clearly in the interpreter's resume semantics and the projection module's child-journal handling. Pattern journals from nested children are read into cold and live run views, and tests cover build-shaped and pass-local projection cases. The final proof also left documentation marking the old audit plan as historical rather than active.

This milestone hardened the interpreted route after switch-over, especially restart behavior and projection. It began under stress: the first resume sprint errored repeatedly before landing, and a later projection sprint forced a replan. That shape fits the brief sequence, because restart and display compatibility are exactly where a data-driven child path has to meet durable reality.

Durable Resume Path

5 agents 6m 4s wall time 108k peak context

The interpreter and projection code still treat ledgers as resume ground truth for child work. Tests and comments cover preserving completed entries, detecting vanished completed tasks, and keeping resumed order stable. Some of this sprint's lines were later rewritten, but the durable-resume contract remains part of current execution.

This sprint made child resume derive from durable completion truth. It had the noisiest boundary in the run: repeated execution errors before the successful pass. The brief's corrupt-roster and first-unfinished-task cases explain why this was a restart-sensitive unit rather than a simple continuation of the dispatch work.

Restartable Recovery Loop

2 agents 8m 48s wall time 144k peak context

Current interpreter code still seeds attempt notes on resume and retires inner-unit channel state after completed work. The surrounding tests describe resumed notes and recovery budget behavior as durable pattern semantics. Later parity work adjusted details, but the feature is still a restartable recovery loop rather than a live-memory ladder.

This sprint carried recovery state across process restart: retry notes, replan notes, blocked outcomes, investigation, and exhaustion behavior. It was sequenced after durable resume so it could trust the child task position. The run stayed green, with an extra gate pass showing the boundary was checked more than once before review closed it.

Mutating Stage Guards

2 agents 6m 5s wall time 111k peak context

The safety evidence now lives mainly in tests and pattern declarations around confinement, protected paths, and reset baselines. Current pattern material still wraps mutating stages with those guards, and the interpreter owns the route instead of falling back to the old compiled executor. The exact sprint contribution has been partly folded into broader conformance coverage.

This sprint revisited safety under restart, where partial failed attempts can leave more dangerous residue than a fresh run. The brief focused on execute, fix, review, and current-task replan after interruption. It stayed green, suggesting the earlier mutating-stage contract could be extended to resume without another decomposition change.

Child Projection Sync

5 agents 22m 26s wall time 133k peak context 1 replan

The projection module now reads child pattern journals from nested build and goal-through-build directories and composes their paths into the run view. Tests cover cold reconstruction, live folding, path collisions, and resumed child journals for build-shaped runs. This is one of the clearest surviving pieces of the run in the current tree.

This sprint moved from execution safety to what readers see. The brief deliberately limited projection to build-shaped hierarchy first, but review still forced a replan, which shows the first projection boundary was too broad or misattached. The successful pass narrowed design hierarchy out of this unit and left it for the next sprint.

Projection Hierarchy

2 agents 15m 27s wall time 198k peak context

The current design pattern exposes pass structure, and projection tests cover pass-local child paths. The projection code attaches nested child tasks under durable parent nodes rather than flattening the design run into unrelated cards. Later files renamed the original design implementation, but the hierarchy behavior remains observable.

This sprint took the design and redesign hierarchy that the previous replan had moved out of build projection. Its scope was pass-local: Brief and Page parents had to exist before child gated task journals could attach beneath them. It stayed green because build-shaped journal consumption was already proven.

Identity Proof

2 agents 6m 16s wall time 155k peak context

The live repository retains the proof mostly as tests and historical documentation. The audit handover files now say the interpreted path is the current state, and later parity plans build on that fact rather than asking for a revert. The feature that stands is data identity: the child route is expected to obey the resolved pattern body, not a compiled fallback that merely looks compatible.

The final sprint was a falsifiability check for the whole handover. It consumed resume, recovery, safety, build projection, and design projection contracts, then required important pattern-data mutations to change production behavior. It stayed green and closed the run after the earlier restart and projection stress had been resolved.